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Source: Church History Vol. 2 Chapter 20 Page: 436 (~1840)

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436 "At this time my family, some of them, were sick; but after listening to the entreaties of my wife to flee for safety, I committed them into the hands of God and left them, it being on Monday morning; and in a short time after I left, there came some ten or fifteen men to my house, and took possession of the same and compelled my wife to cook for the same, and also made free to take such things as they saw fit; and whilst in this situation my child died, which I have no reason to doubt was for the want of care; which owing to the abuse she received and being deprived of rendering that care that she would, had she been otherwise situated. My boy was buried by the mob, my wife not being able to pay the last respects to her child.

"I went from my home into Daviess County and applied to Austin A. King and General Atchison for advice, as they were acting officers in the State of Missouri, and there were men called out to go and liberate my family, which I had been absent from some ten or fifteen days; and on my return I found the remainder of my family confined to their beds, not being able the one to assist the other, and my house guarded by an armed force.

"I was compelled to remove my family in this situation, on a bed, to a place of safety. This, together with all the trouble and for the want of care, was the cause of the death of the residue of my family, as I have no doubt; which consisted of a wife and two more children, as they died in a few days after their arrival at my friend's. Such was my situation that I was obliged to assist in making their coffins.

"I will give the names of some of the men that have drove me from my house and abused my family-those that I found at my house on my return: Samuel Law, Calvin Hatfield, Stanley Hatfield, Andy Hatfield; and those that were leading men were James Welden, Doctor William P. Thompson, a justice of the peace, and William Cochran, and many others, the names I do not recollect.

"And I have also seen men abused in various ways; and that whilst they were considered prisoners, such as the mob cocking their guns and swearing that they would shoot with their guns to their face, and the officers of the militia so-called

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