April [October] 6, 1881
on this side of the veil. They are however recorded on the
other side of the veil. he will meet his history there. I have
been associated with Br Pratt, a good many years. The first
sermon I ever herd him preach was in Aprail 1834, in a house
in Kirtland. it was there I listened to the first Testimony I ever
heard from him also from Brigham Young, Oliver Cowdry
Hyram Smith & Joseph Smith the Prophet and one or two
others. I was associated with him then for this was Just before
we started in Zions Camp for Missouri. Their are a few members
of Zions Camp here to day. Their is a small remnant of them left
All those brethren who were in the camp, our travelling a thousand
miles led by a prophet of God will remember the scenes we
were called upon to pass through we were visited by the cholera
The first circumstance of the kind that we as a company ever
experience. Br Orson Pratt whose body lies before us lay at the
point of Death as also George A Smith and a number of others
while some twenty of the Brethren were laid in the grave. The
Lord took whom he would take, and preserved those whom He
would preserve according to the council of his own will No man
could pass through a much worse sickness than the cholera. men
weighing near towo hundred pounds were reduced to seventy
or one hundred pounds in a vary short time. Br Pratt as I
have said lay at the point of death, yet during his sickness he
manifested that indomitable determination that has governed
his whole life from that day to this. while death as it were sought
to overcome him, he rolled over upon his back closed his eyes
clasped his teeth and shut his hands and apparently said
now death do your worst I deyfy you for in the name of Israels

April October 6, 1881 on this side of the veil. They are however recorded on the other side of the veil, he will meet his history there. I have been associated with Br Pratt, a good many years. The first sermon I Ever herd him preach was in Aprail 1834, in a house in Kirtland. it was there I listened to the first Testimony I ever heard from him also from Brigham Young, Oliver Cowdry Hyram Smith & Joseph Smith the Prophet and one or two others. I was associated with him then for this was Just before we started in Zions Camp for Missouri. Their are a few members of Zions Camp here to day. Their is a small remnant of them left All those brethren who were in the camp, our travelling a thousand miles led by a Prophet of God will remember the scenes we were called upon to pass through we were visited by the Cholera The first circumstance of the kind that we as a company ever experience. Br Orson Pratt whose body lies before us lay at the point of Death as also George A Smith and a number of others while some twenty of the Brethren were laid in the grave. The Lord took whom he would take, and preserved those whom He would preserve according to the council of his own will No man could pass through a much worse sickness than the Cholera, men weighing near two hundred pounds were reduced to seventy or one hundred pounds in a vary short time. Br Pratt as I have said lay at the point of death, yet during his sickness he manifested that indomitable determination that has governed his whole life from that day to this. while death as it were sought to overcome him, he rolled over upon his back closed his Eyes clasped his teeth and shut his hands and apparently said now death do your worst I defy you for in the name of Israels