May 25, 1888
I signed 12 recommends. I received 26 Letters I wrote
12 Letters 10 public & 2 private I held a Meeting with
5 of the Twelve Erastus Snow is dangerously sick nigh
unto Death I went to the farm & spent the night 3 M[iles]
~ Saturday
26 I signed 12 Recommends I received 10 Letters I
spent most of the day reading I spent the night at the farm
~ Sunday
27 Sunday I spent most of the day in the House reading I wrote 1 Letter to Nellie I received a visit from
Marshal Soloman & Heber J Grant. They informed
me that Apostle Erastus Snow died this Evening at
9 Minutes to 7 oclok May 27, 1888
Erastus Snow was born Nov 9, 1818
Died 9 minuts to 7 oclok PM. May 27, 1888
Aged 69 years 6 month, & 9 days
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 [24] 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
~ Friday
FIGURES May 25, 1888
I signed 12 recommends. I received 26 Letters I wrote
12 Letters 10 public & 2 private [FIGURE] I held a Meeting with
5 of the Twelve Erastus Snow is dangerously sick nigh
unto Death I went to the farm & spent the night 3 Miles
~ Saturday
26 I signed 12 Recommends I received 10 Letters I
spent most of the day reading I spent the night at the farm
~ Sunday
27 Sunday I spent most of the day in the House reading
[FIGURE] I wrote 1 Letter to Nellie I received a visit from
Marshal Soloman & Heber J Grant. They informed
me that Apostle Erastus Snow died this Evening at
9 Minutes to 7 oclok May 27, 1888
[FIGURE] Erastus Snow was born Nov 9, 1818
Died 9 minuts to 7 oclok PM. May 27, 1888
Aged 69 years 6 month, & 9 days
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 24 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
"Journal (January 1886 – December 1892)," May 25, 1888 - May 27, 1888, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 26, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/6B6O