Day in the Life

Dec 18, 1886

Journal Entry

December 18, 1886 ~ Saturday

18 with Emma Thompson & wife we rode to Atkins
visited the pond Thompson shot 2 ducks & 1 Rabbit I
shot 5 quails atin one shot all the game I got we returned
at night weary I receivd 2 letters from B Young
A folded letter/box An arrow and Lot Smith Daggs the great sheep Man
of San Francis Mountains and his herder a stout
Englishman undertook to kill Lot Smith But Lot got
the first shot cut off one of the fingers of the Englishman
and stove his gun to peaces so he could not shoot, they
then beged for quarters and the fight stoped

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Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
578 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Electa Z. Nelson
6 Oct 1819 - 3 May 1888
15 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
993 mentions
Family
Smith, Lot
15 May 1830 - 21 Jun 1892
365 mentions
Missionary
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
217 mentions
Family

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Edmunds-Tucker Act passed by Congress: disincorporated the Church and Perpetual Emigration Fund; authorized confiscation of Church property.

Dec 18, 1886