Day in the Life

Dec 15, 1858

Journal Entry

December 15, 1858 ~ Wednesday

15th We travelled to Pason 33 miles held a meeting with the
People their was a Division among the people some had
petitioned to President Young for a New Bishop. F D.
Richards spoke & I followed him & then C. C. Rich
followed. Lorenzo Snow & myself spent the night with
Brother Gardner We Preached concerning the Bishop
& the people their feelings against each other. Brother Gardner
told us that Brother Hancock said in one of his meetings
that there was no person stood betwen him & President
Brigham Young. He wanted the people to give their money
to him & let him dictate their temperal Business for them
He said no person had a right to petition president Young
against him. He makes the roads into the canyons controlls
all the timber sells it to the armey works all the time sundays
He lets the tithing property go to waste &But takes care of his
own He sells the tithing potatoes to the Army for $2 & pays
the Church 75 cts. He ordered a house to be pulled down
if they would not stop a party These are some of the compla[in]ts
against the Bishop

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
8 mentions
Rich, Charles Coulson
21 Aug 1809 - 17 Nov 1883
352 mentions
Apostle
1 mention
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
816 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
699 mentions
Apostle, Family

Places

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Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory

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I told the people to get the spirit of God & follow its dictates & to remember daily their prayers & to pray for the Presidency & all the Authorities of the Church & to pray for the President of the United States & for all men in Author- ity as the spirit of God shall dictate.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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

Dec 15, 1858