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Day in the Life

Nov 21, 1860

Journal Entry

November 21, 1860 ~ Wednesday

21st I had buctchered to day one ox and a cow. Capt Walter M Gibson
started to day for his mission for Jappan, Siam, Singapore, & the Polen-
ecian Islands. He goes south via Sanfrancisco. He takes his daughter Leulah
His two sons remain I spent most of the day in the office.

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6 mentions
Gibson, Walter Murray
16 Jan 1822 - 21 Jan 1888
36 mentions

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Brother Gibson said that He was about to take another mission was going to Jappan, Siam, & the Malay Islands. He has had an invitation by the Historian of Jappan to visit that Land, is intimately acquainted with the King of Siam & has been strongly invited by the princes & Chiefs of the Malay Islands to visit them. He seems to have been raised up as an instrument in the Hands of God to open the way among those Nations for the receptions of the gospel President Young Blessed him & said He would go with a commission to all Nations upon the Earth & he should go with his good will & blessing.
~ Wilford Woodruff
The Mountaineer to day contains the news By Poney Express concerning the withdrawal of the Southern States from the union it commenced in South Carolina in fulfillment of the prophecy [FIGURES] of Joseph Smith the Prophet or the revelation of the Lord through him which has been published in the pearl of Great Price & written in various Books for many years it really looks as though the United States were ripe for the Harvest
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Dec 1860 - Jan 1861
Seven Southern states secede from Union. (Confederacy includes 15 states and territories by 1862.)

Nov 21, 1860