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would Cross Safe they thought they Could cross Safe with All on
I told them if the watter got the Start of them it Might doo some
Damage They however Concluded to resk it and Started in the
water got the advantage of the Leeders and took them down Stream
and then We had to On hich the wagon and the Cattle Wend down
Stream Yoke after Yoke Untill all got in Swimming water all Chaned
to gether The worst had not come Yet but Soon they began to
foil Up and got in a Circle with there horns and Noses Sticking out
by m by they be gan to turn there Yokes and Some of there
heals Sticking up and it was a bad Sight to look at and Sertinly
looked as tho they must Some of them Drownd Here was a grate
excitement for a few Moments We took hold with Much Scill and
finely Cut the bowpins and on Yoaked and onhiched Untill We pre-
served the lives of all of them they then turned round and went
back to the Camp and waitted Untill the water fell We got there
in the after noon Here I found Eld Allen the first Man I had Seen
that I new Since I left St Louis On the 18 of Decmber in the year
1855 Here I Was informed there Was to be a Conferance Up in
Ellis Co. Distance of Upwards of loo M and all the Eld in Texas was
to be ther On that Day I wase Some what tiered and wore down
but Allen had a horse that belonged there in Ellis and insisted On
My going and take turns riding Here I left too pare of Garments
2 Shirts a Voice of Warning and Some Other Notins with the Camp
and Some of the Neighbours for the Camp to bring them to Me
when they come but they forgot what Orders I left with them Con-
cerning My Close and left them I never went that way and Thare-
fore I Never got them agane We left the Camp the forth and on
the Morning of the io I got there Allen having Gon On a head with
the Horse With My Concent Here I Mett Elders Clapp Duncin
Allen Bigler Wm Moody & Cooper At Brother Coutchers
Our Conferance Was Opened at io, O Clock On the io of March
1856 Sung then Prayer by Eld Wm Moody then Sung Some of the
Songs of Zion agane
Then a disscorse by Eld Benjmen Clapp Which Was Verry Ap-
propriate to the Ocation then laid the Busyness Of the Conferance
before the People and tride the Voice Of the Conferance to No
whether they was All Sadisfide to Sustain the Authority of the
Church Or No Colling them by Name this was caried Unanimus
in the firmative
Then Adgurned untill 2 O Clock A M
At 2 A M the Congrigation Cold to Order Sung then Prayer by
Benj Clapp
Then Sung
Here a Short history of the travles of the Eld Since there Arivle
in Texas Here a Short discorse From Elders Allen Duncin Moody
Snedaker Bigler Cooper533
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