“The camp, which gathered at Kirtland in the spring of 1834, when ready to start, numbered about one hundred and fifty. This number was increased to two hundred by the time the camp arrived in Missouri.” They left Kirtland for Missouri on the 5th of May, 1834. They crossed the Mississippi early in June, and in the latter part of that month, June 19, 1834 they pitched their tents between two forks of the Fishing River, Missouri, between Richmond, in Ray County, and Liberty in Clay County.
The appearance of the camp at Fishing River caused considerable excitement in Missouri, and armed bands went out to meet them. They were miraculousl1y saved from a murderous attack, by a terrible storm which prevented the mob from crossing the river. Some of the exiles met them there and told them of further outrages perpetuated against the Saints.
The long journey being almost ended, permission was given to disband. Those of the Camp who could remain in Missouri were permitted to do so, and the others were asked to return home as soon as convenient. On the 3rd of July, 1834, Lyman Wight was authorized to give every man in the camp, who had been faithful, a formal discharge (History of the Church, Period I, Volume II; Comprehensive History of the Church, Chapter 29; Doctrine and Covenants Commentary).
Heman Tilton Hyde returned to his home in Freedom, where he married Eunice Sawyer the following year. In February of the year 1836, in company with his father's family, they all moved from Freedom to Kirtland, Ohio. Here they remained until September 1838, when they made the journey (again for Heman Tilton) to Missouri, intending to settle in Clay County, near Far West, where a brother, William Hyde, had already settled, but they were met by a mob before they reached their destination and forced to leave the State.
They fled to Quincey, Illinois, in which state the Hyde families resided until after the death of Heman Tilton Hyde, May 26, 1842 at Payson, Adams County, Illinois. His death can be partly attributed to the persecutions and hardship which he had to go through along with the rest of the Saints. Some time after his death, his widow, Eunice (Sawyer) Hyde and their children, in order to escape continued persecution, returned to their home in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York.
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