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Source: Church History Vol. 3 Chapter 39 Page: 757

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757 On September 27, 1845, he wrote a communication for the Messenger and Advocate giving a detailed account of his family in West Buffalo, Iowa, September 9, under the care of Elder Harvey Whitlock, and making a trip by water, via St. Louis, Missouri, and Cincinnati to Pittsburg [Pittsburgh], where he met Elder Rigdon and other church leaders, and seemed well pleased with the movement. On October 6 and following days he was in attendance at the Rigdonite conference held in Philadelphia. On October 15, 1845, he was preaching to large audiences at Athensville, near Philadelphia. This is the last trace that we have found of him in connection with Rigdon. How long he remained in fellowship with that organization we cannot tell.

On November 6, 1847, he wrote a communication to the Gospel Herald, from Voree, Wisconsin, from which we extract the following: "Myself and family are all well as usual, and have planted ourselves in this place, among the few who adhere to the law of God and desire to keep the commandments of the Most High, and we greatly rejoice in God our Savior that we have not been left in darkness to follow those who have adopted false principles and wicked practices to their own destruction. But that the Lord in his mercy has been pleased to gather us to this place, where his saints enjoy peace and rest according to the promise of the Lord. We arrived here on the 4th day of July last as poor as ever. But you know the poor have the promise of the kingdom of heaven, and that is just what we are after. . . I have traveled and preached most of my time for the last fourteen years, and now I am so poor as to this world's goods, and my children so far in the rear in their education, that I am under the necessity of staying at home and laboring with all my might to feed, clothe, and educate them, and this with my own hands, and which I am willing to do."

He evidently did not remain at home long, for on February 10, 1848, he wrote a letter from Elgin, Illinois, to the Gospel Herald, which was published on the 17th of the same month. This letter indicates that he was then in sympathy with Strang, and that he had been doing missionary work for some time previous to the writing in the interests of

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