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Day in the Life

Sep 26, 1839

Journal Entry

September 26, 1839 ~ Thursday

26 I rode with Mother & Aunt Bulah to Uncle Adna's Harts & we found Adna
sick & nigh unto death & probably will not live but few days. I here had an interview with
Sister Cossett I felt quite Ill while at Adnas we returned home & Sister Cossett accopmpanied
us Br Dwight Webster was at fathers house he called to have an interview with me I was truly
glad to see him he tarried about three days & when he left he was more esstablished in the
faith & dedermined to go forth & do his duty & honor the Priesthood which was confirmed upon him 7 m

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
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Woodruff, Azubah Hart
31 Jul 1792 - 20 Mar 1851
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Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
On the I rode with mother and aunt Bulah to uncle Adna Hart's whom we found sick and nigh unto death and on the next day my grandmother Anna Thompson died age 84 years.
Daybook (8 August 1839 - 12 January 1840)
26th I rode with Mother & Aunt Bulah to Uncle Adna Hart's & we found Adna sick & night unto death & probably will not live but few days. I here had an interview with Sister Cossett I felt quite ill while at Adnas we returned home & Sister Cossett accompanied us. Brother Dwight Webster was at fathers house had called to have an interview with me I was truly glad to see him he tarried about three Days & when he left he was more esstab lished in the faith & determined to go forth & do his duty & honor the priesthood which was confered upon him {distance of the day} 7 [miles]

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November 1839
Times and Seasons, official Church newspaper, first published in Nauvoo, Illinois (continuously published until February 1846).

Sep 26, 1839