Teancum William Heward (1854 - 1915): Our Family History

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Name	Teancum William Heward
Birth	11 Dec 1854	Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Christening	14 Jan 1855	Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Gender	Male
Initiatory (LDS)	27 Sep 1878	EHOUS
FamilySearch ID	KWC1-HQF
Death	18 Aug 1915	Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States
Burial	20 Aug 1915	Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States
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Father	John Heward, b. 7 Apr 1813, North Dalton, Yorkshire, England d. 23 May 1890, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 77 years)
Mother	Elizabeth Terry, b. 17 Nov 1814, Palmyra, Wayne, New York, United States d. 6 Mar 1878, Draper, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 63 years)
Marriage	20 May 1844	Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States
Family ID	F11041	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Ruth Sweetnam Talbot, b. 17 Feb 1862, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States d. 11 Jun 1953, Shelley, Bingham, Idaho, United States (Age 91 years)

Marriage 27 Sep 1878 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Children

	1. Eliza Elizabeth Heward, b. 27 Jul 1879, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States d. 26 Sep 1965, Roy, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 86 years)
	2. Esther Marella Heward, b. 12 Jun 1882, Kaysville, Davis, Utah, United States d. 4 Apr 1961, Caldwell, Canyon, Idaho, United States (Age 78 years)
	3. Ruth Clarissa Heward, b. 22 Dec 1888, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 13 Feb 1985 (Age 96 years)
	4. Rachael Alberta Heward, b. 4 Jul 1890, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 26 Jan 1963 (Age 72 years)
	5. Aseneth Emmeline Heward, b. 1 Mar 1892, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 12 Feb 1981 (Age 88 years)
	6. Teancum William Heward, b. 14 Aug 1894, Rockland, Power, Idaho, United States d. 21 Mar 1958, Driggs, Teton, Idaho, United States (Age 63 years)
	7. Hyrum Basil Heward, b. 28 Oct 1897, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States d. 17 Mar 1982 (Age 84 years)
	8. Russelletta Gedenia Heward, b. 28 May 1900, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States d. 30 Jul 1900, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States (Age 0 years)
	9. Lehi Talbot Heward, b. 24 Feb 1904 bur. 27 Jun 1914, Malad City, Oneida, Idaho, United States (Age ~ 10 years)

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	Birth - 11 Dec 1854 - Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Christening - 14 Jan 1855 - Midvale, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Initiatory (LDS) - 27 Sep 1878 - EHOUS
	Marriage - 27 Sep 1878 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Death - 18 Aug 1915 - Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States
	Burial - 20 Aug 1915 - Grove City Cemetery, Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho, United States

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HEWARD, Teancum William - Missionary Information

Teancum William Heward
Birth date, place: 11 December 1854, South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah T e rritory, United States
Death date: 18 August 1915
Baptism date: 19 April 1863
undefined: John Heward, Elizabeth Terry
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Southern States
June 1879–March 1881
Age Called: 24
Southern States
Set Apart: 14 June 1879
Arrived At Home: 10 March 1881
Mission type: Proselytizing
Marital Status: Married
Priesthood office: Seventy
Called From: Draper, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
Set apart by: Brigham Young
Stories and Documents

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, p. 46, li n e 1968.
Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, p. 50, li n e 1968.
Missionary reports, 1831-1900, MS 6104, Church History Library.
Mission report of T W Howard, June 1879 - March 1881.
Gender
Male
Birth date, place
11 December 1854, South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United St a tes
Death date
18 August 1915
Baptism date
19 April 1863
Baptism by
Joseph S Rawlins
Father's name
John Heward
Mother's name
Elizabeth Terry

June 1879 to March 15, 1881
Report of T. W. Heward’s Mission to the Southern States

A Sketch of T. W. Heward’s Mission to the Southern States

To the fore part of June 1879 word reached Draper, S. L. County, Utah th a t I was called to go on a mission to the Southern States on the 14th . I w ent to Salt Lake City and in company with several more Elders was o rdaine d a Seventy, and set apart for the mission. Left Ogden on 17th i n route f or my field of labor in company with fourteen more Elders, unde r the dire ction of D. H. Peery of Ogden.

At St. Louis and other points, several of the Elders left the company, t a king other roads to their fields of labor. At Chattanooga Tenn., on th e m orning of the 24th Elder S. T. Stephens and N. L. Shirtliff and mysel f le ft the company and went down to Rome, Georgia. Thence, seven miles t o Bee ch Creek, where there was a branch of the Church. We stayed there s evera l days, held meetings Sunday the 30th, at bro John B. Daniels, th e Presid ent of the Branch. There we realized how illy prepared we were t o portray , understandingly, the principles of the Gospel to unbeliever s and to pro ve all from the Bible. We were appointed to labor in the Bee ch Creek, Hay wood, and Armuchee branches until the GA, Conference whic h was to be hel d in the Haywood valley on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Ju ly. We found thi s a good opportunity to prepare ourselves to meet the ou tside element wit h the Scriptures before being appointed to new fields o f labor .
We only meetings on the Sundays. We had to eat considerable corn bread t h ere being but little wheat raised in the State. This seemed very cours e a nd raw to me for three or four weeks, then all at once it became swee t an d good, and liked it even afterwards. Bro. Smith of Haywood was ver y sic k with the Typhoid fever, we administered to him and he began to me nd imm ediately; we also administered to a little boy with like success . July 4t h Elders Harker and Bliss got with us, they having also been ap pointed t o labor in the Branches till Conference.

Elder Joseph Standing had been appointed to preside over the Ga, Confere n ce. He sent word to the brethren at Haywood, to get a team and have on e o f the Elders come and bring him and Bro. Clawson down to the Conferen ce f rom Whitfield Ga. The calculation was for me to go but the brethre n faile d to get a team ready in time so no one went and they were left t o come d own the best way they could. On the 22nd or 23rd we were expecti ng to se e them but instead of that the news reached us that Bro. Standin g had bee n killed by a mob bringing a terrible gloom with it which was k eenly fel t during our Conference by all the Elders, Saints and friends . All our ho pes in him were blighted. Elder A. S. Johnson being the onl y one of muc h experience present, had to take charge of the Conference , although he w as scarcely able to sit up, having had the chills and fev er for several w eeks. The Conference was carried on all right and we ha d a good time cons idering the circumstances under which we were placed . On the 27th inst. W yat N. Williams of Haralson Co. was baptized by Bro . Johnson. He had com e fifty miles to the Con. to be baptized and to b e administered to by th e Elders; he having had a disease for several yea rs, which all the doctor s called incurable for a man of his age; he bein g about seventy years old . At a meeting of the Elders in the afternoon , we administer to him and h e was healed immediately so that he felt n o more of the effects of the di sease from that time. After Conference, E lders Stephens and Shirtliff wer e appointed to go to Walker Co, Elders H arker and Bliss went into the Wes tern part of Alabama; and Bro. Johnso n and I were to travel together in t he Branches until he went home; he h ad been released but intended to visi t the Saints in the different settl ements if he was able. He was brough t down to Beech Creek, and being to o sick to travel he stayed there and B ro Mannings and I waited on him fr om August 6th till the 25th (held meeti ngs on the Sundays) by that tim e his health had improved some; so that da y we went down to Rockmart Pol k Co. he rode Bro. Lawrence’s mule. I walke d. Riding 27 miles that day w as too much for him and he was scarcely abl e to get out of bed for a wee k afterwards .

On the 4th of Sept. I rode down into Haralson Co. and visited the Sain t ; found Bro. Williams in good health. Returned to Rockmart on the 5th . He ld meeting and attended the Sunday School on the 7th. We returned t o beec h Creek on the 8th and on the 11th Bro. Johnson started for Utah . I was t hen left to take charge of Bro. Morgans mail and answer the cor respondenc e, which I found to be quite a task .

I studied the Scriptures all I could and attended the meetings in the Br a nches on Sundays. On the 26th inst. Bro Morgan arrived. He had previous l y appointed a two day meeting on the 27th & 28th inst. in Haywood Valle y . Elders Stephens and Shirtliff also came there from Walker Co. The mee ti ngs were held according to appointment. On the night of the 27th Bro . J . H. Parry arrived there from N.C. I was appointed to go to Fannin Co . an d travel with Elder E. B. Edlefsen. I was then without money so Bro . Parr y gave me one dollar and Bro. Morgan gave me two ($2.00). Bro. Bar ber o f Haywood let me take an animal to ride, to my field of labor, havi ng abo ut 85 miles to go. I started on the 8th of Oct.; and arrived at St ock Hil l Fannin Co. on the 10th. Found Elders C. W. Hulse and Thomas Sel oyd ther e; there being a Branch of the church in that vicinity. Bro. Sel oyd had b een appointed to take back the animal that I had brought and la bor in th e Branches that I had left.

Bro. Edlefsen had not arrived there from N.C. where he had been with B r o Parry. Elder Hulse was expecting shortly to go from there to England . T he brethren had held one meeting in a settlement about 8 miles from S toc k Hill before my arrival, and prospects seemed to be favorable in tha t vi cinity for quire an opening. The people seemed very desirous to hea r us , so Bro. Hulse and I held meetings there each Sunday, and once duri ng th e week for a while. Bro. Edlefsen arrived there on the 24th inst .
During the Month of Nov. we held meetings tolerably regularly. Occasiona l ly holding meetings at Stock Hill with the Saints. We would sometime s g o to the meetings of the Baptists and the Preachers would invariabl y tak e that opportunity to revile us and our doctrines attempting to pro ve fro m the scriptures that we were false prophets etc. They would seldo m conve rse with us, excusing themselves by saying that we were beneath t heir not ice.

Elder Hulse started for England on the 20th of Nov. Also one of the Sain t s and some of our friends left Stock Hill that day for Colo. Dec. 5th B ro . Stover, the President of that Branch, moved his family to Barlow Cou nty .

During the Month of Dec. we only held a few meetings and they were hel d a t private houses; it being too cold to hold meetings in school house s tha t had neither stove nor fireplace in them. They did not the school s in se ssion during the Winter. We did a great deal of fireside reading . We wen t from house to house visiting our friends and all those who wan ted to ge t an understanding of our doctrines. We took great pains to exp lain to th e people the principles of the Gospel. We were occasionally in vited to Co rnshuckings; which invitations we generally accepted. We woul d also hel p our friends kill their hogs and showed a willingness to do a ny kind o f labor that we could well perform.

On the 15th of Jan. 1880, we started for Union Co. to visit a few perso n s who had sent us word they wanted to see us and hear us talk. We wer e tr eated kindly and they wanted us to hold a meeting or two in that loc ality , so we appointed a meeting to be held on the following Sunday th e 18th i nst. in a school house which was occasionally used for a Baptis t Church . The news scattered around considerably so that we had a larg e congregat ion to hear us that day.

Before we commenced services, several persons gave us to understand th e y did not believe in Polygamy and insisted on us to defend it if we cou ld . They soon found we were prepared for them and in a few minutes, the y we re willing to drop that subject, it being too amusing for the crow d at th eir expense. The Deacon would not let us get in the pulpit to pre ach, s o we stood on the floor, telling them we could do just as well the re. W e were rather poorly drest [sic] this seemed to suit them generall y for h ad we been proud and stuck up they hardly would have listened t o us. We e xplained to them the principles of the Gospel and bore our tes timony to t he Latter Day Work. It seemed to have a good effect, they bel ieved we wer e in earnest and honest in our belief. We told them we woul d try to be th ere again on the 22nd of Feb. and would send them word abo ut a week befor e that date, should we conclude to come. After meeting w e received severa l invitations, and accepted that of a Mr. Jones and sta yed there that nig ht. Next day we went down into Fannin .

According to agreement we sent word to the people on Coopers Creek, Uni o n Co. that we would be there and hold meetings. Accordingly we went the re , but we found our note had been mislayed [sic] and failed to get ther e i n time and that a Baptist Preacher by the name of Johnson Walker ha d appo inted a meeting there for that day. He expected we would be there , and s o did all the people, but he had appointed the meeting there jus t to both er us.

We went to the meeting house about meeting time, found a great many peop l e there, who said had come to hear us and did not want to hear him the n , having plenty of other opportunities to hear him. We calculated to l e t Mr. Walker do the preaching if he came, on account of his appointmen t b eing ahead of ours. We waited till after the time appointed to commen ce m eeting, but the Preacher did not come so the people urged upon us t o prea ch to them, telling us they hardly expected he would be there. Th e Deaco n told us we could occupy the pulpit. So after a little consultat ion we c oncluded to do so. We sung three of our hymns which seemed to ma ke a goo d impression on the people. At that junction Mr. Walker arrive d so we wen t out to talk with him a few moment. He said he wanted to tal k to the peo ple, and that he would not preach with us nor have any contr oversy or arg ument with us whatsoever saying he had all he wanted of ou r doctrines alr eady.
He pretended to quote a few passages of Scripture against us and we to l d him his quotations were not in Scripture at all, but we explained t o hi m a few passages that were. He got angry and some thought he would h ave s truck one of us if a friend of his had not interceded and led him a way. H e went in the house and got into the Stand and reviled us and al l the Mor mons and their doctrines with all the energy and skill he posse ssed; quot ing extensively from Anti-Mormon Histories, old tales, and yar ns, and als o telling quite a number of lies that he was doubtless the au thor of. H e told the people we ought to be driven back to Salt Lake; an d that if w e could not be got rid of with scriptures etc. that he was i n for shoulde ring his musket and driving us out of the country; he forbi d the people t o feed us or to let us stay around in their midst, sayin g that he never s aw a night so bad in his life but what he could tur n a Mormon away from h is door.

We had seated ourselves in a conspicuous place in the room where we cou l d look him straight in the face; he did not seem to like the looks of o u r eyes so he generally looked some other way. Sometimes we could hardl y k eep from rising and defying him to prove his lying assertions; but w e kep t still until the meeting was out, then we walked outside and gav e out th ree appointments for meetings, telling the people we would prov e all of o ur assertions; and were prepared to clear up with reasonable a rguments al l that had been asserted by Mr. Walker.

We received several invitations and accepted one, which was to a pla c e 5 or 6 miles from there and hold a meeting that night. On our way w e we re accosted very roughly by several men one by the name of John Coch ran t alked of hickory whipping us but none of them touched us. We held t he mee ting at night according to appointment. The house was crowded. Whi sky see med to be very plentiful in that neighborhood, and some of the me n were v ery boisterous. After we had preached to them, singing several o f our “Mo rmon” songs and answered a host of questions, the opinions of t he majorit y of them seemed greatly changed even Mr. J. Cochran said the n he would r ather fight for us than against us. He afterwards gave us t o understand t hat he was sorry for what he had said to us and told us h e wanted us to c ome and see him that we were welcome to eat some of hi s corn and meat .

We found that the ill treatment we had received had a tendency to spre a d our fame the farther. We received invitations to preach in several di ff erent settlements in Union Co. which we accepted and had a good time g ene rally in opening up new fields. We also held meetings in two settleme nt s in Fannin Co. where Elders had never preached before .
Although we had many friends who firmly believed the principles we taugh t , still they seemed slow about embracing the truth. Many of them seeme d d esirous to go to Utah or Colorado, although they did not belong to th e Ch urch; and we could not blame them for wanted to get out of such a po or co untry as they were in. We often saw girls and women plowing and som etime s with a steer guiding him with lines; in land too that is rough an d almo st covered with rocks, stumps and roots, in fact we could seldom s ee an y other sort of land, and their plows were seldom much larger tha n a comm on cultivation tooth.
On the 21st of March D. R. Long and Wife of Stock Hill were baptized b y B ro. Edlefsen; and on the 25th inst. I baptized Sophronia Lance of sam e pl an, a widow who with her family had been very kind to us and the oth er El ders.

About the middle of April all of the Saints and some of our friends le f t Stock Hill and went to the Rail Road to go with the next company to C ol orado.

On the night of 25th of Apr. a terrible storm passed over; it hailed con s iderable, the lightning flashed so rapidly in succession that we coul d se ldom see any darkness while it was passing over. Such a roaring I ne ver h eard before. The wind blew terrific; it seemed as if it would swee p off e verything before it. A few miles from where we were it unroofed a nd tor e down several houses; took up hundreds of apple trees and other t rees b y the root and carried them from 50 yards to half a mile. Some fam ilies l ost considerable of their household furniture. The timber in man y place s was leveled nearly to the ground. No lives were lost those coun ties bu t in Mississippi and other places that same night it killed a gre at man y people. The people were generally badly scared. The next day o r two som e were telling the man at whose house we stopped that night ho w scared th ey were, how they prayed and how they acted generally. He tol d them he wa s a little scared at first and he got up, then he thought o f the Mormon s being there and he went back to bed again and went to slee p .

We had been corresponding for several months with a man in White Count y b y the name of Willis S. King; he had been a Baptist Preacher for a fe w ye ars and had come to the conclusion that the Baptist were not right . He ha d been investigating Mormonism for over a year and had become sat isfied t hat we had the truth and he wanted to be baptized, although he h ad neve r seen any one belonging to our Church. On the 26th inst. we star ted in t hat direction it being about 60 miles. On the night of the 27t h we stoppe d with a man by the name of Grindle in Lumpkin Co. He treate d us very kin dly, asked us if we would hold a meeting if he would call i n his neighbor s to hear us; we told him we would be pleased to do so; an d accordingly w e held the meeting and had a good time. We had walked abo ut 24 miles tha t day.

We arrived at Mr. Kings in the Southern part of White County on the Chat t ahoochee river on the evening of the 28th about 25 miles walk. Found M r . King to be a nice man. We gave out an appointment for a meeting to b e h eld at his house the next Sunday May 2nd and at the time appointe d a dist ance of ten miles. We each spoke about an hour explaining the pr inciple s of the Gospel and telling them of the judgements which were sho rtly com ing to pass, answered a great many questions, a good feeling gen erally pr evailed .We appointed two meetings in different settlements .

I baptized Bro. King on the 3rd of May. On the 5th we walked about 6 mil e s to another settlement and held a meeting that night about a hundred p eo ple assembled to hear us quite a number of them were rough mean men; s eve ral were bigoted up starts from a high or college, many of them show e d a desire to illtreat us. They talked to us very rudely, even spoke o f h anging, hickory whipping and shooting us, but they did not touch us , the y feared the multitude and the law. We did not feel a particle alar med, b ut boldly defended our principles. We held a meeting the next Sund ay (9th ) at a Negro Campgrounds; the Whites would not let us preach in t heirs. A bout 400 people were there; we spoke on the Kingdom of God and t he firs t principles of the Gospel. They were peaceable and none showe d a desir e to molest us.

We held a meeting in Lumpkin Co. on the 11th on our way back to Fannin .
On the 19th inst. we went over into Cherokee Co. N.C. on the Nottly rive r , in the vicinity where a mob had hickory whipped Bro. Parry the Summe r b efore. The feeling towards Mormons seemed greatly changed. We staye d in t hat Co. until the 1st of June, held three meetings with generall y good ef fect; found many friends who were desirous for us to stay longe r in thei r midst but Bro. Edlefsen was released and we were expecting El der J. B . Keeler to meet us in Fannin Co. Ga. So we went back there. Bro . Keele r arrived there on the 18th of June. Bro Edlefsen started for Rom e on th e 22nd. During the month we worked several days and parts of th e days i n the harvest field binding rye for some of our friends. Also di d conside rable walking, visited our friends in different settlements, he ld meeting s on Sundays and sometimes one or two during the week; got th e people con siderably stirred up on the Mormon question .

On the 14th of July we started another trip to White County. Held a meet i ng in Lumpkin Co. on our way down and appointed another to hold one o n ou r return. In White Co. we heard that some had threatened to mob or s hoo t us if we ever came back in there and held any more meetings. We gav e ou t our appointments regardless of the threats, and filled them too wi thou t seeing anything of the mob. We held five meetings in the County an d bap tized eight persons (I baptized 6 and Bro Keeler 2) organized a Bra nch o f the Church, ordained Bro. King an Elder and set him apart to pres ide ov er the Branch. On our return some tried to hinder us from fillin g our app ointment in Lumpkin Co. they had got a Methodist preacher to co me and fil l our appointment, but we got another house and held the meeti ng withou t much bother, but we left them in an uproar, wrangling about t he Mormon s the next day (27th inst.).

Having to be at the conference in Haywood on the 7th and 8th of Aug. w e m oved rather lively, only stopping in Fannin one night and in Picken s Co . We stopped a day or two at Bro. Stover’s and Mr. McDaniel’s. Arriv ed a t Haywood on the 3rd of Aug. feeling somewhat tired having walked ov er 22 5 miles in the past three weeks. Bro. Edlefsen had stopped there t o be a t the Conference. Elder Scott and Bean had also recently arrived f rom Uta h, Bro. S. C. Stephens was presiding Elder. We had a very enjoyab le time . After we got through with our conference business Bro. Edlefse n went ho me and the other Elders went down into Haralson Co. Bro. Kelle r and I sta yed at Haywood till the 15th of Sept. He then got a Mule fro m brother Law rence and started on a tour through Fannin, Union and Whit e Counties. I s tayed at Haywood and the Beech Creek Branches during th e month of Sept. a ttending the meetings Sundays; picked some cotton. I s tarted for Fannin C o. on the 4th of Oct. walked nearly to Sonora Gordo n Co. There found Bro s Stover and Long with their families picking cotto n, they had failed t o go with the companies to Colo. for want of means . I stayed there two da ys; then went to Pickens Co. My shoes were new an d they hurt my so I coul d scarcely walk. I stopped at McDaniel’s one day ; and had a long talk wit h a Campbellite Preacher. They gave me an old p air of shoes; so the nex t day I put them on and started; I had no friend s on the road so I had t o keep on walking till I got into Fannin Co. 3 5 miles; at night my feet w ere terribly blistered.

I got with Bro. Keeler on the 11th inst. and on the 14th he started ba c k to Haywood to meet two other Elders from Utah who were appointed to t ra vel with us. I visited my friends and held meetings on Sundays. On th e 2n d of Nov. Elder W. H. Adams arrived he having been appointed to trav el wi th me, he was inexperienced in preaching but was very firm in the f aith . We held meetings at every opportunity in the two Counties; gettin g int o new fields as much as we could. I had previously found in many in stance s that singing our hymns and songs had a tendency to allay prejudi ce. Bro . Adams being a good singer, we soon got so that we could sing we ll toget her. The people kept us in practice and it made a good impressio n whereve r we went.

On the 8th of Dec. I received a letter from Pres. Morgan stating tha t I c ould prepare to return home that I would be released in January, an d tha t Elder Isaac Riddle would soon be in the field to travel with Bro . Adams . We wrote to Bro. Riddle to meet us in N. Carolina. On the 17t h inst. w e went over to Nottly River Cherokee Co. and next day we to P ersimmon C reek; there we met Bro. Riddle. We held three meetings in tha t vicinity a nd had a good time. The people seemed exceedingly friendly t oward us an d nearly all seemed to believe that we had taught them the tr uth. A few t old us they wanted to be baptized, but they put it off til l some other ti me.

The night of the 24th of Dec. Bro. Adams and I by request, administere d t o a sick child and it was healed immediately. We left the people pond erin g considerable on Mormonism. We Held one more meeting in the County ; an d on the 29th Dec. we all three walked over into Ga, 20 miles; the s now w as two or three inches deep and towards night it turned dreadful co ld; ev en the coldest I ever experienced in my life; the mercury fell 15 ° belo w zero. I heard that some people froze to death in North Ga. A gr eat man y chickens and some hogs and calves were frozen to death that nig ht. I wo ndered that there were not more people frozen to death they bein g so ill y prepared for such weather.

Brother Riddle and Adams were somewhat discouraged to be left in the fie l d they both being inexperienced. I thought they would get along very we l l in a short time. I went with them into the different settlements of t he ir field and helped them all I could to prepare themselves to take cha rg e of it. My mail had been bothered some so that I did not receive th e mea ns to bring me home till Jan. 31st (1881). Then Bro. Adams and I ha d conc luded to pay the Elders and Saints in White Co. a short visit. W e reache d the dwelling of three families of the Saints (they living clos e togethe r) on the 2nd of Feb. and soon after our arrival Elder Keeler a nd Carte r came there. We all truly felt to rejoice at that meeting indee d, neve r in my life before did I experience the real solid enjoyment tha t we ha d while together on that visit with the Saints and friends in tha t vicini ty being all filled with the spirit of the Gospel. Two meeting s and a Sun day school were held while we were there, which were well att ended. An ex cellent feeling seemed to prevail in that neighborhood towar ds the Latte r Day Saints. Prospects were then that quite a member woul d soon be adde d to the Church, several miraculous cases of healing had r ecently occurre d. It rained very heavy for two or three days while we we re there. The wa ter courses rose very high so we had to stay there longe r than we intende d. On our way back coming through Lumpkin Co. on the 11 th it rained on u s very hard nearly all day; but we walked about 25 mile s the roads bein g extremely muddy most of the way. Each of us had umbrel las but still w e got very wet.

When we reached Fannin Co. we found the prospects more favorable than th e y had ever been before in two of the settlements, some said they wante d t o be baptized at the first convenient opportunity .

Bro. Riddle had received a release to return home so I waited a week o r t wo thinking it would be better for us to start together although he d id n ot know that he would travel with me any farther than Nashville Tenn . S o we hired a man to take us with his team to Cleveland Tenn. to the R ai l Road. We left Fannin Co. on the 2nd of March. We arrived in Clevelan d o n the 4th about an hour after the passenger train had left. So we go t o n the next freight train and went to Chattanooga. On our way to Nashv ill e that night we were delayed seven hours a freight train having run o ff t he track. Bro Riddle did not come any farther than Nashville with me . Th e trains missed connection at Nashville, Columbus Ky., St. Louis & O mah a so that I had to lay over during the days and travel nights. Arrive d a t Ogden on the evening of the 10th, came on down to Kaysville that ni ght . Found my wife and child in good health, the child been born about s ix w eeks after my departure. I was filled with joy and thankfulness tha t th e lord had blessed me in my labors, that my health had been good gen erall y while on my mission, even so that I could outtravel my companions ; bu t I abstained from the use of tea, coffee, tobacco and whiskey so th a t I had that much claim on the blessing of the Lord. Came on down to Sa l t Lake on the 14th inst. thence to Draper on the 15th .

*Written by Teancum W. Heward
*Typed by Blake Risenmay, great-great-great-grandson of Teancum Heward