On the 4^th March Phebe Amelia was born. On the 23rd July being out of a stock of
papers Brother Joseph sent me to St Louis to buy a new stock ^of paper^ I was 6 days getting to
St Louis on my arival I had a severe ^was severely^ attack ^with^ of the Billious fever setled upon me
and the day I made my purchases and got my freight on board the fever was raging
so hard that I was hardly sensible of what I was doing, as soon as I got my
freight on board I flung myself into a ^took my^ birth and lay there most of the time
untill I arived home ^I reached Nauvoo, which was on the 10 Aug the boat being 5 days getting over the
rapids. As soon as I delivered the paper to the office I went home and went to bed
and ^I was confined to my bed for forty days unabled to get up^ ^and^ passed through the most severe fit of sickness I ever endured in my life, my life
was dispaired of by many. I lay 40 days upon my bed unabled to set up at all I was adm-
inistered to by the Twelve, and others and my life preserved through the power of God I
took a relaps twice after I began to recover. Once was while in council with the presidency
and Twelve. my strength left me my breath stoped and I felt as though I was struck with
death it was with great difficulty that I was brought to by the laying on of hands. after
my recovery I continued my labours in the printing office. ^Sept 24^ The office took fire
in the upper story in the midst of a large amount of paper and it came near burning ^up^
it to the ground. The winter of 1842 & 3 was one of the most severe ever experienced in
Illinois Nov 21^th Alphaus Harmon and his nephew was found froze to death on the
prairie I help to lay them out on the 22nd I remained in Nauvoo attending Councils
Meetings, and the business of the printing office, untill the 7^th July 1843, when I was
called to go ^started^ on a mission with the rest of the Twelve ^Elders Brigham Young & G A Smith to go into^ into the Eastern States to collect
funds for for the Temple and Nauvoo House. I gave bonds in the sum of two thousand
dollars for the faithful performance of my duty. July 7^th I left Nauvoo on the
Steemer Rapids for my mission in company with Elders B. Young G. A. Smith & E P Magin
I travelled with the Twelve and attended conferences with them through the middle &
Eastern States ^&^ visited my parents as I went along. On the 12 Sept I left
Boston at 5 oclock PM, on the express train for portland while passing through the
Chester woods 6 miles south of Kennebunk an Irishman having pried up one
of the rails and rolled a log under it, and it being dark we struk it at full speed
and landed in a pile of ruins. three cars were filled with passengers and there
lives were saved by having a long train of freigh betwen the passenger cars
and engine which was dashed to peaces. the enganeer was killed and some bones
broaken of the passengers I escaped unhurt. On my return home in the fall
as the printing office was out of stock I procured means and purchased a
stock of ^a supply of^ paper and other materials to supply ^sufficit for^ the printing office for more than
a year which I took with me and arived in Nauvoo on the 4^th Nov.
I spent the winter of 1843 & 4 in Nauvoo recieved my Endowments with the Twelve
remained in business in the printing office untill the 20^th Jan 1844 when I settled my