It has been an eventful week here in Nauvoo. On Monday I worked at the Lands and Records
again. I really enjoy working
there. We help folks find their
ancestors who lived in Nauvoo from 1839 through 1845, and learn about them and where
they lived. Sometimes they are surprised
to know that they did have ancestors here, and sometimes they already know but want
to learn more about them, and our database has histories, maps, stories and
some genealogies. We were quite busy and
I got to help people find info on their ancestors who were in Nauvoo, and burn
all the information we have onto a CD for them. One of the Temple workers came in about 4:30
seeking some information, and he mentioned that there are two graves to the
North of us in the grass area and did we know about them. We didn’t so he took us to them so we could
see where they were. They are for a
mother, Maria McMenemy (sp?), who died on the same day in 1843 as her stillborn
baby was born. We went back to the
office and looked her up and found her and her family, but the baby is not
listed – stillborn babies usually are not. But we did find that her other two
children died that same year or the following.
Times were very hard for them and they endured much. It is special to me to remember them and see
the love that their descendants have for them.
Elder Ray finished his shift at the Brickyard at
3:00 Monday so he went to Keokuk to get gas in the car and had it washed, then
picked me up at 5:00. We decided to go
out for our anniversary because we
couldn’t on Wednesday as we are in the Rendezvous play that night. We chose the Nauvoo Hotel but they were
closed for dinner, but the lady there told us about the Hawkeye Restaurant in
Keokuk and we went there and had a very nice meal of filet mignon, sweet potato
French fries and Ray had cheese soup and I had the salad bar.
Right after eating Elder Ray started having pain in
his chest – it was gas build up and subsided when he belched the gas up, but it always came back and was very painful. The next day Ray saw our mission Doctor and he wanted Ray to go to the hospital
emergency and be checked out. So we
drove to the Fort Madison Community Hospital about 15 miles away, arriving
there between 10:00 to 10:30 a.m. They took him in right away, hooked him up
for an EKG and took a chest x-ray and determined that he was not having a heart
attack. They then took an x-ray of his
lower abdomen and the results showed something similar to what Dr. Udall
thought it was, and it was decided to do a cat-scan of the area. Nothing showed up with that so they said they
could not tell what was causing his problem and sent us home about 4:00 p.m.,
suggesting that he eat only liquids the rest of the day, and only soft foods Wednesday
and see what happens.
And we are so glad he is better!
I ordered a cake and we picked it up this afternoon
and took it to Annie’s, the local ice cream parlor, and after the Rendezvous show, about 60 of our new
friends here at Nauvoo gathered with us there to help us celebrate our 61st
wedding anniversary.....
....it was a lot of fun to share our special day with them!
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