One of the most familiar among them is Patty Sessions , also known as Mother Sessions, who began her work as a midwife at seventeen. She is now fifty years of age.

Mother Sessions: Today I have made myself a cap, and tomorrow I will go to the scene of the massacre of our martyred leaders, Joseph and Hyrum Smith. To think that those who murdered them are free!

I spend much of my days visiting my sisters and attending prayer meetings. How long we will be here, I do not know. Some are ready to move West now.