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Day in the Life

May 27, 1888

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May 27, 1888 ~ Sunday

27 Sunday I spent most of the day in the House reading
[FIGURE] I wrote 1 Letter to Nellie I received a visit from
Marshal Soloman & Heber J Grant. They informed
me that Apostle Erastus Snow died this Evening at
9 Minutes to 7 oclok May 27, 1888

[FIGURE] Erastus Snow was born Nov 9, 1818
Died 9 minuts to 7 oclok PM. May 27, 1888
Aged 69 years 6 month, & 9 days

Thus The Apostle Erastus Snow has left us, and gone
into the spirit world to Join with the rest of the Apostles
He making the Twelfth Apostle who has died in the church
since our Arival into these vallies on the 27 [24] July 1847
My turn must soon come I Pray God I may be
prepared for that solemn Event, which awaits us all.
I feel left almost alone, as I am the ownly Man living
who was An Apostle in the days of Joseph the Prophet

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Thus The Apostle Erastus Snow has left us, and gone into the spirit world to Join with the rest of the Apostles He making the Twelfth Apostle who has died in the Church since our Arival into these vallies on the 27 July 1847 My turn must soon come I Pray God I may be prepared for that solemn Event, which awaits us all. I feel left almost alone, as I am the ownly Man living who was An Apostle in the days of Joseph the Prophet

~ Wilford Woodruff