[Hosea Stout Diary] Sunday March the 8th 1846. The weather this morning was very dry, warm, and pleasant. My wife was very sick yet.I went before breakfast to see Col Scott & also to locate and prepare a meeting ground and also sent a team for hay.At Eleven oclock meeting commenced there being a number of gentiles present.Elder J. M. Grant preached.I staid awhile at meeting and then went in company with J. D. Hunter rode out to G. Millers camp three and a half miles ahead on the other side of Fox river.Here we had been informed that Bishop Miller had collected and stored one hundred and seventy five bushels of corn for the camp which the President concluded to draw to Richardsons Point rather that go to it [sic] as the ground was better to camp on than Fox river bottom and he expected to stay there several days.When we came to the camp we found Orson Pratt there who had gone ahead contrary to orders but Miller Shumway and some others had taken what corn was left and gone on leaving President Young and his company to shift for themselves. We also found President Young & Heber C. Kimball who had come to this place to see how it looked.They were not well pleased at what had been done but they said nothing.We all came back together and about half way home we met Capt Charles Allen in advance of his fifty[.] We told him what was done and he turned his Company back[.] He & C. [Chandler] Rogers Capt of the First 50 had just arrived and supposing the camp would move on had concluded to go to Millers camp to night.not knowing that we would stay where we were for several days but they returned.no more this evening.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
No comments:
Post a Comment