Orlando Saunders remembers Smith family drinking alcohol in letter to William Kelley.

Date
Mar 6, 1881
Type
Manuscript
Source
Orlando Saunders
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Summary
Late
Reference

Orlando Saunders in William Kelley, Notebook, 6 March 1881 in Dan Vogel, comp., Early Mormon Documents, 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 1998), 2:85

Scribe/Publisher
Signature Books
People
Orlando Saunders, Joseph Smith, Jr., William Kelley
Audience
N/A
Transcription

Orlando Saunders. Say 78 year old in April[.] Smiths worked for him and they were good fellows to work[.] Hyram and the old man were coopers[.] very good people. Every bod[y] drank in those days and the Smith[s] drank also, but they never got drunk. They were the best family in the neighborhood in case of sickness. One was at my house nearly all the time when my father died. Martin Haris was [remainder of sentence written sideways on page] one of the first ones of the Town.

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