leehendricks@earthlink.net writes: << It was almost like taking a trip back in time to the 1840's. We found Nauvoo to be a place of refuge from the world; a quiet, peaceful village on the banks of the beautiful Mississippi River. >> I got chills reading this. My gggggrandmother, Rebekah WAGGONER WILLIAMS is buried there, somewhere near the old village of Commerce, along a bluff overlooking the Mississippi. Here's what I have in my notes. Does anyone have any more info? * * * Rebekah (WAGGONER) WILLIAMS died of sickness during the "Winter of the Deep Snow" in Nauvoo IL, April 3, 1833, and is buried on a bluff beside the Mississippi river (beside her 6 day old daughter, Julia Ann who died a few weeks earlier on March 19, 1833). Another daughter Phoebe, b 1825 in Warsaw IL, was said to be "One quarter Indian", as handed down by her grandson. Her discouraged and heartbroken husband Peter left their often-flooded Illinois farm (Commerce, now Nauvoo) soon afterwards with their remaining children, to farm just south of Fort Madison, Iowa and became good friends with Chief Blackhawk, often entertaining 3 of the Chief's children in his home. (Peter' and Rebekah's daughter, Elizabeth (WILLLIAMS) BOX, is my GGGGrandmother) Peter died in 1835 and is buried the the Farmington, Iowa graveyard on the bank of the Des Moines river.