Today in Mormon History - Dec 08

[President Wilford Woodruff Journal] Dec 8 1891 Tuesday I had a sick Night & was quite sick this Morning and through the day. The Dr Called upon me. (1)
-- 120 years ago today - Dec 8, 1891

[Brigham Young] --8-- Returned from Ramus with the Twelve who attended conference. We brought about a thousand dollars worth of property for the temple, which had been donated by the Saints at Ramus, consisting of horses, wagons, provisions, clothing, and etc. (2)
-- 170 years ago today - Dec 8, 1841

Ezra Booth writes of a revelation directing Elders to marry with the natives. (3)
-- 180 years ago today - Dec 8, 1831


1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
3 - Tidd, N. R., "Mormon Chronology"

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