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Day in the Life

May 24, 1857

Journal Entry

May 24, 1857 ~ Sunday

24 Sunday I attended meeting at the Tabernacle A. O. Smoot
preached in the morning followed by Wm Taylor & W. Woodruff
in the Afternoon by James Barnes A. P. Rockwood Wm. W Phelps,
& Abel Lamb. I attended the prayers circle

People

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5 mentions
Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
556 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Rockwood, Albert Perry
9 Jun 1805 - 26 Nov 1879
123 mentions
Barnes, James
10 Feb 1815 - 6 Apr 1890
20 mentions
1840 British Convert, United Brethren
Taylor, William, b. 1823
2 Sep 1823 - 13 May 1910
3 mentions
Phelps, William Wines
17 Feb 1792 - 7 Mar 1872
161 mentions

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Adobe Tabernacle, 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 24, 1857