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Show Concerning Mrs. Cummings OfMllhillc, who.Dcpuitcd this Life In the Month of November. Thcsubjccb of this sketch was bom In Plattsburg, Vermont, May 21, 181T, from whence she moved west to New York state and Michigan. At the latter place sho married George W. Cummings. Mrs. Cummings and husband hus-band lived In Indiana a short time, tlienc0mftveau,Il,,ll0,, whero s,,c received tho gospel, bolng bulit'Cull 111 tho Mississippi river. She Willi li'iany" others suffered persecution alid iholi !i!cnco which was prevalent In tiloso da. 3. Upon one occasslon in Hancock County, the mob camo to her home about diish one evening where she viai alone, with her little boy Charles, then eleven years of age. The mob told her to leave the llGiisc, as It was to be burned but she faced them with a musket, declaring she would kill the first man that attempted to burn their home, thereby holding the mob back for a time. Finally thclrhomc and all effects were burned tho ground, the little boy Charles taking thclronly cow to the Mississippi river, a distance of eleven miles, In the night time to keep her from being taken. The family fami-ly were driven Into Iowa with other Saints. On July 10, 1840, her husband, George Cummings enlisted In the Mormon Mor-mon battalion. He was absent one year, during which time Mrs. Cummings Cum-mings suffened many hardships and privations, llvingonc winter in a covered cov-ered wagon, where herself and family were taken down wllh the fever and ague. Through this exposure they lost threo children. By the assistance of Isaac C. Halght and others a sod house was built for the family, where they lived for about two years at Winter quarter. Where the return of her husband from the battalion, they moved back to Iowa and remained re-mained there until 1852, and then cm- Ignited, with ox team toUtah.rcmaln-' Ing In Salt Lake City a short time and moving from there to Nephl. In the winter of 18J2thc llrstscttlcrssuflcred great losses at Nephl, losing their horses and live stock through tho severe se-vere winter. In July 1853 the Indian war broke out In the South, And the Saints moved Into a fort for safety. The numbers Inside tho fort were Insulliclcnb to protect the stock remaining, re-maining, so they were driven to Salt Lake Island. In 1853 her husband was called to ride tho express from Nephl to Fillmore. Upon assuming his duties, pistol was accideutally discharged penetrating his thigh from which the ballwasnovcr extracted. extract-ed. His son Charles at present residing resid-ing In MUlvillc, who at that timo was but a young man took the place of his father as an express Bider. Sister Cummings was a counsellor to Sister Pitkin, the President of the lirst Belief society organized in Wcllsville. The above sketch Is an abstract or her writing beforo her death. She died a faithful Latter-day Saint. This family including the son Charles, who now resides at Millvllle, havo suffered much in the early days of tho church, gono through 'many trials and hardships for1 which they and all such will receive their reward. in 1851 the Indian war was renewed with Increasing hostilities on the part of tho Indians. In one engagement her husband was shot with an arrow. Cummings rifle missed fire, which led to a hand-to-hand combat by himself and the Indian, which resulted In the Indian being killed by the, use of a butcher knife in the hands' of Mr. Cummings. In lSGO tho family moved to Millvllle, wheie they have resided since. Mr. Cununlrigs died many yeaisago. Brother and Sister Cuni-mlngs Cuni-mlngs had fourteen children, twelve of them preceding her In death. Dckcrut Nuws. iilcnso eoiiy, i1 |