So I'll be honest...I've never liked Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens and we spent the day in his hometown today. If he wouldn't have called LDS women ugly I probably wouldn't dislike him as much as I have. I've never actually read his books, and I really should read them to get rid of my dislike for him. As I read about part of his life in one of the museums, I saw that some of his children died very young. That helped my dislike for him go down quite a bit.
We also learned about John Wood, a man who lived in Quincy Illinois that helped the Latter-day Saints when they fled Missouri AND when they fled Nauvoo. I am so happy that the saints stumbled upon the people of Quincy. They really needed kindness after all the trials they had to go through. I need to do some research to see where my ancestor Hosea Stout fled to after the Battle of Crooked River. I know that his wife will end up dying in Iowa, but I wonder if he was ever in Quincy.
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