Great-Great-Great Grandpa Thomas Beard's Mission Journal Part I

I was called on a mission to Great Britain September 15,1887. I started from home October 14, 1887. I was set apart at the Historians office, Salt Lake City, for my missionary labors by Apostles J. H. Smith and H. J. Grant and Presidents S. B. Young and A. H. Cannon, the last named being mouth. On October 15 I stayed at Sister Hopwoods till Monday 17. She was very kind to me and give me two dollars. We went on the R. D. Railway. The scenery was very grand but I was very sick the two first days. The swinging of the train made me very sick, like sea sickness. After two days I was a great deal better. I wrote letter in pencil and sent them to my folks at Coalville. There were many wonderful sights to be seen. One great thing at Kansas City was that the carriages we rode in were run on a large boat in the river then went across the Mississippi River on to the other side. We stayed one Sunday at Norfolk in Virginia. We went 36 miles by sea and then the rest by railroad to New York and got there 8 a.m. October 24. We loaded on the Nevada October 25 and sat sail half past 11 a.m. We had a very pleasant voyage the fore part of the trip. It was a little rough a few days. We landed at Liverpool at 6 p.m. November 4. There were nineteen missionaries besides myself. There was only one that I knew and it had been so long since I had seen him that I had forgot him. He was from Morgan County and used to haul coal out of Grass Creek to Elko and the mouth of Grass reek. He was a Swede. We were met by Brother Jeasdale and recommended to hotels where we paid for our lodgings and food.