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Day in the Life

Aug 12, 1836

Journal Entry

August 12, 1836 ~ Friday

12 Rode in company with Elders Patten & Smoot to Baris
from thence to J. M Gilbert Esq. distance 35 miles
Elder Patten informed us that Benton County mob
had formed themselves into an independant company
to beat & kill the Elders of Latter Day Saints if they
came into that county Will not God be avenged
upon such a nation as this O God save thy Saints
while Babylon falls beneath thine ire

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
583 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Patten, David Wyman
14 Nov 1799 - 25 Oct 1838
140 mentions
Apostle
Gilbert, Jonathan Moore
17 Jun 1800 - 5 Mar 1889
5 mentions
1835 Southern Convert

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Babylon
Benton County, Tennessee
Paris, Henry County, Tennessee

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Will not God be avenged upon such a nation as this[?] O. God save thy Saints while Babylon falls beneath thine ire
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Daybook (31 December 1835 - 3 January 1837)
Aug. 12 Rode in company with Elders Patten & Smoot to Paris from thence to J. M. Gilbert Esq {distance} 35 mi[les] Elder Patten informed us that Benton County mob had formed themselves into an independant company to beat & kill the Elders of latter Day Saints if they came into that county will not God be avenged upon such a nation as this O God save thy Saints while Babylon falls

Aug 12, 1836