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Day in the Life

Dec 25, 1879

Journal Entry

December 25, 1879 ~ Thursday

25 We drove to Woodruff & stoped with Brother Hatch
we held a Meeting and Br Lot Smith, Burnham, Hatch
& W Woodruff all spoke & had a good time W. Woodruff
said He di[d] not Believe that any person who lived to see
1890 would not be able to see any United States for
He believed the Union would be broaken by that time
^[FIGURE]^ Let the Historian see if He guessed right

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58 mentions
Smith, Lot
15 May 1830 - 21 Jun 1892
352 mentions
Missionary
15 mentions

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Woodruff, Apache County, Arizona Territory

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Daybook (October 24 1879 - January 31 1881)
25 We drove to Woodruff and stoped with Br Hatch We held a Meeting and Brother Lot Smith, Lake Burnham, Hatch & W Woodruff all spoke and had a good time [FIGURE] W W said whoever lived to see 1890 would not be able to see any United States for the Union would be broken before that time. Let the Historians see if He guessed right.

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1880
Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
January 26, 1880
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.

Dec 25, 1879