hem. The two girls were sealed to me while
we stayed at winter quarters, and became members of my family.
They are both living. By them I have had three sons and three
daughters. They were sealed to me in 1847. I was also sealed to
Nancy Armstrong the same evening that I took the Young girls to
wife. A few evenings afterwards I was sealed to Emeline Woolsey.
She was my thirteenth wife.

Nancy Armstrong's maiden name was Gibbons. She was the wife of a
wealthy merchant by the name of Armstrong, who owned a large
establishment in Louisville, and another in Carlisle, Kentucky,
at which places he did business as wholesale and retail dealer in
dry goods. I became acquainted with the family at Carlisle, while
preaching there.

The people of Carlisle were bitter enemies of the Mormon Church,
and a mob threatened to tar and feather me one night, when
Armstrong took me home with him and protected me. He was not a
believer in any religion, but I always considered him a high-
minded, honorable man. I afterwards often stopped at the house.

His wife and sister Sarah were believers in the Mormon faith, but
as Mr. Armstrong was not, I advised his wife not to become a
member of the Church, and refused to baptize her until her
husband would consent to it. Elder Smoot afterwards baptized
Sarah Gibbons and Nancy Armstrong.

Brother Smoot had taken his wife with him on the mission, and she
laid the plan to get Sarah to go to Nauvoo. A wagon was sent to
take Sarah Gibbons' goods to Nauvoo, and in it Mrs. Armstrong
sent her valuable clothing and jewelry, amounting to more than
two thousand dollars. She intended to join the Saints at the
first chance.

Within a few months after Sarah had gone Mrs. Armstrong got the
consent of her husband to pay a visit to her sister and the
Church at Nauvoo; he fitted her up in fine style, sending two
serving maids to wait on her.

Soon after she left home the friends of Armstrong advised him to
stop his slaves at St. Louis, if he wanted to keep them, for his
wife would never return to him. Armstrong stopped the slaves, and
his wife went on to Nauvoo, where she stayed until the Saints
left that place after the death of the Prophet. Elder Smoot had
planned to get Mrs. Armstrong to Nauvoo, so he could be sealed to
her and get her property. Sarah Gibbons was sealed to Elder
Smoot, but Mrs. Armstrong would not consent to take him as her
husband; but she lived in the family until she got disgusted with