I assisted President Marsh to obtain fifteen hundred dollars
from the Southern brethren, to enter land in Missouri for the
Church. The brethren made me a present of fifty dollars,
which I sent by President Marsh to enter forty acres of land
for me. Elder Smoot and I were released from the Southern
mission with permission to go to Kirtland.
CHAPTER IX.
ATTENDING SCHOOL—MARRIAGE—IMPRESSED TO TAKE A
MISSION TO FOX ISLANDS—ADVISED TO GO—JOURNEY
TO CANADA—CASES OF HEALING—JOURNEY TO CON-
NECTICUT—MY BIRTHPLACE—MY MOTHER'S GRAVE—
BAPTIZE SOME RELATIVES—JOINED BY MY WIFE—
JOURNEY ON FOOT TO MAINE—ARRIVAL AT FOX ISLAND.
HAVING returned from my Southern mission in the
autumn of , in company with Elders A. O. Smoot
and Jesse Turpin, I spent the following winter in Kirtland.
During this time I received my endowments and attended the
school of Professor Haws, who taught Greek, Latin and
English grammar. I confined my studies mostly to Latin and English grammar.
This winter and the following spring, in some respects, may
be regarded as one of the most interesting periods of the history
of the Church, when we consider the endowments and teach-
ings given in the temple, and the great apostasy which
followed.
I was married to Miss Phoebe Whitmore Carter, on the
, and received my patriarchal blessing
I RECEIVE MY ENDOWMENTS—ATTEND SCHOOL.
President of the Twelve Apostles, presided. All the branches
in Tennessee and Kentucky were represented.
I assisted President Marsh to obtain fifteen hundred dollars
from the Southern brethren, to enter land in Missouri for the
Church. The brethren made me a present of fifty dollars,
which I sent by President Marsh to enter forty acres of land
for me. Elder Smoot and I were released from the Southern
mission with permission to go to Kirtland.
CHAPTER IX.
ATTENDING SCHOOL—MARRIAGE—IMPRESSED TO TAKE A
MISSION TO FOX ISLANDS—ADVISED TO GO—JOURNEY
TO CANADA—CASES OF HEALING—JOURNEY TO CONNECTICUT—MY BIRTHPLACE—MY MOTHER'S GRAVE—
BAPTIZE SOME RELATIVES—JOINED BY MY WIFE—
JOURNEY ON FOOT TO MAINE—ARRIVAL AT FOX ISLAND.
HAVING returned from my Southern mission in the
autumn of 1836, in company with Elders A. O. Smoot
and Jesse Turpin, I spent the following winter in Kirtland.
During this time I received my endowments and attended the
school of Professor Haws, who taught Greek, Latin and
English grammar. I confined my studies mostly to Latin and English grammar.
This winter and the following spring, in some respects, may
be regarded as one of the most interesting periods of the history
of the Church, when we consider the endowments and teachings given in the temple, and the great apostasy which
followed.
I was married to Miss Phoebe Whitmore Carter, on the
, and received my patriarchal blessing