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Show - 41 - "My heart bleeds with pity f or the poor mother snd siste r s . May God bless them ." The enemies ot t he El ders made much to do a ro ut t he illness and deat h of the Ba iley c hild . Even the ne arby country newspaper called the attention OI the pe ople to the fact that alth ough t he ~ lders had been te aching t hat through the powers o:t· the Prie s thood an d ordim,nce of administra tion , t he sick could be he aled, ye t t h ough many pr ayers were ofrered in its beha l f , the baby died . Because of this t hey declared that the Mormon Elders were fakes a nd the truth wa s not in them . As a result o:t· "these a ttaclcs, the manbers of the Klu Fl ux Klan became very a ctive and numerous attemp ts· were ma de to captu re the Elders a nd drive t hem out of the sta te. ~ - ___....... . On/\ September 30th , ~r Elder M.organ had. b aptized William C. Kilgore , .James T. Kil gore and A. H. itchell, \@.1 tliree we r e confinned by El de r Lisonbee . ~g Sunday , meeting was held a t 11 a . m. a t vh ich -:::.. Elder Lisonbee p rea ched to a full house who paid close a t t ention and at 3 p .m. -"'lder Morgan s p oke to a large a ssemblage of s aints and visimrs . On Monday , Octobe r 1, 1877, J ona than Reed was b aptized by ~YE ld e r v Morgan and wa s conf irmed by El der Lisonbee and Ca roline Kilgore was bap tized by El der Lisonbee a nd confirmed by Elder !l.org [:n. Shortly after both Elders le f "t f or Horton's Chapel and on the ir arrival, s1Dpped a t the Bar t .B'ausett home where it was l earned tha t t he Klu T~lux :~l a n h ad c alled on t he p receeding Sa turday night look ing f or El Cl e r Mor gan • While now stOl)-·1ing a t Ca s sandra , t hey were en tertai ned at t he Dixon Ba iley home . On October 3 , t hey we r e invited t:> return t o t he Cave to the William C. Kilgore's home to buptize Llrs . 1.1a tilda vlitchell wh ich they did tha t atternoon. ::<~ a rly on the morning of October 4 t h , they st2rted ba ck to Heywood |
