Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 16, 1870 ~ Sunday
Jan 176 1870
Sunday
C. W. West I Left Salt Lake City at 7 oclok with about 100
Elders including 5 of the Quorum of the 12 on Board of the cars to
go to Ogden to Bury Bishop Chancy W West who died in
Calafornia his Body was Brought home to Ogden By his wife
& son who was with him when He died. The cars run off
the track which Hendred us for 3 Hours & we did not get to
Ogden untill half past 3 oclok the services were all over except
Burying the Body He was Brought home in a Polished Iron
Coffin with Plate glass top the corps did not look natural
the Body was Buried after we got there we took supper & travled
Home in the Evening I was quite sick going up But much Better
coming Back. We held one of the Best ward Meetings iI ever
attended in My life in the care while returning we had 22
speeches & about the same number of songs, among the Number speeches
were Delivered from Elder J Taylor, W Woodruff L. Snow
G. Q. Cannon Brigham Y[ou]ng Jr & J F Smith of the Twelve
Much of the spirit of God rested upon us & strong testimonies
were delivered. We arived home about 10 oclk distance 80 M
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Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
583 mentions
Apostle
West, Chauncey Walker
6 Feb 1827 - 9 Jan 1870
40 mentions
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2257 mentions
Apostle
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1954 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
4129 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Lorenzo
3 Apr 1814 - 10 Oct 1901
699 mentions
Apostle, Family
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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.