excerpt from "My Life Story" by Missouri Brady Smithson
"When Uncle Alonzo was twenty years of age he married Nancy Warnick of Carrol County, Georgia and this was where Pa and Mama's farm and house were located out in the country. Then Uncle Alonzo, with his new wife and his mother [Aunt Martha], moved to Alabama. It seems that Pa and Mama must have sold their home in Georgia and moved to Alabama about this time also, due to the facts taken from Uncle Alonzo's history sketch, as they were all there together when they met the Mormon missionaries and gained their lasting testimony of the Gospel. Then the persecution became so bad from their families and those whom they thought were their friends that they decided to leave, as word came to them by traveling missionaries that a company of Saints were being organized in Arkansas to go to Arizona the following spring.
Three of the families who lived there- namely Pa and Mama with their son, Jim, Uncle Alonzo and his wife with Aunt Martha, and another family of converts, Alexander Stewart, who lived there. They decided to sell all they had and equip themselves with teams and wagons and join the company in Arkansas for the trip to Arizona the following spring. They moved immediately to the Ozark Mountains, Clay county, Arkansas and spent the winter.
They left for Arizona about April, 1877."
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