742. The Quincy Miracle: How One Town Saved Thousands of Mormon Refugees
This is a beautiful story, and both my husband Wayne and I had ancestors who were part of the group that were helped on their way to build the city, Nauvoo! The Quincy Miracle: How One Town Saved Thousands of Mormon Refugees by Glenn Rawson | Nov. 19, 2016 Makes You Think Mormon Life On October 27, 1838, Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs issued an extermination order forcing thousands of Latter-day Saints to leave Missouri by March 8, 1839, or be killed. But where could they go? "The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must be exterminated or driven from the state if necessary for the public peace,” Executive Order 44 declared. Thousands of Missouri militia forces were called out; they surrounded the Latter-day Saint settlement of Far West and demanded that the Mormons leave the state according to the governor’s order. But where could more than 10,000 people go on a moment’s notice as winter approached? They were alre