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Sep 2, 1839

Journal Entry

September 02, 1839 ~ Monday

2nd This [FIGURE] was a painful day to my feelings in some respect. Elder Taylor is worse has a high billious fever
and cannot Journey. it is now evident, that he will have a course of the fever. Father Coultrin is to
continue his Journey & Elder Taylor is to be left & it was painful to think of parting with him & leave him sick
a thi[n]g I should not do was I able to take care of him myself but as my health would not permit of this
being vary feeble in body. Elder Taylor advised me to continue my Journey with father Coltrin & make the
best of my way to New York accordingly I did so. And after committing him to God I took the parting
hand with him & left him in Germantown Wayne County Indianna, in the hands of a merciful God & a
kind & benevolent family, who promised to do evry thing in their power to make him comfortable untill
his recovery which I have full confidence to believe they will do. The place is within 12 miles of Elder
James Townsend in Louisville. We rode from Mr Waltz in to Richmond & out of the state of Indiana
into the state of Ohio. I passed through the town of Eaton whare my wife suffered much (as we
Journied west last winter) with the brain fever. I noted thhe house in particular whare we spent four days
at which place Mrs Woodruff was healed by faith & the power of God. We passed through Eaton & spent
the night at Mr David Hecks distance of the day 45

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2 mentions
Host
Townsend, James Foss
20 Feb 1808 - 2 Apr 1886
91 mentions
Coltrin, John
1775-1846
29 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1944 mentions
Apostle
5 mentions
Host
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1579 mentions
Family

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Eaton, Preble County, Ohio
Germantown, Wayne County, Indiana
Indiana
Lewisville, Franklin Township, Henry County, Indiana
New York
Ohio
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana

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sick. And the following day was a painful day to my feelings. It was evident that Br Taylor had a setted fever upon him and would not be able to travel and Father Coultrin was resolved to continue his journey and in consultation with Taylor he thought it better for one sick man to be left than for two as I was sick with the chills & fever so that I was not co able to render him present assistance and not able to take care of myself under these circumstances Br Tayler advised me to continue with my journey with Br Coltrin and make the best of my way to New- York. Accordingly I done so After committing him

Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

Sep. On the , Novr. I continued my journey with Father Coltrin to Cleveland, Ohio, I there took steamer on the

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)

2nd This was a paneful day to my feelings in some respects Elder Taylor is wors, has a high billious fever, & cannot journey it is now evident that he will have a course of the fever father Coultrin is to continue his journey &

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I parted with him with a heavy heart, on the and continued my journey with

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November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).

Sep 2, 1839