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Day in the Life

Apr 3, 1852

Journal Entry

April 03, 1852 ~ Saturday

1, 2, & 3rd I spent the time ploughing oats& sewing oats
except the 1st day of April I Attended a party at
the Bath House, about 50 JGentlemen & 100 Ladies present
I Addressed the assembley at 8 oclock in the evening &
returned Home The presidency & Twelve & those that Had
[FIGURE 16] been at work in the Council House assisted in the endowmts
were washed & annointed I did not get word of it & was
not present. The eastern Mail arived this evening which
had been anxiously looked for for many weeks the
Mail was large I Received 34 letters one from Azmon Woodruff
[FIGURE 10] one from Thompson & one from Ozem Woodruff & one from
I. F. Carter. A large Amount of Papers were Received &
contained much news from various sources. A Fire in

Phil[adelphia] $200000 of Dollars loss A water spout destroyed 500 lives
& much property Dredful steem Boat Disasters & fires all
over the country All Europe in commotion England preparing
for war. warm times in Congress because the Utah Judges
had gone home and made reports against the Judges Mormons
Govornor Yougng & others

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Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
356 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3376 mentions
Apostle, Family
Carter, Ilus Fabyan
8 Nov 1816 - 11 Dec 1888
404 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
209 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem, b. 1787
3 Nov 1787 - 18 Feb 1871
158 mentions
Family

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Apr 3, 1852