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Source: Church History Vol. 3 Chapter 39 Page: 763

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763 and J. M. Adams a mission to "The Camp of Israel."

On April 20, 1847, he and Nickerson started, going by way of Nauvoo, thence followed "the track of the Brighamite Camp" to Chariton River, where Elder Nickerson tarried with relatives while Elder Shippy went on to Garden Grove and Mount Pisgah, persuading the fleeing host to return and go to Voree. They succeeded in turning some back, and on July 17, 1847, arrived at Voree with a company of twenty persons, seven wagons, fifty head of cattle, and five horses.

After returning from this mission Elder Shippy returned to Indiana and removed his family to Voree. He remained in Voree for about one year, when he took a mission to Canada. He was at Port Rowen, Canada West, on March 23, 1849; but a letter published in the Gospel Herald for June 28, 1849, indicates that he had returned home.

In 1849 he removed his family to Canada. On February 26, 1850, he was at Port Rowen, Canada. He continued to labor in the interest of the Strang movement during the lifetime of Strang, removing to Beaver Island in the spring of 1856. Though not present at the time of the assassination, he arrived before Strang was removed from Beaver Island, and examined his wounds.

After the death of Strang he left the island with the exodus. Landing at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he left his family there and went to Voree, where he found that Strang had died without appointing a successor. He then removed his family to Kenosha, Wisconsin, and went into the restaurant business. Subsequently he removed to Montrose, Iowa, and commenced the practice of medicine, where he remained until he went to Sandwich, Illinois, in the summer of 1860, and united with the Reorganization.

He informs us that he was first received by vote but was subsequently baptized by Elder George Rarick, and reordained an elder by George Rarick and I. L. Rogers. On October 6, 1860, he was ordained an apostle by Apostles Z. H. Gurley and W. W. Blair, and received into the Quorum of the Twelve. He was for several years a zealous missionary

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