Comments on: Wilford Woodruff’s First Mission, part 9 (Graphic History)

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:33:27 +0000

I found your site while looking for Wilford Woodruff’s Arkansas mission experience. I was surprised to find that there was a cartoon strip about it. When was it originally published and where? Can you tell me something about Douglas Johnson? While the mission took place in 1835 the clothing looks more like 1950s so I am assuming the drawings were done in the 1950s.

The cartoon shows the two missionaries making a dug out canoe then paddling it to Little Rock making two stops along the way. The second was at Cadron Settlement. It says the place they stayed in was abandoned and haunted. This may be why:
http://www.faulknerhistory.com/articles/TrailofTears.htm

It occurred the year before Wilford Woodruff spent the night there. Cadron Settlement has an interesting story. It once was considered for becoming the state capitol. The river is not at all like it use to be because of the Locks and Dams. Cadron is just above “Toad Suck L&D”. But that is another story.
I live in Conway and Cadron Settlement is now a Conway city park.
Richard McFadden

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:17:39 +0000

I wish he had recorded the name of those poor but generous people. I’m imagining the reaction of someone who joined the church today and discovered that his great-great-grandparents had hosted Wilford Woodruff.

(And I’m with you, Steve — stay away from the swing of that ax, and wear your life preserver if you’re going to be around WW!)

By: Steve C.

Steve C. — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:09:43 +0000

Still in Arkansas! I remember reading about all the accidents Wilford Woodruff suffered. I’m not quite sure I’d want to be with him as he chopped down a tree and made a canoe.