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

Discover Your Relatives in Wilford Woodruff's Papers

with the help of

Day in the Life

Apr 17, 1840

Journal Entry

April 17, 1840 ~ Friday

17th This being good friday the quorum
of the Twelve met at penworthham to visit
the saints & spend the day together before we parted.
Sister Moon opened a bottle of wine for
us to bless & partake of which she had kept for
40 years. after spending the day in concersing [conversing]
about the things of the kingdom of God we ret
urned to preston & spent the night 2 m[iles]

People

Browse people Wilford Woodruff mentioned on this day in his journal.

2 mentions

Places

Browse places mentioned in Wilford Woodruff's journal entry on this day.

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 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
On the being Good Friday the Twelve met at Penworthham two miles from Preston to visit the Saints and spend the day together before they seperated for their several fields of labour. Sister Moon opened a bottle of wine for us to bless and partake of. This bottle of wine she had kept for forty years. After spending the day in conversing about the things of the Kingdom of God we returned to Preston. The time had come for the Twelve to seperate and go into different parts of the Lord's vinyard. It was thought widsom for Elder Heber C. Kimble to visist the Churches which he had built up while in England on his former

Events

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

Apr 17, 1840