Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
11th Sunday this is my day to be sick with the ague &
fever according to its usual course but blessed be the Lord I
have esscaped it this day. I have taken 14 of the sappington
pills & they have cured me intirely of the ague to all app
earance. I attended meeting in the grove & herd a discourse
from Elders J Tailor, C. Smith & S. Smith & communed with the
Saints & inasmuch as we were without purs & scrip they con
tributed to our necessities to the amount of $9. One Mr Miller
offered himself for baptism after meeting I rode to McComb fro
m thence to Father John Coltrin's & spent the night was
weak & feeble with the exercises of the day. Distance 14 miles
