| Show HAUNS MILL AND NAUVOO NAUVOO adept 20 1895 having completed our visit roadam ondi ahmad and parted with elder andrew kimball at cameron we took train for breckinridge twenty two miles mile hired a livery outfit and drove eight miles to haune mill called by the people around here mill battle ground upon calling on one man to inquire the way he be became very much interested and desired us to stopover atop over to dinner he said eald he be had bad learned from some of the old nott settlers lere that the warfare was all on one side Z I 1 I 1 have taken his address and will send him some useful reading there is scarcely soy any one in all the country around but knows something about the creek tragedy As an we approached the fatal spot a bend in shoal creek we felt that lonely solemn feeling easier experienced than told we drove into a farm house yard close by the grounds to learn leara that the old road near the blacksmith shop had been obion ged and a great cornfield covered the whole bond bead worse than all the millstone which marked the old ola well into which the 17 bodies were thrown had bad been pulled away by a team all the ground plowed up and avery a very heavy crop of corn was growing where the sacred spot was marked the man who explained to us 01 was a hired man with a family working for a year he said be bad out down the locust grove made mad vote of the trees cleared off tb the ground and plowed up the field I 1 took a photo of the house bouse and the standing landing corn covering the spot where the tee tomb w wag we have the measurement from the old dam a portion of which still remains remain so that a piece of ground may at some time be purchased and a monument be placed to mark the fatal spot offering a silent prayer we returned to breckenridge we then MOD took train to quincy ills and on the following day sept were in at a 9 in w we took look train 60 miles to nauvoo where we arrived at 1045 pm our oar train pulled palled up a at montrose we crossed the mississippi river on the steam for fer ry city of nauvoo nouv po there was no trouble to find transportation from tb the ile landing which was near the law 9 brothers brother place a large brick building till sull standing and inhabited by a tenant I 1 went into the building and it looked an natural as it did when I 1 board beard the laws preach there 61 51 years yeara ago it was not the voice of the good shepherd gh but of a stranger I 1 did not look at the house without peculiar feel ing and thankfulness that I 1 had bad been led inthe in the narrow way the lord had bad some better work for far me to do mr T W took two of us up to the temple showed us ua over the city and back to the boat again for 1 there is opposition in hack back driving and other avocations even in old nauvoo which has dwindled down to a small town on the hill bill near and around the temple main street and the flats are mostly to in grape vines which it Is sold said flourish very well nauvoo the beautiful of the past may now be termed a land of vineyards and wine manufactories manu factories the jarmans germans here are very industrious arious the minister gave us the keys kays to his church to ascend to the high steeple after which we had a very pleasant vigia with the minister mini ater who P ho was pleased to mso meet one who knew the person who built the house he lived in we found the priest a very genial gent gentleman lemans and spent a very pleasant time in nauvoo we took a snap shot at the building which will not he bai soon forgotten by old nauvoo lat tor ter day saints saint in this view to is where the prophet brigham young was distinguished by the mantle of joseph felling upon him it was at the meet ing place lust fust east of the temple I 1 am one of the he few remaining who were present when sidney set up his bis claim as a guardian to the burea bu reb but when the voice and mantle mantie of joseph fell u upon pou brother brigham ham all present well knew who to follow poor sidney stepped back and down I 1 was pleased to take in this sacred spot by myself after a good nights rest we took steamer learner from the upper landing nauvoo to keokuk iowa crossing oros slag to montrose and down through the canal through the two looks which have a fall of twenty feet I 1 took a picture of the me acuma bell ball street going through the looks FENSON |
