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Sep 27, 1839

Journal Entry

September 27, 1839 ~ Friday

^ A coffin 84 27th Sept 1839 My Grand Mother Anna Thompson Died this day Aged 84 years^

27-28th I still continue at Fathers house was quite Ill. I parted with Br Webster

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
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Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
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Autobiography 1858 Deseret News

On the , my maternal grand- mother, Anna Thompson, died, aged 84; I was too sick to attend her funeral. It is a singular incident that my grandfather, Lot Thompson, and Anna Thompson, his wife, Samuel Thomp- son and Mercy Thompson, all of one family, died in their 84th year.

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal

On the , my grandmother (on my mother's side), Anna Thompson, died at Avon. She was eighty-four years of age. It was a singular coincidence that she, with her husband, Lot Thompson, also Mercy Thompson and Samuel Thompson, all of one family, died when they were eighty-four years of age. I was not able to attend my grandmother's funeral.

Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

On the , my mater- nal grandmother, Anna Thompson, died, aged 84; I was too sick to attend her funeral. It is a singular incident that my grandfather, Lot Thompson, and Anna Thompson his wife, Samuel Thompson and Mercy Thompson, all of one family, died in their 84th year.

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 1

daily. On the my Grand Mother (on my Mothers side) Anna Thompson died 84 years of age at Avon, it was a singular incident that she with her husband Lot Thompson and Mercy Thompson and Samuel Thompson all of one family died the year they were 84 years of age I was not able

Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

On the , my Maternal Grand-mother, Anna Thompson, died aged 84; I was too sick to attend her funeral. It is a singular incident, that my Grandfather , Lot Thompson, and Anna Thompson, his wife, Samuel Thompson and Mercy Thompson all of one family died in their 84 th year.

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

On the , my grand- mother (on my mother's side), Anna Thompson, died at Avon. She was eighty-four years of age. It was a singular coincidence that she with her husband, Lot Thompson, also Mercy Thompson and Samuel Thomp- son, all of one family, died when they were eighty-four years of age. I was not able to attend my grandmother's funeral.

Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)

27, 28 I still continued at fathers house was quite Ill I took the parting hand with Brother Webster

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

on the st Sept Quite sick I found my Father and family well. On the my ^maternal^ Grand Mother Anna Thompson on my mothers side died aged 84 years of age I was to sick to attend her funeral, it is a singular incident that my Grand Father Lot Thompson and Anna Thompson his wife, Samuel Thompson and Mercy Thompson

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

Sep 27, 1839