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HISTORY of ABIGAIL SMITH ABBOTT Mawine Can Wmd HISTORY OF ABIGAIL SMITH ABBOTT Mawine Can Wmd The I842 Nauvuo School Records wcrc listcd in denominadon. yec he was a very moral man. I generally said Volume onc of Thc hrouvoo lour-nal. One of those schools my praycrs in secret and my desires for my own salvation was taught by Abigail Abbotl. 171e school was ar her werc but known to myself. For some time I experienced residence in [he Navuoo 1st Ward on lot 23 in a log house great anxiety pertaining to the salvation of my soul. My near he upper stone house in Old Commerce. She raugl~t prayers wcre answcred with a dream. I dyeanled tJnt I was fol-ry-six sudents bctwcen April 19, 1842 and July 29, 1842. on a high, elevated plain which was a beautiful green. Who was Abigail Abbtt? The following records 01. Standing done and ar a linle distance from me, I saw a large excerpts providc a glimpse into one of h'auvoo's school company of people arrayed entirely in white apparel, who teachers: seemed to be marching at a slow pace, singing a song that sounded more glorious than any song I had ever heard before. I was filled wid) rapture and anxiety 10 learn the AUTOBIOGRA PI-IY ' song and be associa~edwid.1 &em. I did not go to them bur learned one verse of the song. I awoke and sung this song 1, Abigail Smjh Abbort, haw rhis day.. February 4, and recited it to my fnends and told them my dream. The 7 856, in Ogden, Utah, commenced an aurobiiography of song was erased from my memory and from tba~time on I myself: to be presented by my household and heirs an a have not been able to recall it. sacred n~emorialof my moral worth, perhaps LO the lawst I went to visic my uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas generarion of my posterity, by whom 1 wish to be held in Smith, who lived in Alleghany County. I had learned to be honorable remembrancc. a good linen weaver, and Mrs. James ~bbott,Senior. hearing about me, offered me a job wcaving linen, which I accepted. I remained there undl I was married to her son, Stephcn Abbotc, on December 11, 1825, at rhc agc of nineteen. On hesecond of April 1526, we moved co Danville, New York. My husband went into he cabinet making business with Samuel A. Smith: which lasted hvo years. Mr. Abbott bought ouc his partner and engaged in partnership with hjs brother, James Abboe At about chis time rbere was a great upheaval in all ~e churches hat spread from town to town and city to city until the sound went rhrough the Unired Sues. hlyin 1830, the news was circula~edfrom press ro press abou~the bringing forth oi the Book of ABIGAIL SMITH ABBOTT Mormon by Joseph Smith. Ar this cime we moved to Homell.sville~living there six years. Mr. Abbotr went wesr [was born in rhe [own of Williamson. Ontario Counry, to Pcrry, Pike Counry, tllinojs and purchased a quader New York, September I I. 1806.~My mother. Lyda section of land. We scatted on the 14th of April. 1837, Harlng Smith died when I was six week5 old and may traveling from Olean Point down the Allegheny kver on a father married Mehicable Adarns when 1was nine monchs flal boat to Illinois and landed ar Naples: twelve miles from old. our new home. This journey took us five weeks. Tlirough At seventeen I was taughc to be somewhat religious, he ssumrnel-we built our home and culrivated our land. The although my father did not belong LO any religious second day of December our youngest son was born. A p~,omisiongchild indeed. to be blessed with a srrange land. AUTOBIOGKAPHY OF MYRON ABBOTI' We enjoyed good health and prospered from year lo year. 1834: abour this dme a man by thc name of Joseph Mr. Abbott and myself had Ihr opportunily of Wood, a Mormou Elder came in hat vicinity [Perry, Pike, investigating Ihe principles of the Gospel called Illinois] preaching the gospel OF Christ. My Father wenr to Mormonism. We wcre insmcted by Joseph Wood and hear him preach and embraced the gospel. My fathcr William Bumon. Our minds wcre nor easily turned from our moved to Nauvcm in the year 1842. In rhc spring of 1843 he foimcr principles, but after duee months' s~udy.we rve1.e in was called on a m.ission to thc Southern Stares and in order Full faith of the principles and promises of the Church of to !ill hs mission, hc in company wirh somc olher breberen Jesus Chris1 of' Latier-day Saints. We moved to Xauvoo in went to ralnng lumber down the Missishippi River to obtain the fall of 1842, shortly after we were bapdzed. My husband means for heir families lo live upon. Through thc exposure worked in Nauvoo and on the river until October 1843. being in the water the most of hetime lle look cold and died whcn he became ill with p~ieumoniaand ded30ctober 19. on die 16th of October 1843 leaving my mocher and eight At the time of his dead1 he was preparing to go on his chtldren depending on her for supporc. He was a true second mission. Joscph Smith. the prophet, spoke at his Lamr Day Sainc, ever willing and ready to respond to every funeral and said that he had been called on the other side to call that was made of him by the autl~orityof the church, and fill his mission.' was much respected by all who knew him, he owned some Afrer Mr. Abbott's death there. was nine months' town property. he owned somc slockin Lhe Yauvoo house, sickness in my family that exhausled our money. compelling done work on the Nauvoo Temple, he also owned pan of rn>selfand the three cldesr daughters to seek work. I took a some propew at the upper stone Landing on he small group of children to teach, bcsides fencing and tilling Missis.sippi Rjvtr, jc was owncd by hm and Liman White onc and one-half acres of land. [In May of 1846 whcn thc [,LymanWight]. Saints were leaving Nauvoo. Abigail cook Iier family moved My mother was a woman of poor hcalth and the mals fist to Keokuk, thcn co Garden Grove, Iowa. Here shc also and troublc hat she had co undcrgo in privarions of evcry taught school during rhe wlnler of 1846-47. In 1848 the dcscrip~on.Many times we were all proscrabxi upon beds farmly moved to Winter Quarters, then crossed the Missouri of rickness wih fever and ague, and not one of us able to River to livc on Mosquito Creek. Here Abigail taught help the ohcr to a dink of water, and many times not scbool again.] having anyrhing ro eat. On the 6tl1 of July 1819, J gathered my children In the year 1846 at the timc the Saints were expelled together, eight in all, and one son-in-law. and started for the &om Nauvoo, a man came to our house and lold my mother valley of the rnounlains in George A. Smith's company. As rhac he would give her ten dollars lor our property if she we had to walk across rhe plains. I made moccasins for my would leave the furniture and pve he Deeds ro him. Mother children to wcar. as I did nor know whcn [ ~voutdge shoes [old him that was a very small sum for so much propercy. for them again. We came i,n conracr with many lndians buc His reply was you have got ro leave any how and you can were never harmed by them, for insread of tightjng them take that or nothing. everyone gave them food. in the fall [I 8471 we moved to Garden Grove, here Four monrhs 10 the day we arrived in Salt Lake. We we spent rhe winter, [he lidc cabin wirh my siscer Emily wenr to Ogden /?Veber County] on October 26: 1849 where (her husband, Edward Bunker, was wich the Mormon we had friends and took ten acrcs of land for a farm. We Battalion). My mother taugh~school all winter, wading built a Lhree-room log house wich a dirt roof. I got, some through snow co her knees for abour one mile and a half and cows that the peoplc were not using and made cheese and hen many rims washing until en o'clock at nighr ding bu~ter,selling it to people going through hecounuy to the care of the sick and rnyseLf drug wood to bum from the California goldmines. In 1857 Johnston's mywas sent to timber to burn with rags sowed on my feet for shoes. Utah which proved to be a blessing in disguise. We In he spring of 1848 mother got a piece [of] brush land exchanged bulrer, eggs, chickens and cheese for sugar: flour 10 clean up. She go1 a young man ro mow the brush down and clohng. PSter the harrowing time we lived in Nauvoo, with a brush sythe. Mother and I and sister Lydia piled the we praised God for giving us the beautiful and peaceful brush and bumed he brush and goc a man to plow it nd I valley of the mountains, Utah. harrowed it into Buck wheac dl of which she payed out of her school bill. We raised about fifteen bushels of buck wheat and we chought ourseives rich.
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