William Smith’s Financial Provision

While traveling to St. Louis on a steamer and being among the deck passengers with little money, William Smith was helped by a gentleman named Silas Haight, who took him into the cabin and paid his fare.

Fuller account of this event (in the witness’s own words):

I have been providentially assisted in my journey by the kindness of a gentleman of the name of Mr. Silas Haight who resides in Farmington, Iowa. I do not know how I should have got along. He being on his way to St. Louis on board the steamer, and seeing me among the deck passengers, took me into the cabin, and paid my fare to St. Louis. I hope the Lord will reward him for his kindness, even a hundred fold.