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In June we arrived in Wyoming, Nebraska and had to wait for some time for teams to start across the plains. While there we had a nice time visiting friends; making acquaintances, singing songs; having meetings and praying night and morning; everyone seemed to be filled with the spirit of the Lord and no complaining at all was done.

Elder C. Gillet, a returning missionary, who died on the plains soon after our trains arrived with ox teams, was in charge of our Company. The Captain of our train was Daniel Thompson and in the train was a young man by the name of Samuel Haycock, who, the Captain and Company respected very highly. A few days after they arrived and rested and cleaned up a little I was sewing where we were camped he, with several others, came up and he remarked to them, “see there is my wife” I didn’t know this was going on but heard voices and looked up and saw him looking at me, we gazed at each other as though we had always known each other and were not strangers, but we had never met before and in about a month we were married….in the Mormon Stake House at Wyoming, Nebraska on the 10th day of July 1866.