[Minutes, Quorum of Twelve] Thomas Williams Tent, Pioneer Camp, Salt Lake, Aug[ust]. 1847
Present[:] Pres[iden]t B[righam]. Young., H[eber]. C. Kimball., W[illard]. Richards., & Dexter Stillman, T[homas]. Williams & wife, Clark Stillman & his wife Lodema, /who/ were married Stillman [in] 1846. at Liberty pole, M[iss]o[uri]. River.
Lodema says Thomas has never used any influence to seperate her from her husband., & she did not calculate to live with Clark any more.
Clark. said he did not want /expect/ to live with her any more, if she did not wish it.
Lodema. had no difficulty in particular. did not agree.
Pres[iden]t Young said if the parties were agreed to dissolve partnership, [to] give each other a writing. [O]therwise, [there will be] an investigation of the whole matter.-It is [a] whoredom & adultery for [a] man & wife to live together after they have seperated by mutual consent.
Clark said he was willing to let it go as she said.
Lodema said she was willing to give up every thing he ever got me before & after [their] marriage and quit me forever.
Thomas Williams said he has never used any influence to have Lodema leave Clark.
Clark said that Thomas said at Leavenworth that he would part them and get her himself within 6 mo[nths]., [but] that Clark could not lure her, if he had no more faults than to take calomel.
Thomas. said he said the night before they were married he did not believe they would live together [more than] probably 3 months. [And] that Clark went off & left him sick-[and] would get no water for breakfast, [and the] women went without eating. He paid his mony at [the] spirits tavern for dinner. [A]fter saying he had let his money & could not let his wife have anything-would not hunt the mules-
W[illia]m Bird. [and] W[illia]m. Gifford, [are] Capt Hunt witnesses.
Clark. said he went after water [and] hunted the mules. &c & got a damming for it. & was sick at the time., and did get wood.
Lodema said Thomas never intimated that Clark could not love her.
Pres[i]d[e]nt is excused-[and] returned.
Clark said he was willing she should go her own way & he would go his [and] settle the goods afterwards.
Pres[iden]t Young advised Clark to take his fathers council & stay here & work, & if he slighted his fathers council, he would be counnted [?] of blest.
Clark said Lodema might have all the things she had when she was married and all he had got[ten] her since.
Pres[iden]t /Young/ to Lodema, if you get married again get married where you can stick.
[source: Minutes, Quorum of Twelve]
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