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Day in the Life

Feb 6, 1841

Journal Entry

February 06, 1841 ~ Saturday

6th [FIGURE] I got 3 letters from the postman one from Dr
Levi Richards, to me one from Sister Young to Elder
Young Dec 25th one to Elder Kimball, Sister Young
said Br Joseph was going to write for the Twelve to hold
a conference in England in the spring ordain as many
as they thought wisdom & send them to all parts they
could, & then for the Twelve to return to Nauvoo

We Baptized one in the evening. I perused the London
Weekly Dispatch, which gave an account of the wreck
of the Packet Ship Garrick of[f] Sandy Hook. Elders
Kimble & O Hide, crossed the Atlantic twice in her
when they first came to Eng & returned, her tonage
was 1010, was a new ship, the paper also spoak of
the bad state of affairs in America esspecially in the
money market, the Banks being rotten at the core

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1402 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2228 mentions
62 mentions
48 mentions
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
670 mentions
Apostle

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Feb 6, 1841