Day in the Life

Oct 22, 1858

Journal Entry

October 22, 1858 ~ Friday

212nd I started for home with my team Robert & Delight
I settled my business in Provo before I started I got
3 gallons of Molasses from one acre the remainder
destroyed by frost & cattle one Acre of corn destroyed
except 8 bushels I had about 150 lb of flax & 50 bushels
of potatoes. I traveled to Lehi & spent the night at Bishop
Evans I collected 10 bushels of wheat which was due
me for trees Brother Evans treated me vary kindly
he showed me 500 bushels of tithing potatoes He had
about 1000 Bushels of wheat of his own he said he had
not sowld a Bushel of any Grain to the armey. An officer
told him that A Council of Doctors had decided that
the army was in an unhealthy situation & most of the
officers were going to the states on furlough & in the spring
He thought most of othe armey would leeve in the spring

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Scholes, Robert
19 Nov 1835 - 14 Jul 1891
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Woodruff, Sarah Delight Stocking
26 Jun 1838 - 28 May 1906
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Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Oct 22, 1858