Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff dies at age 13 months.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
November 22, 1858 ~ Monday
22nd My child Hiram Smith is quite sick this morning He
has spasoms 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
I called upon the President Young in the evening with
E. T. Benson & Erastus Snow & Wm C. Stains & conversed
till 9 oclok upon the affairs of the court & the present excited
state of the people I sat up with my child till 1 oclok during
the night the men & clerks at Kinkades store came
out & kicked the police & stoned them then the police
turned upon them & knocked some half a doz down &
laid them cold on the pavement one was a surgeon
of the armey three Balls was shot from the store
at the poliece but none of them was hit but they
shot one of their own men the Police did not shoot
at all but used their Baton's or clubs
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Kinkade, Charles
abt. 1832-unk.
13 mentions
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
697 mentions
Apostle
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
378 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Hyrum Smith
4 Oct 1857 - 24 Nov 1858
8 mentions
Family
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2369 mentions
Murdock, Joseph Stacy
1822-1899
3 mentions
1 mention
Staines, William Carter
1818-1881
51 mentions
1 mention
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Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.