[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Missouri River, Omaha Nation. Pleasant. About 7, many teams and men started for the river. Elder P. P. Pratt left home about sunrise for England. About 9, President Young left camp for the ferry. While Dr. Richards was at a breakfast, Brother Bunnell came in and gave him 2 1/2 solanges, $10.00. While at dinner, Daniel Abel came in and gave him a pipe he had made with a jack knife from a piece of red stone found on the prairie. Brother Daniel Russell called and took 1½ bushels [of] corn for seed to carry over the mountains. Brother Russell being destitute of seed, offered Brother Richards on the Bluff east side the river, to take his seed and do by him as he did by himself, and Dr. Richards furnished him with 10 bushels [of] seed wheat, 3 bushels [of] spring wheat, near 3 bushels [of] seed corn, 2 bushels [of] oats, and a great variety of garden seeds. The corn, above mentioned, being the last taken.
[At] 3 p.m. the clerk left camp on horseback for the east side of the river to make out the Nauvoo mail and close up the unfinished business of the council. Crossed the river at 4½ [4:30], and Presidents Young and Kimball returned west on the same boat. The Dr. [Willard Richards] arrived at Elder Taylor's encampment on the bluff at dusk, where he found Elders Hyde, P. Pratt, and Taylor ready to start for England, and J. C. Little ready to accompany them to New York on his way home. After supper in Elder Taylor's tent, a tremendous storm of wind, thunder, and rain commenced. Elder Taylor lowered two of his tents and the third, prepared to lodge Elders Richards and Little, blew down and covered them while the water fell in torrents. They soon repaired to Brother WilcoxÂ's tent, which had blown down and left his wife, Wealthy Merrill, exposed to the storm, who, although she was delivered of a daughter the Sunday previous, fled to her father, Phinehas RichardÂ's, tent, where Elders Richards and Little stayed and watched with the family the remainder of the night, Brothers Richards and Wilcox being absent at Mt. Pisgah.
[Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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