Comments on: Wilford Woodruff’s First Mission, part 17 (Graphic History)

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:14:21 +0000

Anybody who hasn’t yet visited Bruce’s links really ought to. Really.

By: Bruce Crow

Bruce Crow — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:56:35 +0000

You are right, Ardis. The steamboat does get 'em. The man who owned the fence was Randolph Alexander, that same man featured in the next few panels. I can only guess the creator of this series didn't know. But then he appears to have drawn them the same so maybe he did know. Another family who joined the church at the same time and place was Brother Alexander's cousin Jeremiah Murphy and his wife. After Jeremiah died, his widow and children entered history by taking a different path west.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:32:32 +0000

One more episode. Maybe that means the steamboat gets ‘em!

By: ricke

ricke — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:26:36 +0000

Thanks once more, Ardis!

By: Hunter

Hunter — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:13:00 +0000

Agh! Not in the path of a steamboat!! And with a broken oar! Noooo!

(This has been fun. Did you say this is the next to last episode?)

By: CurtA

CurtA — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:40:50 +0000

Randolph Alexander’s daughter Elizabeth married Lewis Allen at Far West, MO in 1836. Lewis and his brother James had been baptized by Elder Woodruff in Kentucky. Elizabeth and Lewis, after losing everything in Kentucky, finally were able to get a “fitout” rogether in 1862 and emigrated to Utah. They were settlers in Utah and Nevada including a time in the Muddy Mission ordeal. Elizabeth died in Nevada in 1869.

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:54:54 +0000

Oh, the Perils of Wilford!