Dudley LeavittDudley Leavitt was born on August 31, 1830, in Hartley, Canada. His parents were Jeremiah Leavitt II and his mother was Sarah Sturtevant. Dudley was the fourth child of all his siblings. The Leavitts were Christians, but Dudley's family converted to the Mormon religion. Joseph Smith gave a copy of the Book of Mormon to a boy in their town. After the boy read the book, the Leavitt family read it together every night. “We believed without preaching,” said Dudley's father, Jeremiah. The Leavitt family soon converted and decided that they needed to go to “Zion” with the rest of the pioneers. They took two wagons and began the journey to “Zion.” It took a couple of years to reach Nauvoo, but they finally made it. Along the way Dudley and Louisa's parents were baptized in Kirtland, Ohio. They lived in Nauvoo, but were driven out by the mob, along with the rest of the church. Dudley's father died when he was sixteen. Dudley's family was struggling to survive when winter arrived. They tried to earn money to get by...