Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-27

man have had a life more crowd
,.,s ,brllpg Incidents than the lale
y, ,r. ".,' woodynle Wilson, better known
'-'" "yood" whose death was recently
's ,,,,pe5 in Provo. A correspondent
at that place writes . ro,.,a
,or county Tennessee, His parents
so~ , , we're Miles and Martha Hollle
Wilson, ,,,,h bis
Hs moved from Tennessee WIN MS
rarents to Illinois, where they embraced
tbe Gospel in 1887, introduced to them
Nv Elder Lybius 7. coons. They moved
10 Nauyoo in 1870, after experiments
~. ,,,n,les nersecuuons and mobolngs
the Saints were subjected 70; n' '', =" ~
or labored upon the Nauvoo lenip'e, 49, a.
tsrpat.ng Ms time in working az V n..
49, in order TO support his family.
me Wilson family moved again, 10
Nashville Iowa, just over the river
10. w." vanvoo where they resided three
veaTs before the expulsion OF the
Saints. p,..,,. tnonr
WINS well acquainted with the Prophet
Iosepb and his young mind was viVidly
Immersed with the unassumlns, kind
snd as he then thought, the playful
S;snosition of the Prophet He was an
owe witness to an interesting episode IN
he life OF Joseph who as mayor OF
Nauyoo turned over q saloon with all
It's contents down rayine on the edse
Of which It stood, the saloon haNins
been declared nuisance by the city
council Of that city
Mr. Wilson used to give very ANUS
ing description Of the intrepid manner
In which the Prophet came along one
morning and noored the big Missourlan
who was left In charge of the premises,
John Eagle, by name, then called 10
the onlookers, saying:-'Come boys,
took hold and tipped the frame building
clear over, and sent It rolling end over
end down the rayin5. smashing all the
glasses and bottles within H.
During the time he lived with his
parents In Missouri after the exodus
from Nauyoo he fought many battles
when boy Of fifteen, with other boys,
who undertook TO abuse and revile the
'M0nons IN which he invariably
came 81 c0nquerOE a characteristic
that has stayed with him all through
4 Ne ior while he did not profess to
4 live the religion OF the Saints, he never
missed an opportunity to fight for them,
4 j, was while his father was gone to
Il Tennessee 10 dispose Of the property
he mad left there, that the Saints were
oilve1 from Nauyo1 Wood was then
ABOUT fifteen years old; he gathered
together what he could and with n
wagon and yoke Of oxen, leaving all
else he took his mother and six sis
leIs and followed after the Saints as
Ist as a place called Bonaparte. on the
Des MONIES river. their father Joined
'nsn laere and moved on to the body
ol lne Vhurch at Council Bluffs. They
clo,sel The plains In the year 1852, and
sss!l,d N Provo, where the head of the
ialnly died In 1865.
c.,, ood went from Council Bluffs to
.a.Iolhla In 1851 and returned to Utah
40 W !9'l the family In 1854, he expert
, 49, lhe sac effects OF the grasshop-
s so,. war OF 1850, lie married Miss SUI
= s'n ,. Armstrong December goth, 1856.
= mlsI esllmable young lady the
Ga, Saasn'eI q Mr.. Armstrong then act
,as as indian agent for the govern
,"I,b ne Went out in the fall of 1856
,bo ,T A 'ng wagons and teams to assist
isy.55 "au-eart companies that were de.
'''' upon the plains in that year.