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Show 397 Appendix on the Keakark road. Hear we staid till the exados from Nauvoo. We made farms. My father and Sidney Tanner and John J. Tanner setled together. Had sum fine land and nicely situated on a small crick. Here we prospeared for several years. Hear my son John William and Nathan was born. Here and in N auvo the peopple worked with a will and their city and countery gave evidence of their love for the country until the mobs began to rage. Then I was in hearing of their drums and I have run 4 miles and crost the river to be in the rank with my bretherin. At this time I had charge of the Seventies on that side of the river, 4 miles south of Montrose but often met with the Saints in Nauvo. I was favored by opertunities in the Temple to my grate joy and satisfaction and when or jest before Joseph Smith was taken to Carthedg he was exspected to cross the river and go west Amasa M. Lyman myself and others staid on the bank of the Missipy River waiting for him to cross to see him on his way torge the mountins. But by the purswasion of courdly brethren he went and gave himself up and went as a sheep to the slaughter and died an untimly deth. In 1847 while the Pionears wair going on their noble trip I was My brother Fremon and I went back to Keokuk with 2 teams and baught one team and moved a Jurman Compeny from Keokuk, loway, high up on the Dismoin River and raised a little money and brought not idle. compeny of the poor Saints to Winter Quarters that fall. In moveing from Far West to Illinois the peopple ware very much crouded for room in wagens.. John J. Tanner brought his famely and old father Baker and his wife and my wife and child, and all their goods in one wagon and John Tanners wife was liable to be sick on the road. When these circumstances ware considered you can have sum idea of a winter There was not so much differance between banashment and exterm back a trip. anation as mite be thought. we came to the Misipa way from Kirtland to Far West and ben river and the stream had only one team had crost very heigh sinse the watter had falen. The river bottom was 4 miles wide the high watter had washed away the brige acrost a stream. We had to onload acros on our goods and pack them acrost the stream and cary our wives And acrost. the to take do could team all our wagon our backs as it was and I took hold of hands and led the dark came on and Amasa On our Lyman as we could waid and it way acrost the bottom threw the mud as deep could stop for the nite. we whair was nite and ther was not a dry spot We wair nearly all nite giting threw a mudy timber botom 11 miles and as wall as eny other men. father and brothers sold their property at a grate sacrafice and My I did not exspect to go west that season I had not sold y farm and had taken a contract to break perary that summer to rase sum money. But Creek and our famelyses was not far from the camp of Saints on Shuger we could do it |
