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Day in the Life

Apr 11, 1846

Journal Entry

April 11, 1846 ~ Saturday

11th Arived in St Louis at 10 oclok took passage
for Nauvoo on the Red wing at $4 each I bought
A bill of Farming utensial Plough log chains Axes
shovels, Hoes, spades, sythes sickels, forks, steel
Iron combs cards grindstone breast & trace chains
codfish cheese &c &c the whole Bill $67.

Also A Hat for Father $2.75 1 bolt cotton $3.25
other Sundrys $3.40. I spent the day in the city of
St Louis. The boat started at 7 oclock Little
Phebe had slept with me at all times during
the whole Journey And when we come to go
to bed on this boat I found the birth so narrow
we were uncomfortable And we had both taken
cold last night And did not sleep well to
night distance from Cincinna to St Louis 700 miles

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
540 mentions
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Woodruff, Phoebe Amelia Snow
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
333 mentions
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Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois
St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri

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February 15, 1846
Times and Seasons stops serial publication of the Manuscript History of the Church (history ends with events on August 11, 1834).

Apr 11, 1846