| Show THE FUTURE UNVEILED AMONG the data we obtained with regard to the life of elder jacob gates was an account of a vision and some gome notes of travel showing its fulfilment fulfillment the statement was written by his own hand and as it was not on account of limited space included in the biographical sketch published in yeater jester days issue we give it place today believing that it will be perused with pleasure by many of our rea readers derF after the smith waa martyred marty red on the of juno june 1844 the spirit of raged to such euch an extent that it was deemed advisable to send the BIde the sur surround roULd ing country to allay the excitement as a far as possible I 1 was dispatched to fountain green a place known to be very aery bitter toward the latter day sainto saint I 1 hold held one meeting in company with charles birdsy companion compani olD we had a large audience and the spirit of the enemy had been wrought to the highest pitch but the better spirit prevailed and the meeting passed off quietly then we returned to nauvoo I 1 in n the fall and winter of 1844 work upon the temple was pushed forward so BO that in the latter part of 1845 the people commenced to receive their blessings that same game fall I 1 had bad my full endowments together with my two wivel mary M and caroline elizabeth during the win ter aud and spring of 1846 we were preparing to leave Nau naumon vod As we passed over the mississippi river into iowa where I 1 had once lived I 1 was armind n minded of a dream or night vision which was as follows 4 in the year 1840 1 I saw the people b begin to leave nauvoo and cross the river into iowa and prepared to move west A personage seemed to tand stand by and explain the object of the move he said the people were going to seek a place in which to dwell and thatis hen they found it they would remain there until they became numerous and strong and when this time came they would rise up like a host and go down to jackson county missouri I 1 saw the very course they took live five years later and the personage beside me told we me the name of the place where the saints would cross the missouri river namely council bluffed I 1 saw the track they took after crossing the river and they went out ofay sight about half way between the missouri river and salt lake valley remaining ni ng out of sight to represent the time it might take to become numerous the vision continued until they came in sight again and then I 1 followed them in the vision as they passed seed down the southwest side of the M missouri river until they landed in jackson county missouri when they reached the state an on the west there was no one there to oppose them as they took possession of the land it was about six years from the time I 1 saw the vision until I 1 found myself with a large number dumber of the saints sainta in salt lake valley having passed over the very spots which I 1 plainly saw six years previous the tourney journey between nauvoo and winter quarters or butlers cutlers lis park situate on the bank of the missouri river was attended with much hardship after a short rest with our te fecas ims one company was sent on towards the west as far as pawnee village situate on the loop fork of platte river about miles west of the missouri river the pawnee indians at this time had all gone west to hunt buffalo bubalo meantime captain miller took the main body of the company across the country to td the nation on the missouri miles above omaha and I 1 was left in charge of ten or twelve sick famili families s in the midst of an indian cou country I 1 in D their absence while on the hunt the sioux indians thad bad burned their village and driven off the missionaries who had sixteen or eighteen of the indian children when the indians returned from their hunt they found their village burned and the missionaries and their children gone and strangers occupying the place it was some time before we were able to make them understand the condition and why we were there the cause of their children being gone etc when they learned how things stood they were quite friendly we burnet in and helped them build up their village and they paid us in meat buffalo robes etc the war was still going on with wit h the sioux bioux indians and president brigham young thought it unsafe for our little coni to remain with the indians so 80 he sent two men jack jach reading and ana solomon case came to escort us back to winter quarters this was life in the fall of 1846 my wives were both sick caused by hardship and exposure the weather was cold and we had no shelter besides our wagon I 1 went to work at abonce once to diga hole in the ground and then took my ox and team and repaired paired to the forest there I 1 felled trees out cut lop logs and hauled them to the place where I 1 laid them up in the form of a square around a hold in the ground covered it with bush grass grais and dirt and thus established my cabin for the winter half below and halt half above ground in this I 1 placed my sick wives and our effects here my wife elizabeth diemand die dand was buried while I 1 was absent from home one hundred and fifty miles in missouri when I 1 returned to my home I 1 found my wife gone and her little daughter left to be oared cared for slie she was my only child and being sickly soon followed her mother in the spring of 1847 preparations were made for crossing the plains in search of a home and a resting place where we could dwell in peace the people were called together president brigham young presiding Jug and we were organized into companies of ten fifty and one hundred I 1 was chosen a captain of fifty in captain willard inowe hundred after president young had started west with the pioneers P P pratt on coming home from a mission reorganized the company and I 1 was made captain of ten rais fuis displeased president young however we started on our journey westward and spent the greater part of the summer in traveling haying having lost many of our cattle on the way and reached salt lake city fort late in the fall of 1847 erastus snow had laid the body of a log room I 1 covered it over with poles bay and dirt and lived jived there during durina the winter and most of the next summer until I 1 had built myself a flat roofed adobe house in this I 1 dwelt about seven years |
