Day 4 - Warsaw, Carthage and Nauvoo

Day 4 - Warsaw, Carthage and Nauvoo

Well, we started off our day by driving to Warsaw. Like many other towns which were associated with the persecution of the Saints, Warsaw seems to have prospered very little in the past 150 years.

Of note, we found this on the Main Street of Warsaw . . . I don't know if it has been there since the martardom, but it was startling nonetheless.

The business is abandoned and the second floor has collapsed.

We then went to Carthage. It was a very sobering thought to stand in the very room where the Prophet sealed his testimony with his blood. There wasn't as much evidence of the event as I had expected. The Church has removed the floor where Hyrum's blood had left a stain. The bullet holes had been repaired . . . probably by those who owned and lived in the home in the intervening years. There was a bullet hole in the door.

Later in the day, we returned to Nauvoo and visited some of the early Saint's homes. Below is the home of Brigham Young. We also visited the home of John Taylor, the Trail of Hope and the restored post office.

Tomorrow is a travel day to Kirtland . . .