-- Tuesday, May 5, 1846.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Garden Grove. Morning fair, warm, and pleasant. At 7 o’clock, the President shouldered his cross [axe] and walked to the creek, where he was engaged at chopping and raising the bridge till about 11. At 10, the historian and clerk quit writing and about ½ past 11, accompanied by the President, who directed an order to be written to the trustees in Nauvoo to have his buggy painted, which he was about to send back to Brother Aaron Roger to exchange for a wagon, etc. In the afternoon the historian was editing history for Phillip B. Lewis to write. President Young was directing the manner in which his wagons should be fitted up for the mountains so as to preserve his provisions from wet, etc. At 6, the historian and Young Doyle went to the creek to catch some fish for Amelia E. Pearson, who has been severely sick with a lung fever from Locust Creek encampment and just beginning to eat. The water was so high the fish would not bite. The day has been pleasant. Between sunset and dark, the clouds appeared in the southwest, and about 10 o’clock a heavy shower of rain. (1)
-- May 6, 1846
[Brigham Young Discourse] President Brigham Young counseled the brethren. -- Garden Grove, Iowa [Journal History of the Church, Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 2 (2002)] (2)
[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday May the 6th 1846. Clear and warm again. Had nothing to eat again.Hunted for flour till noon but got none
Worked in the after noon.
About 4 oclock there came another storm and the wind blew from the south. East to the North West at first but it shifted entirely around before it was done[.] It blew like a huricane the trees fell all round the camp some close to my tent one fell on one of Br Lees Mules and some on some cows.We had to hold up my tent in the storm for my wife and child was sick and it seemed that it would blow down every moment but no harm was done.At dark it came off cleare and warm.I had nothing to eat now (3)
[Nauvoo Temple] The Quincy Whig reported on Strang's resolutions, which claimed that the Trustees had "no right to convey title to any property of the Church and caution[ed] all against buying of them." Strang's assertions made the Trustees' work much more difficult, especially when Strang published information from the Hancock County Book of Mortgages and Deeds, attempting to show that Joseph Smith's successor was the President of the Church, who was the Trustee-in-Trust, and only he had the right to convey title to Church property. Apparently when Strang raised the question of who held legitimate title to the temple, it clouded the issue and often prevented the temple's sale. (4)
-- Wednesday, May 6, 1846.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Garden Grove. Wind southeast, light clouds flying. President Young was principally engaged through the day in counseling the brethren and fitting up his wagons for the mountains. The historian was editing history. The brethren generally very diligent fencing the farm. About 10, the sun shone out warm and pleasant. Between 4 and 5 p.m., a violent storm of wind arose from the east which blew down trees that was girdled in and about camp. One tree fell on a mule, another on a cow, and others very near to the tents and the wagons, and no serious injury was sustained. President Kimball assisted in getting the mule out from under the tree, and Young and Richards, and almost every man, woman, and child were engaged in holding down the tents, etc. A large tree fell within 5 inches of P. P. Pratt’s wagon without touching it. Captain C. C. Rich, seeing his family in danger from a waving tree, called for them to run out of the tent to secure themselves from the storm. They rushed into the wagons. Before he could get them out of the wagon, the tree began to fall. The men caught limbs of the tree, a large hickory, and by violent exertion bore it off from the tent and the wagon. In 10 or 15 minutes the wind changed to the southwest, attended with a heavy thundershower and some hail. The storm abated about 6. (1)
-- May 7, 1846
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th I had an interview with Elder Taylor who returned to the city to settle his private business. (5)
[Hosea Stout Diary] Thursday May the 7th 1846. Warm still and cloudy. We have nothing to eat yet.This morning Br Ephraim Greens wife was brought in to camp from Grand river dead & was buried here[.] About nine oclock I got parched meal enough to make one mess
Took a walk over the bridge with W. J. Earl both being very lonesome.
Last night Erastus H. Derby was caught in bed with a certain girl in camp and a lot of boys upset the waggon putting them to an uncommon nonpluss and disappointment. The girl afterwards threw a hot coffee in the face and eyes of a young man whom she suspected to be engaged in it and almost scalded his eyes out.I understand that Derby has since denied the faith and went off whining into Missouri. (3)
-- Tuesday, May 7, 1846.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Garden Grove. Morning cloudy, cool wind from the north, a little sprinkling of rain in the forenoon. Brother David Sessions interfered with the business of the trading commissaries while they were transacting business with some Iowagians (reported by J. D. Lee) in the forenoon. Presidents Young, Kimball, and Richards, walked out to examine the new bridge and from thence to look a road onto the prairie. Found the earth very wet, apparently impassable for teams, and returned to camp about 10. Light shower of rain. President Young went to packing Scott’s wagon with sea bread for the mountains, which employed him until about 4 p.m. Three strangers came into camp to trade, relatives of Thomas Woolsey and John D. Lee’s wife.
[At] 5 p.m. one of the teams that was sent to Missouri for provisions 13 days since returned with the flour of 35 bushels of wheat, 4 bushels meal. President Young had a horse bit by a rattlesnake. Brother Daniel Hendrick’s horse died, which was probably bitten the evening before. Many horses have been bit in the camp. Two only have died and it is believed that theirs’ was occasioned more by over-doctoring than by the bite. Several of Elder Kimball’s beasts have been bit. He has done little for them except lay on hands and pray for them, and they have soon recovered. Between 6 and 7 p.m. President Young was chatting in his tent. At 7, weather cloudy, winds north. Sister Fedelia Green, wife of Ephraim Green, died of canker near Miller’s Mills, Mercer County, Missouri, on the 3rd of May, and was buried at Garden Grove this morning on the south side of Brother Thomas’ grave, which is on the side hill a few rods southwest of the northwest corner of the G. Lot. Her original name was Fedelia Thompson, born in the town of Rodman, county of Jefferson, state of New York, January 12, 1818. (1)
Endnotes:
1 - Apostle Willard Richards Journal
2 - The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)
3 - Diaries of Hosea Stout
4 - Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple
5 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/
LDS History Timeline
About this site: http://bit.ly/mhist
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Garden Grove. Morning fair, warm, and pleasant. At 7 o’clock, the President shouldered his cross [axe] and walked to the creek, where he was engaged at chopping and raising the bridge till about 11. At 10, the historian and clerk quit writing and about ½ past 11, accompanied by the President, who directed an order to be written to the trustees in Nauvoo to have his buggy painted, which he was about to send back to Brother Aaron Roger to exchange for a wagon, etc. In the afternoon the historian was editing history for Phillip B. Lewis to write. President Young was directing the manner in which his wagons should be fitted up for the mountains so as to preserve his provisions from wet, etc. At 6, the historian and Young Doyle went to the creek to catch some fish for Amelia E. Pearson, who has been severely sick with a lung fever from Locust Creek encampment and just beginning to eat. The water was so high the fish would not bite. The day has been pleasant. Between sunset and dark, the clouds appeared in the southwest, and about 10 o’clock a heavy shower of rain. (1)
-- May 6, 1846
[Brigham Young Discourse] President Brigham Young counseled the brethren. -- Garden Grove, Iowa [Journal History of the Church, Selected Collections from the Archives of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints DVD 2 (2002)] (2)
[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday May the 6th 1846. Clear and warm again. Had nothing to eat again.Hunted for flour till noon but got none
Worked in the after noon.
About 4 oclock there came another storm and the wind blew from the south. East to the North West at first but it shifted entirely around before it was done[.] It blew like a huricane the trees fell all round the camp some close to my tent one fell on one of Br Lees Mules and some on some cows.We had to hold up my tent in the storm for my wife and child was sick and it seemed that it would blow down every moment but no harm was done.At dark it came off cleare and warm.I had nothing to eat now (3)
[Nauvoo Temple] The Quincy Whig reported on Strang's resolutions, which claimed that the Trustees had "no right to convey title to any property of the Church and caution[ed] all against buying of them." Strang's assertions made the Trustees' work much more difficult, especially when Strang published information from the Hancock County Book of Mortgages and Deeds, attempting to show that Joseph Smith's successor was the President of the Church, who was the Trustee-in-Trust, and only he had the right to convey title to Church property. Apparently when Strang raised the question of who held legitimate title to the temple, it clouded the issue and often prevented the temple's sale. (4)
-- Wednesday, May 6, 1846.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Garden Grove. Wind southeast, light clouds flying. President Young was principally engaged through the day in counseling the brethren and fitting up his wagons for the mountains. The historian was editing history. The brethren generally very diligent fencing the farm. About 10, the sun shone out warm and pleasant. Between 4 and 5 p.m., a violent storm of wind arose from the east which blew down trees that was girdled in and about camp. One tree fell on a mule, another on a cow, and others very near to the tents and the wagons, and no serious injury was sustained. President Kimball assisted in getting the mule out from under the tree, and Young and Richards, and almost every man, woman, and child were engaged in holding down the tents, etc. A large tree fell within 5 inches of P. P. Pratt’s wagon without touching it. Captain C. C. Rich, seeing his family in danger from a waving tree, called for them to run out of the tent to secure themselves from the storm. They rushed into the wagons. Before he could get them out of the wagon, the tree began to fall. The men caught limbs of the tree, a large hickory, and by violent exertion bore it off from the tent and the wagon. In 10 or 15 minutes the wind changed to the southwest, attended with a heavy thundershower and some hail. The storm abated about 6. (1)
-- May 7, 1846
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 7th I had an interview with Elder Taylor who returned to the city to settle his private business. (5)
[Hosea Stout Diary] Thursday May the 7th 1846. Warm still and cloudy. We have nothing to eat yet.This morning Br Ephraim Greens wife was brought in to camp from Grand river dead & was buried here[.] About nine oclock I got parched meal enough to make one mess
Took a walk over the bridge with W. J. Earl both being very lonesome.
Last night Erastus H. Derby was caught in bed with a certain girl in camp and a lot of boys upset the waggon putting them to an uncommon nonpluss and disappointment. The girl afterwards threw a hot coffee in the face and eyes of a young man whom she suspected to be engaged in it and almost scalded his eyes out.I understand that Derby has since denied the faith and went off whining into Missouri. (3)
-- Tuesday, May 7, 1846.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Garden Grove. Morning cloudy, cool wind from the north, a little sprinkling of rain in the forenoon. Brother David Sessions interfered with the business of the trading commissaries while they were transacting business with some Iowagians (reported by J. D. Lee) in the forenoon. Presidents Young, Kimball, and Richards, walked out to examine the new bridge and from thence to look a road onto the prairie. Found the earth very wet, apparently impassable for teams, and returned to camp about 10. Light shower of rain. President Young went to packing Scott’s wagon with sea bread for the mountains, which employed him until about 4 p.m. Three strangers came into camp to trade, relatives of Thomas Woolsey and John D. Lee’s wife.
[At] 5 p.m. one of the teams that was sent to Missouri for provisions 13 days since returned with the flour of 35 bushels of wheat, 4 bushels meal. President Young had a horse bit by a rattlesnake. Brother Daniel Hendrick’s horse died, which was probably bitten the evening before. Many horses have been bit in the camp. Two only have died and it is believed that theirs’ was occasioned more by over-doctoring than by the bite. Several of Elder Kimball’s beasts have been bit. He has done little for them except lay on hands and pray for them, and they have soon recovered. Between 6 and 7 p.m. President Young was chatting in his tent. At 7, weather cloudy, winds north. Sister Fedelia Green, wife of Ephraim Green, died of canker near Miller’s Mills, Mercer County, Missouri, on the 3rd of May, and was buried at Garden Grove this morning on the south side of Brother Thomas’ grave, which is on the side hill a few rods southwest of the northwest corner of the G. Lot. Her original name was Fedelia Thompson, born in the town of Rodman, county of Jefferson, state of New York, January 12, 1818. (1)
Endnotes:
1 - Apostle Willard Richards Journal
2 - The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)
3 - Diaries of Hosea Stout
4 - Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple
5 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/
LDS History Timeline
About this site: http://bit.ly/mhist
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