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Sep 4, 1848

Journal Entry

September 04, 1848 ~ Monday

4th In company with My family I left Boston on the express
train of cars for Portland through some misunderstanding the
two trains waited for each other 3 or 4 hours so we did
not get into Portland untill 1 oclok at night we found Br
Ilus F Carter waiting for us he took us home we spent
the night with him distance 100 m

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Carter, Ilus Fabyan
8 Nov 1816 - 11 Dec 1888
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Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
the Saints until the and held meetings on the Sunday with Elders A. Cordon Lewis Robins and N. H. Felt present. On the 4th I and my family left Boston in the express train for Portland. Through some misunderstanding the two trains waited for each other 3 or 4 hours so we did not get into Portland till 1 o'clock at night. We found our brother Ilus F. Carter waiting for us and he took us home and we spent with him the night Next day we called upon our brother Ezra Carter and family and ascertained that Father Carter had been in the day before to carry us out home with him but not finding us he went away quite disapointed. So Mrs Woodruff thought it best to go out to her fathers house to see her aged father once more and she took stage and went out and spent

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Sep 4, 1848