HISTORY OF STEPHEN PERRY cont. page 4 people in their robes in the Temple. They are praying for me and father is leading the prayer." Rhoby noted the time of this conversation. When Stephen returned home, she asked him what time he had led the prayer circle. The time he gave agreed with the time of Sylvester's vision. The next day all signs of Sylvester's illness had vanished. (1) On December 23, 1845 Sally Sylvia was married to Daniel Carter. He was a very worthy Latter Day Saint, who had endured trials in Kirtland and Missouri. Sally was his second wife and became the instant mother of two young girls. The life of Nauvoo was drawing to a close. Lawless mobs urged on by local and national government agencies, robbed and pillaged at will. In the fall of 1846, the Perry home and most of their belongings were destroyed by fire. They found refuge on the bank of a river, where they were without food or shelter from the elements. On the second day Stephen killed a deer and his youngest son Alonzo found a French coin on the river bank. They used the coin to buy meal (cornmeal?). From here in the bitter winter of 1846 the Perry's made their way to Florence, Nebraska (Winter Quarters), on the west bank of the Missoui river. Living conditions were deplorable. Diphtheria (or Canker) was rampant. Daniel Carter and Sally Sylvia were also there. It was here that Sally Sylvia gave birth to a baby girl whom they named Mary (9) She was born on 3 December, 1846. Sally Sylvia contracted Diptheria and died on February 20, 1847. Without a wife to care for the infant, Daniel Carter entrusted Mary to the care of Stephen and Rhoby Perry. She grew to womanhood with them and married Edward Stone in Ogden, Utah. The Perry's became part of the more than 3500 members of the Church who resided here. Many persons died; more than 1300 of them journeyed to the valley of the Great Salt Lake, the following spring, under the leadership of Brigham Young and other Church leaders. The Perry's stayed on. In 1848 Brigham Young returned from Salt Lake Valley. He gathered up the people who were left in Florence, Nebraska. Some of them emmigrated that year. Those who were not yet ready to take on this tremendous challenge, went back across the Missouri river to Council Bluffs, Iowa (Kanseville). The Perry's were among those who returned to Iowa. The improvements (gardens, orchards and homes) in Nebraska were turned over to the Indians. The Perry's continued to raise crops and try to get together enough of this world is goods to enable them to go west. In 1849 William Howard left for the gold fields of California, in an effort to repair the family fortunes. That same year a family from Wales, headed by a man named Thomas Jeremy passed through Kanesville on their way west. They left late that year and were snowed in at the sweetwater river in Wyoming. I mention this because Thomas has been given credit for Captioning the Perry wagon train. As you can see, he did not. the Perry's left the following year. Incidentally Thomas did survive his dreadful trip west. Because he is mentioned in the Perry history, they probably knew him in Iowa. The Perry's were not all together during this period of time. Lucinda Pery had had two baby girls, one born on 28 September in Farmington, Iowa and the other one at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa on 13 March, 1849. 221