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Day in the Life

Mar 13, 1858

Journal Entry

March 13, 1858 ~ Saturday

13th I sowed some peas in the morning and trimed up my
peach trees which had been budded I also sowed some Australia
wheat. I met in the Historians office at 10 oclok with Elders
O. Hyde, O. Pratt, G. A. Smith & E. T. Benson. O. Pratt said that
Charles R. Dainy wrote a pamphlet in which he said
that He had a vision and warned me while going East to
move my waggon and I done so and soon an oak tree
fell whare my waggon stood I had this impression myself
and named it myself to my wife before I got out
of my carriage. Presidents Young and Kimball came
in and we read the history of Orson Hiyde P. P. Pratt
and E. T. Bensons

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
8 mentions
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
366 mentions
Apostle
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
669 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1036 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Parley Parker
12 Apr 1807 - 13 May 1857
523 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1547 mentions
Family

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

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Mar 13, 1858