Shoot Away

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Why did Franklin King’s mother encourage a mob to go ahead and shoot her when she was threatened?

a.                  Her family had nothing to eat

b.                  She wasn’t going to renounce her religion

c.                   She wasn’t going to cross the Mississippi River

d.                  Her family had no place to go

Yesterday’s answer:

A   Gave his food to his children

From the life of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer:   Accordingly we struck tents in the morning and packed our carts and started on our journey again. It was a nice bright morning but very cold and clear. The snow was very deep in places. It was hard pulling the cart. I remember well poor Brother Blair. He was a fine tall man. Had been one of Queen Victoria’s life guards in London. He had a wife and four small children. He made a cover for his cart and he put his four children on the cart. He pulled his cart alone. His wife helped by pushing behind the cart. Poor man. He was so weak and worn down that he fell down several times that day but still he kept his dear little children on the cart all day. This poor man had so much love for his wife and children that instead of eating his morsel of food himself he would give it to his children. Poor man. He pulled the cart as long as he could then he died and his poor wife and children had to do the best they could without him to help them. The poor children got frozen. Some parts of their body’s was all sore but they all got in to Salt L. City alive but suffering. Whether the children lived or not I never heard as they went north of the city and our family went south.

Women’s Voices-An Untold History of The Latter-day Saints 1830-1900 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1982), 230-231.