Day in the Life

Mar 29, 1867

Journal Entry

March 29, 1867 ~ Friday

29. A single key with teeth to the right I met at the Prayer room at 2 oclok & I anointed
Martin H. Peck & 3 living wives & 2 Proxeys to their seconed
Anointing yesterday A Danish Brother fall from a
staging in the new Tabernacle 50 feet struck on a spring
pine board runing out from a pile of Lumber but it did
not injure him a great deal. Sister Godby had a vary
interesting dream during Febuary which was published
in the Times & Seasons Deserett News of March 27
it has been read by many with great interest yesterday
A Brother ^George^ Davis that drives a city Job cart Asked
Brother Cram if he thought the dream was true he said
he thought it was He then said I fell like going into the spirit
world
to see this Brother George Davis read this dream 3
times to his wife & then ^said^ told her If I should die to night

or to morrow it would be all right. Brother Davis
went Early this morning with another Man into a
Bank of gravel near Brother Kimballs to get a load
of sand he began to dig with a Bank of Earth over
his head He was warned By his companion not
to do it, but He said he thought the Bank would not
fall, but He had not flung out but a few shovels full
untill the bank fell upon him & buried him up abot
An arrow 2 feet deep his companion dug him out as soon as
he could but he was dead. I have been called upon
to preach his Funeral Sermon tomorrow he was
Born in Wilton, Wiltshire England was 27 years old

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Mar 29, 1867