Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSnow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
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Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Snow family; Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901
Leave Kirtland.--Grand Entertainment.--A noble Woman.--Lorenzo drives
one Team.--He is very Sick.--Arrive in Far West, Missouri.--Elder
Rigdon's Kindness.--Dr. Avord's Meanness.--His Nurse, Nightwatcher
and Doctor.--An Incident.--Arrive in Adam-ondi-Ahman.--Lorenzo takes
his Gun and goes out to Hunt.--A new Train of Reflections.--Hunting
for Sport.--The old Settlers.--Their Antagonism.--Preparation for
Defense.--False Alarm explained.
Towards the last of April, 1838, our father left Kirtland with
twenty-one souls in company, to wit: his own family, consisting of his
wife, two daughters, three sons, and two grand-daughters, children of
our eldest sister who was at this time a widow; Brother Huntington and
family; Brother James Moses and family; Brother Pearce and family,
and Julian Moses, brother to James. We started with horse and ox teams,
my brother Lorenzo having charge of one of our father's teams, which he
drove until about one hundred miles from Far West, Missouri, when he
was taken very sick with bilious fever.
On our first night out from Kirtland, our whole company stopped,
in accordance with a previous pressing invitation, with one of our
father's sisters, Mrs. Charlotte S. Granger. Had we been a bridal
party we could not have been treated with more respect, or served more
bountifully, although we were "Mormons" and she a popular Presbyterian.
She was too noble minded to be a bigot. She and her husband are dead.
Lorenzo has been baptized for her husband--I for her, and we have had
the sealing ordinances performed in their behalf.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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