this created a great wailing & mourning with his famil, Brother Brown & myself assisted the family in laying him out & burying him. He died on the 14th day of Feb 1835 & we buried him on the 16. This clo singular dispensation of providence brought solemnity upon the people & they began to reflect & wished to hear preaching, we held several meetings & preached to the people we baptized a Mr Hubbel & his wife aged people who had opened their doors & given us ...

(2) Situated on the north side of the Arkansas River, all connected & together in one body, all fenced, & a house in center of tract that cost thirty thousand dollars. The West End of this tract is 30 miles from the City of Pueblo, & covers about 15 miles of the River. The Santa Fa Rail Road Runs East & West close to River on South side & the Mo Pac Road close to River on north side, giving 2 stations for Each Road for Shipping. We can Water ...

July [June] 190 1883 we ordained 10 High Priest, 11 High Council. We ordained 1 Bishop & 5 councillors to the Bishops W Woodruff [ordained] 3 High priests & 3 High Council & 2 councillors to Bishops. W Woodruff J F Smith & Silas S. Smith made some remarks. We held a Meeting in the Evening with the Young People J F Smith spoke 40 M[inutes] B Young 15 M W Woodruff 40 M June 11, 1883 ~ Monday 11 We Administered ...

June 6, 1883 100 feet in length when on the summit we had a view of the country for 20 or 30 miles around we passed through several Miles of snow sheds we leave the water of the gunn- ison River at the summit * ^[FIGURES]^ when we commenced to descend we reached the Head waters of the Arkansas River The gunnison runs into the pacific & the Arkansas into the Atlantic, we passed through Black Canyon before we reached the summit the ...

others were soon added to our numbers, and on the second of January, 1834, Elder Pulsipher organized a branch of the Church with twelve members, and ordained my brother Azmon and Noah Holten Elders, and myself a Teacher. This was the commencement of my asso- ciation with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From that day I have closely associated with the leaders of the Church in all their history, until the present day. I traveled with Joseph Smith and company known ...

lightning; he swelled & ^immediately^ turned black; this created a great wailing and mourning among his family. Brother Brown and myself assisted in laying him out, and burying him; he died Feby. 14th, 1835, and we buried him on the 16th., This singular dispensation of providence brought solemnity upon the people, and they began to reflect and wished to heare preaching; we held several meetings and preached to the people, and baptized Mr. Hubbel and his wife, aged people ^persons^, who ...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. [Column 1] A mob was soon raised, and warning sent to us to leave immediately or we would be tarred and feathered, ridden on a rail and hanged. I soon saw where the serpents were. My companion wanted to leave; I told him no, I would stay and see my dream fulfilled. There was an old gentleman and lady, named Hubbel, who had read the Book of Mormon and believed. Father Hub- bel came ...

Jan 28th 18535 We travelled this day out of the state of Missouri into the state of Arkansas and was glad to get out of the state for a season. We felt that the Lord had preserved our lives while travelling through Jackson County in one instance in a miraculous manner we came suddenly upon a grog shop filled with about 60 of the mob with none outside but the door was open which we had to pass right by, but just before we got against it some man shut the ...

February 22nd 1835 22 Sunday we Preached to Mr Hubbel's to a full House at the close of the meeting Brother Brown Baptized Mr Hubbel & his wife 23rd Brother Brown was now vary anxious to continue his Journey down the Arkansas River to Little Rock cross the Missippi bottom and go into the State of Tennessee. This is an Error which many Elders fall into as soon as they get doors open for preaching & the people were ...

March 11th 1835 11th In consequence of low water Mr Saugrain informed us that he had abandoned the idea of going down the river with a boat so we must look to our own resources again, so we concluded to procede on our Journey in our canoe. We left Mr Saugrain embarked in our canoe travelled 25 miles down the river to Petty John Mountain and stoped for the night with A Mr Barnet Pope County 12 We rowed our canoe to day 50 miles & spent the ...