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Day in the Life

Aug 4, 1841

Journal Entry

August 04, 1841 ~ Wednesday
Aug 4th 1841 HYMENIAL
Married—In Farmington Hartford Co Connecticut,
Aug 4th by Elder Willford Woodruff. Mr. Dwight
Webster, to Miss Eunice Woodruff of Farmington Ct

There was between 40 & 50 persons attended the
weding most of which were our relatives which gave
me the privilege of an interview with many friends
among whome was Uncle Ozem Woodruff family
John & Seth &c Also Bulah Hart, Ezra Hart, Lydia Hart
Betsey & Ann Cossett & others we spent the time [FIGURE]
agreeable while together though our interview was short
Sister Eunice Health is not vary good as yet

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56 mentions
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Alvord, Betsey Cossett
19 Jan 1806 - 5 Feb 1884
99 mentions
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22 mentions
Family
Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
126 mentions
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Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 15 Jun 1853
258 mentions
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Hart, Ezra
1802-1864
10 mentions
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Woodruff, John
15 Oct 1818 - 17 Sep 1886
24 mentions
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9 mentions
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Woodruff, Ozem, b. 1787
3 Nov 1787 - 18 Feb 1871
154 mentions
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Woodruff, Seth
15 Dec 1822 - 30 Jul 1900
23 mentions
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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

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Autobiography 1858 Deseret News

Dwight Webster in Farmington, Conn., Aug. 4, 1841[.] My father was a strong constitutioned man, and has done a great amount of labor. At eighteen years of age, he commenced attending a flouring and saw mill, and continued about [Column 2] 50 years; most of this time he labored eight- een hours a day. He never made any profession of religion, until I baptized him with all his household into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

My Father Aphek Woodruff like his Father was a strong constitu- tioned man, has done a great amout of labour all of his life. He commenced attending a flouring mill & a saw mill at 18 years of age which business he has now continued in for about 50 years, most of the time he has laboured through the day & one half of the night. He never made any profession of religion untill I baptized him with all

Autobiography 1892 Deseret News Notes

Conn., . My father at 18 worked in a flouring & saw mill, and continued about 50 years, laboring 18 hours a day most of the time. I baptized him and all his house- hold into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

My father was a strong constitutioned man, and has done a great amount of labor. At eighteen years of age, he com- menced attending a flouring and saw mill, and continued about 50 years; most of this time he labored eighteen hours a day. He never made any profession of re- ligion, until I baptized him with all his household into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

was on the . A few days afterwards my aunt Bulah Hart was baptized into the Church, and

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1

This was on the A few days afterwards my aunt Bulah Hart

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Aug 4, 1841