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Aug 14, 1839

Journal Entry

August 14, 1839 ~ Wednesday

14th Br George Miller gave us a horse & we started on our Journey travelled to the Illinois river &
crossed the river at Beardstown & continued 4 miles through the sand & spent the night with Mr Dew 38 m

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Miller, George
1794- abt. 1856
38 mentions
Dew, Mr.
unk.-unk.
2 mentions
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Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois
Illinois River, Illinois

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
14th Brother Miller gave us a horse & we started on our jour ney travled to the Ill River & crossed the River at Beardsto wn continued 4 miles thrugh the sand & spent the night with Mr Rew the distance of the day 38 miles
Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
wagon to Ohio. On the brother George Miller gave us a horse and we started on our journey travelled to the Illinois river and crossed at Beardstown and continued four miles making thirty-eight during the day On the morrow we reached Springfield and attended meeting. I addressed the Church in a few words and Elder John Taylor followed me. We had travelled forty miles this day and I felt very wearied. In Springfield Elder Taylor engaged a printer to print 15 hundred copies of a brief sketch of the persecutions and sufferings of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by the inhabitants of Missouri. With Father Coltrin I rode to Rochester on

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Aug 14, 1839