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Day in the Life

Feb 10, 1857

Journal Entry

February 10, 1857 ~ Tuesday

10th I called upon President Young in the morning & told him I did not
think that my Father would live & thought I should spend the day with Him
^He^ said that I had better do it so I spent the day with him & done all I
could for him I gave him about 3 oz of castor oil & 4 drops of croton
oil injection evry hour of fedity lobelia &c still I could not get anything
to pass his bowels they bloated badly & all thought He would die. Dr's
Dunyon & [Framd] both saw him & did not think that He would live I was
with him all day & night I continued to poltice his bowels & during the
night I got a passage & their seemed some prospect of his living

People

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
540 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
13 mentions
11 mentions

Quotes

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we done a good deal of work at that time on the temple. & it was difficult to get bread for the hands to eat. I told the people toor the committe who had charge of the temple means to deal out all the flour they had & God would give them more & they done so & it was but a short time before Brother Toronto come & brought me twenty five hundred dollars in gold the committee & the Bishop met & I met with them & they said that the Law was to lay the gold at the Apostles feet yes I said & I will lay it at the Bishops feet so I opened the mouth of the bag & took hold of the bottom end & gave it a yerk [jerk] towards the Bishop & strewed the gold across the room at his feet & I said now go & buy flour for the workmen on that temple & dont distrust the Lord any more for we will have what we need
~ Wilford Woodruff

Events

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December 30, 1856
Members of Territorial Legislature rebaptized (Wilford for the fifth time).
1857
Church membership is 55,236.

Feb 10, 1857