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Day in the Life

Oct 19, 1882

Journal Entry

October 19, 1882 ~ Thursday

19 [FIGURES] I received a letter from Haden W Church &
He informed me his wife & ownly Daughter was Dead and
Buried she died with canscer in the roof of the Mouth
I wrote 3 Letters to A. F. MCDonald & B. F. Johnson
see copy in Letter Book. I also wrote J. D. T McAllister

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91 mentions
Johnson, Benjamin Franklin
28 Jul 1818 - 18 Nov 1905
31 mentions
Church, Clara Jane Randall
23 Feb 1860 - 14 Oct 1882
1 mention
Church, Haden Wells, b. 1848
8 Sep 1848 - 20 Apr 1922
3 mentions
McAllister, John Daniel Thompson
19 Feb 1827 - 21 Jan 1910
599 mentions
Missionary
Church, Sarah Ann
11 Apr 1878 - 11 Oct 1882
2 mentions

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Letter to Alexander F. McDonald, 19 October 1882
Salt Lake City, . Mr. A. F. McDonald. Dear Brother—I have received several letters from you and Brother B. F. Johnson upon the subject of your settlement in Mexico and Arizona. These letters have been laid before Presi- dent Taylor and council, and Presi- dent Taylor has expressed himself that he would ^as desirous of^ writeing to both of you and give some counsel upon the subject. Now I will say that Brother Johnson had permission, at his own request, to take that journey to look out a location to settle his own family upon, and was counselled to form that settle- ment in some part of Mexico, if possible. He was not sent to
Letter to Benjamin F. Johnson, 19 October 1882
Salt Lake City, . Elder Benjamin F. Johnson. Dear Brother—I have received several letters from you, giving an account of your travels and doings. All your letters have been laid before the Presidency of the Church and Council, and the general feelings are that you are going too far in your operations in engaging a large quantity of land in Arizona and expecting the authorities of the Church to send large numbers of men to pay for the land and occupy it. You had permission to go to look out a location for yourself and family and were advised to make the location in some part of Mexico, if possible, and it was expected that you would take your fam- ily from Utah, and not that you would call those who had been called to go to St. John, and who were sent there to strengthen that place, and who are wanted there more than at Salt River. I have been gone some twenty days to

Oct 19, 1882