Show A VETERAN WOMAN Garil Oar fild eld county march 31 seeing sketches aketo hea written by veterans vei erana of church and thinking that thai I 1 have friends living lining who would te be glad to hear bear from me I 1 write the follow ing for publication I 1 was waa burn bora february 16 1819 at sumner county tenn am the youngest daughter of juhu john li willis and jane kirkpatrick Kirt fpatrick his bl wife my parents parenia removed to hamilton bouny illinois when I 1 was two or three yeara year of age I 1 was wan fourteen years of age when my father died I 1 was waa living jiving there with nay my mother when I 1 embraced the gospel loops being years year f age I 1 and the second of my ta lathera therle lat bera family to embi embrace race the gospel goepel I 1 woke waa baptized by elbelt elista eliba grovee my mother and a nd d removed to far west where I 1 was waa married to james L thorn october 5 1887 toy oy rider elder harvey grove green the winter wings r I 1 following I 1 removed with my hubband ausban d on 0 o grand river six ix miles milea above adam ondi aam abamo D my mother died in august 1888 1838 we resided OU on grand river butil we were driven into ajam A jam iam audi ahmon by the mob where we birlea vur first child when we were it driven riven from there we moved back into CJ jal aldwell dwell coul ty I 1 was waa present at the dome of brother hyrum beith when tie be and the ane prophet joseph joeeph arrived from missouri after their escape from prison we removed from there to nauvoo beere weere we rem albed after the temple my husband oame out as far as pisgah with the artillery com company poDy whore where he be was re lemou K aeu to come back to see fee to his bia family am before his bis return I 1 had bad moved the tae river into iowa soon BOOB after nis return wu moved to elder taylora yay lora camp where my husband enlisted with ruh the Ba tallion ItA leaving we m in trio hands ut the abord with three doall children to care for after be ted I 1 moved to bishop amp c mp where I 1 resided until the return of my busbaum a we oame to the valley in at t ti fork moved to in we spring ot of 1861 and ad lived there u atil the tall fall of 0 1877 when we moved to the be Pah reab where he be founded the town of which place we were at the LI lime ime ot of bin bia deaths death which occurred march 25 1890 1 it to is lay ay houe bosas at as the tune mae hoping to hear bear from other church vateran 4 through the he volumna of the NEWS I 1 am MATILDA W THOMPSON |