Editorial Note: Days of the week, month, day, and year of each journal entry have been inserted in the typescript in bold before each entry to aid the reader in differentiating between journal entries. see July 23rd 1835 Stenography Henry A Woodruff Son of Azmon and Harriet Woodruff Born [May 20th 1855] Married Emma Manella Woodruff She was born July 14th 1860 at SLCity Names Births Marriages ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. Brother Benbow furnished us with £300 to print the first Book of Mormon that was published in England: and on the 20th of May, 1840, Brigham Young, Willard Richards and I held a council on the top of Malvern Hill, and there decided that Brigham Young go direct to Manchester and publish 3,000 copies of the Hymn Book and 3,000 copies of the Book of ...

SAVED FROM A STEAM-BOAT DISASTER. While returning to Utah in 1850 with a large company of Saints from Boston and the east, on my arrival at Pittsburg I engaged a passage for myself and company on a steamer to St. Louis. But no sooner had I engaged the passage than the Spirit said to me, "Go not on board of that steamer, neither you nor your company.'' I obeyed the revelation to me, and I did not go on board, ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. possession a large amount of money to make payment on their land purchase. This was known to some road agents in the vicinity, who gathered a company of robbers and went on ahead of Brother Rich and lay in ambush, intending to kill the "Mormons" and rob them of their money. Before reaching the company of robbers Brother Rich came to a by-path or trail. The Spirit then told him to take that path. The brethren with him marveled at his course, not knowing ...

LOST IN A SNOW STORM. I took my team and started early on Saturday morning. When I arrived at Woodruff, the Bishop urged me to stop until Monday and he would go with me. I told him, "No, I had tarried too long already." I drove on sprightly, and when within fifteen miles of Wasatch, a furious snow storm overtook me, the wind blowing heavily in my face. In fifteen minutes I could not see any road whatever, and knew not how or where to guide ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. in the book of Enoch, and are to be testified of in due time." Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were Patriarchs, and blessed their posterity. All that Jacob said and scaled upon the heads of his twelve sons has been fulfilled to the very letter, as far as time has permitted. We also have Patriarchs in our day. Father Joseph Smith, the father of the Prophet Joseph Smith, was the first ...

LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL, THIRD BOOK OF THE FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES. By President W. Woodruff. DESIGNED FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF YOUNG LATTER-DAY SAINTS. SECOND EDITION. JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR OFFICE, Salt Lake City, Utah. 1882. ...

May 9th 1869 hands of God I wish the wicked would leave this Church & go away but they will stay wicth us more or less" W Woodruff spoke 10 Minutes. He said that there were two parties here & in other places. the one is the people of God & the other the people of the devil they serve him & are under the dominion of sin & satan. all who do not belong to the Church of Churchrist of ChBelong to the Church of the Devil. This people ...

May 12, 1869 ~ Wednesday May 12, 1869 Robert Scholes arived to day I paid tithing Money into the tithing office sent from the south. May 13, 1869 ~ Thursday to May 14, 1869 ~ Friday 13 & 14 I spent ion the farm planting potatoes & sowing oats May 15, 1869 ~ Saturday May 15 I attended the school of the prophets I was vary weary with hard labor. A Letter was read from John ...

May 23, 1869 ~ Sunday May 23rd 1869 Sunday I met the largest Assembly at Fort Harriman that I had Ever seen in that place & spoke to them twice during the day A number of them bore testimony May 24, 1869 ~ Monday 24 Jeremiah carried me home to S L City distance both ways 40 40 Miles It Rained mostly through the day May 25, 1869 ~ Tuesday 25 It rained hard all day May 26, 1869 ~ ...