Day in the Life

Nov 29, 1857

Journal Entry

November 29, 1857 ~ Sunday

29th Sunday Early in the morning G. A. Smith & myself was
called upon to go to the Governors office as an expressed had
arived forom the Enemy when we arived at the office
we found Brother Young & Carrington at the office soon
Brother Heber C Kimball A O Smoot Lorenzo Young & others
came & Brother Carrington read a Proclamation from
A Cumming called himself Govornor of Utah & said
that the President Appointed him Govornor of Utah
but did not say what President appointed him whether
it was President Young or Buchannan. He commands
all armed people to dispersed to their Homes & said all
that opposed them would be treated as traitors He also
wrote a Letter to Governor Young accusing him of
treason & said that He should Esstablish his
quarters in gGreen river county & organize a tempora-
ry Government that all will be tried for treason
that oppose them, we went to the Tabernacle &
G A Smith Preached followed By Erastus Snow then
Brother Carrington read the Proclamation & the letters
to Governor Young from A. Cummings. In the Afternoon
President B. Young and H. C. Kimball spoke. President Young
spoke upon the subject of our disiplineing our minds & bringing
them into subjection to our own will & the law of God & our union
in Prayer. His subject was vary interesting. I attended
the prayer circle in the Evening then Preached in the 12th ward
with Bishop Hardy. nearly evry member of my family
went to the 14 ward meeting in the evening G A S[mith] goes to Provo starts at 1'oclok

People

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
584 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Carrington, Albert
8 Jan 1813 - 19 Sep 1889
232 mentions
Apostle
74 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
697 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1433 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
69 mentions
Historical Figure
Hardy, Leonard Wilford
31 Dec 1805 - 31 Jul 1884
233 mentions
Family
Young, Lorenzo Dow
19 Oct 1807 - 21 Nov 1895
124 mentions
Missionary

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Adobe Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Green River County, Utah Territory
Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory
Utah Territory

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Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
Sunday morning the George A Smith and myself was called upon to go to Governor Young's

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Nov 29, 1857