Day in the Life

Dec 17, 1869

Journal Entry

December 17, 1869 ~ Friday

17. We Buried our child to day Elder Orson Pratt spoke at
the funeral President Y[ou]ng sent his carriage to the grave with us

People

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3432 mentions
Apostle, Family
Woodruff, Jeremiah
29 Dec 1868 - 16 Dec 1869
4 mentions
Family
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1082 mentions
Apostle

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Church membership 90,130; population of Utah Territory 86,336; population of 38 United States 39,820,000.
Utah women given the right to vote; Liberal (non-Mormon) Party formed opposing People's (Mormon) Party.

Dec 17, 1869