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Day in the Life

May 14, 1883

Journal Entry

May 14, 1883 ~ Monday

14 [FIGURES] I met the Brethren at the Historians Office and
W Woodruff B Young A Carrington & Wm Taylor set apart
11 Missionaries W. Woodruff set apart 3 and ordained 3 seventies
I spent the day in the office writing

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Carrington, Albert
8 Jan 1813 - 19 Sep 1889
210 mentions
Apostle
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
540 mentions
Apostle
14 mentions
Missionary

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Historian's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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A. O. Smoot told W. Woodruff that He & Alanson Ripley while surveying out Adam Ondi Ahman about 22 Miles North of Jackson County Missouri they came acros a stone wall in the midst of a dens forest & underbrush. The wall was 30 feet long 3 feet thick, and about 4 feet high above the ground and laid in mortar or cement. when Joseph Smith the Prophet visited the place, and Examined the wall, He said it was the remains of an Altar Built By Father Adam whare he offered sacrafice after he was driven from the Garden of Eden which was located in Jackson County Missouri The whotle town which was laid out and named Adam Ondi Ahman was in the midst of a thick & heavy forest of timber and the place named after Adams Altar The Prophet Joseph said it was upon this Altar whare Adam blessed his sons and Posterity Before his death Let Historians of the Church note this
~ A.O. Smoot

May 14, 1883