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Day in the Life

Nov 21, 1858

Journal Entry

November 21, 1858 ~ Sunday

21st Sunday I met with my Quorum at 12 oclok for prayer
A. O. Smoot Prayed & E F Sheets was mouth. The Eastern
Mail arived this morning report some 18 inches of snow
on the mountains their was not much News by the mail
the state Elections show that the North was going against the
President & his measures. I met with the Twelve at 6 oclok
in the Prayer Circle. After which we called upon the
President Brigham Young viz O Pratt W Woodruff
John Taylor, E. T. Benson & Erastus Snow of the Twelve
& D. H. Wells & G D Grant, we spent the evening till
9 oclok the conversation was upon the subject of the court
to morrow mostly & the spirit of the Gentiles. President
Young said Gov Cummings was much opposed to the course
that Burr & Judge St Clair is taking in this matter
President Young has turned the property over to Gov
Cummings a long time ago

I went home & administered to my child Hiram Smith
who was taken sick on Friday & has now a severe attack
of the Quinsey & vary dangerous this is Emma's child
Mrs Woodruff Sister Smoot & Smith set up with it
mostly through the night it was vary sick they gave
it Lobelia & oil & molasses & relieved the lungs & a fever
seemed to settle in the Head. we administered to it several
times & it seemed to get some relief we prayed for it
in the prayer circle W Woodruff prayed & John Taylor
was mouth. we had a snow storm through the night

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
556 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
69 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
21 mentions
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
14 mentions
Sheets, Elijah Funk
22 Mar 1821 - 3 Jul 1904
112 mentions
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
874 mentions
Family
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
640 mentions
Apostle
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
366 mentions
Apostle
Grant, George Davis
10 Sep 1812 - 20 Sep 1876
54 mentions
Woodruff, Hyrum Smith
4 Oct 1857 - 24 Nov 1858
8 mentions
Family
68 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1834 mentions
Apostle
94 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1037 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family

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Woodruff Home, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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December 1858
Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.

Nov 21, 1858