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Day in the Life

Dec 20, 1884

Journal Entry

December 20, 1884 ~ Saturday

20 [FIGURE] I wrote 2 Letter to David P Woodruff &Sarah
I spent the day in the offic I rode to Provo stoped with Br Smoot
21He had been sick 3 weeks with a Desease called the shingles
it was a Belt of fire 3 inches wide from the Back bone to
the navle to half around the body which caused the most inten[se]
suffering of any thing he Ever Endured the belt was
covered with large Blisters the size of a dollar He
had Began to recover & was better distance 50 Miles

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
556 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Woodruff, David Patten
4 Apr 1854 - 20 Jan 1937
217 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
694 mentions
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Historian's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
Provo, Utah County, Utah Territory

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Dec 20, 1884