Before the Quincy riflemen left Carthage May 1, 1846, a petition was presented to Major Warren that a small force be retained in the county to keep the peace and to see that the Mormons performed their agreement to leave. As the Mormons made a similar petition it was decided to station ten men at Nauvoo for a short time longer. Accordingly a detachment consisting of Captain Morgan, Lieutenants Prentiss and Henry, Sergeants Hunt, Evans, and Everitt, with Privates Carlin, Bush, Peck and Grant went to Nauvoo where Major Warren joined them and they were quartered pleasantly at the house of Joseph Smith’s widow. They found her a sensible woman, and the son of the prophet an intelligent lad. He was about fourteen years old and afterward claimed the succession. The prophet’s mother was also living, although very aged. Her duty and delight was to exhibit an interminable roll of sere cloth said to have been taken from a mummy, which was covered with hieroglyphics and figures that she undertook to explain in a mumbling voice. The only intelligible words being the oft-repeated statement “It all goes to prove the Book of Mormon true.”