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Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1843

Journal Entry

March 01, 1843 ~ Wednesday

March 1st 1843 This is my Birthday I
am thirty six years of age this day time
flies & waiteth for no am [man] it is exceding cold
weather the river cloesed by ice from Nauvoo
to Montrose on the 15 of last November & it is not
open yet but teams have crossed continually
from shore to shore

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Mississippi River, United States
Montrose, Lee County, Iowa Territory
Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois

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[FIGURE] 10 I Wilford Woodruff testify that about 7 oclock PM I discoverd a stream of light in the south west quarter of the heavens the rays of Light were in the form of a broadsword with the hilt downward the blade raised pointing from the west south west raised to an angle of 45 degrees from the horizen & extending nearly or within 2 or 3 degrees to the zenith of the degree
~ Wilford Woodruff

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May 1843
Wilford assists in publication of the Nauvoo Neighbor (published until Saints leave Nauvoo in 1846).

Mar 1, 1843