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Day in the Life

May 12, 1883

Journal Entry

May 12, 1883 ~ Saturday

12 I took cars with Mrs Woodruff rode to Provo 50 M[iles]
we visited Br Smoot & family. Sister Margarett T.
Smoot was taken with paralasis was entirely deprived
of speech Mrs Phebe W Woodruff Anointed her
& A. O. Smoot Wm Smoot & my self laid hands upon
her And I Wilford Woodruff Blessed her and rebuked her
Disease and her speech began to come to her and
she was some better. I rode out in the Afternoon to the
Insane Assylum which I found to be a vary substanciall
Building I visited the steam esstablishment for making Brick
whare by machinery the clay & Earth is ground and pressed
into Brick in 10 hours labor from 20 to 25000 Brick are
Made I spent the night at Br Smoots ^4 M[iles]^

People

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
556 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
94 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family
Smoot, William Cochran Adkins
30 Jan 1828 - 2 Feb 1920
32 mentions

Places

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Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory
Territorial Insane Asylum, Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory

May 12, 1883