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Day in the Life

Dec 27, 1863

Journal Entry

December 27, 1863 ~ Sunday

27. I met with my Quorum in the morning. Attended meeting in the
Tabernacle all day Bishop Lunt Preached in the morning Brigham Young jr
& David G. Ross in the afternoon, after meeting I visited Thomas Taylors
family & found them all comfortable. I visited Brother Bentleys family
& found his family well Except his oldest daughter had the Teeth ake
I preached in the 7 ward school House in the Evening. I visited Sister
Cannon she had a sick Child I administered to it & prayed with the
family I met with the Twelve for prayer

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Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
541 mentions
Apostle
10 mentions
Cannon, Elizabeth Hoagland
3 Nov 1835 - 25 Jan 1882
10 mentions
1 mention
Lunt, Henry
1824-1902
32 mentions
Bentley, Richard
1 Oct 1820 - 24 Mar 1906
31 mentions
Taylor, Thomas
26 Jul 1826 - 8 Dec 1900
36 mentions

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

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Joseph the Prophet said whoever lived to see 1860 would live to see the commencement of the down- fall of the United States the Union was dissolved in 1860 & Civel war commenced which has raged Ever since & the Land is beginning to be bathed in Blood & will continue untill the words of the Prophet will be fullfilled. It is an important age of the world and the Events of Each year are rapidly fullfilling the words of all Prophets since the world Began
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Dec 27, 1863