(Daniel H. Wells) September 17: Wells crossed the Mississippi with the remaining Saints. In a "one-horse buggy" he dashed a message to Brigham Young in Winter Quarters apprising him of the situation in Nauvoo. The Wells family spent the winter of 1846-1847 in Burlington, Iowa, then moved to Galesburg, Illinois, until the spring of . Unable to convince his wife to join the main body of Saints in Winter Quarters, he wrote to Brigham Young, "I see no prospect short of a complete sacrifice of everything I hold dear on earth." Wells left his wife and young son in Nauvoo and headed west, never to see them again. 1848
[source: Van Wagoner, Richard and Walker, Steven C., A Book of Mormons, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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