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Day in the Life

Feb 23, 1848

Journal Entry

February 23, 1848 ~ Wednesday

23rd [FIGURE] I called upon Br Richards in the morning soon Pres-
ident Young came in we went into the office & attended
to some Business. Br Brown came in & requested one of us
to go & preach the funeral sermon of his daughter who was
dead. Presidents Brigham & Joseph Young & myself went
to his house, we found not ownly his daughter dead
but a number sick in the house. The meeting opened by
singing & prayer by Joseph Young, after which President
B. Young arose addressed the meeting & said that he had a few rem-
arks to make & desired that he might have the Holy spirit while he
spoke. Said it was better to go [to] the House of mourning than to the House
of feasting for that was the end of the living & would force
upon our minds the truth of the desolution which we must all pass through

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Brown, Daniel
1804-1875
1 mention
Young, Joseph
7 Apr 1797 - 16 Jul 1881
306 mentions
2 mentions
Richards, Willard
24 Jun 1804 - 11 Mar 1854
519 mentions
Apostle

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Feb 23, 1848