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Day in the Life

Dec 9, 1859

Journal Entry

December 09, 1859 ~ Friday

9th I went into the office in the morning. G. A. Smith related
a circumstance of a Mr Woodson who has got possession of
the Land upon which the Temple Block stands in Jackson Co
Missouri in 1857 Ferrymore Little was in Jackson Co
& Mr Woodson said to him I have heard that your people
expected to return to this country and ^Build^ a Temple on the Temple
Block on my farm. Brother Little Answered to be
sure they do. Woodson said you are a Hell of a set. G. A. S.
also said He got a statement from Lewis Bidemon that
the people of the towns of Warsaw, Carthage pontoosuc
& Appanoose made up a subscribtion of $500 & paid
it to Joseph Agnoe for Burning the Temple and He went &
burnt it for that sum of money I spent the day in the
office filing High Council Records

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26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
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I went into the office in the morning. G. A. Smith related a circumstance of a Mr Woodson who has got possession of the Land upon which the Temple Block stands in Jackson Co Missouri in 1857 Ferrymore Little was in Jackson Co & Mr Woodson said to him I have heard that your people expected to return to this country and ^Build^ a Temple on the Temple Block on my farm. Brother Little Answered to be sure they do. Woodson said you are a Hell of a set. G. A. S. also said He got a statement from Lewis Bidemon that the people of the towns of Warsaw, Carthage pontoosuc & Appanoose made up a subscribtion of $500 & paid it to Joseph Agnoe for Burning the Temple and He went & burnt it for that sum of money I spent the day in the office filing High Council Records
~ Wilford Woodruff

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1860
Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.

Dec 9, 1859