The large family Bible in the center of the parlor table is the original family Bible, gifted to Sarah by her husband, Hiram.
The view of the temple, above, was the same perfect view Sarah had from her parlor. She contributed to the temple construction in several ways. Sarah's family left Nauvoo with the other Saints in 1846, crossing the plains into Utah territory. She served in the Relief Society and was active in the women's suffrage rights until she died in 1898, at the age of seventy three. Hiram was baptized a member of the LDS Church and was called to serve a mission in 1863. Before he reached his assignment, he was killed in a ship's boiler-room explosion.
You must know I love nature. I captured these beautiful pictures of wild creatures. The zipper spider was huge - over 2 inches long, counting his legs. Corn? No big deal? Well, they don't harvest the corn until it's totally dead, dried up and full of bugs. The bugs look like a large ladybug. A majority of the corn raised here goes to make corn syrup! If you saw all the corn hauled from the fields, you would know our nation uses a LOT of corn syrup! |
Booutiful Nauvoo, a traditional Halloween Parade, was held October 29. Prior to the parade, missionaries carved over 500 pumpkins. These weren't just casually carved pumpkins, as you can see! The parade was filled with people in costumes, a 40 ft. green dragon, the ghostbusters vehicle, horses and "oh my stars" - Trump even made an appearance. |