| Show SOME REMINISCENCES After the Martyrdom Battle of NiuvooThe Miracle of the Quails noscoe To March SO 1893 To the Editor b Having received a letter trom my dear old grandmother Ulza Clailon Margetts of 10 ls Ida who has been true and faithful to the Gospel 1 since the days ot the Prophet Joteph Smith In whli she gives me a few of the reminiscences of her trying ciperlJ Prices In the early history of the Church and DO much derar old veterans now are not 10 numerous among us I take the liberty of submitting for your publication publica-tion a cop of part of the letter as I believe It will l be Interesting to your readers It Is I as follows At the age of ten scars I with my parents Igrated from England and arrived at Namoo In the fall of WOo Our family belnf large father was counseled by the Plo bet Joseph to go Into the countr y We did so and re nnlncd away fro in Nauvoo until tl rr421111111 111 I N u minor of 1811 when we moed back on account of the persecution of jnoh < real I hove IL distinct recollection 11 hor Ing Ruth n1felof Wlllinm Clayton talk r the ognlxoUon t ho Female Its onIttier lIt Society on h rturn home tom I he meeting ot which old DrganlzaUDn took 11 We moved 10 Carthage In the fall pf after Ud ulltll w hleh Ial 121 lit 1 or he IToht JOIh tho mnrtrdon II the tore nd hi blither lIyrum In I noon ot Ih they In hlh theme atroj ot 010 0 ou murdr ware rommlltd a the neigh = r di I go a 4 n fill 1 S1 i i r n house and ed faces caine to our tLohl other she had bet out or thr O hfttn Itihey It dy I 1h git teril to no kill storm the near and In the afternoon lie h1al d the filing or gun end soon offer mal name of rho hourderro nru I Ing k Inds urrer Lucy nt thl time IWO 81th the jailors family and wn ot the Jeff twit e n ahe shooting commenced cm homo Ito I-to what had happened The next dAY I went with my sister Iuo to the Jail we round to ursstoIlucy 1lnlo Open end eerthlnn In confusion n s though the people had left In groat hast vf went up fair to the room In w hich the Prophet and his brother had beer hot el 11 on Ih mIIpl ThOr on I some Church books I on the table and portraits or Joseph and Ilyrum s fam clles on the mantle lece There were blood In pools on the floor nn1 1 bespattered bespat-tered on the walls I at the right of which n e 1 tim oom with grief rind burst Into tears Arler hcominir Pomentint collected we gathercl Ut what wo supposed sup-posed lloned to tlie Inmates of the room at the time or them urr nn placed It together on n trunk that was In the roilm About three week after the massacre of Joseph and Hyrunt we moved back I 10 Naoo I wltnewel the trying scenes the Saints pasied through until I they were drhen from Nnuvoo 1 remember a eIrcurmitnce flint occurred I during what is called the el battle of Nau voci While at the well drawing a hurkt ot wner nnnon bnll from the enemies guns struck the rhlmuo of he house In which we lived an so much frightened me that I cot no finger fin-ger tnt In he w1I I wlrdlass 0 n4 In tralIng myself skinned my finger nearl the whole Ifn thus I th-us amonl < the rmnant ot the Ick and djlnir Halnts on the hanks of the Mississippi after the expullin when thy vlerc mlrIIIu V td on quail that alighted In thr mli t When the quails alighted they lit on our lira and oPOthln hat va around After hat caught enouah to ent they new tonaird the nrt like a swarm of beer r H this nood marn I I olllblgll fr men ri JY t dift or famlU4 i i no e came for their car onI I wbllo they were 9110 the QdII came nd ho I gone when they tIck t-Ick Th y hiol had lack nh 11 they wore Ollt orol killed nothln and had to orno hnk without mayan 10 ont far thlr fomlll aM gront Va tbr Joywhn hy found Ive Ob y hn1 is Main an ever your brother In the n Tnln IlAItH M mCH |
