Day in the Life

Feb 19, 1877

Journal Entry

February 19, 1877 ~ Monday

19. A hand pointing to the right I wrote 3 letter to Phebe Snow Wilford & Emily
1 to A. O. Smoot I spent several hours with President Young
took supper with Br Wm Lang He was sick with the chills
and fever we administered to him I attended a meet-
ing of the seventies and spoke to them one hour

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Smoot, Abraham Owen
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
583 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3433 mentions
Apostle, Family
Woodruff, Emily Jane Smith
28 Oct 1850 - 8 May 1878
34 mentions
Family
Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
341 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
717 mentions
Family
3 mentions

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Letter to Orson Pratt, 19 February 1877
St George Temple Elder Orson Pratt Dear Brothr Permit my son Brigham Y. Woodruff to return my Journals and Books to the Historians Office, for safe keeping at least during my absence from Salt Lake City they have answered the purpose for which they were taken out, and as Mrs Woodruff is coming to St George a short time I would like them to be safe. We are now laboring all we can do in the Temple 5 days in a week and the work increasing I hope I may be able to meet with you here at conference Your Brothe In the gospel W Woodruff.
Discourse 1877-02-19
to the Seventies meeting Br W Woodroof spoke very good indeed in our appreciating our privillege as Latter day saints and Seventies before God, spoke of the great work we had to perform for our Dead showed that the Great God never made no mistakes had his eye over us for good all the time that the Angels spirits were watching all our movement in re- lation to the dead, surely it was a time of rejoicing

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1877
Church membership reaches 115,065.
February 23, 1877
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
March 1, 1877
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.
March 21, 1877
Wilford and others finished writing down the ceremonies and temple procedures.
April 16, 1877
Wilford resigns as President of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society after 15 years.

Feb 19, 1877