from a slippery elm from which she made a poultice to place within the large cavity left when the shredded flesh was washed away. She continued this treatment for weeks until finally Alma did indeed growa new hip. He was so fully restored to health that he later became a dancing master. The next day, after the massacre, Willard helped his mother and others bury their dead in an old dry well. When Alma was finally well enough to travel, the family made its way to Quincy, Illinois and then to Nauvoo. In Nauvoo, Willard joined the martial band, played the kettle drums for the Nauvoo Legion, and entered fully into the activities of the growing community. Willard especially treasured the relationship he formed there with the Prophet Joseph Smith. He ate often at the Nauvoo Mansion with the Prophet's sons and enjoyed many an afternoon at sports when Joseph Smith would take off his coat and join the boys in their activities. Willard worked as a stone cutter during the construction ofthe Nauvoo Temple and, as a glazier, helped make the oxen on which the baptismal font rested. In her history, Willard's daughter, Cordelia, states: "Of the awful martyrdom of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum, Father couldn't talk without tears filling his eyes and choking his speech. After the murders, Father marched with muffled drum at the head of those who brought their bodies back to Nauvoo." Less than three years after the martyrdom, the Saints left Nauvoo and their beautiful temple. When the call came at Winter Quarters for five hundred men to form a company of infantry for the Mexican War, Wrllard became one ofthe first to volunteer as he stepped forward to drum for recruits. After months of hardship, the battalion reached San Diego, California, where Willard re-enlisted forsix months guard duty. He ended up remaining in California for ten years. He then moved to Salt Lake City, but within a few months was called on a mission to England. He left for the east coast with just "a single suit, badly worn, one pair of shoes, a change of underwear and socks, a few handkerchiefs in a little bag with a draw string, a little extra food. . . . and an abiding faith and joy in being considered worthy of the call." When he returned from his mission in 1863, he was put in charge of a large company of Latter-day Saints who were emigrating from Liverpool. In 1865, Willard was ordained a Bishop and sent by Brigham Young to preside over the settlements in the eastern end of Morgan Valley. After arriving in the Valley, he stayed at the home of ThomasJ. Thurston where he met his bride to be, Cordelia. Cordelia had been bom in a wagon on the plains of Iowa the same time that nineteen year old Willard marched west with the Battalion. Willard and Cordelia were married 15 April 1865. Willard and Cordelia became the parents of twelve children, three of whom died in childhood. Their home was always a place of learning, where books were a treasured item.