Autobiography 1857 Draft 1
On the Phebe Amelia was born. On the being out of a stock of
papers Brother Joseph sent me to St Louis to buy a new stock ^of paper^ I was 6 days getting to
St Louis on my arival I had a severe ^was severely^ attack ^with^ of the Billious fever setled upon me
and the day I made my purchases and got my freight on board the fever was raging
so hard that I was hardly sensible of what I was doing, as soon as I got my
freight on board I flung myself into a ^took my^ birth and lay there most of the time
