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Day in the Life

Apr 23, 1843

Journal Entry

April 23, 1843 ~ Sunday

23rd ^30^ Sunday we held a conferance at
Augusta had a good time we preached
the Nauvoo House & many Promised
to assist in building it. We found about
two hundred Saints in this place & had
started a flourishing village three sawmills &

two flouring mills & one of the best
water privileges I ever met with

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Augusta, Hancock County, Illinois
Nauvoo House, Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois

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May 1843
Wilford assists in publication of the Nauvoo Neighbor (published until Saints leave Nauvoo in 1846).

Apr 23, 1843