| Show ADAM ONDI AHMAN ADAM ONDI AHMAN davies co i missouri sept 16 1895 after our prayers on the temple lot lint at fur for west caldwell county M 0 souris acuri we took pictures of it the be corner tone awde with our party grouped around there theres to a tree growing in the ecca fur for the it la is about 12 inches at the base joan daviu maer son eon of john whitmer one or at the igat eight witnesses to the book of mormon lives on the premises of his hie father bolding jol Ding and including the temple 1 I 1 wu W bad a pleasant visit with him and ft flim mily lly and took a picture of bin home toe family and our party sit alair ir which our livery team took us ua back to li cameron Cs moron ton ten miles mi lee to the railway when we took train for gallatin aboul abiu twenty wo miles mile 66 65 coat ride after a nights rest at the Wee leril y fartel fa otel we hired a double conveyance for 3 and drove over a very itoko bridge to old mill port where fafty alve years ago stood a partly moimoi town and some stores and houses of people of other in the time of the coubles in 1838 Mill millport port became the lot of the mob the cormons mormons eing driven from their homes gener my about these times captain neal 0 ilia ba had gathered around him a burge 9 bund bond who disguised them themselves selve as fild ians gillam being their chief J t well remember that a call was waa ade in the by J M hinkle hinkie to 10 i hf ead the tb who had bad been axa from Mill pott and all other laa I 1 fies and ahalt houses houf burnt the mormon 0 toon headquarter were at al adam neal teal oil Gill indian bete were discovered in a plot to so one scattered mormon marmon settlers attlen who gukl been burnt out and for protection ago gathered to Disi Di abman brul I 1 have to remember theme theca sz times time for a boy only I 1 waa vai ADO ne 01 0 slid he huitula called out to protect the mor V jnona from gillams Gi llama raid and a egarah arch io in the night had bad to be b per to thwart the robbers mob bere bers we a forced march of fiyo miles that night and boive the people there from mob vio 1 jence these old scenes come vividly before hae 6 qt heartrending scenes of women aumen adl children being driven from their they came to adam aadi A abman ame of them barefoor ed e d isbell bome having been burned w t to their all at ons one time la in the all ol of 1888 we bad t tj lie under snow enow with oaly a little cover and subsequently ame of us during the storm had to ao take refuge in the old barn now standing with ft a new dow root roof upon it IL this Is the thel lyman jyman wight barn now owned by widow mcdonald Mo Donald she he has hae been the owner of the old homestead for over fifty years it in IB the scene coene of the old camp grounds gro unda where joseph the be prophet brigham young H C kimball kimbal P P pratt orson oraon pratt and so ao many others camped at the time ot of the mormon war as aa it to is now known it to Is said gaid that chat during the war almost the whole country was burned down mormon property as aa well as a that thai of others mill pirl has bag never dever recovered some may bay the citie na DR burned their own homes KB an well as ae the mor mons in order to ret get up excitement at AI all events there came li W bogess exterminating order the cormons mormons must go away or be exterminated after being satisfied eatie satie fied with this vleit visit we drove about 8 miles over grand bottoms bot tomB or the valley of adam chis I 1 a vast scene ot of corn fields fielde with from 50 to bushels of corn t theatte be acre with ordinary culture there a no soil in the world to ID exceed this valley and very little to compare with it arriving at adam we spread out a ili iu aiu and ana were masted under the good ol 01 j i blackberry trees shade abade with a re ire breeze it was waa a lovely scene roe altar ta Is erected 80 on the eibest point hereabouts th t bluff up grand river to the east verging merging its ito a 8 to the northward leaving a valley of exceedingly rich soil from no me altar to la the lyman wight log jog touge idill standing it in if just juet ab ut and nearly west weal the point slopes moderately ing into the valley nearly as aa much farther from the altar as it is ia to the no aouane use making in all about to cards from the los altar to the ol oi 1 stable is ia about yards yarda to the north northwest wes making nearly a triangle with the three pinta pIn tp oar jely the altar lyman layman bouse and the stable A val toy ley or a ravine runs rune down from the bluff of timbers timber widening out aal it ap preaches proa pro obea aches the valley frim the altar aown the timbered bluff to the valley bout i ward iward to also aleo about yards yarda rho che river forms forma a curve around the altar aliar bearing northeasterly while it oumer ou moo from the he southeasterly direction dormi n g a lovely valley of the best part of a mile Is ill width the time was waa far spent and we bad to beaten baiten across grand river and re turn to our hotel in gallatto gallatin mo five miles by the nearest dearest route we traveled some ome twenty ft ve mase today I 1 have taken several everal pictures pio turee of important lint points today we met several everal lea men of I 1 very much regret to say ay that since anoe my last visit vigil here ben many changes have taken place of a very Jamou lamentable table nature one ot of them is a mr william ford the livery man who took me out two years yeara ago to Dl abman only two waste was wa men bent t to the asylum also aleo mr J H mcgee known as aa major mouse mogee has baa cone one nearly blind hole he IB about my age and is a good friend to our people he was well acquainted with joao joseph plo smith and many of our leading men he was waa here in the mobbing times timea ol of gallatin and speaks highly of joseph as aa a gentleman he was waa taken a prisoner but bia soon released feleai ed in 1888 1838 he relate J many very interesting inc anee dobem and was wa pleased to most meet me aga aado inand and to be abider to alder kimball and wile and mr 8 aa a d to near about utah tomorrow we take rail for or cameron and thence for breckenridge about 60 50 miles milea where I 1 halt bali hirami carriage and visit baund mill where seventeen eT enteen mormons were murdered and their b bi ilea thrown in into to a well rider elder kimball wife and daughter parted with us rather reluctantly at cameron Cao aeron homeward bound while mrs mra 8 and I 1 took train for breckin ridge where we hired a carriage and brove to noted places in the country EDWARD STEVENSON |
