[Edward William Tullidge] silver thimble and some other small things. I took them into my
possession to preserve for his mother sister and friends. While looking over
his letters I found all that I had sent him carefully filed with other
communications from his family

After attending to the above affairs I accompanied
by my wife and Mr Ray, visited my brother's grave. His lot had
been cast among strongers and among them he fell and found a
early grave. No friend of his blood wor wife shared his grief or
joy in a family home nor droped with him there a ^co^mingled tear

And now Wilford and Phebe alone of all his family
marked his last dwelling place—his silent grave which looked
to us as we viewed it lonely indeed

I took some pebbles from his grave in memory
of the spot and ^returned^ with the reflection impressed upon my mind
that I had paid my last visit to my eldest brother without
spending a night under his roof and now my last visit to my
younger brother and only permitted to view his grave.

I wrote a letter to our parents in Farmington
giving an account of Asahel's death &c and wthen started nine
miles farther on my journey the same day.

We continued our journey and arrived in
Rochester Sangamon Co. Illinois on the 19th. Here strange
to say we unexpectedly found Ebenezar Cart^v^er and family
who left us at Utica N. P. [Y] and took the canal and lake.
They had stoped in Rochester to spend the winter. We called
to visit them for a few minutes not expecting to tarry; but
after calling we concluded to spend the night with them. During
the evening I had an interview with Elder Arnold Stephens.

I was informed that we could not cross the
Illinois River in consequence of the ice. I also learned that the
Saints in Zion Far West were suffering the severest persecution and
privation and that we could not travel through that country.

Under these combined circumstances we concluded
to stop for a season in the region of Rochester as doors were
opened to us and that too among Saints who had also taken
up their abode here for a season

Next day I procured a house 3 miles north of
Rochester in a grove of woods on the borders of a prairie on the
farm of Widow Branch. It was a double house and brother

silver thimble and some other small things. I took them into my possession to preserve for his mother sister and friends. While looking over his letters I found all that I had sent him carefully filed with other communications from his family

After attending to the above affairs I accompanied by my wife and Mr Ray, visited my brother's grave. His lot had been cast among strongers and among them he fell and found a early grave. No friend of his bloodor wife shared his grief or joy in a family home nor droped with him there a comingled tear

And now Wilford and Phebe alone of all his family marked his last dwelling place—his silent grave which looked to us as we viewed it lonely indeed

I took some pebbles from his grave in memory of the spot and returned with the reflection impressed upon my mind that I had paid my last visit to my eldest brother without spending a night under his roof and now my last visit to my younger brother and only permitted to view his grave.

I wrote a letter to our parents in Farmington giving an account of Asahel's death &c andthen started nine miles farther on my journey the same day.

We continued our journey and arrived in Rochester Sangamon Co. Illinois on the 19th. Here strange to say we unexpectedly found Ebenezar Cartver and family who left us at Utica N. P. Y and took the canal and lake. They had stoped in Rochester to spend the winter. We called to visit them for a few minutes not expecting to tarry; but after calling we concluded to spend the night with them. During the evening I had an interview with Elder Arnold Stephens.

I was informed that we could not cross the Illinois River in consequence of the ice. I also learned that the Saints in Zion Far West were suffering the severest persecution and privation and that we could not travel through that country.

Under these combined circumstances we concluded to stop for a season in the region of Rochester as doors were opened to us and that too among Saints who had also taken up their abode here for a season

Next day I procured a house 3 miles north of Rochester in a grove of woods on the borders of a prairie on the farm of Widow Branch. It was a double house and brother