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Day in the Life

Nov 30, 1856

Journal Entry

November 30, 1856 ~ Sunday

30th Sunday I attended meeting at the Tabernacle Ephraim Green spoke
a few words was followed by Allen Finlay & John Chesley then some
remarks made By President Young concerning the Hand Cart Company
who was now entering the City He wished the inhabitants to take the
people in to their houses & nurse them up. He said He would take all that
was left when the Meeting was dismissed we held a short interview with
the members of the Legislature we then went into the street & saw the
poor saints who had Just arived their was about 100 waggons containing
the company many were Cripples had their hands & feet froze nearly off
they were immediately distributed through the City

I attended the prayer Circle in the evening & preached in the 14th ward sc
in the Music Hall was followed by F. D. Richards & S. Richards & others

People

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1 mention
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
2 mentions
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
784 mentions
Apostle
2 mentions
Richards, Samuel Whitney
9 Aug 1824 - 26 Nov 1909
104 mentions

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3
At the Tabernacle President Young made remarks concerning the hand-cart company, who was then entering the city. He wished the inhabitants to take the people into their houses and nurse them up and he said that he would take all that was left. When the meeting was over we held a short sitting in the Legislature and then went into the street and

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 30, 1856