Oct 4, 1885 My Dear Clara I write to say that I have lost my old friend with whom I have lived since the first of last March William Squire He has been sick about 10 days and Died on his birth Day the 26 Sept He has been a great friend to me and made me welcome to anything in his Home one day He fainted away & I thought He would die on my hands Burton & Sheets being in town I sent for ...

Home not as secluded as the one I had Brother Mc A. told me about his visit with you & your Mother I was glad He had a chance to call. I would have been glad to have been with him, I got a letter from Brother Wells & Penrose last night They said Asahel would come home this fall if He did not go on to the continent but I would prefer to have him take a tour on the ...

and come home with the first company in the Spring I think He will be better satisfied to do that, than to come home this fall. Well it seems that the Utah Judges have formed a platform for the Elders to stand upon & Decide whithch they will do some God or Bad and the Decision thy make will Decide their Destiny for all time & Eternity when John Sharp went back on his family his covenants his religion & his God It cast a gloom over the minds of Many ...

Deny the faith or Dishonor God I have but few days to live here on Earth I have a long Eternity to spend on the other side of the veil & After the resurrection And if I do my Duty there is No power beneath the Heavens that can deprive me of the society of my wives & children after the resurrection to dwell with them forever in the family organization of the Celestial world, while those who desert them & deny the faith & back out to save a few months imprisonment will have their families & Celestial ...