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Day in the Life

Nov 26, 1856

Journal Entry

November 26, 1856 ~ Wednesday

26th I called upon President J. M. Grant & found him
vary sick indeed I laid hands upon him & Prayed for
him & rebuked his disease I spent most of the day in
the office. I Paid Silas Richards $29.25 to pay the taxes
of J. M. Bernhisel for 1856, & took receipt for the same
I attended meeting at the 7th ward with the Priesthood Bishop perkins
27thwas present the teachers were asleep & it was cold & dull I herd the ward
represented then Brother Richards spoke & I followed him & we both exhorted
them to wake out of sleep

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Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
784 mentions
Apostle
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
271 mentions
Apostle
Bernhisel, John Milton
23 Jun 1799 - 28 Sep 1881
313 mentions
Richards, Silas
18 Dec 1807 - 17 Mar 1884
14 mentions
4 mentions

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Historian's Office, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
very ill on the and and thus he continued to be. On the

Events

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October 2, 1856
First baptisms administered in baptismal font; members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles rebaptized (4th rebaptism for Wilford).
December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
1857
Church membership is 55,236.

Nov 26, 1856