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Title: History of Decatur County, Iowa, and its people
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Howell, J. M., ed Smith, Heman Conoman, 1850- , ed
Subjects: Decatur County (Iowa) -- History Decatur County (Iowa) -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago : The S. J. Clarke publishing company
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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d five others, organized a church, accord-ing to instruction received by divine revelation. This claim, so un-usual, and coming to a people who thought they fully possessed theChristian faith aroused much opposition. In 1838, he moved his family to )Missouri, settling at Far West,Caldwell county, but dififiiculties aggravated by misrepresentationsof enemies, continued to harass the church and that fall he, with otherswas thrown into prison, being confined for seven long months in anoisome dungeon at Liberty, Clay county, INIissouri. While they were thus imprisoned, many of the families of thesaints suffered unbelievable trials and deprivations. The governorof Missouri issued an order to banish them from the state or extermi-nate them, and, thus many thousands of peaceable and unoffendingpeople were driven from their rightly-purchased homes, in the cold ofa severe winter, and forced to make their way as best they could toIllinois, where more humane and sympathetic people succored them.
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josp:ph smith HISTORY OF DECATUR COUNTY 93 Among the number thus forced to flee for their lives was Emma,the young wife of the leader of the church, who at that time was con-fined in the jail before mentioned. With her two youngest sons inher arms, and little Joseph and a foster-daughter clinging to herskirts, she crossed the frozen Mississippi on foot, and made her wayto Quincy, Illinois, where she found rest, food and shelter in the homeof a family by the name of Cleveland. In the spring she was joinedby her husband, and a home was established later at Commerce, Han-cock county, Illinois, which town afterward bore the name of Nau-voo and became the great center city of the Saints. They enjoyed aperiod of comparative prosj^erity, the population of the town swell-ing to fourteen thousand. A magnificent temple was started in 1841,))uilt of the native stone of the countrj^ but it was never comx^leted. Here, then, amidst such scenes, was spent the early life and boy-hood of the late Pres

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