Susannah Sneath was born June 22, 1821. She and Mel Hodgkinson share a birthday. We have learned a lot about her life here. We will share one store to celebrate her birthday this year. Here is the story from a history. It is beautiful to share her story this week because her faith is exercised on her way to NAUVOO!! She and her husband and her two sons were traveling from New Orleans after an ocean voyage to join the saints to get to Nauvoo. We pick up the record there.
"Susannah's grief was almost more than she could bear when her little boy, JOHN was drowned in the Mississippi River. She feared her baby would be eaten by a wild animal or a fish. One night, while wide awake, she saw the little body buried in the sands of the great Mississippi. At the same time a great peace and comfort came to her from that time on she was able to bear her sorrow with tranquility. After leaving Nauvoo, Joseph and Susannah went to the river bottom near Winter Quarters where they spent the first winter. During that first winter in America, Susannah suffered from chills and fever and was seriously ill much of the time; and this was the winter that her little one-year-old son, Joseph died. He apparently was well when she went to bed, but in the middle of the night he began to fuss. Before his father could find the one candle put away for an emergency, the baby passed away. It was Just six months after the little John was drowned. Baby Joseph was buried at Garden Grove, Iowa. Their grief at his passing was somewhat lessened because his father saw little John standing at the foot of their bed waiting for his baby brother. After the baby died, little John appeared no more and baby Joseph was numbered among the six thousand buried on the pioneer trail between Nauvoo and Salt Lake Valley."
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