Find Your Relatives
Find Your Relatives
Images of Wilford's Family

Discover Your Relatives in Wilford Woodruff's Papers

with the help of
Start Here
Wilford Woodruff Papers Wilford Woodruff Papers
About Volunteer Meet the Team Partners Impact Editorial Method
2023 Conference Articles Photos Podcasts Updates Videos Newsroom

Day in the Life

May 17, 1839

Journal Entry

May 17, 1839 ~ Friday

17 Travled 15 miles & camped in the bottom of an open prairie 15

Related Documents

Browse other documents with this same date. These could include pages from Wilford Woodruff's autobiographies, daybooks, letters, histories, and personal papers.

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 2
& camped for the night, and on the night of the , we camped on the bottom of an open prairie. We arrrived in

Events

View selected events in the two months surrounding this date in Wilford Woodruff's life.

April 6, 1839
Church leaders escape while being transported for trial with the help of their guards; Church members move to Commerce, Illinois and establish Nauvoo.
May 4, 1839
Wilford receives the official call to serve his third mission.

May 17, 1839