Wilford is dying; gives family final instructions on funeral and disposition of belongings.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
December 07, 1859 ~ Wednesday
7th The weather is more mild to day I spent the day in the
office Readying History
President Young called into the office and spent about an
hour with us I spoke to President Young about our getting
out the History of Joseph striped of all of its appendages
and to be published as the plain History of Joseph
Smith, he said let it rest at present, we shall not do
any thing about it now. President Young said in speaking
of the Temple we I herd a man say to day we would go back
to Jackson County in 7 years I said Amen but if we go back
in that time we shall have to hasten to get our temple Built
I chink we must commence it next spring, uncover the
foundadtion But I shall have to take up one tier of rock
all over the foundation, For Brother Raleigh appears as though
he wished to destroy that Temple. He would not take Brother
Angels levil which He had got up with great care and
he would not trust to his own Judgment but got Brother Fox
to help him get the levil. But Raleigh made one himself
and he made the foundation not levil & in order to levil up
the last tier he put under small stones which would all crush-
edBeneath the building and one quarter of an inch setling of
that Building would crack it from top to Bottom I have
had much trouble with masons upon this subject, and it
is strange to see this spirit manifest among our leading masons
I should be glad to see the day when all men who profess to
be saints will impart what knowledge they possess to
each other I do not know as Brother Raliagh realizes what He
is doing but it appears to me that He is trying to destroy the
Architecture of that Building. A. Lyman & C. C. Rich arived
home tahis evening & called upon the President & gave an
account of their mission south.
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Lyman, Amasa Mason
30 Mar 1813 - 4 Feb 1877
298 mentions
Apostle
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3433 mentions
Apostle, Family
Rich, Charles Coulson
21 Aug 1809 - 17 Nov 1883
352 mentions
Apostle
Fox, Jesse Williams, b. 1819
1819-1894
23 mentions
Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2358 mentions
Angell (Angel), Truman Osborn Angell
5 Jun 1810 - 16 Oct 1887
41 mentions
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I went into the office in the morning. G. A. Smith related a circumstance of a Mr Woodson who has got possession of the Land upon which the Temple Block stands in Jackson Co Missouri in 1857 Ferrymore Little was in Jackson Co & Mr Woodson said to him I have heard that your people expected to return to this country and ^Build^ a Temple on the Temple Block on my farm. Brother Little Answered to be sure they do. Woodson said you are a Hell of a set. G. A. S. also said He got a statement from Lewis Bidemon that the people of the towns of Warsaw, Carthage pontoosuc & Appanoose made up a subscribtion of $500 & paid it to Joseph Agnoe for Burning the Temple and He went & burnt it for that sum of money I spent the day in the office filing High Council Records
~ Wilford Woodruff
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