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Day in the Life

Nov 22, 1858

Journal Entry

November 22, 1858 ~ Monday

22nd My child Hiram Smith is quite sick this morning He
has spasums or fits & the fever seems to be in the head I
spent the forenoon in the Historian office Journalizing the
court met this morning at 10 oclok. Brother Joseph S.
Murdock called into the office & said one ^Vinson Hamelton^ Stephenson
told him that He would inform him of all the plots that were
laid against this people. Wm Rogers who defended Joseph
Smith at Dixon is keeping a Boarding House with Stephenson
at [Mulners] & he will also reveal what he knows about our
enemies. I have Just learned that our manuscript was
found on the Deseret Alphabet I am glad to hear it

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Woodruff, Hyrum Smith
4 Oct 1857 - 24 Nov 1858
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Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
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Dixon, Lee County, Illinois
Historian's Office, 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 22, 1858