Show JACKSON COUNTY AND TEMPLE LOT WOODRUFF apache co ariz aria march alb 1895 my fathers family were driven out of jackson county with the rest real of the brethren and we wet t over the river Int into clay oClay county and nave been with the saints ever since I 1 went up into the she pine country twice for lumber for the he temple and the nauvoo houpe the arma time I 1 was gone nearly a year I 1 have bave worked on three temple inee eh h we 9 abt to id county we 9 settled about twelve miles aller west or of independence be then we moved into independence and stayed there until we 9 had to leave whon when we bad to leave nauvoo I 1 had been married some come three or four months montha and I 1 worked for a mau man by the same name of 01 J dlee D lee he agreed to take me ws to california lor for that thai was wai the place the salute saints started for when we got an aa far as aa dagah beset down there and from there I 1 went down into clay county mr me 2 and topped there until I 1 OL tallied an outfit of my own and then I 1 came to te the be valleye tilla this was in 1852 while in clay county I 1 went over into jack jackan scon county and went onto the temple ample lot the people of in dependence had bad out oft off all the timber from we the lot and sold all al but what was fenced for a I 1 was well acquainted with the lot for I 1 was well acquainted with the land I 1 always understood stood that it was an eighty acre lot and that bishop partridge entered it himself I 1 am satisfied atis fled t f ow ova my own knowledge thai it was brother partridge and isaac morley and a man by the name of john carl who lived in the field and there was a school house bouse on the northeast eilmer of the lot jot the brethren bad a graveyard near the southeast corner to lo which I 1 have a brother and burled your brot brother hert HORACE 0 OWENS |