News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
27 Father Woodruff has been sick for several days to day He
is failing. We drove to Tonaquint, 8 miles and held a meeting
W Woodruff, J. Taylor L. W. Stewart E Hunter & Presidents Wells
& B Young Preached to the people. This place contains 12 families, the
Botton is 1/2 mile wide 6 miles long and good land. at the clo[s]e of
the meeting we drove to Washington the county seat of washington
Co. We held a meeting when President Young A. O. Smoot E. D. Woolley
& John Sharp preached. At the close of the meeting a woman spoke to Presid[en]t
Young who had made all the clothing for 4 ye[a]rs for her family of 12. Presid[en]t Young
gave her 10 sheep for her industry
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