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Dec 8, 1839

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December 08, 1839 ~ Sunday

8 Sunday I preached at the school house. Rode to James Ivins & spent the night 4 miles

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a while about her domestic affairs I asked, whare Sarah Emma was (our ownly child) She says weeping {and kissing me} she is dead. We sorrowed a moment & I awoke, Phebe also said she had not received my letters. Is this dream true time must determin. ^This dream was a warning of what was to come Sarah Emma Died 17th of July AD 1840
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
8th Sunday I preached at the school house {shorthand} rode to James Ivins & spent the night 4 m[iles]

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Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).
Church membership is 16,800; population of the 26 United States is 17,100,000.

Dec 8, 1839