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Day in the Life

Dec 19, 1858

Journal Entry

December 19, 1858 ~ Sunday

19th Sunday we left the severe at about 6 oclok & travelled
to the Salt Creek settlement called Nephi got there at
11 ock we here spent the day Joseph Young got his
carriage mended they had a meeting in the evening I
did not attend but went to bed early not having slep
but little for 2 nights. 25 miles

After I had got to bed Brother Warren Snow & Peacock
called upon me also F D & Samuel Richards. They informed
me that one hundred soldiers had gone into Fort Ephraim
the commander had called the people together & hurranged
them & through the influence of Benjamin Clapp had
deceived the people through fair promises & got the consent
of the people & let the souldery in. Father James Alred & his

People

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Clapp, Benjamin Lynn
19 Aug 1814 - 21 Oct 1865
135 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
782 mentions
Apostle
9 mentions
Allred, James
22 Jan 1784 - 10 Jan 1876
22 mentions
Young, Joseph
7 Apr 1797 - 16 Jul 1881
306 mentions
Richards, Samuel Whitney
9 Aug 1824 - 26 Nov 1909
104 mentions
Snow, Warren Stone
15 Jun 1818 - 21 Sep 1896
13 mentions

Places

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Fort Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah Territory
Nephi, Juab County, Utah Territory
Sevier River, Utah Territory

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

Dec 19, 1858