Day in the Life

Jul 4, 1844

Journal Entry

July 04, 1844 ~ Thursday

4th A hand pointing to the right I spent the day with Elder Holmes at father
Carters & rote a page and a half in a letter to Aphia
S. Woodman
which Elder Holmes sent to her I walke
with father Carter to see the old meeting house, to
see if it would do to hold our mconference in it
we concluded it woou^l^d we visited his orchard &
garding all things looked well. found the papers
all through the country full of stories or reports
concerning mobs armies &c gathering against Nauvoo
mostly comes from Warsaw Message & St Louis paper

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Holmes, Aphia S. Woodman
26 Feb 1810 - 5 Apr 1885
Carter, Ezra, b. 1773
18 Mar 1773 - 10 Mar 1868
288 mentions
Family
Holmes, Milton
16 Jan 1811 - 30 Apr 1881
218 mentions
Maine Mission

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Wilford completes brick home in Nauvoo; over the next 2 years he lives in it for less than 6 weeks.
Meeting where majority of Church members sustain the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as governing body of the Church.
Wilford accepts call to preside over the European Mission for one year.

Jul 4, 1844