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May 26, 1854

Journal Entry

May 26, 1854 ~ Friday

Friday 26th we begun early & crossed all our waggons
over the severe before breakfast. we was 1 Hour & 30 minutes
we rode to salt creek & spent the night we arived at 2 oclock
we had a meeting at 4 oclock John Taylor preached
was followed by E. T. Benson I reported & took supper

I attended another meeting in the evening at the trial of Bishop
Haywood which lasted till midnight T Bullock & W Woodruff
reported see report in Historians office I felt wearid
out I spent the night at Brother Biglers

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Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
366 mentions
Apostle
Bigler, Jacob G.
4 Apr 1813 - 23 Feb 1907
25 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1834 mentions
Apostle
Heywood, Joseph Leland
1 Aug 1815 - 16 Oct 1910
71 mentions
Bullock, Thomas
23 Dec 1816 - 10 Feb 1885
125 mentions

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
We were at Salt Creek on the and held meeting as we had also at other places on the way and at night I attended the trial of Bishop Haywood which lasted till midnight. T. Bullock and Wilford Woodruff reported and our reports are in the Historians Office We started in the morning from Salt Creek and rode West across the mountains and made a new road. After 20 miles travel we nooned at the Fort at the foot of the mountain The mountain was quite steep and stoneny over which we had come and we nooned in sight of Utah Lake. In the afternoon we drove to the bottom of the mountain beside the Utah Lake on the West side and camped for the night. We had twenty five men from Nephi City with us to help us make a road.

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May 26, 1854