News arrives in Utah of firing on Fort Sumter and the beginning of the Civil War.
May 28 1861
Aphek Woodruff My Father Aphek Woodruff Died at 1 'oclok P.M.
Aged 82 years 6 month, & 17 days He was able to labor most of the time
untill within a few days of his death he complained several times of
faint turns before I started on my visit South. I being absent from
Home could not be with him in his sickness death and burial. He was
sick about 3 or 4 days He sat in his chair a few minutes befor he
died. He asked to be laid upon his bed, and in a few moments he fell
asleep without a groan or a sigh like a candle going out, every thing was
done for him in his sickness, death, & burial, that could be done. I should
have been pleased to have been with him in his last moments but it was ordered
otherwise and all was right
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We travelled to day over a vary heavy road of sand. We found by the way
side a new species of reptile a kind of sand Hill Alegater or Crockadile
the body was about 15 inches in length the tail 6 inches, built like the
Lizzard family but covered with scales & a tough skin the scales were
of Dimond shape & of a Bright yellow colorur about 8 inches in circumfere[nce]
a head the shape of a rattle snake & similar fangs he got over the ground
vary slow, walking on 4 legs like an Alegater. We travelled to Tokerville
and held a meeting and President Young, McCullough S. L. Sprague George
Godard & G. A. Smith preached. At Toquerville pocketvill & Graften
the people use Ising glass for windows they make a vary good substitute for glass
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