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Day in the Life

May 26, 1888

Journal Entry

May 26, 1888 ~ Saturday

26 I signed 12 Recommends I received 10 Letters I
spent most of the day reading I spent the night at the farm

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Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

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Thus The Apostle Erastus Snow has left us, and gone into the spirit world to Join with the rest of the Apostles He making the Twelfth Apostle who has died in the Church since our Arival into these vallies on the 27 July 1847 My turn must soon come I Pray God I may be prepared for that solemn Event, which awaits us all. I feel left almost alone, as I am the ownly Man living who was An Apostle in the days of Joseph the Prophet
~ Wilford Woodruff

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June 14, 1888
Wilford directs all 32 stakes to establish Stake Academies to educate youth of the Church.
July 9, 1888
Church's attorneys obtain commitment from United States Solicitor that temples would not be confiscated.

May 26, 1888