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Harriet and Isaac got a divorce. Don’t know anything about that, or figured it out. There’s lots of rumors, but haven’t been able to verify any of them. And then Harriet went on to great and noble things as the first woman to cross the plains with the early Saints. Isaac, on the other hand, was the presiding elder in Warsaw, which is kind of interesting, because Warsaw was the hotbed of the anti-“Mormon” philosophy. Finally, they said, “Come on into Nauvoo,” and he did. He owned property in Nauvoo. And then we have about three years. The last thing we hear about him in Nauvoo was when he got married, twice, to two women, in the Nauvoo Temple, before the Temple cleared out. One was Fanny Eliza Green; she was the woman that seemed to stay with him. Fanny Eliza Green.

And Isaac came to Utah in 1850. There, we don’t have…Isaac never wrote much. You know, he didn’t write a word, except the only thing we have evidence he wrote was the grievance petition, when he got kicked out of Missouri. Other than that, it’s the only record we have of him writing. Anyway, when he got into Salt Lake, he didn’t have very much. But then, by 1861, he had a ranch out in West Jordan. And this was kind of interesting. What did he have? I can’t remember. He had about fifty-three cattle. He had about a hundred and twenty-five sheep. He had three hogs. He had two horses and two mules, all in West Jordan. And then by 1864, nothing. We don’t have any recordof him at all in Salt Lake County. But then in 1864, he moved to Provo Valley, or what is now called Heber Valley. And I also found where his homestead was in Heber Valley. It’sabout three and a half miles southwest of Charleston. Most of it is now under the lake. But the interesting thing about it is just where his property ended is right where the Decker Creek came through his property. And so we don't know if that was Decker Creek he was named after, but it most likely was. And then in 1871, Delight Day, his wife, became the Relief Society President, up at Charleston. And then in 1873, Isaac died. Now right along here, we also have Fanny Eliza Green, one of his wives. Delight Day is also here. Sarah Collins is here, and Annie Lucas is here, all of his wives, three of his wives. We've got another wife down here, and then we've got another wife in Tooele. Richard B. “Andy” Anderson: Not to mention Harriet. Steve Nelson: And then Harriet, yeah. Harriet’s right as you, at the front gate. We have a noble ancestry, my friends. These are great people. This man, the monument said, “From Kirtland to Utah, a model of endurance.” Couldn’t be more true. He survived the most incredible kind of suffering, and he pulled it off, and he stands as an example to us all. And I’m grateful for him; I’m grateful for him. Screw “grateful”: I was privileged to be born in such a family.

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