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Show £~ ~ ~--~e?l. ough ~ pe r secut ion 'las great, et he was a ccomplish ing much ·- McLemore s C ~ h s prea dine ~e truth and in the conversion of the h onest in heart. Even the loc al minister, a young Meth odi s t pr eacher, ha d a ttended hi s mee tings and had been impressed . In h is journal of Sept ember 1 5 , 1877, he writes : "Went to meeting t his evening and hea r d 1-Ienry M. Mitchell p rea c h . " On the following day he again near~e ver~nd Henry in ~~ t he evening of t ha t d ay~e """1_m_s_e...-......... church . This fri endly r el a tionsh i p betwee n t he two preachers con~nu ed until a we ek l a ter , when, a t 9a .m. on Septembe r 30 , 1877 , El de r Morgan bapti zed n ot ... onl'it Re verend Henry M. M.itchell , but also t wo of the most infl uentia l men of the community, ¥illiam C. Kilgore a nd James ~ . K ilg o re . Shor tly a t ter-wards , a branch organiza tion wa s effected a nd William C. Kil g ore was appointed Branch Pre s i dent and Henry M. Mitchell was assigned to CD nti nue hi s p r eaching to the peopl e a s an El der ot· the Church of Jeru s Chri st of La tte r -day Saints . Early on t he morning oi Sep t embe r 19th , he was asked to go to Ca s - s a ndra , to admini ster to a baby in t he Ba ·11e y h ome t h a t wa s ver y ill. Being furn i shed ~i th h orses , he and El der Lisenbee rode to t he Ba iley home in a ve r y severe r ain storm. On a rriving a t t heir destinati on, ~tl~ ~ they f ound the ba by~ --ery ill. changing their clothing , til ey "administered t o it t he ord inance ot· t he House of God ±"ar t he heal ing 01· the sick . " Then they sat up most of t he nigh t a ssisting in c a ring f or t he ba be . For the nex t three days and nights the t wo El ders wa tc re d and pra yed for t he infa nt child . On the 26th of Sept ember, the b aby grew worse and on t he nigh t of t hat day , it went in"!D spasms and convul ti ons which l asted most o± t he night a nd On September 28 t h , the fu11 e <ral was held a nd .:a der Morgan spoke vJh ile Elder Lisenbee dedica ted the grave . In his journal for t h9 t day , he wrote , |
