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- There was much sickness among the people due to lack of food & shelter as it was bitter cold November weather when they were driven from their homes. George Tarbox was one who answered to the call of death in the winÂter of 1838, at Quincy, Adams, Illinois.
Try to picture if you can, the sad plight of this young widow, only 19 years old, left with a small son to provide for as well as herself to look out for, under such unfavorable
conditions. She was fortunate, indeed, when George Young asked her to marry him. They eventually rejoiced over the arrival of a little daughter Emma Amanda Young, born Feb 28, 1841, at Caloun, Jersey Co., Illinois.
The mob persecutions went from bad to worse in Illinois.
To show just a few of the unmerciful treatments these people had to endure, although innocent on any misdemeanor, let me quote a few lines from the book: "Essentials of Church History" p A153
"On one occasion some of the citizens of Nauvoo, Illinois, went out into the country about ll miles to harvest wheat. While engaged in their work they were surrounded by a mob who ransacked their wagons, seized their weapons, & then took them one at a time & brutally beat them with hickory goads. When they asked why they were treated in that manner, the answer was given that they had committed no offense, but they were Mormons & were gaining too much of a hold in that state."
George and Jane, with the 2 children, crossed the Mississippi River, perhaps on the ice, as many did as it wasJanuary of 1846, to make a temporary camp on Sugar Creek, Iowa. The weather was extremely cold and stormy, and a great number of the people were without proper clothing and necessary shelter.
Many of the wagons were without covers. Several members of the camp died from exposure and lack of proper care. The roads were almost impassable because of the constant storms. At this time there were some 400 hundred wagons on the road, including George & Jane's wagon. Somewhere along this toilsome journey over the plains of Iowa, George Young be came very ill & died in the fall of 1846. For the second time in a few years, Jane was left a widow. She was ill herself, but for the children's sake, she hung to life to do what she could for them.
Ref: Parshal Terry Family History
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1819 - 1847 (28 years)