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Show C ,· t I Page 6. old buck horn charger .shot away and he then had to pour the powder into his gun from the powder born and never knew the mistake until he found the ball did not go half' way down then a mobocra.t got hold of' it and discharged it, and the ragged end of the breech tore him terrible from the eye to the ear. I struggled with hard times and pvverty though very l~e from the injuries I received for many years, and in fact for 50 years when a storm was brewing. I got out of' debt, and out of' Missouri and arrived at Nauvoo on the 3rd of July A. D. 1843 and among the first things I did was to go to the Patriarch John Smith, father of George A. Smith and got a patriarchal blessing whlch is nere recorded as follows: "Nauvoo, July 11th, 1843. A blessing by John Smith, patriarch, upon the head of William Leany, son of' Culbert Means and Margaret or Peggy Cook Leany, born in Sipson Co., State of Kentucky, December 19, A. D. 1815. "Brother Wm. Leany, I lay my hand-s upon thy head in the name of Jesus of' Nazar~th and place upon you a father's blessing. Thou art of' the House of Joseph and thou hast a right by inheritance to the Holy Priest-hood wlaich continueth in the lineage of thy fathers and will continue throughout the generations of thy prosperity. Thou a.rt called to go :torth to the nations of the earth to hunt UJl the remnants of Jacob, not only from among the gentiles but to gather thousands of the Lemenited and their seed. Thy God will send his angels before thee tb guard thee on the right hand, on the left to deliver thee from evil and to cause thee to prosper in all labors to overthrow the powers of darkness, push forward the cause of Zion, confound the wicked and learned of this generation gather thousands of the remnants of Jacob and build a city for their tafety, and establish it as a ' Stake of Zion and preside over it ~orever. Thou. shall have a companion for thy comfort, and numerous posterity to keep thy name in |
