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Day in the Life

Aug 30, 1863

Journal Entry

August 30, 1863 ~ Sunday

30 Sunday I met with my Quorum in the morning, And Attended
Meeting all day in the Bowery Elders John Vancott H. S. Eldridge
Brigham Young Jr & John W Young spoke in the forenoon & Wm
C Stains, also spoke & in the Afternoon G. D. Watt & H C Kimball
spoke. I met with President Young, J. Taylor, C. C. Rich & F. D. Richards

Sunday
in the prayer circle. C. C. Rich was ^prayed^ Mouth & President Young
was Mouth. In the Evening I went down to see James Furguson
who was near his End, with hard drinking he wished me to
administer to him which I did he did not have any realizing
sens that he was going to die. I told hims family that he would not
live much past midnight He died about 1 oclok at night

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
540 mentions
Apostle
Rich, Charles Coulson
21 Aug 1809 - 17 Nov 1883
346 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
784 mentions
Apostle
Watt, George Darling
18 May 1812 - 24 Oct 1881
119 mentions
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Eldredge, Horace Sunderlin
6 Feb 1816 - 6 Sep 1888
138 mentions
Ferguson, James
23 Feb 1828 - 30 Aug 1863
63 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1834 mentions
Apostle
86 mentions
Young, John Willard
1 Oct 1844 - 11 Feb 1924
299 mentions
Apostle
51 mentions

Places

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Bowery, Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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President Young spoke with great Plainness and Power. He called upon thHis councillors & the Twelve to wake up & get rid of there selfishness & get the spirit of God & Edify the people He called upon the whole people to covenant with upli- fted hands to Heaven to obey his council which we all did.He told the people to go to & build graneries & continue to lay up grain untill they had bread to last them seven years & not sell their grain to any body untill they had done this & stop sending their bread stuff to the gold mines & stop going to the gold mines to stay at home & attend to there own business, stop carrying grain to the distilleries to be made into whiskey, stop making whiskey & stop drinking whiskey, and if you will do this I promise you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that you will suffer no famine
~ Brigham Young

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Aug 30, 1863