[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Locust Creek Encampment, Middle Branch. Morning clear, brisk wind northwest, a light snow through the night, ground frozen. The first 50 found their cattle and teams on an island made through the night, completely surrounded by water, insomuch that it was totally impossible for them to get off without swimming, the creek having risen 6 feet plain water during the night. This morning, Sister Sessions reported that at 2 a.m. Sister Stewart, the wife of Rufus Putnam Stewart, was delivered of a lively son which they called Rufus P. Junior, the mother having walked 2 miles through the dark the evening previous and crossed the creek on a log (after she was taken to be delivered) to get into a vacant house where she would be shielded from the inclement storm.
Through the day the President was engaged in repairing and causing to be repaired the wagons of the first 50. In the afternoon, the President came to the tents of the historian and the historianÂ's clerk, John D. Lee [Young], and heard several letters read that had been written at Hickory Creek encampment. Instructed the clerk to write an additional line in a letter to Bishop Miller under date April 5 [1846], also a line or 2 to Elder Kimball in the same letter. Also 5 letters were written by the clerk for Nauvoo in behalf of the guard, or police, requesting their friends to aid them in getting their families away and onto the camp.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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