Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
8th We took the parting hand with Elder
Nathaniel Holmes family & again started
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
October 08, 1838 ~ Monday
8th We took the parting hand with Elder N. Holmes & family & again started on our journey accompanied by
Elder Milton Holmes one with whom I had journied much before we rode to Andover 10 miles to Widow Wrights
& camped in a beautiful meadow distance of the day 15 miles
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Holmes, Milton
16 Jan 1811 - 30 Apr 1881
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Maine Mission
Holmes, Nathaniel
15 Aug 1775 - 20 Feb 1849
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Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
on our journey accompanied by Elder
Milton Holmes I had journ[ey]ed much
with this Brother before & I now rejoice
to have the priviledge of performing another
Journey with him. We rode to Andover
10 milse to Tewxbury 5 miles we travled
this day under the order of our organization
We camped at night in a plesent meadow
at Wid Wright's distance of the day 15 m
the expenses of the day $5.72
Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
On the next we continued our journey travelled
15 miles and camped in a beautiful medow
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Wilford receives news of his calling as an apostle; and call to go on mission to England with apostles.
Governor Lilburn W. Boggs issues order expelling Church members from Missouri under threat of extermination.
Haun's Mill massacre in Caldwell County, Missouri; surrender of Church leaders in Far West, Missouri demanded.
Joseph and Hyrum Smith and other Church leaders surrender; General Samuel Lucas orders their execution.
Court hearings to determine Church leaders' fate; Joseph, Hyrum and others are incarcerated in Liberty Jail.
Phebe deathly ill with brain fever; after her spirit leaves her body Wilford restores her to life.
While Church leaders remain in Liberty Jail, Church members are forced from Missouri and relocate in Illinois.