News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
May 27, 1861 ~ Monday
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
People
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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
584 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
580 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
799 mentions
Apostle
Hunter, Edward
1793-1883
277 mentions
Woolley, Edwin Dilworth
28 Jun 1807 - 14 Oct 1881
120 mentions
Missionary
Sharp, John
9 Nov 1820 - 23 Dec 1891
69 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1954 mentions
Apostle
1 mention
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