Show edders ELDERS correspondence TEXAS from elder preston thomas to elder geo A smith i washington COUNTY texas april 17 j DEAR dealt SIRL SIR sire through the blessing of 0 my father I 1 ili ill heaven to whom be glory and honor for ever arid and ever my life b lias ilas as been spared and I 1 have been permitted to return to texas in good health to enter upon the duties of my mission in this land since I 1 arrived in the states last fall I 1 haye hare been almost all the time traveling aad and har have as yet yit preached very little only as I 1 could do it an in steam boatsy boat ships ac ac I 1 left washington city on abreh kreh ap 6 the day after the thip adjournment oi ot congress and canie carie came directly liere berey stop stopping at memphis tennessee two days I 1 hate hava been here now three weeks today to day 1 I have preached considerable and still have appointments out A few people are arc investigating the principles of the gospel two days ago I 1 baptized five and I 1 th nt there are others i n ho will soon follow I 1 did exceedingly dastre desire to go home tills this year yeary which w alch you know were u ere my expectations when I 1 left but my appointment to washington prete prevented prevented nied me from looking after any of my business last winter and I 1 hoped loped to hae have baptized and taun taken a company with me but in that too I 1 was disappointed BO so after the tile adjournment of congress the whisperings of the spirit seemed to direct me rae back bade to texas to carry out my original design and for that purpose I 1 am herey here and the lord seems to be capening the way ay for me to it I 1 have given up all hope of going coins home this thib yeary years year vear and shall content myself as best I 1 ican can kan ily lly principle wish win to go home was wa to build myself a good house in which I 1 could nia make mate e my family comfortable ever since ince I 1 have be been en I 1 in a ih L IS s now now naw nearly twelve years I 1 have been deen on missions almost the whole timex timed time unta my children are comparatively strangers Gr angers to mer me ind and I 1 never have bare had bad time to build a comfortable dwelling house but have haxe always dwelt in cabins and ad in tents and on the open prairie while many a of I 1 those whom I 1 have been the instrument in lit the hands bands of god in lit into the kingdom have bare had bad the privilege of settling down and building themselves splendid mansions and taking their comfort I 1 dont want you yon to understand me as complaining by no means it Is all right and I 1 am satisfied god has made me the honored instrument to first open the gospel in this county and one of the principals in helping from year to year to roell ap from texis companies ot of the best of there haye have been hosts of good and intelligent men who have gone from this land and I 1 hope gre ire ere another year to beable bebie to raft out another large com company pau y the nucleus for it is already formed and the foundation laid la id the field for preaching in texas seems about as good as it ever was and why it Is that people receive the gospel more readily in this ill xii than an in any other of the states of the anfe Anie american rIcan union I 1 cannot teil tell unless it Is because texas was not implicated in the murder of the prophets joseph and ift lit she being at that time an Jn dependent republic and was not annexed to the guilty parties until a number of years afterward be dr george A I 1 wish to go home next year yeary and I 1 wish you would suggest to the president the propriety of sending down next tall fall about four good elders to stay two years two of them to preach in the german language all the time as nearly pearly one third of the whole population of texas texas are germaney Ger germans mansy who cannot understand our language a great many of f this part of the population ladon will no doubt receive relve the gospel german elders who were born la in america would have more influence with the people from what br snow has written mey mei me I 1 presume I 1 am now mow the only elder in texas liu itu all ali others being gone goney and there ought to be at least ten but I 1 hope soon to be able to ordain bomey some and so get help in that way my letter letters which pyou will see in the mormon and luminary inary will keep you advised of my progress ac there are some same here who wao are examining mormonism and it will rub them very close if they do not fall into it they are very plain country farmers and freely open their houses bouses tome to me for a home 1 the lord has raised me up many friends and although when I 1 came here from washington three weeks ago go I 1 was an entire stranger in this part of texas and anti had bad only one dime and a halt half in my pocket now I 1 have plenty ot of money and a fine horse and saddle to ride and every attention I 1 wish for shown me I 1 have had bad no news from my family since the december in mail mall all ail and I 1 have not seen any news from utah until H this morning mornin gp when I 1 got hold of a number of the mormon conta containing ining in it your letters of the eth february and also some littie fittie little account of matters in the citie it was very gratifying indeed after BO to long a dearth the for crops in this country Is gloomy in the extreme it has not rained for four months the corn that was planted in january and rebr february pari was all killed by a late frost in march marchy and the farmers plowed plow ed up their their fields and planted over again the cotton has hardly come up any at all lat lart year while it was an entire drouth throughout the western and middle middie states it was raining here almost every day all slimmer summer in the spring of 1849 1869 the loth of april I 1 left the guadaloupe with a company the corn then was tassel ing now it Is nowhere more than one foot loot high br dr george please to write to me direct t to brenham in this county whenever you go up to utah county 5 you ou must call upon my family at lehl lebl and inquire after their welfare and give them any good counsel they may need member remember Rs me to any ofay of my old friends who wha may inquire after me pray far me and accept for yourself the best beat wishes and sentiments of esteem from your friend and brother in the new and arid everlasting covenant from elder P P pratt to elder ge geo a A smith t SAN JUAN april 30 1855 1853 eldeb elder G A shri SArI SMITH Tir historian Ill iii storian deax deat br dr the following Is a list of our spring emigration from san francisco conference of the C J C 0 L I 1 D saints to san bernardino and salt lake according to the organization completed here this day win wm mcbride captain bochlas dastin chaplain henry W bigler sergeant of the guard and historian cynthy jane whipple whippie henry willard reuben gates sarah jane bryant hamilton 31 wallace elizabeth wallace wm farrer norman G Brim brimhall hail ball Roz ilita BrIn bramhall brintnall louisa louisa BrIm brimhall hail bill isabel brimhall nanct nancy ancy brimhall norman BrIm brimbau Crl ban baH geo W wilkins catherine A wilkins mary A geo A charles 11 wilkins moroni wilkins john glndon harly swartout 3 nathan tanner chancey W west redick N allred orren smith smithy anna A smith ilien ellen 31 hopkins amelia A smith emily 11 HopkIns 2 francis smith ann smithy smith eugene smith smithy james B call james R allred aured add to these wm warren and george more who have already gone to san bernardino and ahw e who sailed on the esth iest lest from santa clara to form a junction at san Dernar bernardino dInoy viz TW willard whipple whippie betsy whipple whippie Whip pley plex orison whippie whipple alvina alrina whipple whippie rosette whipple ley lef charles whipple whippie lf walter E dodge ellen dodge ella eila dodge elizabeth warren george warren elizabeth warren total souls 51 wagons 13 mules 20 horses 23 we hope as many more will start for carson valley and salt lakey lake as soon as the snowy mountains will admit say july ENGLAND E N G L AND from elder wm win IT kimball to prest frest 11 C kimball 35 ST city otte of lain IAin london dou don june 1 1833 1855 I 1 DEAR dean FATHER mr my health continues good I 1 feel blessed bleser in my labors all things thing s are prosperous pros proe pertos rous rots and propitious for the kingdom of god godo if since my return from liverpool I 1 have hare meen teen traveling in the london conference accompanied ly by the tile president elder marsden den we have held heid meetings nearly every night and three times on the sunday ae we have seen universally a good spirit manifested our motto Is sound the gospel trump tromp and come out put 0 ye irael israel 1 which finds aa an echo from the bosoms of ot the I 1 saints next week I 1 shall leave for tor the cour country try and ard shall shail labor there about a month I 1 espart expect to be accompanied by elder T B IT 11 Stenli stenhouse late president of w italian mission missions who has been prevented irv irp this season by much afflict affliction lon ion in his family ss i there Is 1 now a telegraphic communication ope ape opened d between the allied camp before sebastopol sevastopol Seba and loee lore and nd the generals and admirals render a daily dally accounts ihei ibel their doings if interesting J the paris correspondent of the morning post writes ct public attention Is so exclusively directed at the M nt moment towards the crimea that little regard Is pa paw to passing events in spain A very considerable a s t movement Is taking place in the district of aragon g d has assumed such proportions that a G advices advises fram 2 madrid on a demand made bade in e by gen espartero the cortes have derided that ther they thy I 1 wu h themselves en permanence until they shall h have a ve vot voted I 1 tt extraordinary powers asked by the government the CA car list cry Is ls dilong long live the kingl rell reil ilont death to heretics they seem to be exasperated on account of a bill which has passed the coits colts restricting church influence and revenue advises advices Ad vices from madrid of the soth may irate thai that the tho insurgents at carpl and alcanez were defea defeated an the eth at Valon qulia the tao two leaders and a cure were shot y frane france Is not tranquil the times cows cowf pendent the strikes amongst workmen in many pants parts of the country are assuming a rather serious aspect the between the strikes and the dearness Is I 1 the ugliest feature inalie in the business people xem rem cluber that I 1 I 1 I 1830 and 1847 were debrs of scarcity I 1 1 I 1 I 1 must just hurriedly state that on thet them the ath of last latt month an extraordinary meeting of took place in the london tavern of this metropolis iss isy to oen enter ter a protest against the shameful sham fit way la in which war has hias been mismanaged by the government of tai this country A in try this was one of the greatest meetings ever h f elin alln in the city of london ondon though held during the day das hundreds of per persons among whom many members of parliament were unable to obtain admission long before the a appointed p I 1 t e 1 I 1 hour of meeting me etine A society has been ther then i el administrative ad mini stra tite tire reform association 25 gentle sentie ane put down their names for loo eacho from the interest since manifested in behalf of this association and the objects sought bought to be obtained it Is hikell Il kelio 0 turn out a most powerful inquisitor to the government govern men alent and money are no scarcity I 1 jp the following week may mayy the ce lebrat MI and now spirit napper rapper robert owen ushered n the millennium delegates to this meeting gerein were idyll from 1 all nations governments and religions at tryl b me and abroad from prom the nature of the invitation in ani i ae 4 exa circulation of tracts and advertisement advertis emen reamy expected a long conference it lasted about ill lii ihme ihne oure the old gentleman gent pent leman ieman being that day 84 years ot of I 1 took the lea iea leading ding part in the hus bUS business iness IDess read much a e bad published and intimated that his hla mission was nov now cwg nearby finished it would seem front froni his pamphlet t th the spirits of the duke rute of kent the honored patrio ington franklin and other great men hadice had iam wd lim liz to this information and this great step for buffie bumm buff ia 1 I at this dawning of the millennial morn a friend of lis hit exhibited to the meeting a 9 peacemaker peace maker capable nap map lc of sending a ball of a ton weight five miles orm oiw or gid rifle title shots in a minute sift I 1 have lately received letters from from F fran Fian franklin frankiln I 1 anklin klin kIIn DJ IF cards george D grant joseph A young toung ja jamies e i guson n eo E wo W G young toung W C dunbar adulte a num lerot er at the brethren they are all well r fe well weil and doing well and desire a kind remembran re you jou and family and to all the saints la in the be mountains mountain 4 I 1 I 1 elc ELK MOUNTAIN I 1 from elder john mcewan to his brother br othir ewan fw GRAND niver EIVER VALLEY VALLET utah te june inh anh 1 I dean DEAH BROTHER brothen tf I 1 will give glie you a history of our travel kince bince 1 buelt 1 I elt eil eft eit the city of provo 1 may traveled some 23 mile and enca encamp d small 11 spring creel creek day warm wind blew ab steady go y clouds of 0 dust flying my which made it very b badji a dav el I 1 n g I 1 cool at night good feed and water sage for fuel fue morning pleasant good traveling all dari dayi 3 miles south of willow creek good feed and wa elf ery sage bage fuel f M orri lath morning very cool day pleas pleasant ant ii arriva arrive T ait alt sit creek port fort quarter to for 10 am started crosan abo abcug I 1 or salt sait creek kanyon ci crossing good ford ad crossd bb ridged ad W doy dop do ath very poor bridge and sideling dang ilous sious for sor cros crossing bing ath brid budged gedy ath do eth gaoa eo r mooned good feed water and wood for f fuei tuel ne 1 1 8 miles further and encamped at nu inta cpr good feed water and willows for fun fum the arpad v roush rough and rocky in places place lath traveled some 10 milesa miles and pd vr s anepete creek creeks which was bridged 4 milt miles and crossed canal creek bridged and donned thence 7 miles aad and arrived at fort ephraim Ephr alm aim poor camping place arrived at mantl city about noona noon I 1 u rn ed our cattle into the bottom ineida of the field A aylese hese he two last named places firewood Is plentiful on 0 t u stains close at hand morning very cool snow on the ins ids it itt ift it at noon traveled to the 6 mile creek ilk ans campeci cam peo good ford poor feed reed wood plenty got at dark dari 1 I 1 and chained them to wagons and prayers illicit night and morning ig in rota ot atton atlon ilono atour ur company now consists vt 15 bagins and 41 men 1 started at dai dal daybreak reak very cool od 3 i e s and a nd stopped on spring ajeet cowl good feed elgh rl gh ilde ride a 0 e road good water sake sage tw fuel rusl uel traveled 3 mil nd crossed creek steep bask bauk b atom ar 1 ti 9 mt ur ther and camped about abent 14 1 4 mile mlle fr am the tho anus ants 0 evler evier river water muddy road pretty glodd good most ett aff r way except in places some eomme bd nardi nandi na ja in the bottom H morning cool traveled 3 miles mies and find A 40 d south willbe creek erect good teed feed and waier wafer windy dinn the day the r road noad A d good till we came to the bl t very luh inh auh and rocky thence proceeded up sooth south aft sart greek damyon I 1 st crossing of the cratit critic good goine sotos ins in rocky bottom steep going out ad crossing the sann same camped herer here feed poor water good some willows and sage saga for feel teel visited sevi several 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