One last thing I wanted to do was locate the lands that our ancestor Edson Barney owned in the Nauvoo area. I got the help of Elder Eickbush, who is a retired surveyer. We took the map the land office provided and drove off into the farm land east of Nauvoo where the Barney family once lived. The maps showed all kinds of streets but they no longer exist so this was quite a guessing game. Before we actually knew we were right Elder Eickbush figured out this was the largest part of the Barney land. It is directly north of the Nauvoo cemetery and directly east of the old Joseph Smith farm. The Barneys owned the land between the road and the tree line in the background.
We then drove around looking for where the other properties were and stopped at a couple of farm houses. At the second one we met an old farmer who was just saying goodby to his family as they were leaving. He pulled out his county map and low and behold we were right were we needed to be. His driveway was the eastern boundary of the Barney land. The picture below shows the Barney land under cultivation. There was once an old Mormon cabin there made out of brick but it is long since gone. He had one on his property that dated from the same time (the early 1840's) and he gave me one of the home made bricks from that house.
After the trip to the Barney land we went by the temple and got this shot as the sun was setting.
The other new thing in town was this statue of Joseph and Hyrum on their last ride. It is quite impressive as the site overlooks the lower level of the town and the Mississippi River in the background.
We then drove around looking for where the other properties were and stopped at a couple of farm houses. At the second one we met an old farmer who was just saying goodby to his family as they were leaving. He pulled out his county map and low and behold we were right were we needed to be. His driveway was the eastern boundary of the Barney land. The picture below shows the Barney land under cultivation. There was once an old Mormon cabin there made out of brick but it is long since gone. He had one on his property that dated from the same time (the early 1840's) and he gave me one of the home made bricks from that house.
After the trip to the Barney land we went by the temple and got this shot as the sun was setting.
The other new thing in town was this statue of Joseph and Hyrum on their last ride. It is quite impressive as the site overlooks the lower level of the town and the Mississippi River in the background.
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