— On the 14th. day of May 1838 I started with a company of Saints made up of men women and their children for the state of Missouri where we landed with a company occupying thirty waggons in the first week of October at a place there called De-Witt some six miles above the outlet of Grand River on the north side of the Missouri River where we were attacked by an armed Mob and by them barbarously treated for near two weeks, we then went to Far-West, Caldwell Co, where we united with the general body of the Church and with them participated in all the grievious persecutions practiced on the Church by means of a furious mob, by which means I buried one wife and two children as Martyrs to our holy religion who died through extreme suffering for the want of the common comforts of life which I was not allowed to provide even with my money—