Well, the trip didn't get off to a very auspicious start! We arrived the requisite 2 hours before our 1:50 p.m. takeoff only to find out that our airplane had a problem with a "switch" in the cockpit. SEVEN HOURS LATER we finally left (after switching to another airplane. Burlington is another 90 minutes past Cedar Rapids so we didn't get to bed until around 3:00 a.m.

When we were arriving in Cedar Rapids, Josh asked what Iowa was known for…I replied "cornfields". The next morning when we walked out of the Comfort Suites motel, we were surrounded on three sides by cornfields. Everywhere we went for the next 4 days, we saw cornfield after cornfield. It was mostly seed corn, apparently, since we were told that the "sweet corn" had already been harvested.

Friday we slept in a bit and then headed to Nauvoo for the day. We stopped at the temple, the quarry, then went to the Scovill bakery, the Social Hall, the family living center, rode in a covered wagon pulled by two oxen (brown swiss), the Lyon drug store, the brickmaking shop, the Lucy Mack Smith home, went to the printing office, the Browning gun shop (where one of our guides was a young man in a wheelchair named Elder Smith, who family used to live in the Canyon Gate ward. His dad is an emergency room doctor and they live in Nauvoo. Sherrie taught his sisters in seminary.)

We had lunch at Grandpa John's and then drove to the Baxter "winery" and then went down to the Red Brick Store and the Smith family graves and then went out to Carthage to tour the jail. We drove the back roads to Fort Madison and then back to Burlington. We rested for awhile and then went to the Cavanaugh's (Mac's fiancé's family) for snacks, drinks, etc., for the rest of the evening.

Saturday morning the girls went to a brunch and tour of the city while Josh and I went golfing with the guys at the Burlington Golf Club. Josh and the kids and I went swimming and then we went to dinner at an antique airplane airfield. They had a couple of old Piper Cub airplanes (open on the sides) and they were giving rides so Grandma Hunter went for a spin. Dinner was barbecued pork, salmon, "chicken lips" (like Buffalo Wings…spicy chicken), mashed potatoes, salad and dessert.

Sunday morning we went to the Burlington Ward for church and then went to the brunch at "Martini's Grille" which is on the third floor of an old hospital which has been converted to offices. The restaurant has a magnificent view of the Mississippi River. Then it was back to the motel for a nap. The wedding was at the First United Methodist church in downtown Burlington. Very pretty with lots of stained glass. The minister that married them was the same one that married Jennifer's parents 39 years ago. Josh was part of the ceremony - he read the "Apache blessing". After the ceremony we drove back to the Burlington Golf Club for the reception and dinner (and dancing.) We finally left around 10:00 p.m.

Monday morning Josh and Zully and Grandma left early to go to a session in the Nauvoo Temple. During the session they ran into one of Grandma's cousins, Antone Bringhurst (his father was Leo Bringhurst, the brother of Mary Alice's. He is a retired Utah State professor now living in Hurricane. He was raised in Toquerville. His (and Mary Alice's) great grandfather, Samuel, was in one of the first companies to arrive in the Salt Lake valley after the Saints left Nauvoo. Antone and his wife are on a temple mission. Interesting to think that even though the exodus was over 150 years ago, there are only two generations between Mary Alice and Nauvoo.

Sherrie and I watched the kids and met them in Nauvoo after the session (they went to the 9:00). Nauvoo is about a half hour south of Burlington. We crossed the Mississippi at Ft. Madison. A barge was going through as we arrived and the "draw bridge" was "up". Actually, it just swivels and doesn't go up and down. We had to wait about 20 minutes. The toll is $1.00 going east and is free going west.

We had lunch at the Nauvoo bakery sandwich store and then went to the blacksmith shop, the Seventy's Hall, and then on down to the Mississippi along the "Trail of Hope" to the point where the Saints crossed the river on the way west. At the end of this "blog", I will attach an interesting story about Samuel Bringhurst's departure from Nauvoo.

We drove out to the old pioneer cemetery and then went back to the Visitor's Center. One of the senior sisters there is from Las Vegas; her husband was the bishop (in the Valle Verde ward) that was murdered out at Apex a few years ago. His name was Art Reber. Sophia was asleep so Zully stayed in the car. On the way out of town we stopped at a store so Zully could find something for her mom. It turned out to be a framed picture of one of the statues in the Relief Society sculpture garden so we took Zully back to the Visitor's Center so we could get a picture of her by the actual statue and so she could get a quick look inside the center and see the "moonstone" (one of the originals, there is only one other and it is in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.)

We headed back to Cedar Rapids at about 4:45…our flight was scheduled for 7:45. I called midway and found out our flight was going to be an hour late. So we just checked our luggage, got our boarding passes and then went to McDonald's for some dinner. The plane finally left around 9:00 p.m. and we pulled into our driveway at 11:15 p.m.

LIFE HISTORY OF SAMUEL BRINGHURST SON OF JOSEPH BRINGHURST AND ELIZABETH
EVANS BRINGHURST. BORN 21 DECEMBER 1812

Samuel Bringhurst eldest child of Joseph Bringhurst by his wife Eliza
beth Evans was born at Philadelphia, Pennyslvania 21 Dec. 1812, died atTaylorsville, Salt Lake Co., Utah 12 April 1888. Married in 1838 EleanorBeitler.Mr. Bringhurst was a wagon a carriage builder, and conducted thatbusiness at Lionville, Uwxhlan Township, Chester Co. until 1845 when heand his wife joined the Morman Church and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois thecentre of those of the Mormon faith. This was before the church adoptedthe doctrine of polygamy. He had belonged to the Friends or Quaker faithbefore he joined the Mormon Church.In the exodus of the Mormons to the west in 1847, Mr. Bringhurst withhis wife and their two children started west with the rest of the church.His wife expecting their fourth child, the third having died the yearof the Missouri River on theway west.They wintered at Winter Quarters and came to the Salt Lake Valley inJoseph Harris Company of fifty, and endured the hardships incident to thesettlement of a new country.
While in Salt Lake City they had 5 more children including two sets oftwins, and resided at the home they made until their death three months apart.

Samuel Bringhurst was born in Chester Co. Penn. 21 Dec. 1812, where heremained for a number of years, following his trade of wagon and buggymaker, and during the time of the migration of the Mormon people to Nauvoo,he settled in the vicinity, and was residing at tghat place when the ProphetJoseph Smith was killed. During the troublesome times in Nauvoo, Mr. Bring-hurst experienced many unpleasant and annoying difficulties. At that time
the residences and homes of the Mormon people were being searched andinvestigated for armsand ammunition, which the officers of the state believed they had in their possession. Mr. Bringhurst's home was often searched and on one occasion when the officers came he had a gun secreted undera trap door. His wife, seeing the officers coming, put her rocking chair overthe trap door and sat down to get the youngest child to sleep, and in thatway they saved the gun. This gun was later given to a gentile friend ofMr. Bringhurst's and when he started for Winter Quarters his friend delivered it to him in a quiet way on board a boat on the Mississippi River, andthe same gun was brought to this state.While they were enroute to Winter Quarters, their fourth child was born.The night of the birth the Missour River froze over, and Robert Pierce, who
was on the other side of the river, hearing of the new born baby, cameacross and took the family to warmer and better quarters. When the child wasbut two weeks old his mothe took him across the ice on the Missouri Rivercarrying him in her arms.
An incident that is worthy of mention in connection with this memorabletrip is the fact that seven of the people who came across with the trainhave settled west of the Jordan River in the vicinity of Taylorsville, andall of whom have taken an active and prominent part in the building up ofthat section of the country, and they were instrumential in giving Taylorsville its name, in honor of the captain of the train whic carried themsafely across the great American Plains.
On arriving in Salt Lake City, Mr. Bringhurst was the first man to
establish a wagon and carriage repair and blacksmith shop ever opened inSalt Lake City or in the state. He continued at this business until 1871,making a great many wagons and repairing the plows for the farmers, andalso making different articles which were necessary in those early daysfor successful carrying on of farming, and he also made the cradles thatwere used in harvesting their grain.
The elder Bringhurst was a prominent factor in the early history of
this country and was known thoughout the state for his honesty and theundaunted courage which marked him as one of the ablest men among thepioneers.In 1871 he moved to where his son Robert now lives on the JordanRiver, and in the south end of Taylorsville Ward. Here he died on April12, 1888, and his wife died on July 29 of the samae year. There werenine children in teh family, eight of whom are still living. There weretwo sets of twins, Samuel and Eleanor being the eldest, and John and Mary E.the youngest. Five of the boys still live in Utah, all being in the nieighborhood of Taylorsville Ward, with the exception of William, who lives inDixie.
He was given one dollar in a will written by his father Joseph Bring-
hurst for joining the Mormon Church. His father was bitter about thisand his son William and hoped in his will they would come to their right senses.

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IOWA TRIP - MAC'S WEDDING

September 1-5, 2005

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