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English
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Jane Wilkie Hooper Blood, Autobiography and Abridged Diary
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Logan, UT
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J. P. Smith
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"1. Autobiographical sketch, 1845-79. pp. 14-22. Born in Southampton, Hampshire, England, 1845. Moved to Bristol, 1847 and to Cornwall, 1849. Mother joined LDS Church, 1853. Author and father baptized same year. Emigrated to Utah, 1854. Moved to Kaysville, Davis county, 1855. Moved South to Spanish Fork, 1858. Settled in Ogden, 1859. Rebaptized. Married William Blood, 1861. Returned to Kaysville. Negative view of expedition against Morrisites, 1862. Called to receive endowments, 1862. Counseled to move into fort, 1867. Relief Society worker, 1868-98. Saw first train arrive in valley, 1869. Husband took plural wife, 1872. Difficult time. Sunday School teacher, 1877. Primary organized; author president, 1879. 2. Abridged diary, 1880-98. pp. 32-141. Bought silk worm eggs, 1880. Made candles, wax flowers, hair flower wreaths. Spun silk. Attendance at stake and general conferences. Time changed twenty-eight minutes to correspond to Denver time, 1 May 1884. Logan Temple dedication, 1884. Temple work for dead ancestors. Suffered from neuralgia. Husband arrested for unlawful cohabitation, 1887. Trial. Heard preacher of Church of the Firstborn. Husband in prison, 1887-88. Dedication of Manti Temple, 1888. Special meeting to pray for reelection of John T. Cain[e], 1891. Woman's suffrage organization. Baptized for health, 1892. Relief Society Jubilee, 1892. Counseled that Relief Society should have officers, 1893. Elected vice-president. ("This new organization is quite different than the old one, and everyone sees it in a different light. I like the old one best.") Dedication of Salt Lake Temple. 1893. Primary president. Parades. Visit of Brother [Andrew] Jenson who was "getting all the history of the ward . . .," 1893. Opposed to county officers stopping the Industrial Army. Second anointings, 1895. Attended Democratic Party convention, 1896. Instruction that temple clothing worn by corpses during viewing not to be exposed to public. Did not want statehood. Delegate to state Democratic Convention, 1897. Second vice-chairman. Daughter married gentile. "One of the most miserable days of my life." Illness, 1897-98. Editor notes original diary fills two volumes. Some supplementary material by author's daughters." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, 1977]