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Show Appendix 395 leave the state at a time they should fix or be extermonated. We could go and scatter out and live as other peopple do. We had now looked upon our leader for the last time alive. When the troops came in to Far they 'took my Father and Brother Myran prisners. Myran got away hid in the brush and got home. They that is Capt. Odel strook my father over the head with a rifle and cut a gash 7 inches long to the boan West a and he was releast to help cary a Bro. Cary to his famely that they had struck and nearly kiled and he lay in an open wagon and died. I was Capt. of the gard that nite and when I let my father threw the gard I did not no him only by his voice as he was so coverd with blood. I helpet to carry Bro. Cary to his weeping famely and helpet to lay him out. When the gards of our enemy ware plast around us their men ware turned loos to tantalize us what they pleased. A table was set out on the pub lick squair and papers made out to deed all of our lands away to pay the exspence of those that drove us and a gard of their men with muskits and beyanets surrounded the table and those that ware requaired to seign the deed. I seigned the deed and they requaired me to hold up my hand and swear that it was my free volante or act and deed. I rased my hand and waved it over the beyanets and said it looks like a free volantear act and deed at the point of the beyanet. At this moment one of their in the left side and took my sensis and I was carried off ground. Agan while their gards was around us and we unarmed 4 grate ruf looking men of their camp came rideing acrost the public squair with their rifles acrost the horn of their sadle. One of them said to me, How do you feal Morman, as much like fite as ushel. I feal about the men struck me the He drew his rifle and said com a head then I said, You poor pusalanoms courdly curs that will draw fire armes on a bear handed men. Git down off from your horses and lay daun your arms and come at me 2 at a time and if I dont thrash the ground with you. He sed I brought time my wife my arms to fite with. Yes you need them said I. At this was 117'2 miles out of the city with a sick child that lay at the point of deth. She dug its little grave under the harth so if it died before she had to flee before the mob she could buery it there and cheep it raped in its little mantle and hood so she could take it and run if she had to do so. I could not go to hur day or nite and did not no their condition. I had I had looked on for the last very little to live for my leaders I was told skull and knew not what the to head time alive, my fathers split open the result mite be and whether I had a wife or child I did not no. Meny had ben the times Bro. Lyman and I had walked around that city in the saim. our property gard it and its inmates. We had ben obliged to gard cattle and our off ben had that for a long time on account of mobs driving rether the leave to had country we not horses agread withstanding stealing the mob to be exturmented. We had to gether in the scatered saints and an other was not satisfied with the 1st bach of prisners, but gethered up and Tanner time a For Sidney hurd and took to Richmond to tantalize. nite to |
