Jeff Smith; Liberty and Independence, Missouri: and Pleasant Gap

On Monday, we took off early for Liberty, Missouri, and a stay with Jeff and Tina Smith from our Michigan days.  It turned out that Tina was helping a son and his family in California.  Jeff showed us a number of sites including

the Liberty Jail

Here we are at the temple site in Independence, We also did 

an initiatory session at the Missouri Independence Temple.  

the Tabernacle of The Community of Christ Church

 (the former Reorganized Church) who owns the temple site.

Wednesday, we went to the site of Pleasant Gap, in Bates County where the Beaver’s and the Cockrill’s lived before heading to California in the 1850’s.  Because of a Union order in the Civil War, all the people living in Bates and other counties were ordered to leave and everything was burned in order to keep them from harboring any Confederate sympathizers.  That is so terrible.  As a result, there was really nothing left there from the 1850’s or earlier. 

The basement of a demolished building that might have been there then.

A local Church that has been built there.

I just took pictures in two directions to capture the countryside as it might have been in the 1850's (minus the telephone poles, of course)