Sept 101 1874
we are having vary hard frosts nights which is killing our fodder
we threshed our wheat By 12 oclok 264 Bushels of wheat on
8 Acres Being 33 Bushels to the Acre I was vary weary at night
~ Saturday
12. I cut Pcorn & Dug potatoes the fodder of the corn was mostly killed
[FIGURE] I wrote a letter to Harvy Parkins about a Threshing Machine
~ Sunday
13 Sunday I was quite unwell did not Attend Meeting attended the prayer
[FIGURE] circle in the Evening I wrote to Mrs Woodruff.
~ Monday to ~ Tuesday
14, & 15 I spent the cTime cutting corn I Received 3 letters from Brinton
[FIGURE] Phebe & James S Balder
~ Wednesday
16. I spent the day in the Endowment House we Baptized 494 for
the dead & confirmed them I confirmed 176. D H Wells sealed
96 couple for the Dead W Woodruff 25 couple I was vary weary
~ Thursday
17 [FIGURE] I wrote 2 letters to Phebe & J. Stockings spent the day at the
field drawing corn & cutting it 6 M[iles]
~ Friday
18 I spent the day drawing & cutting corn I returned to the city & spent the night Sarah & Mary Woodruff was there
they had come down from Randolph with Brother Moses
~ Saturday
19. [FIGURES] President Brigham Young was vary sick to day
His councillors & the Twelve met at Presidents Youngs House
and administered to him by the laying on of Hands we then went
to the Prayer Circle Room & Prayed for him I met with the
[FIGURE] Agricultural Board in the Evening
~ Sunday
20. Sunday I attended Meeting in the New Tabernacle O Pratt Preached one hour & 20 Minuts on the 29 chapter
of Isaiah gave the whole History of the visitation of the Angels
to Joseph Smith the coming forth of the Book of Mormon & the
Early History of the Church I met in the prayer Circle
of the Twelve in the Evening at the close I went to the farm
~ Friday
Sept 11 1874
we are having vary hard frosts nights which is killing our fodder
we threshed our wheat By 12 oclok 264 Bushels of wheat on
8 Acres Being 33 Bushels to the Acre I was vary weary at night
~ Saturday
12. I cutcorn & Dug potatoes the fodder of the corn was mostly killed
[FIGURE] I wrote a letter to Harvy Parkins about a Threshing Machine
~ Sunday
13 Sunday I was quite unwell did not Attend Meeting attended the prayer
[FIGURE] circle in the Evening I wrote to Mrs Woodruff.
16. I spent the day in the Endowment House we Baptized 494 for
the dead & confirmed them I confirmed 176. D H Wells sealed
96 couple for the Dead W Woodruff 25 couple I was vary weary
~ Thursday
17 [FIGURE] I wrote 2 letters to Phebe & J. Stockings spent the day at the
field drawing corn & cutting it 6 Miles
~ Friday
18 I spent the day drawing & cutting corn I returned to the
city & spent the night Sarah & Mary Woodruff was there
they had come down from Randolph with Brother Moses
~ Saturday
19. FIGURES President Brigham Young was vary sick to day
His councillors & the Twelve met at Presidents Youngs House
and administered to him by the laying on of Hands we then went
to the Prayer Circle Room & Prayed for him I met with the
[FIGURE] Agricultural Board in the Evening
~ Sunday
20. Sunday I attended Meeting in the New TabernacleO Pratt Preached one hour & 20 Minuts on the 29 chapter
of Isaiah gave the whole History of the visitation of the Angels
to Joseph Smith the coming forth of the Book of Mormon & the
Early History of the Church I met in the prayer Circle
of the Twelve in the Evening at the close I went to the farm
"Journal (January 1, 1873 – February 7, 1880)," September 11, 1874 - September 20, 1874, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed March 28, 2024, https://www.wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Xo7v