Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 01, 1880 ~ Thursday
Jan 1, 1880
Jan 1, 1880 How these figures look to me I was born March 1, 1807
if I was to live untill 18087 I should be 80 years of age but how
long I shall live & remain in the flesh God ownly Knows. This year
opens with a prospect of Great hostility of our government against
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints and the Kingdom of God
Esstablished in Utah and adjoining Territories in the rocky Moun-
tains, the Everlasting hills given to old Father Jacob and his
Posterity. But God reigns and our trust is in him. He will guide
his saints as he has in days gone by And when this year is past
we shall see what state bothe the Nation and the Saints will be in at
the End of the year. Our Nation is rapidly Hastening to destruction
and is ripening in iniquity and is doomed to destruction in
fulfillmet of the word of God who has spoken concerning them
This new years day of 1880, finds me at Br Greers at the little
Colorado's meadows in Apache County Arizona Territory. I spent
the day mostly reading and meditating I walked several miles during
and Br Lot Smith, Neil & Alread went to St John to attend a
trial on a land claim
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167 mentions
Scriptural Figure
9 mentions
Smith, Lot
15 May 1830 - 21 Jun 1892
365 mentions
Missionary
Allred (Alread), Reddin Alexander Allred
21 Feb 1822 - 8 Jun 1900
28 mentions
Greer, Thomas Lacy
1826-1881
17 mentions
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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine
Daybook (24 October 1879 - 31 January 1881)
(Jan 1, 1880.) How these figures look to me, I was born in 1807 the first day of March
If I was to Live till 1887 I should be 80 years of age But How long I shall live & remain in
the flesh God ownly knows, this year opens with a prospect of Great Hostility of our
Government agains[t] the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the Kingdom of God
esstablished in Utah and adjoining Territories in the Rocky Mountains the Everlasting
Hills given to old Father Jacob & his posterity. But God reigns and our
trust is in Him. He will guide his Saints as He has in days Gone by, and
when this year is past We will see what state bothe the Nation and the Saints will
be in at the end of the year. Our Nations is Rapidly Hastening to Destruction and
is ripening in iniquity and is doomed to Destruction in fulfillmet of the Word of the
Lord who has spoken concerning them (This New Years day of 1880 finds me at
Brother Greers inat the Little Colorado Meadow in Apache Co Arizona Territory I spent
the day mostly reading and meditating I walked several Miles during the day & Br Lot Smith
Neil & Alread went to St John to attend a trial on the Land claim)
Telegram to Joseph Fielding Smith, ca. 1880s
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Church membership 135,000; Utah Territory 143,963; population of 38 United States 50,190,000.
Wilford receives Wilderness Revelation regarding God's defense of the patriarchal law of marriage.