| 677 him free to act in his evangelical calling and his work as Patriarch to the church. This position is one to which he is well suited, being of a sympathetic and affectionate nature.
As a man he has a height of five feet and ten inches; an eye large, clear, full, and blue; hair dark, almost black, soft, fine, and abundant, even now when he is growing old; a forehead square and full. A facial index of his tender heart is shown by a deeply cleft chin. As a speaker, he appeals to the heart at once. He is himself quickly moved to extremes of sorrow or merriment, and has the gift of enjoying the good and beautiful things of life to a remarkable extent.
There were born to him nine children, four sons and five daughters: Frederick, now an apostle, living in Lamoni, Iowa; Vida E., wife of Heman C. Smith, of Lamoni, Iowa; Ina I., wife of S. G. Wright, of Australia; Emma B., wife of William F. Kennedy, of Independence, Missouri; Don A., of Lamoni, Iowa; Eva G., wife of F. L. Madison, who died in San Bernardino, California; Joseph G., a priest, of Lamoni, Iowa; Arthur M., of Lamoni, Iowa; Coral C. R., still residing with her parents. All are members of the church except Don A.
From his first home in Nauvoo the subject of this sketch went out to his church work except two years residence in Plano, Illinois, from where he returned to Nauvoo in 1870. Thence he moved to a farm in Colfax Township, Harrison County, Missouri. Here for two years he acted as postmaster at a post-office called Andover. In 1882 he left the farm, going by team to Stewartsville, Missouri; and in March, 1884, he went further south to Independence, Missouri; and in 1887 removed with his family to the farm in Missouri, and then in 1891 to Lamoni, where he, his wife, and two younger children still reside.
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