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Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1888

Journal Entry

March 01, 1888 ~ Thursday

[FIGURE] March 1, 1888
Wilford Woodruff
Born March 1, 1807
Aged 81 yers old
to day

[FIGURE] March 1, 1888
Emma Smith Woodruff
Born March 1, 1838
Aged 50 years old
this day

Thus my life has been
preserved fo 81 years
My Brother Thompson
is 83 years of Age
still living, but blingd
My brother Azmon
is 85 but quite feeble
I have been in the
Church 54 years last
December I pray the
Lord to give me power
to finish my labors on
the Earth in a way and
Manner that will be
Acceptable unto Him
The United States
Government are now
siezing the church property
through a receiver and
what the End will be God
ownly Knows May his will
be done


This is my Birth day I Am 81 years old this
day And my wife Emma Smith Woodruff
is 50 years old this day I have had a vary
busy day Brother G Q. Cannon and Charles
Wilckken & H. B. Clawson & Brother Thurman
called upon me & spent most of the day with
me I signed 30 recommends & received
30 Letters I wrote 15 Letters among the Number
[FIGURE] to Jaques ^&^ Mary Olson Bulah & children
took dinner with us I used my influence
against a Bill in the Legislature to tax the
People of Utah 8 per cent upon all taxable
property $176065.57

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Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
350 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Beulah Augusta Beatie
19 Jul 1851 - 13 Jan 1905
249 mentions
Family
83 mentions
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
876 mentions
Family
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
1968 mentions
Apostle
Clawson, Hiram Bradley
7 Nov 1826 - 29 Mar 1912
126 mentions
Jaques, John
7 Jan 1827 - 1 Jun 1900
439 mentions
Woodruff, Mary, b. 1867
26 Oct 1867 - 15 Feb 1903
163 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
201 mentions
Family

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Utah Territory

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I have been in the Church 54 years last December I pray the Lord to give me power to finish my labors on the Earth in a way and Manner that will be Acceptable unto Him The United States Government are now siezing the Church property through a receiver and what the End will be God ownly Knows May his will be done
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Mar 1, 1888