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Day in the Life

Oct 28, 1868

Journal Entry

October 28, 1868 ~ Wednesday

28 Asahel has suffered a good deal to day our treatment
has been to pour cold water onto his hand to keep it
it constantly wet to keep out the inflamation & fever I
gave him salts to cool the fever & to open his Bowels I gave
him some Morphene when the suffering became intolerable but
the Main thing was to pour cold water on his hand & give him
all the cold water He wanted to drink I called to the Historians
office a short time & sent G A Smiths Historical Sermons to
Ezra & Ilus F Carter, Luther Scammans, Shuah C Moulton
to Azmon & Thompson Woodruff & Ozem Woodruff

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Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
652 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
350 mentions
Family
Carter, Ezra, b. 1804
29 Apr 1804 - 11 May 1887
171 mentions
Family
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Carter, Ilus Fabyan
8 Nov 1816 - 11 Dec 1888
392 mentions
Family
Scammans, Luther
7 Dec 1808 - 10 Jul 1878
72 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
201 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem, b. 1787
3 Nov 1787 - 18 Feb 1871
154 mentions
Family
Moulton, Shuah Coffin Carter
20 Dec 1811 - 19 Jun 1905
87 mentions
Family

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Historian's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Oct 28, 1868