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1878, May 19:

Entry: 1878: May, "Sun. 19 - Daniel R. Sellers and Mary A Kirtland, with their respective families, arrived at a place near Los Cerritos, Conejos Co., as the first saints from the Southern States to settle in San Luis Valley, which had been selected by the authorities of the Church as a gathering place for the Saints from the Southern States. Other families soon followed." (LDS Church Chronology 1804-1914, page 102)

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