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Day in the Life

Dec 18, 1876

Journal Entry

December 18, 1876 ~ Monday

18. [FIGURE] I rode over to Leeds & Br Brigham Young Jr had gone to Belview
to Meet his wife Elizabeth Fenton Young and he arived with her
at 11 oclok Br C. H. Wil^c^ken Brought her down & some cloth for the
Temple I rode with him to Harrisburgh He brought me 5 letters from
D. H. Wells, Phebe. W. Woodruff, B. Y. Woodruff, Bulah A Beatie &
Ella Beatie. Elder Erastus Snow arived & we held a Priesthood
Meeting and we all spoke our feelings & advised the people not
to Mingle with the Miners nor unite with them in dancing parties
and to sell their wine by the Barrel to the Miners & not retail it we
gave advise upon many thing. at the close of the meeting we drove to St
George I rode with Br Wilcken. Distance 30 Miles

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Woodruff, Beulah Augusta Beatie
19 Jul 1851 - 13 Jan 1905
248 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
541 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Brigham Young, b. 1857
18 Jan 1857 - 16 Jun 1877
60 mentions
Family
83 mentions
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
773 mentions
Apostle
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
641 mentions
Apostle
12 mentions
Family
Young, Mary Elizabeth Fenton
24 Oct 1836 - 11 May 1898
6 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1547 mentions
Family

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1877
Church membership reaches 115,065.

Dec 18, 1876