The Chariton Leader, Chariton, Iowa Thursday, February 11, 1909 NANCY HANCOCK, widow of the late THOMAS HANCOCK, and mother of T.J. HANCOCK, of Corydon, died at her home in Wayne county, on Sunday. The funeral occurred on Tuesday and her remains were interred at New York. She and husband were pioneers of Wayne County. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Copied by Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert May 14, 2005 iggy29@rnetinc.net

"No Man Knows My History, The Life of Joseph Smith" by Fawn M. Brodie A Definitive Biography... NY Alfred A. Knopf 1945. First Edition: p. 249 In a discussion about the Native Americans who were given land in Iowa by the Government, and as this relates to the Mormons looking for settlements [source & based upon the 1879 History of Lee Co., IA, pp 164-5] : " Despite this hospitality, it was clear to everyone that Quincy [Illinois residents] could absorb but a fraction of the destitute people. The Mormons were faced with the choice of either scattering widely or purchasing as a group several thousand acres on credit. The whole frontier tradition encouraged the former. But Joseph's [Smith] priesthood had become a cohesive power that could not be dissolved by a word. Moreover, suffering had made these people kin. Real-estate speculators in Illlinois looked upon the Mormons as the fairest game that had ever come into the state. Long before all the fugitives had crossed the river, proposals were pouring in. Isaac Galland offered a twenty-thousand-acre tract lying between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers in the Iowa Territory at two dollars an acres, the sum to be paid in twenty annual installments without intererst. This wa a part of the Half-Breed Tract, which had been set aside by the federal government for the offspring of the mixed "marriages" common in that area. the half-breeds, with a calculating insouciance, had sold and resold their claims for guns and horses, frequently selling the same claim to a half-dozen different bidders by using forged deeds. The worth of Galland's title to any part of the tract was extremely dubious.* [History of Lee County, Iowa [1879], pp. 164-5] But the Mormons were as ignorant of this as of Galland's checkered past. His home county in Illinois, Hancock, knew him as a horse-thief and counterfeiter. When he had campaigned for the legislature in 1834, he had openly admitted his association with the notorious Massa criminals, and many voters had been so amused by his honest admission of his dishonest past that they had come very near to electing him. " . . . [story returns to the jailing of Joseph Smith in Illinois] // end Enjoy the additional tidbit from the earlier discussion this month. Mary Beth in Wisconsin