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upon the altar as a sacrifice. I must meet my fate without
murmuring or complaining; I must submit, true to the end. If I
endure firm to the end, I will receive the martyr's crown.

After my return, my first duty was to build comfortable houses
for my family. Soon afterwards I was sent to St. Joseph to cash
the checks and purchase goods to supply the wants of the people.
I was directed to purchase a lot of salt and potatoes from a
Frenchman at Trading Point. I did so, and bought three hundred
dollars' worth on credit, and sent it back to the settlement. I
had to borrow the money from Mrs. Armstrong to pay the three
hundred dollars. But she was afterwards sealed to me, and it was
then all in the family. I never asked Brigham for it, and he
never offered to pay it.

On that trip to St. Joseph I bought fifteen hundred dollars'
worth of goods, such as were needed at the settlement. I advanced
seven hundred dollars of my own money; the remainder was from the
money sent home by the Mormon Battalion. I took the goods back
and we opened a store at winter quarters. Brother Rockwood acted
as chief clerk and salesman. We sold the goods at a great
advance. What cost us seven cents in St. Joseph we sold at sixty-
five cents. Everything was sold at a similar profit. I kept the
stock up during the winter and did a good business. One drawback
was this: many of the families of the men who were in the Mormon
Battalion had no money, and we were obliged to let them have
goods on credit. I had to stand the loss myself, for few of the
men ever paid a dollar due me when they returned.

Andrew Little was in the battalion, and at the request of Brigham
I let his family have two hundred and fifty-eight dollars' worth
of goods. Brigham said I should have my money when Little
returned, but I never got any of it. Little was also an adopted
son of Brigham, and did about as he pleased. James Pace, Thomas
Woolsey, and a few others of the soldiers paid me when they
returned for what I had advanced their families, but the majority
never paid.

When I returned from Santa Fe I found David Young, his wife, and
two daughters lying sick and helpless - really in want. I took
care of them and supplied them with food and such articles as
they required until the death of the father, mother, and one son,
which took place in a short time - a few months after my return
home. I had baptized this family in Putnam County, Tennessee, and
felt an interest in t