Show I 1 or it 1 mf JOHN 0 HY E PAGE P A G E h s 1 i si i the bahe fol foi following lowin 1 is a brief synopsis of the journal of elder eleer john E g page as givel give liby fiby ja 7 fil himself 1 ms elf 4 the subscriber was wab born of ebenezer and rachel page their thein th eil ell birot first child february Febi uary AD AD 1 1706 l 1 my father evad of pure xii Efi Ehg glish lih extraction extraction in my j mother of english b irish and y elsh eish extraction my place of birth wab was trenton township oneida c county 0 uny state stife of ril diw york Tem graced braced the faith of or the church of jesus christ of latter day saints and was baptized b august the 1833 1833 by the hands of efelder Elder elde emer harris own brother to martin harris harril Har rii ril ode one brie of the th 1 three ethree first witnesses to the il deiv the book of mormon I 1 was ordained an elder under the handsol hands of elders nelson higgins ebenezer page paje junior and others my baptism to jook took ok place in brown elm eim lorain county ohio obio lay ray ordination in florence huron county of the same state on the th of september 1833 u 1 d I 1 moved to kirtland G geauga geaugh auga county ah ohto to r in the fall of 1835 T on the day of iray ilay 1836 I 1 star tedon a mission to canada west i bf keedo leeds j j county i I 1 wa was gone from my f family a j ai liy ily lly beven seven month s and twenty days on the day of february 1837 y I 1 again teft left eft kirtland with my mi f family amily of wife wire and t two to small children taking taing with rith me all he the earthly goods I 1 possessed which consisted of one hed bed I 1 and our wearing apparel of the plain plainest i es it kind to continue continue my mission in the same came region 0 of df country BI as before idi iri commandment am mani mari ment dent cable cabie forth 1 to for fop r me ml e io to occupy 11 3 4 I 1 elace place in p I 1 fhe the the ibe iq quorum or th W vc i i matthe lath day of alay 1838 1 I started with a company of saints made up ut 0 f blen lien men women and gieir chi ard n the stat state eo of f missouri N T here hete we we la at nd in we the tho firs week eek of october octoba erf eri with a comp copi compardy pany ariy occupying M thirty wagons 0 grisat at a place there cal cai called ledIe te witt so lm 6 I 1 i six miles abole abbie the outlet of grand river an ahe he norih north sid bid side af pf tha e missouri Aliso url uri niver river where ae r 9 we by an armed mobs mob and by them barbarously arbar bously treated for near two weeks we to far west budwell county where rewe unite j with writh the general gener 4 al body of the church chure and with them participated in in all the grievous persecutions practised practiced Used on the thi church by means of a furious mob by which m maans means ans aus I 1 buried hurled my wife bif e and two children choren as martyrs to our holy religion who didd itil through extreme buffering suffering for the yant vant want of the common comforts of life which I 1 was not 1 provide provide even with ii my ray money on ori the aith of december 1838 at far west elder john Tay lorand m myself dyse alf were ordained as Apostle sunder t the 1 0 h hands alfid of elders eiders 8 B young yo u ng ind and H C kimball gil gli ail in iq the quorum q of the twelve to fill some som e vac vacancies ancius inte in the quorum which had happie happe hed bed d by apos having hiving baptizing in two years time upwards of six hundred persons arid arld traveled more than five thousand mile miles principally and under the most extreme poverty relative to earthly memi means being alone sustained by the power of god and man or the wisdom of the w world at the time tune br page pa awas wag waa called to go on a missi mission onto to canada he objected far f ai the reason teason that he hi was wi destitute br joseph smith took olt his coa coatland tand gaye aya ata 1 it to him and told him to go and the lord would bless him abundant abundantly ay on his mission he started with his family for quincy oldy illi jill noi nois sand i nd while on his way I 1 and meyeral fe yer alof of the twelve who were going goin gnup up to bozion zion to ful fui f ul fit fil the revelation which MM the twelve sho bho should u id bakle fakie dalleave lal leave of 0 my saints 1 l in the ahe the t 1 adf ity of far iston es on the 1 day of april next ne I 1 on the building t spot of my house the i lord M met m e t him hi lm be he had just upset ins bi s wagon on a sideling hill bill and among other things thin s had spilt a barrel ot of soft soap boap hia hla which be e was scooping up with lils hands I 1 counsell edh j m to return with ug us be he at first objected but I 1 ins insisted sted be should sho i get ready to which Q consented ipsen led aed and accompanied us to far ar yest asta vest and nd attended the conference coi col conference ference there on nl i I 1 he went to Ilfin Il linola ois arid and id located e abed wah father 1 judds family for a season beason on the mississippi flats beil bell below warsaw varsa iv haalock co while lp igl fated sated at father judds he h preached in adams nd hanbock cuales co unties v I 1 in 1839 he r neglected ie isted to go to englan with his brethren of tha the th according word of the lord to that quorum i f april fth 1840 elder pa page e wib wis wab was a tp pointed appointed anted br by a general conference at nauvoo to pany elder orson hyde on a mission to jerusalem and although he star started tedon on this nals ralo nallon camion sion slon I 1 be he neker neier left the shore shores sot of america I 1 he ile traveled through 0 indiana and ohio and spent en 1 the winter of 1840 1 preaching occasionally sio bio ion lon nally 1 ly in cincinnati and vicinity ile he a ar ri I 1 r lied in philadelphia in in june 1841 where whore elder geo A smith on his lis from england met himy hima him and knowing the saints were willing to raise ample armpie mean meane to cairy carry elder pa pad V 6 bh on his hits journey elder S smith ith urged him lim to proceed op his mission to jerusalem soon after elder page became involved in difficulty with ith the thi the branch in philadelphia and iq the rail rall prest H y rum smith wrote to him to come home he did not return to nauvoo until the spring of 1842 on his way he delivered dle die courses at pittsburg Pitt iburg and got up a petition which was wax signed by the saints and others to president joseph smith praying that he might be sent to Pittsburg pittsburgh li at the conference held A april 6 1843 he wan wai ghi gli to pittsburgh wb where or ho h organized zd a gach anch aach elthe eithe i church tro fro rom tho those se baptized by R as e f an n dother t other eiders ciders and some who eini emi grateda in organizing this branch be he drew up a c constitution 0 requiring their preside pr hid bid ent nt to lie b p lecter tell teil every avery four months m at a i the ilie itie first election he wab was chosen president at the second small vau waff chosen president idey idea g the kostyo vo teb tes he moved a yi his gis f family to pittsburgh where he continued to preach 1 during duling the of 0 1843 the quorum 0 of f the twel eks akward eastward eward from nauvoo on a A i elders H C kimball 0 pratt and joh john q E page met at Cinci cincinnati finati and organized eiders eldera Kith kimbail kimball ball bali andy and pratt ritt pr proceeded p on 0 their mission m and a n A as soon as they ey 1 were yere gone L eider elder idel ider page called the br branch anitol to gether and annulled the organ organization izat ion lon and ri reestablished the old ola one in a few dais days a atter after f ter bros IV woodruff deo geo A smith and myself visited cincinnati ti and we disapproved of elder pages proceedings for the reason that it ivas waa not right for one of the twelve to tb undo mi libat at three had ad done dore t elder page in company with his brethren of the went befit to philadelphia new dew jersey new borland Yo york rland and boston he iem lem remained alve alfe 0 11 in i B sometime Bome time me prest pres joseph smith mith dia dla of bib bia ls course in boston directed him to proceed to washington and buildup bui bul dup a church were there he crept wei wel to wahington remained ma ineda a short time and baptized several then returned returned to pittsburgh soon after prest smiths death in an advertisement ti appear eq in the beaver pa argus that tide lide El derohn E page rage was out of employment andi andt would preach for any body that tha would sustain gusti ai n hl hird family |