Elizabeth Whitney Williams

“ What I have written about the Mormons are my own personal experiences and what I knew about them by living constantly near for four years of my life, followed by our leaving the Island and settling at Charlevoix for safety, then being driven from there, and, after the fight, my life in Traverse City, and finally returning to Beaver Island again. After the Mormons were expelled, my twenty-seven years' residence at that time with the first four years gives thirty-one years of Beaver Island life with as muck knowledge of Mormon life as anyone outside their teachings could possibly have. ”

“ Our house stood just a few steps from the shore, sheltered in a little grove of evergreen trees. The sun shining on the water in the early morning caused it to sparkle like myriads of diamonds, and the soft glimmer which shone through the green trees even now reminds me of somw half-remembered dream. I remember at other times when no wind was near and the water was calm at night when I lay in my cradle ”

“ My Mother was born on Mackinac Island of British parents, was left an orphan young, was adopted by captain Michael Dousman and wife, and resided in their family almost thirty years. She married Mr. Lewis Gebeau of Montreal, Canada. ”