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Day in the Life

Dec 23, 1865

Journal Entry

December 23, 1865 ~ Saturday

23rd I went down to Brother Sheets Barn yard &
got 4 cows & 1 calf driven in yesterday from
the range I took 3 of them to the Butchers one drove
[drove one] home. I spent a part of the day in the Endowment House
we gave Endowments to 27. G Q Cannon sealed 12 W. W. 2.
I met with the Jordon Irrigation Company & the
company voted to give W. Woodruff 20 Acres any whare in the survey gratis free of all Expens also a
[FIGURE] city lot. They also voted to give G A Smith 100 acres and
considerable other business (Ensign Woodruff was born 15 M[inutes] 3 oclok

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Sheets, Elijah Funk
22 Mar 1821 - 3 Jul 1904
112 mentions
Woodruff, Ensign
23 Dec 1865 - 4 May 1955
49 mentions
Family
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
1966 mentions
Apostle

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Dec 23, 1865