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Show 393 Appendix me earnings of the 4 of us to our famelies and as I had walked 40 miles in the mud and was very tiard and dark was coming on on horse back overtook me. One road on one side of me and the the small nearly 2 men other on the other side. They seamed unusaly fond of my company. I could not go and leave them and they would not leave me. I came near I bid them goodnite and left a Brother Prindley and it was near dark. a quick step and thought to put up for the nite and orderd supper lodgen. I was glad to part with my trailing companions. After I had got my supper and sat a little while I could not rest. I paid my bill and went 4 miles to my home and in a couple of hours I was made glad by the birth of a fine daughter Jan. 27, 1838, which after years becam the wife of James S. Brown. My faithful wife that had lost hur first born in Kirtland caused by the mob when the printing office was burnt was left 11h miles from Far West with hur sister while I was strugling for a living. We had only time to git a few of nessaries of life before the mob began to threten as we prospered by our industry the mob raged our bretherin wair moving in to the countery and setling up Davis County and the Grand River. My folks had bought lands and hogs and sum cattle of the old setlers with a vue to settling there. We had rode several days with Joseph and others to look out a settlement and found it a chois country. I was with Joseph Smith when he went to Esquoir Black to seign a promis of peas and quitetude torge our peopple. As the mobs rose I was on hand to garde the Saints. When we heard the mob was at with and Galaton with a did not find the I was with canon to atact my canon. a bretherin We found the mob we went to meet them gethered and dispurst but them. party returning from Grindston Fork of Grand River a house of one of our bretherin burnt down and was bed of burning coals. We discovered sines of children in the brush. We surrounded the brush and talked to them untill we purswaded them to come out. Could hardely convince them that we ware their friends. We took the woman and 3 children on our horses behind us and caried them into camp. Our camp was on the botom near Lyman White's residence and not far from Adam ondi Aman. N ear this time we learned that sum of the setlers a Mr. Roper for drive one and others had gone up into the Plat country to rase men to the Mormens out of the country. I had a small compeny of young men and went in disgise among the people and learned their determanation to drive the Saints out of the countery and by their concent we got our dinner and horses fed and 8 guns and amunition and the young Higbeys A little later Amasa M. Lyman had Frank and ware with me. after nite and found then a Chancy a prisner by the mob, who had a canon, to come aganst our from the mob and came to our camp and informed He peopple. got away com us of their whairabouts. Capt. Fearnot (or D. W. Patten) took a little and compeny peny and went forthwith to git the canon. Myself was along and charged on their camp. They had got notice of our coming been taken |
