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Show e the N uvoo \l"lrIPle wett ntar\e 1 Ul.lier:• nurgeso 9'f.!B n on.i, the first to iart work on it. 'he loying of tho oorner a ono wuu <lon on tb. 6th April, 1841.. Nauvoo w s th l ret,s\ cit.v in the upper co utry and td"tftr he l'lenth ot th l•ropho\ t\nd hi n hrothttr Ilyrum on th 2nh ot Jun • 1'144 • 1 t 11 s o ;1lled • "The City or J'osaph. " { 40ther tolt1 1!18 1.biu I uny tblu s . ) A~cr the donth or those two Mloved 1 n, .roscpl1's nmntle fell on 11ri1:lmn ·oung. ·~o the Snin°'a knew M was to be their leu• er. In 1845 tho Saints gathered into tho city of Joseph, thure tlloy toiled nnd ltt•mret'I bard o finis tho t4-lmplH. It ... ded1<:mte<, to tho i..or<l, and 111 the aprir. Brighnrn Yow1r. nr•d th" helve cave ord( ra ,o stn:rt to e;1•t rttedy to go ~o the J>lRC the Lord would prep ro1· tho· in tho muntnina . !1resideti.\ 'oun, sked :~u1 to come ·orw .rd 1th tem~n r nd n1•ovisioni, ,,. go as "Pio11ecr Cor::r> mY" '\o 11B • ro ,1 to prepare t. " :f ror tuo , ttinto to follow. Hlli! 1,1 Jurge e wn.c ouo ,,f · tl'!e firs'\ to accept thin oo.ll. 3o on tbo 2nd of ebruo.ry l.04&, ho oro. .~ sed the J.!,iaaiaaiJ>Pi r1 var w1 th tho f.lrnt pion8er coupuny hlld the twol.ve. J.ll tlmt w1ni r they t'lf<de . r d. w st thru thtt wilderness of whet aften rca bee .o \1 tato ot Iowa. It ffOUld tuk6 too long to writ(J fill of th() <,rit~i1u.l track ncross the pl~in& £JO will state just a t'mr more th1 go. ne with his acme l oreee and Vlilli d '1rotlier •1ulsipher 1i1ed6 a 8(1!1ne vnd sk:1 ff for tiahin • Our · th r ot ton told ua or the n f''Luhine trino · nd ho: thfJ Pi :ieoJ."B enjoyed the londs or fish wb1ch woro •liotributed amonf,t tneo, end Im ao tol4 us of how the compnni .e wore o:rgenizer"l on b~nk ot· l~lkho:r:n V1i'tl1 t,tllinm Ilurgasn cri.'?t ,in of the firs\ ten. 'l'tieae ten ltHt;Onu weru first nll the way t·crosa ttv; pl ins. Bef r lea\tinr, tLe .lkhorn r.. lit tlo boy wnu drown 1.1.nd oofftn ,u a tt'lfide fror:i. n aol1 d log hnwn out li "e e trough ttitl, a li 11 ,,n~l gl'l ndps helped r:u:tke thi cofrtn. I heva he..,rd ny mothor tell of tlmae inci dtnts 1:;sny timoa~ illiom lurgea wns grout hunter nild i:t a burr. lo hun; waa on, ho oult'i uo ther wi th hie trua'tf gwi. which wno over on hurtd to Join in. H, loved tho gront outdoors and ua ever r.ee1 y t.o lend n help1tw ha " • I w1ll ontl this with--- --.. illirun Dnrgeuu with his femil:, oxeept. his youngest eon ~'el n thon" wh.o cnm~ ~ ye r eucl ot" h1a folks in 1847, nterod Sult t. ke on [(Jptm be-r 22nd, 184 • L. ter lle ,md his aon1,1, aettled in 16th r.r<) ln ... alt Luke City, \J\iah. H livod there till. OY.lled an a pion er to 1elp s ~il uoixiett or ·t . Oeorr,o in l06l in th full of tbe year. Later he " a H pionenr 1nto Pine Volley. Ho and bia sons built o sew mill in Pit \1'1111 v und whore P r City no stands, und oth r }llr .. c e . e ul•~ n ljved a ornl, virtuous r.nd useful lite , lovod by All who lmew him, ncl truo L. u • ..,. lo loved tho , rophet c o.>ph i d Ll ·ya 1,0 . of hin, 1 •ou fl1"l. ,v,;o PHOJ)t , ·r". |
