Day in the Life

Dec 28, 1859

Journal Entry

December 28, 1859 ~ Wednesday

28th Robert, Wilford & Moroni, left this morning for
Fort Harriman with my Flock of sheep. The Eastern
mail arived last night. I spent an hour in the office


looking over the news. Mr John Borown was Hung
in Charleston Jefferson Co Virginia, on the 2nd
inst I attendded the meeting of the seventies at
the seventies Hall opened By singing & Prayer By Henry
Herriman. The meeting was Addressed by Brother Hunt
and Willis. Brother Hunt spoke of a speckled Buird visited him
I followed Brother Willis the spirt [first] time I have spoken since
I was sick I spoke some 15 minutes I was followed by President
Joseph Young, another meeting was held in the evening
I spent the evening at President Youngs with A. Lyman
Brother Carrington read from a Letter to us From Capt Hooper
who said "This union will be disolved within 18 month." He
also read the message of the Govornor of Missippi, whos recom-
mendation to his state is that they call a state convention
and call upon all the slave holding state to Form a
Southern Union and seced from the North if their was a
Republican President elected in the United States

J. Ferguson reportful that he was informed that He was way laid
by a party who thought he spoke to Free upon some subjects

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Carrington, Albert
8 Jan 1813 - 19 Sep 1889
232 mentions
Apostle
Lyman, Amasa Mason
30 Mar 1813 - 4 Feb 1877
298 mentions
Apostle
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Hunt, Daniel Durham
1 Feb 1797 - 7 Oct 1866
8 mentions
Harriman, Henry
9 Jun 1804 - 17 May 1891
37 mentions
Ferguson, James
23 Feb 1828 - 30 Aug 1863
71 mentions
1 mention
Historical Figure
1 mention
Young, Joseph
7 Apr 1797 - 16 Jul 1881
311 mentions
Woodruff, Moroni Bosnell
abt. 1843-aft. 1861
31 mentions
Family, Native American
Scholes, Robert
19 Nov 1835 - 14 Jul 1891
95 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
719 mentions
Family
123 mentions
5 mentions

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The signs of the times show that 1860 may be the commencement of the desolution of the American Union and of Bloody European wars But the Lord will guide the destiny of ^the^ world in such a manner that his will will ofbe done and the Prophets Fulfilled
~ 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 28, 1859