[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] -Dr. diagnoses as " La Grippe and general collapse" "I was unable to get up, my strength was gone and I was in pain from head to foot." (1)
-- Monday, March 1, 1909
[Diary of John Henry Smith (apostle and father of George Albert Smith)] Salt Lake City
I returned home [from stake conference in Payson] finding son George Albert very sick.... (2)
-- Mar 19-Mar 23, 1909
[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] -not able to do any work (1)
-- Mar 31-April 13, 1909
[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] - "laid around home" (1)
-- Apr 11, 1909
[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] left SLC at midnight for L.A. to begin stay at Ocean Park (1)
-- Apr 21, 1909
[Apostle George Albert Smith Journal] "have considerable nervousness" (1)
-- Tuesday, April 27, 1909
[Diary of John Henry Smith (apostle and father of George Albert Smith)] Ocean Park, California
We reached here at 8 a.m. John Acomb and our son George met us and we went on to Ocean Park. We had a nice day on the sandy beach. (2)
-- Friday, May 7, 1909
[Diary of John Henry Smith (apostle and father of George Albert Smith)] San Diego
Prest. J. E. Robinson, John Acomb and wife, George A. and Sarah F. and I went to San Diego traveling a part of the Coast. We put up at the Burrup Hotel. (2)
-- Friday, May 14, 1909
[Diary of John Henry Smith (apostle and father of George Albert Smith)] Ocean Park
I received a letter from [wife] Josephine she says all is well. I wrote to Josephine, Glenn, Winslow, Don and Chase. We took a salt bath at the Sanatarium. George is doing nicely. (2)
-- Friday, May 28, 1909
[Diary of John Henry Smith (apostle and father of George Albert Smith)] Los Angeles
We reached here at 10 a.m. Bot our sleepers to Phoenix, Arizona,
and went out to Ocean Park to see George and my wife Sarah. They were absent from Hart Street so we returned to Los Angeles and at 12 noon left for the south. We came near missing our train. (2)
Footnotes:
1 - Journals of George Albert Smith
2 - White, Jean Bickmore, Church, State, and Politics: The Diaries of John Henry Smith, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1990, http://bit.ly/johnhenrysmith
LDS History Chronology: George Albert Smith
Mormon History Timeline: The life of George Albert Smith
http://lds-church-history.blogspot.com/
