Day in the Life

Mar 4, 1842

Journal Entry

March 04, 1842 ~ Friday

March 4th 1842. Phebe A. Woodruff
was Born this morning 30 minutes past 10 o'clock
unto us a child is given! unto us a daughter is born
Mother & babe doing well. May the LORD be praised
for all his mercies unto us

After leaving my family comfortable I spent a
busy dat at the office making up the Mails or prep-
airing papers for it

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Snow, Phebe Amelia Woodruff
4 Mar 1842 - 15 Feb 1919
340 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1577 mentions
Family

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Business/Financial - Record of Purchase from Joseph Smith, 5 March 1842
Friday 4th March [18]42 Wm Symmonds for wife Dr To 1 3Three gallon churn 2/- .75 [To] 1 2Two [gallon] [churn] 2/- .50 [To] 8 lb salt 3cts .24 E. F. Wiggins Dr To Alum 1/- .13 [To] 2 oz Alves /6 .12 [To] 1 thimble 1/- .13 [To] 1 pr shoes 14/- 1.75 Joseph Smith To 3 Gal molasses @ 5/- 1.88 [To] 6 Bush Salt @ 12/— 1/2 lb Salt Peter 10lb $9.10 Lewis Barney To 1 Salt Sack 4/- 5.0 N K Whitney To sugar & nutmeg .18 cts To paid for Whiskey .50 [cts] Arthur Milikin Dr To 1 bush meal 2/6 .31 Peter Paywell ^Lemons^ To 1 1/4 Yd Cadet Mint Cloth @ 4.50 5.63 Saturday
Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865
for my friends and four days afterwards, on the 4th of March in the morning, 30 minutes past 10 ^o'clock^ a.m. my daughter Phebe A. Woodruff was born A week later the Nauvoo Legion met on parade and in company with the Twelve I rode in the Legion as assistant chaplain. This was the first time I had seen the Legion on parade

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Wilford appointed manager of the Church's official newspaper Times and Seasons.
Wilford sets type for printing/publishing the Book of Abraham in Times and Seasons.

Mar 4, 1842