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Day in the Life

Aug 4, 1844

Journal Entry

August 04, 1844 ~ Sunday

Sunday, 4th We all arived here almost exhausted
with fatigue, being 48 48 hours in the stage without
stoping ownly to take our meals & over a rough road
we stoped for the day and night at the America
House, washed up, changed our clothing & spent
most of the day abed trying to get some rest.
I walked out through the day evening in the town
to take a view of Galena, it is built in the side
of a mountain on the bank of the river a rough
place. I should judge about 3000 inhabitents the
buildings generally small some good houses. I
dreamed during the night of seeing Br Asahel
at farmington Ct at fathers house

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
545 mentions
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Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1814
11 Apr 1814 - 18 Oct 1838
194 mentions
Family

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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut
Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois

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August 8, 1844
Meeting where majority of Church members sustain the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as governing body of the Church.
August 12, 1844
Wilford accepts call to preside over the European Mission for one year.

Aug 4, 1844