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[Pottawattamie HC Conf Min LR 1764 21 / Lr 1764 21 folder 1 Pottawattamie HC Lr 1764 21 fd 1 July 46-Feb 51 / LR 1764 21 1846 July-1851 February_Page_072]
Bro Lovelace said when they moved from the
East a steer followed them out here and when he
moved to Pigeon he drove the steer with his cattle..
It staid there a few days and then left his cattle
and shortly after Bro. Willson sent up for him to
come down and help butcher the steer, and he went
down, and they killed the steer as they supposed..
but when he returned home his boys told him the
steer was with Bro. Alred's cattle,, and the next day
they went and found him and tried to drive him
home but finding him difficult to  drive he killed
him,, and said he was satisfied that he and Bro Willson
had killed a steer not their's , and if the owner could
come he would pay for him.. Bro. Isaac Alred said
the steer that Bro. Lovelace got at his house was such
an one as had been described by the former witness,,
that Lovelace got him from among his cattle..
Bro. J Bingham & H, M^c bleland said that L. Bingham
said bro Craig described the steer the same as Lovelace
 Sister Elisabeth Willson said the steer was gone
about three weeks and when it returned it was
quiet and gentle as before,, that the boys used to  ride
him in driving the other cattle &c.. Decided that
was nit Burgerson's ox that Lovelace had killed and that Lovelace pay six dollars to bishop N.K. Whitney
for the benefit of the poor, in ------ for the steer he
acknowledged to have killed..
Bro Curtis was called forward, and he stated that
when he was his son & Bro . Lovelace & son went
down to Bank's ferry, after wheat, while there they
turned their oxen into a pasture and some of the
oxen got their Brors out and cost them,, and when
they went, to look for them Mr Banks requested them
to look for a chain and bell for him..
Bro. Lovelace found a chain and put it into his
waggon and brought it home..

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