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Day in the Life

May 18, 1882

Journal Entry

May 18, 1882 ~ Thursday

18 [FIGURE] I wrote 3 letters to Susan, Eugenia & Phebe C Scholes
and invited the girls to come out this fall. In company
[FIGURE] with John Henry Smith I visited Bro A C Piper
who has been seriously afflicted with a cancer or
tumur about the face and has had it cut out twice but
is still badly afflicted we anointed him and laid hands
upon him and rebucked the affliction and I felt a testimony
that He would get Better I took cars and wrote [rode] to Nephi &
spent the night with G Teasdale A Meeting was held in the
Evening Brother Richards, Lyman & Smith spoke
distance of the day 95 Miles

People

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3 mentions
Scholes, Eugenia Amelia Cody
21 May 1860 - 16 Sep 1955
60 mentions
Family
Lyman, Francis Marion
12 Jan 1840 - 16 Nov 1916
240 mentions
Apostle
Richards, Franklin Dewey
2 Apr 1821 - 9 Dec 1899
784 mentions
Apostle
Teasdale, George
8 Dec 1831 - 9 Jul 1907
502 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Smith, John Henry
18 Sep 1848 - 13 Oct 1911
258 mentions
Apostle
Scholes, Phebe Carter Saville
6 Oct 1862 - 29 Nov 1926
113 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
357 mentions
Family

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Nephi, Juab County, Utah Territory

Events

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March 24, 1882
First Presidency counsels men to live with "only one wife under the same roof."
April 1882
Sixth Constitutional Convention for Utah held; Congress rejects petition for statehood on February 23, 1883.

May 18, 1882