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Day in the Life

Oct 14, 1850

Journal Entry

October 14, 1850 ~ Monday

14th [FIGURE]
I Drove to the mouth of the kanyon met L Hardy & company
and I drove into the city of the G. S. C at the head of
the company I was truly glad to gaze once more upon
the city of the great Salt Lake & valley of the mountains
I met with Elder G. A. Smith & many others I drove to
the two rooms that I made while in the valley before

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Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1380 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
222 mentions
Family

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Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah Territory

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October 20, 1850 ~ Sunday 20th Sunday I met with the saints in the Bowery was called upon to address the meeting I gave an account of my mission to the East I spoke of my dream I dreamed of diying & going to the place of the departed spirits I saw Brother Joseph & Hyram Smith & many of the Saints who had died they all appeared to be in a hurry I thought strange to find them in a hurry and I enqiuired the cause they informed me that the time was set for Christ to come as the great Bridegroom to the Earth to meet the Bride the Lambs wife & they had not had time to prepare as those of other dispensations & had to be in a hurry in order to get ready. And when I awoke I was overwhelmed with a peculiar sensation at the view of the work ofthe Latter Day Saints Had to perform in order to prepair the Bride for to meet the Bridegroom
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography 1897 Deseret Weekly
where I arrived on the , having traveled 4,617 miles. From 1851 to 1877, twenty-six years, I spent mostly in Utah, traveling and preaching considerably among the Saints, and also otherwise fulfilling the duties of my calling as one of the Twelve Apostles.
Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
Great Salt Lake City on the I drove into the City at the head of the company and was glad to gaze once more upon the Valley of the Mountains—the New Home of the Saints. I met with Elder George A Smith and many others and I drove to the two rooms which I had made while in the Valley before. President Young had come out to meet me the day previous but he returned and I did not see him The sickness and deaths in our company occurred in the earlier part of the journey when besides those named Captains Petty and Hardy were very ill and myself and family had some little sickness with the rest; but on the whole the journey was performed with but few casualties of such a journey and moderate mortality. I set about arranging my affairs and those of the company concerning our stock &c during the first days after our arrival in Salt Lake city

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December 5, 1850
Wilford appointed to the Council (Legislature) of the State of Deseret (serves a total of 21 terms).

Oct 14, 1850