Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff dies at age 13 months.
26th Sunday at 10 oclok I met with my Quorum
at the Endowment Room. A. O. Smoot Prayed E F.
Sheets was mouth. I spent the remainder of the time
till 2 oclock with President B. Young ^council^ looking over the
papers which came by the Eastern Mail yesterday
At 2 oclok I met with the Board of Directors. At
4 oclok I met with Presidents B Young H C. Kimball
D H Wells And G A Smith in President Youngs
upper Room for Prayers. B. Young Prayed & H C.
Kimball was mouth President Young requested the
Twelve to meet at the Historians office for their prayer
circle instead of Brother Bensons. The following
Dream was related which President Young [had] on Friday
night Sept 24th 1858 He dreamed that 4 men came
into his room and tried to get in. He tried to shoot them
with his pistol but could not get it off He then drew
a Bowie knife but found it to be a carving knife
with a saw on one side At the same time Mr Clarkson
reached over his shoulder & drew a large Bowie knife
from betwen his shoulders & attempted to kill Presidt
Young who said to him you may think that you
are going to do sumthing but I will show you he then
threw his saw knife at Clarkson & Just as it was about
to enter his body Brigham Young reached out his hand
caught it so that it did not hurt him saying at the same
time yowu now see what I can do. Clarkson said I see that
my life is in your power at the same time he plunged his
knife into his own breast & split it open then handed
the handle of the knife all Blood to B. Young & walked a short
distance & fell dead [FIGURES] ({President Kimball said that he did not want the} 12 {to pray at Bensons
for he did not want them to go to a whore house. President Young said that he did not know but Benson would
always have wives that would whore it}) At 6 oclok I met with G A Smith
O. Pratt J Taylor C C Rich & F. D. Richards of the Twelve
at the Historians office for Prayer. O Pratt Prayed. W. W.
was mouth. I spent the night at Home
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