Caroline Amelia Rollins (1820-1856)

Zion Settlement
 Zion Settlement was a small, short-lived village of early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located near Independence, Missouri in Jackson County, Missouri. The church believes that this spot will be the central spot for building of the kingdom of God ("Zion" or "New Jerusalem") in the latter-days per revelation given to the prophet, Joseph Smith (1805-1844). The settlement collapsed in 1833 when angry anti-Mormon mobs drove the settlers out of the county.

At Zion, the widow Rollins and her three young children lived with their uncle - Algernon Sidney Gilbert (1789-1834), who ran the village store.

Caroline and her older sister Mary Elizabeth grabbed the large sheets of the first printing of the book of commandments and hid in a nearby corn field. They heard the men that were destroying the printing press come very close, but they did not see them. They had laid the sheets on the ground and then laid down on top of them and waited until they couldn't hear the men anymore.