Autobiography of Henry Weeks Sanderson

Autobiography of Henry Weeks Sanderson

Click on the link above to read Henry Weeks Sanderson's autobiography.  It is over 120 pages long, and also includes some of his poetry.


CONTENTS
Chapter 1 My Early Life in New England
Chapter 2 We go to Nauvoo
Chapter 3 Nauvoo & St. Louis
Chapter 4 Hie Battalion
Chapter 5 Back to Iowa
Chapter 6 Iowa and Missouri
Chapter 7 Return to the Valley
Chapter 8 Union Fort & Fort Supply
Chapter 9 Scouting Johnston's Army
Chapter 10 South for a New Home
Chapter 11 Fairview
Poetry

Henry Weeks Sanderson remembers Joseph Smith

       

Henry Weeks Sanderson

"We were living in a story-and-a –half log house, the second house from the Prophet Joseph’s, only Sidney Rigdon’s house between us, at the time the Prophet and his brother Hyrum were massacred, and I remember still distinctly the shock that I experienced when a runner went past our house shouting that the Prophet was killed.  I had been baptized in the spring previous at a general baptizing of children, Henry G. Sherwood officiating.  The Prophet Joseph was on the ground and may have assisted in the confirmation.  I was so well acquainted with him that I attached no particular importance to the fact.  I had been to his house frequently and played with his boys, and he would occasionally join us.  I had been in games of ball where the Prophet was one of the players.  I was on the street near his house when he left it the last time alive and was the only one near when he shook hands with a stranger and saw them exchange canes on the street.  I saw the murdered bodies after they were brought to Carthage.”

Robert Sanderson

Boston Museum of Fine Arts