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Day in the Life

May 17, 1883

Journal Entry

May 17, 1883 ~ Thursday

17 I rode to the farm saw Emma Sarah D & Wilford [visited]
B Youngs farm & J R Winders stock and returned 10 M[iles]
[FIGURE] I wrote 2 letters to M F Farnsworth & J D T. McAllister

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Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
540 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
874 mentions
Family
McAllister, John Daniel Thompson
19 Feb 1827 - 21 Jan 1910
596 mentions
Missionary
102 mentions
Farnsworth, Moses Franklin
5 Feb 1834 - 25 Feb 1906
155 mentions
Woodruff, Sarah Delight Stocking
26 Jun 1838 - 28 May 1906
168 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
699 mentions
Family

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Woodruff Farm, 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 17, 1883