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testimony were offered in evidence and were thus pre- 
served, and it is from these that the definite detail of 
this Mormon settlement at Preparation has been ob- 
tained. 
With the meeting of the people at Preparation when 
they forcibly divided the clothing and personal property 
in sight in October, 1858, the colony or organization of 
Jehovah’s Presbytery of Zion under its many names, 
ended. Many remained in that vicinity until they got 
their lands by suit, and they and their descendants are 
living in Northwestern Iowa, many scattered like any 
western people. Only three or four finally remained 
faithful to Thompson; many of them, though denouncing 
him as a false prophet, remained believers in the general 
Mormon religion. 
In all, about one hundred and fifty persons were con- 
nected with the colony, men, women and children; it 
endured for five years. Thompson, in that time, had, 
with the pre-emptions taken by the settlers, and his own 
entries, got title to over three thousand acres of land, at 
a cost primarily of $1.25 an acre, but with the expenses 
of the sums borrowed at high rates to enter part of it, it 
must have cost over $4,500.00 in money, besides the im- 
provements. The gifts, tythings and sacrifices nominally 
inventoried amounted to about $15,000.00, but consider- 
able of this in clothing, tools and teams was practically 
kept by the people, while most of the money raised went 
into the buildings, mills, printing material and living 
expenses, but on the other hand, the increase of the cat- 
tle, and the sale of the crops provided quite an income. 
It was said that their flock of sheep increased rap- 
idly and that under Guy C. Barnum’s direction these had 
been taken across the river into Nebraska, on the repre- 
sentation that they would not be so much annoyed by 
other settlers, and that they were driven farther away, 
and finally converted by Barnum, and this same man 
Barnum seems to have been the chief leader and busi- 
ness manager for Chas. B. Thompson. He was much 
shrewder and had more directness in business matters, 
and less sanctimoniousness. He went to Columbus, Neb., 
became a member of the state senate, and later for a 
time went insane. I am yet unable to trace Thompson’s 
later career; he resided in St. Louis for several years. 
