Show TESTIMONY OF AN IONA WOMAN Special Correspondence ON A i 13 Co Ida itla Jan Jun U 1 In n I reading a communication from rota this pace stating that Grandfather Crompton WM wu the Lisa only Oil member of ot this thin ward who ho was wan personally acquaint acquainted ed til I l with the Prophet Joseph n Il mistake occurs which I would like II c to rectify My lT mother Mrs Irs Mary J Dickson was personally acquainted with him him when a n girl of ur IB Hi She SIse worked on his hIli farm Cunn four tour miles east of ot Nauvoo III Ill and cooked wI cd for him whenever I he lie visited the farm turin SIte She h has hs ridden 1 Joe Duncan and Charlie hH Chili mid Emmas middle horses bones times She he talked to him him with Just JUt a nil Lit reserve an aci fi a r girl would feel t el talking with her bier own rather father but tut silo elie being Jehu glik sk k at It the tho time tinse of ot the then n service was Willi nimble to bu be IJ hirt soot fot else pise shi cli have hae r lifted the mistake nt itt that time She was vas 11 also niso at ut the tue meeting when 1011 Young Voun took look on the thc appearance timid and ohIe of the thu Prophet antI 1111 but hut for tOl the fact act that she knew he Ito was wane dead there would have been beems no ito doubt tin tie 11 to his bile Identity She was alsO aln In th Ih the Mill II mas asas mid SAW ill the dead bodies o Of the murdered mU men inca lying on tho ground und nini alto also paw saw them Into the well and 1111 burled like so 10 many amity friends not permitted to 10 give them n u decent burial III In that land haiti of tt the tue free It was wan her father whom hons thin the hotly body of ot George fell rell across s bespattering him with titan anti ho hl played the possum so o well ehl that when one of oe the tue mob searched him hums he lie thought thou ht he lie h wan vas Indeed e il ii ilAnd Anti And ever after that tiit he lie was Wait greeted by b his hiI friends as liS thu tho possum Ills His imme was sas wn William S 5 My Iy mother muthel was a 1 when 8 S years eari oil and nl nan has been with the Chunh In III most of ot its Ita trials unit and If It she chic hc has hall not always kept I pt hold of at the tho th Iron rod shin she hUH haM til al alas ways as been near isear enough to grasp hold bold rind phil not fall rail by II the and thou li feeble celtic In health has hAft nil all her mental m aurl amid today hours bears witness s that Joseph JQ Smith sas ns a IL true tine Prophet of ot God that You II I was waa his legal successor and that thin Is U tile tho true truo Church hurch of or Jesus Jenus J us twist Christ of or Latter day Saint very cry respectfully mS tIU MAltS MAUV 8 H SHIPLEY S |