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Day in the Life

Dec 13, 1846

Journal Entry

December 13, 1846 ~ Sunday

13th Sunday I spent the day at home
writing in my Journal there is great
wailing and morning among the
Omahas in consequence of the death
of 60 of their warriors the agent
and interpeter of there tribe came
into town to day to hold a council
Mrs Woodruff is quite sick to day

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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
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October 15, 1846
Wilford severely injured by falling tree while cutting logs to build his family a cabin: breaks breastbone, three ribs, suffers internal injuries.
1847
Church membership is 34,694.
January 19, 1847
Wilford organizes "adopted" family (40 heads of households) under covenant to abide rules.

Dec 13, 1846