Winter Quarters -Day 7

We started the morning at the Kanesville Tabernacle. After the death of Joseph Smith in 1844, many people thought the LDS church would fall apart. Here at the Kanesville Tabernacle in December 1847 the church sustained a new First Presidency with Brigham Young as President and Prophet. It was also here that Oliver Cowdery came back and was rebaptized.


Winter Quarters is where early church members gathered after being kicked out of Missouri, Illinois and Ohio. Here they spent the winter and gathered supplies to cross the plains and settle in what is now Salt Lake City. Most of my Great-great-great-grandparents came across this way from England to Utah, some in handcarts.


My Great-great-great-grandfather John Darwin Chase joined the Mormon Battalion at Winter Quarters. They made the longest recorded march in military history -consisting of 2,000 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa to San Diego, California. After completing this long trek, most of them returned to Utah. This photo depicts what they probably wore.


Here is the Winter Quarters Temple.


While we were inside the Visitor's Center we dropped our camera and it died. Thank goodness for our GPS. We typed in Target and got ourselves a new camera.

This is Nebraska countryside.

This is what happens after 7 days of driving.

This is what we had to do to keep Rebekah quiet. No it's not beer!!! Only the last swig of our root beer bottle.