Day in the Life

Feb 26, 1857

Journal Entry

February 26, 1857 ~ Thursday

26th Keys crossed I went with my family into the Council House the
first time I ever took my family to the Altar in the House
of the Lord. I had my three living wives sealed to me & one that was
dead in the following order Phebe Whitmore Carter, Mary Fabyan
Carter
Deceased
, Emma Smith & Sarah Brown I then visited
the family of Dr W. Richards & J. M. Grant. I then went to the
office & corrected some minutes of one of my sermons in the taber-
nacle
. I attended the 14th ward meeting in the evening & herd
Brother Clements & Cummings speak I followed them & backed
up ther testimony I had the spirit of the Lord & had a good meeting

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Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
1002 mentions
Family
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
280 mentions
Apostle, Zion's Camp
Carter, Mary Fabyan
22 Mar 1814 - 8 Sep 1851
20 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1579 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
702 mentions
Family
Richards, Willard
24 Jun 1804 - 11 Mar 1854
540 mentions
Apostle

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Family - Note of Emma Smith's Marriage, date unknown
And resealed

Events

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

Feb 26, 1857