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Mar 11, 1846

Journal Entry

March 11, 1846 ~ Wednesday

11th I bought A keg of oysters 1/2 bushels of clams
And a fresh codfish to my Father took
cars rode to New Britain Hiered a waggon
to go to Farmington 4 miles Paid $1.50 30 miles
I arived at My Fathers House at 3 oclok
and was truly glad to once more behold the
face of My Father & Mother which blessing
I Highly Prized which was according to
my expectations while at sea in my suffering
condition. I sent to the office for a
letter from Phebe But did not get any
I was informed on my arival that
Aunt Anna Cosset Died on the 25th Jan 1846
After A long sicknes or illness of
two years & 4 months her death Broke
up the family Ann expects to go [to] A factory
And Cyrus to canton in the Blacksmith

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56 mentions
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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
542 mentions
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Woodruff, Azubah Hart
31 Jul 1792 - 20 Mar 1851
252 mentions
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Cossett, Cyrus
19 Jan 1805 - 19 Nov 1850
10 mentions
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1550 mentions
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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
I reached Farmington on the found all matters concerning my father and mother as I ^according^ to my expectations but my Aunt Anna Cossett had died which broke up the ^her^ family. Her daughter Ann was going into a factory Cyrus to Canton in the blacksmith business which left my cousin Betsey alone and she desired to go with my fathers family and the Saints. Leaving Farmington for a season I started for my wife's father's to fetch my daughter Phebe whom I found a large fleshy girl.

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On final day of work in temple, 600 received ordinances; total of 5,615 received endowments in Nauvoo.
Times and Seasons stops serial publication of the Manuscript History of the Church (history ends with events on August 11, 1834).

Mar 11, 1846