Day in the Life

Jun 8, 1849

Journal Entry

June 08, 1849 ~ Friday

8th 60 cases of cholerya & 10 death to day in New York I read
A folded letter/box A letter to day from Sister Sayers at Jefferson City Mo
saying I am sitting by the side of Sister Sabra Granger wat-
ching the last departing of her body as she is dying with
the cholera. I recieved A Paper from the Bluffs Also
the Star of 1st May which gave interesting Accounts of
the progress of the work of God in that land.

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Sayers, Ruth Daggett Vose
26 Feb 1808 - 18 Aug 1884
Granger, Sabra
17 Feb 1794 - 17 Oct 2024

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their is great destruction at the present time of life & property by flood, fire, plague pestilence & war in all the Earth war is begining to be poured out upon the Whore of all the Earth in fulfillment of the word of God.
~ Wilford Woodruff

Jun 8, 1849