99. # 2 -- ZION'S CAMP, a brief history, summer of 1834
I decided to split this entry into part 1 and part 2. I realized it probably is too long for one entry, and as I am approaching 100 posts, I am re-thinking how I should do it. I had one ancestor, Thomas Colborn, told about in the previous entry, who was in Zion's Camp. This is a brief history of: ZION'S CAMP In the winter of 1833–34 the Saints in Jackson County, Missouri, were persecuted and driven out of their homes by enemy mobs . The Saints had very little food and no protection from the winter weather. Church leaders in Missouri sent Parley P. Pratt and Lyman Wight to Kirtland to seek help and guidance from the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Prophet received a revelation ( D&C 103 ) directing him to organize a group of men to march to Missouri and help ...