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Eliza Roxcy Snow Journals
June 15, 1847
Location: Fremont, Nebraska - Location: 41:26:00N
96:29:52W Elevation: 1195 feet
Summary: Tuesday - Liberty Pole and an annoying wind.
Journal entry: The brethren call a meeting around a Liberty
pole which was erected yesterday for the purpose of organizing the
Camp. Judg'd to be more than 300 wagons cross'd over at noon this
day--This afternoon several of the sis. met in a little circle on
the prairie in front of our wagons br. Pierce met with us--fath.
[John] Smith stay'd until sent for on business--we had a good time
altho' the prairie wind was somewhat annoying. Sis. Sess. Chase
& E present.1 [Added later:] Recd. a letter from S. M. Kimball.
Source: Eliza Roxcy Snow:
Personal Writings
- © edited by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher 1995. All rights
reserved. Rights were granted by Ms. Beecher (editor), the University
of Utah Press (publisher), and Huntington
Library in Pasadena, California (owners of the original diary)
to publish the transcribed contents of Eliza R. Snow's diaries
for educational use.
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