One night we camped in the middle of a prairie
without water; one man took a spade and said,
["]Who knows but I can find water here." and dug
a small hole, which soon filled with good water;
when the brotherin saw this, they said it was as
much a miracle as for Moses to bring water out
of the rock
~ Sunday
Sunday the 8th.
We were joined by my brother Hiram Smith
and Lyman Wight with another company, who
started from Pontiac, Michigan Ter. May the 5th,
the same day that we started from Kirtland, they
having passed through Ann Arber, Jacksonburg, Spring Arbor, Constantine, Elkhart, crossed the Illinois river one mile below Attawa, Pleasant
Grove, Pekin, Quincy, and Polmepa. Elijah Fordham
was their Historian, Lymon Wight Steward,
Hiram Smith, and Samual Bent Moderator. We
had agreed to meet at this point, and the first
that arrived was to wait for the other, and it was
a happy meeting. Soon after the arrival of brother
Hiram and his company, I dispatched brother Luke Johnson and Almon W. Babbet with
messages to the brotherin in Clay County, fearing
that the letter which I sent from Springfield had
miscarried. James Alberd Sen. and ten others of
this branch of the Church joined our camp which
One night we camped in the middle of a prairie
without water; one man took a spade and said,
"Who knows but I can find water here." and dug
a small hole, which soon filled with good water;
when the brotherin saw this, they said it was as
much a miracle as for Moses to bring water out
of the rock
~ Sunday
Sunday the 8th.
We were joined by my brother Hiram Smith
and Lyman Wight with another company, who
started from Pontiac, Michigan Ter. May the 5th,
the same day that we started from Kirtland, they
having passed through Ann Arber, Jacksonburg,
Spring Arbor, Constantine, Elkhart, crossed the
Illinois river one mile below Attawa, Pleasant
Grove, Pekin, Quincy, and Polmepa. Elijah Fordham
was their Historian, Lymon Wight Steward,
Hiram Smith, and Samual Bent Moderator. We
had agreed to meet at this point, and the first
that arrived was to wait for the other, and it was
a happy meeting. Soon after the arrival of brother
Hiram and his company, I dispatched brother
Luke Johnson and Almon W. Babbet with
messages to the brotherin in Clay County, fearing
that the letter which I sent from Springfield had
miscarried. James Alberd Sen. and ten others of
this branch of the Church joined our camp which
