Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
sit up in my bed until the .
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 01, 1846 ~ Sunday
15th
Oct
15th
1846
This was a serious day to me, I took
my ax and went into the woods to cut
some board timber in company with
two other brethren while falling the
third tree I steped back from the
tree several feet but when it fell it
shot back of[f] the stump several feet
& bounded and struck me in the brea-
st & knocked me several feet into the air
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Wilford severely injured by falling tree while cutting logs to build his family a cabin: breaks breastbone, three ribs, suffers internal injuries.
Phebe's fifth child Joseph dies at age 16 months in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Wilford recovers enough to resume work on cabin for his family.
Of 483 people living in Winter Quarters, 334 are sick, 53 are wives of Mormon Battalion soldiers, and 75 are widows.
Church membership is 34,694.