Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
9th A dubious looking morning
to us for the air is full of snow
& cold as a winters morning
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 09, 1838 ~ Friday
9 A dubious looking morning for the air is full of snow & a cold winters day this is tedious journing for
horses, men, women & children. How or when we shall get to Zion the Lord ownly knows the Lord is sending
snows upon the earth. We travled through snow & mud to an Inn 3 miles east of Elk Creek & spent the night
which was freezing cold 5 miles
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Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
How or when we shall get to Zion
the Lord ownly knows shurely the
Lord is sending snows upon the Earth
& that to I expect in judgment
I look for a Distressing winter
to come may the Lord open the
way for me I pray. We travled
through mud water & snow
to an In 3 miles east of Elk Creek &
spent the night which was freezing cold
Distance of the day $2.50 cts 5 miles
Events
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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.
