Comments on: Without Purse or Scrip in Texas: 21 August – 10 September 1900

By: kevinf

kevinf — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:56:08 +0000

Images of Clint Eastwood, from Paint Your Wagon singing “I talk to the Trees.”

The rain on Saturday and Sunday the 8th and 9th are ominous leftovers from the hurricane that was devastating Galveston at the time, claiming some 10,000 lives. My grandfather and 3 other elders in Galveston all survived. It was several days into the next week before they were able to get out and let the rest of the mission know that they survived.

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:14:06 +0000

I find it interesting that the elders don’t hold services on Sunday. Not even a sacrament service for themselves. When they do hold meetings, it’s as likely to be some other day.

That said, this mission sounds pretty miserable. Scabies, Malaria, long hard walks with little food, hard work in the hot humid heat, with no assurance of any kind of rest at the end of the day.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 07:22:11 +0000

D’ohhhhhhhh……..

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 04:24:10 +0000

Then they got cut down and became stakes.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 03:53:23 +0000

Don’t knock it. Those trees were converted (they formed a branch!) and there are now fourth-generation Mormon trees in east Texas.

By: Carol

Carol — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:54:10 +0000

I wonder if his preaching to the trees was practice or frustration.

By: Diane Peel

Diane Peel — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:37:14 +0000

He did get to preach to the trees… a lot.

By: Amy T

Amy T — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:11:06 +0000

Sulfur? Eeew. The Merck Index says it is an insecticide, but it also says that it causes irritation of skin and mucous membranes. I wonder if he meant something other than elemental sulfur.

Sulfur Iodide is used in chronic eczema, ringworm, and mange. That sounds like what he meant.

Oh, here’s pharmaceutical sulfur, probably the form called milk of sulfur, used as a scabicide. That means a drug that will destroy the itch mite that causes scabies.

So, he probably had ringworm or scabies. Horrible! And right in the midst of all that, “one of the Coil girls came over and said she wanted her name taken off from the books” and he broke up with his girlfriend. What a week!

By: Edje Jeter

Edje Jeter — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:33:16 +0000

Poor Overton gal: doesn’t even get recorded by name.