Day in the Life

Jul 3, 1847

Journal Entry

July 03, 1847 ~ Saturday

3rd A light sprinkle of rain, cool, cloudy & High winds, so they could
not finish ferrying, the pilots Are preparing to start back to meet the
companies I wrote A letter by them to Aphek Woodruff A O. Sm[oot]
A hand pointing to the right And John Benbow, the wind laid & we finished ferrying in the
evening & the whole camp moved 3 miles & camped A guide board
was put up A mile from the ferry saying [FIGURE] 340 mile from
Fort Laramie

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
583 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
574 mentions
Family
Benbow, John
1 Apr 1800 - 12 May 1874
172 mentions
1840 British Convert, United Brethren

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Jul 3, 1847