and must be exterminated or driven from the state, if necessary for the public good.” Three days later, on October 30, a Missouri mob killed 17 men and boy and severely wounded several others, including women and children, at Haun’s Mill, a small settlement. That same day, more than two thousand Missouri men from mobs and a military unit began driving the Latter-day Saints from Far West, and on the next day, took captive Joseph Smith and other Church leaders. Seeking refuge In late 1838, Brigham Young counseled Israel Barlow and 32 other Latter-day Saints to leave Far West to search for a place for more than 12,000 homeless Saints to find refuge. While journeying in exile, Barlow would separate from the group and eventually make the acquaintance of Dr. Isaac Galland, the owner of properties near Montrose, Iowa, and Commerce, Illinois. After hearing of the dire plight of the Saints, Galland offered Barlow to sell the Saints the properties on good terms, an offer that Barlow relayed to Church leaders. The Church purchased the properties from Galland and the dispersed Saints once again began to gather together, particularly along the Mississippi River at Commerce, which they renamed Nauvoo in 1840. Nauvoo Israel Barlow participated in the construction of the Nauvoo Temple. As told by his grandson Joseph S. Barlow, “My grandfather was assisting in the building of the Temple at Nauvoo and was driving a pair of beautiful high-spirited black mares. One day while backing his wagon in at the quarry which was down by the river’s edge, the Prophet came over to him and said ‘Israel, on your next trip, stop and buy yourself a buggy whip,’ to which grandfather assented. On his next trip up town he bought a buggy whip and returned for another load of rock. Backing the team in this time, he attempted to stop them as usual by saying, ‘Whoa,’ to which they paid no attention, but kept backing until Israel, in excitement, was compelled to use the whip which the Prophet had told him to buy. The horses jumped forward and the wagon stopped right at the edge of the quarry, beyond which they would have plunged below. Grandfather frequently told this story as an illustration of what obedience meant. Grandfather accepted everything the Prophet Joseph Smith told him and never questioned ‘why?’ Some would call this blind obedience, but not so.