Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
The was one of the most perplexing
of my life. I had on the ground three baggage waggons one family
carriage six yoke of oxen six cows 4 calves one yearling and a pair
of mules making in all 25 head. I started to go to the Black Jack
Grove to camp. The whole care was upon myself. As soon as we had
started the cows and calves all ran various ways and while I was trying
to get them together the oxen broke the tongue out of my carriage. After
that was mended by leaving part of our stock we got started but we had
not gone far before my father drove into a mud hole and the oxen
mired down. We put on 8 yoke of oxen to draw the waggon
out but we could not and broke four chains in the attempt. We
had to dig the waggon out at last and finally got camped at Black
Jack Grove very weary though we had made ^but^ four miles.
I returned to Nauvoo on the morrow
and sold our prairie land for goods and next day crossed the river to Montrose
and had an interview with a company of Saints from Pennsylvania
and among them was Brother Sidwell who gave to Brother Orson Hyde
seven hundred dollars for the camp $100 for himself and $100 for me
I again returned to Nauvoo and arranged
some business. Here I saw Mother Woodruff my sister Eunice and
her husband and Mother Smith together and some unpleasant feelings
were manifested upon the subject of Strang and his followers. I
parted with Eunice and her husband for the last time and again
