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Day in the Life

Dec 7, 1863

Journal Entry

December 07, 1863 ~ Monday

Dec 7th 1863

I spent the fore part of the day in the office writing. Jason Luce, killed
8. a man in the street by the name of Samuel Bunton from Origon
he cut his throat with a Bowe knife He was immediately arested
& imprisioned during the Evening G A Smith arived home bringing
8the Bodies of two deatd men viz Ira Jones Willis & his son Cornelius
John Willis. both were turned over together on a load of wood
in the creek near Lehit the waggon turned bottom side upwards &
the men were rolled up in their blankets face downwards in the
creek with the wood on top of them this was on Saturday
night quite dark the oxen came unhitched & went home were
found at the door in the morning. the bodies were found sunday
morning. Brother Willis was in the first company of saints that
gathered at Jackson County helped build the first building in
Jackson County that the saints put up. He was in the Mormon Batt-
alion & helped find the first gold in Calafornia. He was whip[p]ed
by Moses Wilfson with Hickory gads & carried the scars to the grave
He has been true & faithful unto death & will have a crown of life

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26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
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Dec 7, 1863