Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 01, 1839 ~ Tuesday
JAN. 1st 1839. As I am now labouring with my hands for a temporal support for a season I shall not keep
a daily Journal for a short time but merely note such things as I may deem necessary. During the last two days
I have been repairing a grist mill 10 [miles]
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Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 1
Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
1839
Jan 1st During the last 10 days I
have been busy in fixing our
dwelling & fixe procuring food
Daybook (3 October 1838 - 4 March 1839)
Wrote a letter Jan 20
Wrote a letter to Azmon W
Feb 17
food & other means for keeping
house this is the first time in
my life that I have undertaken
house keeping & providing for a
family of ay [my] own for the
two last days I have been rep
airing a grist mill & [blank]
Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
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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.
