prior page is talking about the Mormon War, and different settlements near the WELDON Settlement, as best as I can tell.. pg 188 This part of the country......this time was being settled principally pg 189 by Kentuckians. Among its early settlers are remembered the names of Wm. OSBORN, Benedict WELDON, Wm. COX, Elijah FOLEY, old man FREEMAN, Jack FREEMAN, Elijah TROSPER, Nicholas TROSPER, Robert TROSPER, Kelly Lije TROSPER, Leonard Lije TROSPER, and John W. BLAKELY. Further up the river and in what is now MONROE Township, the Mormons formed another settlement, this was on Marrowbone and Honey creeks, close to where Uncle Hardin STONE then lived. Here Perry DURFEY (who was afterward arrested for treason), Rosell STEVENS, Henry BELT, the DALEYS, and John D. LEE (of Mountain Meadow Massacre fame), settled and others also came in, whose names are not remembered. It would be well to state here that at this time all the lands in Daviess county, excepting COLFAX township, were subject to preemption, not having as yet been brought into market. COLFAX Township had been surveyed at the same time Ray and Caldwell counties were, and was therefore in market. Here another settlement of Mormons was made, composed principally of a better class who were able to purchase their lands and improve them. Elijah GROVE, a Mormon preacher, entered the land and settled the place on which Benny ROWELL died. Levi TAYLOR entered and settled the land on which old Uncle john CASTOR died, and John FREEMAN settled a part of the same lands. A man by the name of SWARTWONT entered land now owned by Robert CASTOR; James BINGHAM entered lands now owned by Squire KELSO and the GURNEY Brothers. The old man WOODLAND settled the lands on which Madison J. BENSON now lives. John l. BUTLER settled on the ridge north of John CASTOR'S. Charles McGEE entered and settled th lands now owned by E. KUHNS and M. W. YOUNG. The place now owned by Ira BACON was settled by a Mormon whose name is not remembered. There were other Mormon families in this settlement. Another settlement was made on Grand River just below the month of South Big Creek. this settlement was made historic from several reasons. It was here that Chauncey G. WEBB, the father of Ann Eliza, Brigham YOUNG'S wife No. 19, settled. Lyman WIGHT, and other Mormon notables settled here, and here it was that Joe SMITH found the remains of Old Father Adam, his grave remaining with us to the present day. Other Mormon families were scattered here and there over the county, but these were the only settlements. Excepting the settlement in COLFAX township, the Mormons were generally of the poorer class, in many instances not having a team with which to cultivate their lands, whilst on the other hand the Missourians, the then settlers of Daviess county, were generally men who were in good circumstances, the most of them having large herds of horses running on the prairies, and so kindly disposed were they toward the Mormons that they permitted them to go to their herds and select any animal they chose, with which to cultivate their fields, furnishing them with provisions to be returned only when they (the Mormons) had succeeded in rais[ing]................