Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1877

Journal Entry

March 01, 1877 ~ Thursday

A heart Wilford Woodruff
Born March 1, 1807
70 years of Age this March 1,
1877

March 1, 1877 I Wilford Woodruff record in my birth
Journal A History of the celebration of this my Seventieth
birth day. I arived at the Temple of the Lord in Staint George
Washington County, Utah, at 8 oclok in the Morning. I was
there surrounded with one hundred and fifty four
virgins, Maidens Daughters and Mothers in Zion from
the age of fourteen to the Aged Mother leaning upon her
staff. All had assembled for the purpose of Entering
into the Temple of the Lord to make me a birth day Present
by being washed And Anointed and receiving their Endo-
wments
for and behalf of one hundred and Thirty
of my wives who were dead and in the spirit wor[l]d
the majority of which had been sealed to me and the rem-
ainder were to be, therse persons had been sealed to me during
the last fifteen years by Presidents Brigham Young, Heber
C. Kimball
, Daniel H. Wells, G. Q. Cannon, and Joseph F.
Smith
. Also 2Twenty four near relatives were added to

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3409 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
791 mentions
Apostle
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2201 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1445 mentions
Apostle
Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
4053 mentions
Apostle

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Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal

On my birthday, , the day that I was seventy years old, one hundred and fifty-four sisters at St. George went into the temple to get endowments for the same number of the female portion of my dead. This principle was received by President Young and adopted from that hour, and through the kindness of friends I have had nearly two thousand of my friends receive endowments in the

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 3

the day that I was 70 years, 154 sisters of St George went into the Temple & got Endowments for so many of the female portion of my dead and this principle was received by president Young and adopted from this hour and through the assistans of friends I have had nearly 2000 of my dead received Endowments in the Temple of the Lord

Temple - List To Be Sealed, 1876 and 1881

Temple - List of Proxies for Woodruff Family Endowments in St. George Temple, 1 March 1877

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Church membership reaches 115,065.
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.
Wilford and others finished writing down the ceremonies and temple procedures.
Wilford resigns as President of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society after 15 years.

Mar 1, 1877