Day in the Life

May 20, 1854

Journal Entry

May 20, 1854 ~ Saturday

Saturday 20th May we rode back on the bench on our return
home 3 miles & the company stoped & President Young located
a new fort ground to be called fort Harmony T Bullock took an
accont of it in his Journal it is a good location a great
quantity of Grass & good soil we than rode to the creek
& nooned we then rode to Cedar City & spent the nigh 18 1/2 mils
abotut 20 miles south of fort Harmony we desend a great distance
into another climate on the Rio Virgin there is a kind of fruit
there that covers thousands of Acres that is vary choice its
flavor is betwen a strawbury & cranbury Wm C Stains
has some of it growing in his gardin

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3425 mentions
Apostle, Family
Bullock, Thomas
23 Dec 1816 - 10 Feb 1885

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He said that if the Brethren would be faithful & united they would have great blessings that they would bring great good to Israel that there would soon be thousands of the Lamanites that would be gatherd together & saved & they would have revelation & they would do a great work in this kingdom.
~ Heber C Kimball

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May 20, 1854