[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] At 1 [o'clock] this morning, Dr. [Richards] commenced dictating a letter to Elders Hyde, Pratt, and Taylor in England. Left off about 4, went to bed where he was confined all day by sickness. Severe frost, accompanied with strong wind. Patty Sessions delivered Cynthia, wife of George P. Dikes, of a daughter named Rachel, at 5 minutes past noon. She was formerly James DurfeeÂ's wife, and this is her tenth daughter and twentieth child.
Municipal high council met at 6 p.m. in Octagon, President W. Richards, W. Woodruff, the Dr. in bed. No business transacted. Thursday, January 7, [1847].
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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