[page torn] uspense until Oct. 1, when Elder Townsend
[page torn] ompany; they arrived in Scarborough on the
[page torn] th their wagon covers all flying.

The company stopped at the house of sister Sarah
B. Foss; we went to work and nailed down all the covers
and painted them, which made them waterproof

4th, we started upon our journey, my child was in
the first stages of the hooping cough, our company consisted of 53
persons; we had 10 wagons, with a pair of horses to each. We had
before us, at this late period, a gloomy land journey of two thousand
miles, from Maine to Missouri; we continued to travel through
rain, mud, cold, frost and snow, until I ^we^ arrived in Rochester,
Sangammon Co., Illinois, Dec. 19, where I stopped and settled
my family and company for the winter ^being unable to proceed further,^; my wife had passed
through a severe course of the brain fever while upon the journey,
and her suffering had been very great, her spirit had left her
body twice to all human appearance, and only been called back
through the prayer of faith and the power of God. Our child
had also been very sick and I had become so thoroughly
chilled through my whole system, in crossing the bleak prairies,
that it was two months after I stopped before I got sufficiently
warmed to feel natural.

Bro. Thomas buried one child, and nearly all the
company had been sick through exposure; some of them had stopped
by the way side.

I spent the winter laboring with my hands for the
support of my family.

March 8th, 1839 I attended a conference at Springfield, Ills.,

page torn uspense until Oct. 1, when Elder Townsend page torn ompany; they arrived in Scarborough on the page torn th their wagon covers flying.

The company stopped at the house of sister Sarah B. Foss; we nailed down the covers and painted them, which made them waterproof

4th, we started upon our journey, my child was in the first stages of the hooping cough, our company consisted of 53 persons; we had 10 wagons, with a pair of horses to each. We had before us, at this late period, a gloomy land journey of two thousand miles, from Maine to Missouri; we continued to travel through rain, mud, cold, frost and snow, until we arrived in Rochester, Sangammon Co., Illinois, Dec. 19, where I stopped and settled my family and company for the winter being unable to proceed further,; my wife had passed through a severe course of the brain fever while upon the journey, her suffering had been very great, her spirit had left her body twice to all human appearance, and only been called back through the prayer of faith and the power of God. Our child had also been very sick and I had become so thoroughly chilled through my whole system, in crossing the bleak prairies, that it was two months after I stopped before I got sufficiently warmed to feel natural.

Bro. Thomas buried one child, and nearly all the company had been sick through exposure; some of them had stopped by the way.

I spent the winter laboring with my hands for the support of my family.

March 8th, 1839 I attended a conference at Springfield, Ills.,