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Day in the Life

May 10, 1860

Journal Entry

May 10, 1860 ~ Thursday

10 I planted melons this morning. I perchased of Samuel Richards
a work called the route From Liverpool to Great Salt Lake City
Illustrated price $9. I was informed that Jesse Johnson son in law
of Samuel Snider, was killed on Tuesday May 8, 1860 by an upright
saw Fram He shut down the gate with the crank up while stooping
down to look to see if somthing was not loose the crank droped the
upper part of the saw Frame caught his head & mashed it he was
buried on the 9th.

Marion J Shelton arived today From the
Moquitehes I spent the day in the office

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Richards, Samuel Whitney
9 Aug 1824 - 26 Nov 1909
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May 10, 1860