Find Your Relatives
Find Your Relatives
Images of Wilford's Family

Discover Your Relatives in Wilford Woodruff's Papers

with the help of
Start Here
Wilford Woodruff Papers Wilford Woodruff Papers
About Volunteer Meet the Team Partners Impact Editorial Method
2023 Conference Articles Photos Podcasts Updates Videos Newsroom

Day in the Life

Feb 4, 1858

Journal Entry

February 04, 1858 ~ Thursday

4th I called into Capt Hoopers store I there saw the mail
carrier He informed me that there was but 10 men that knew
the new south rout and 8 of them were mormons & with A
Lymon or soon will be, & there is but 2 left in Calafornia
& one had shot the other one & the one left was sentenc[e]d
to be hung soon. Brother Clayton informed me that Kinkade
had written & informed him that the last steemer had
received orders to send 4000 men immediately on the
southern route & 4000 from Oregon and 2000 would
start soon from the Missouri River, and 2000 now at
fort Bridger would make 12000 men

I called at the Presidents office and got my Account
which amounted to $410.58 cts I wrote Lyman Wights
History to day. I spent the evening at home wreading scraps
sent by the last mail on Mormonism

People

Browse people Wilford Woodruff mentioned on this day in his journal.

Lyman, Amasa Mason
30 Mar 1813 - 4 Feb 1877
288 mentions
Apostle
12 mentions
Wight, Lyman
9 May 1796 - 31 Mar 1858
190 mentions
Apostle
Clayton, William
17 Jul 1814 - 4 Dec 1879
106 mentions
124 mentions

Events

View selected events in the two months surrounding this date in Wilford Woodruff's life.

Feb 4, 1858