October 12, 2013

This is our 2nd day in Nauvoo, and we are loving it!

This is Joseph Smith Red Brick Store, it is owned by the Community of Christ Church so it wasne't open to just go in, so I just took a picture of the outside.

Joseph Smith's desk

The brown part of the back of this home is the summer kitchen

This is the Homestead

Couldn't go into a lot of these little homes and places, they aren't open and they belong to the Church of Christ, so I just got outside pictures

This is what used to be the stable

Lucy's little Kitchen, this is the home they set Lucy up with when most everyone left to go west, she just lived in the bottem part and had a grandaugher live with her husband up stairs, for a while and she helped take care of Lucy, in her later days Lucy moved in with Emma and her 2nd husband and Emma took care of her until she died

This another view of her kitchen

This little bedroom is just draped off and sits just to the side of the kitchen

Her living room

Picture of Lucy Mack Smith

upstairs of Lucy's home

Lucy had a summer kitchen that is away from the house

This part of her summer kitchen

Riser Boot and Shoe Shop, this was very cool

These are names engraved on a wall that sits at the end of the Trail of Hope, these people died on the journey to SLC

We learned so much from the Blacksmith, it was a great place to visit

This is the Hall of the 70's, this is where they were taught, it was a house of learning

These are our family names we found in the records of the Church - Lemuel Leavitt was a 70 and owned property here as well as David Crockett, Reed and I went to the records building and got a DVD that has all the details of their families and property etc.

We walked the Trail of Hope, it was just so sad to think of the thoughts these pioneers much have had leaving this beautiful area and there Temple they worked so hard for 

One of our Relatives

Brigham Youngs Home

Such a  cool rocker for a mom and baby

Living area and Brighams rocking chair

Brighams Bedroom

Excavators, found tons of Dishes etc, down in a well and just buried in the ground, there are people that put the dishes back together and made them look whole, the plate in the upper left hand corner looked like this one in front

This is where the leadership of the Church may have sat to meet

Beautiful portait of Brigham Young

This was posted in Brigham Youngs Home

This was posted in Brigham Youngs home