Although the Draper/Palmer group had escaped the horrors of the extermination order in Missouri, they were caught up in the persecutions that dogged the Saints wherever they were, and eventually the Saints of Pike County were driven from their homes and thriving farms. Many of them went to Hancock County.
After being driven out, we find that Phebe and Ebenezer Brown, in 1844, were living at Bear Creek, a settlement some miles south of Carthage, which was not far distant from Morley nor from Nauvoo. Lovina and her husband Henry Munroe were living there also. (Refer to list at end of Maps)
It is recorded that Phebe traveled to Nauvoo and was baptized for her husband George Palmer Jr. in 1844. That was before the revelation was given which explained that men should be baptized for men, and women be baptized for women.
Instead of settling with his mother and the others at Bear Creek, Zemira with his uncle Zemira Draper and his Draper grandparents fled to Morley, (or Yelrome, which is Morley spelled backwards) in Hancock County. That was one of the many communities in the area called “Spokes on the Wheel,” so named by the Prophet; Nauvoo being the hub or center of the spokes.36 At this place there was peace and prosperity for four or five years, some of which were before Zemira came there. Zemira would have spent his 11th, and perhaps his early-teen years at this place. (See Map 5.)
36- Donald Q. Cannon, “Spokes on the Wheel; Early L.S. Settlements in Hancock County”
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