Wilford is dying; gives family final instructions on funeral and disposition of belongings.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
October 22, 1859 ~ Saturday
22nd Sisters Eliza R Snow & Zina Young was sent for
and they called to see me I was exceding sick Sister
Zina staid through the day and left in the evening sister
Eliza Snow spent the night with me. I had a tremendious
raging Lung fever. Sister Snow gave me 20 drops
of the strongest Hemlock oil it went through my whole
system it hagd a great tendency to check my fevers
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Snow, Eliza Roxcy
21 Jan 1804 - 5 Dec 1887
48 mentions
Young, Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith
31 Jan 1821 - 28 Aug 1901
59 mentions
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