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Day in the Life

Dec 25, 1859

Journal Entry

December 25, 1859 ~ Sunday

25 Sunday and Christmas I attended meeting for the first
time since I was sick, at the Tabernacle A. Lyman Preached a
good moral discourse I dismissed the meeting I spent the afternoon
& evening at home. At about 1 oclok there was a fracus in
Main Street Between Wm Hickman & Lot Huntington they had
[FIGURES] some difficulty about the division of some monyey and
agreed to meet to day at 1 oclok to settle it and after
they met the difficulty was renewed & William Hickman shot
Huntington, then Huntington returned the fire the ball struck
Kickmans watch glanced down the groin broke a peace from
his thigh Balle bone & broke the ball to peaces Hickman was surroun-
ded with several friends & they all chased Huntington and
shot some 30 shots at him they followed him to George
Grants House Huntington run into the House & the rest did
not go in. Hickmans Frends gathered around him Hickman
soon grew pale and said He would not give 3 cents for
his life they took him in a slay to Butchers House many were
excited and run to and fro surgeons were sent for and
they thought it doubtful about Hickmans Living

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Lyman, Amasa Mason
30 Mar 1813 - 4 Feb 1877
287 mentions
Apostle
Grant, George Davis
10 Sep 1812 - 20 Sep 1876
54 mentions
5 mentions
Hickman, William A.
16 Apr 1815 - 21 Aug 1883
25 mentions

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Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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

Dec 25, 1859