Good news!!! The Latter-day Saints (d.v.) intend holding a camp meeting, at Hillmorton, near Rugby, on Sunday, July the 4th, 1847, (or if wet on that day, on the first fine Sunday afterwards,) when Elder Thos. Smith from Leamington, with Elder Day, and others, will address the meetings.  Services to commence in the afternoon at two.  Evening, at half-past six o’clock.  “Hear and then judge!”  {Rugby? 1847]

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Thomas Smith of Leamington, not to be confused with Thomas Smith of Norwich, was the president of the Warwickshire conference, which included the branch at Rugby over which Thomas Day presided.  Born near Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, September 2, 1814, Day converted to Mormonism in September 1842 and immediately devoted himself to missionary work.  About three years after his conversion, he settled in Rugby, where he lived until he immigrated to America.  In 1850 he led a company of Latter–day Saints across the Atlantic, and in 1852 he made the trek to Utah.  Four years later he joined the Salmon River Indian mission and subsequently settled in southern Utah.  Eventually he moved to Circleville, where he died, January 6, 1893.

Excerpted and edited from Peter Crawley, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Mormon Church.  Volume One, 1830-1847. (Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, Religious Studies Center, [1997]).  Item 338, p. 368-69.

Used by permission of the author and the Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University.