Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 28, 1847 ~ Thursday
278th
This was A vary busy day I let Br Burgess have
my team to go to Hunsakers ferry I Also fitted
out Br Luce with two teams to go after corn I paid
him $11 to buy corn with. we had a snow storm
during the night After Aranging my business, in company
with Mrs Woodruff & Sisters Taylor & Smoot I went to
the Council House in company with the quorum
of the Twelve & Seventies, we spent the day in the
worship of God by prayer, singing Music & going forth
in the dance together before the Lord we were merry
and rejoiced before the Lord. The High council met
at 6 oclok at 8 oclok The Twelve with their families
again met & went forth in the dance untill 2 oclok in
the morning & had a good time. {Joseph [Herring] who had threatened my life was there}
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Luce, Ephraim
30 Sep 1799 - 2 Mar 1880
35 mentions
Maine Mission
Burgess, Harrison
1814-1883
13 mentions
Zion's Camp
2 mentions
Native American
Taylor, Leonora Cannon
6 Oct 1796 - 9 Dec 1868
47 mentions
Adkins Smoot, Margaret Thompson McMeans
16 Apr 1809 - 1 Sep 1884
94 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1582 mentions
Family
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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.
Wilford organizes "adopted" family (40 heads of households) under covenant to abide rules.