Took the folks over to Fred’s and staid the afternoon, ate Molases candy and walnuts. Spent the fore-noon & evening at home, wrote & read in the evening. Snow about ten inches, windy & cold. Snowed in the night.

Snowed nearly all day, got my horses up in the afternoon, worked in the stable making mangers in forenoon.

Made mangers & stalls in Stable. Snowed & blowed all day & most of the night.

Wrote to Seney and mother, Studied the subject of Faith, Snowed & blowed nearly all day. Joel was taken sick & I was up in the night with him, Administered to him and he rested pretty well the remainder of the night.

Went with Fred over to Alonzo Busenbark and back by Wm Hardy’s & E. O. Wilcox’s Snow about two feet deep. Was up with Joel in the night again. [p. 111]

Fred & Carlie came over and I went with him down to wheeler’s and got his blue horse. Weather very cold. Was up all night with Joel who was very sick with cold and inward fever.

Plymouth Windy and cold severely cold & deep snow drifted, Joel no better Fred went down after E. O. W. & I went up after J. E. S. who came and administered to Joel. J. E. S. Sat up with us all night. Joel turned for the better at 4 o’clock Am Sunday 8th

Joel continued better, weather severely cold. E. O. W. & wife came up in the afternoon went home in evening. Kept up a fire all night but slept part of the night.

Plymouth Cold & windy. Joel still better J. E. S. called to see us. Our calf died in the night. Kept a fire all night.

Joel still improving, J. H. Hess came over to see us. The weather still cold & windy severely cold. My stables are warm but light shut out. Kept fire all night and water froze in the room where the fire was. We now all of us sleep in the front room. Wrote a card to Mother

Carlie & Fred came over the day before & brought their bed. They are still here & Wilford Richards came and staid with us all night. The night was some warmer and [p. 112] snowed some in the night.

Snowed and blowed most of the day. Fixed up pegs in stable made gate way into Stable did the chor[e]s, Feeding eight head of animals, watering, tie-ing them up & cleaning out stables, cutting wood &c. occupies much of the day.

nothing of importance transpired

Plymouth Went down to E. O. Wilcox after yeast, snow deep and weather cold. Fred & Carlie came over and brought their bedding.

Plymouth Fred & I went over to the Station with four horses on a slay to get some coal but could not get any. Weather excessively cold. While gone to the station One of Fred’s cows died and his Durham calf was nearly frozen to death. We took it in the house but it died in the night. Received a letter from Steve offering hay at Mendon; also a letter from A. F. Doremus asking me to go out to Tooele to take care of his farm and stock. Wrote card to A. P. D. [A. F. D.]

Plymouth Wrote letters to A. F. Doremus, Mother, and Steve. B. J. White staid all night with one boy, three horses and 33 beef cattle.

Went over to the Station to post letters, and received one from Mother with [p. 113] one inclosed from Alice Ann and another from Nerva. Crossed the river on the ice coming back. Wrote in my Journal and made a yearly statement of my Affairs or a statement of Resources and Liabilities.

Plymouth Hauled manure, read in the evening.

Snowed nearly all day, hauled one load of manure, read Deseret news and the Tract “The Modern Prophet.” Read also in Book of the “Seventh Day Adventists.”

Snowed most of the day. hauled one load of manure, read from the Book of Mormon.

Plymouth Received a proposition from A. F. Doremus and answered it while I was at the Station Cold day and deep snow. no road broken.

Plymouth Commenced packing up to move to Tooele City. Went down to E. O. Wilcox’ with a sleigh, deep snow and no road. Weather cold.

Plymouth Took a load of furnature to the station on a sleigh with four horses had on 750 lbs.

Plymouth Took another load to Station with four horses. [p. 114]

Resources January 1888.

Plymouth Left Plymouth with my family at 5.30 o’clock A.M for the Station, Left Collinston at 7.40 AM. on the cars and arrived at Farmington before noon. Went to Salt Lake Friday 27th and returned to Farmington Saturday 27 28, 1888.

At Farmington

Went to Salt Lake City and Staid all night at A. F. D.’s

Left Salt Lake at 8.15 a.m. and arrived at Tooele at 11.20 a.m. Same day. Hobbs had [p. 115] a boy to meet me at the station with a spring carriage. I put the team on a wagon and went back after my things Got a man to haul up a part of a load for which I paid him 50¢. My family I left at Farmington.