| In this hour of extremity they found a staunch friend in
Lorenzo D. Young, brother of Apostle Brigham Young, who sold his
farm and with the proceeds outfitted several teams to convey
himself, his family and friends to Missouri. With characteristic
generosity, Brother Lorenzo gave one of the teams to Isaac Decker
and otherwise helped to prepare him for the journey, which they
performed in company. |
(23) |
| Latter part of 1837
|
“The homeless family in the latter part of 1837 moved to
Kirtland. The Church was then on the eve of its exodus to
Missouri.” |
(2) Vol 8 p. 175 |
|
“On reaching Dublin, Indiana, I found my brother Lorenzo and Isaac Decker, and a number of other families who had stopped for the winter. Meanwhile the Prophet Joseph, Brothers Sidney Rigdon and George W. Robinson came along. They had fled from Kirtland because of the mobocratic spirit prevailing in the bosoms of the apostates.” |
(5) p. 24 |
|
Lorenzo had bought a farm (March 1838) and Isaac rented one.
They diligently set to work to build homes in this new country.
But it was not to be. August 6, 1838, at the town of
Gallatin, just eight miles from their
farms, began in earnest the war between the mobsters and the
Saints. The battle of Crooked
River [Little’s Biography of Lorenzo Dow
Young says (p. 56) that Lucy’s first husband
William Seely was wounded there]
followed October 25 and the Haun’s Mill
Massacre on the 29th. The main portion of the local
manpower of the Saints was chased through the snow clear up to
the Des Moines River in lowa under near starvation conditions
before the pursuers gave up. The “Mormons” had left their families
in a desperate condition. The mob returned and proceeded to burn
up everything burnable and killed their animals including their
milk cows, and destroyed or stole everything else the “Mormon”
might use. | (23) |
| March 1838 |
Lorenzo Dow Young gave the Deckers a team and otherwise helped
them move to Missouri. |
(2) Vol 8 p. 175 |
|
“They arrived at Far West in March, 1838, having traveled
part way with the Prophet Joseph Smith,
his brother Hyrum, and Lorenzo’s brother
Brigham, all refugees fleeing from
mob violence.”
| (2) Vol 8 p. 175 |
|
The Quarterly Conference convened at Far West … Elder
Benjamin L. Clapp said he had just returned from Kentucky, where
he had been laboring, and that many doors were open there. A call
was made for volunteers to go into the vineyard and preach, when
Elders James Carroll, James Galliher, Luman A. Shurtliff, James
Dana, Ahaz Cook, Isaac Decker, Cornelius P. Lott and Alpheus
Gifford offered themselves… |
(4) Vol.3 Ch. 11 p. 153-154 |
