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Day in the Life

May 22, 1857

Journal Entry

May 22, 1857 ~ Friday

22 I spent the day in the office writing & I spent the night watering
my garden by lantern light

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

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My daughter Phebe had a vary severe attack of inflamation on the Lungs or sumthing like plurisy she could not Breath ownly with great Difficulty we holstered her up in the bed & she would Retch for breath like a person strangling she was so for several hours we annointed her, laid hands upon her, & rebuked the desease I finally got Joseph Smiths silk Hankerchief which He gave me in 1839 and said it should ever remain as a League between us as long as I would keep it I laid it upon her stomach. Brother Dunyon came in to see her in the evening she became some better & slept some.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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May 22, 1857