It's 14 February and so it's Valentine's Day – and on this day in 1855 a party of 28 people left the little North Yorkshire hamlet of Faceby.
They didn't expect to see their old homes again. They didn't expect to see their loved ones again. They were "gathering to Zion". They were Mormons – the members of the Faceby Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
They would travel by steam train, sailing ship, river steamboat, prairie waggon and on foot and they were going all the way from Yorkshire to Utah.
For the remarkable story of the Faceby Saints, how they came to be Mormons, their gruelling journey and what happened to them in Utah, begin here with my blogpost of 2 November 2012. It's called Mormons in Faceby: 1852-55.
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