Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes
Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes (1843-1897) was born 25 Jul. 1843 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois. She was the fourth child of Wilford Woodruff and Phebe Whittemore Carter. She married Robert Scholes on 30 Jan. 1859 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., Utah, and they had seven children. She was baptized by Wilford Woodruff on 25 Jul. 1852. She died in 1897 in Sioux, Woodbury Co., Iowa.
Footnotes
Susan Cornelia Woodruff (KWVG-XRZ), Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 10 Feb. 2022). Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/susan-cornelia-woodruff-scholes, accessed 19 Mar. 2022). Susan Woodruff, The Emmeline B. Wells Diaries (https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/search?q=%22Susan+Woodruff%22&lang=eng, accessed 10 Feb. 2022). Susan Cornelia Woodruff Scholes, The First Fifty Years of Relief Society (https://www.churchhistorianspress.org/the-first-fifty-years-of-relief-society/people/susan-cornelia-woodruff-scholes, accessed 17 Jan. 2022).
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Excerpt:Liverpool Oct. 17th My Dear Phebe I want to see you very much and kiss you your Mother Phebe that went in the big ship has not forgotten you at all but very often thinks of you and feels as though she could fly to get to you. I will come home and see you and bring your little sister Susan and a little new brother Joseph to play with her and then we will go to see brotherDates:October 17, 1843 -
Excerpt:Bath Street Stanley Building Bath Street Liverpool Sept 4th 1845 Dear Brother & Sister Benbow In great Haste we sit down to drop a few lines to you We would have been glad to have written a long letter to you at this time but being overwhelmed in business you must take the will for the deed. We are all enjoying a comfortable degree of health, My health is about as usual Mrs Woodruff has had some vary Ill days since her confinement ...Dates:September 4, 1845 -
Excerpt:in the Land in the East as well as the west. Please write me a long letter when you get this & tell me all the news with you give my respects to all your family & all who inqire after me it would be a difficult matter for me to call now &c for I should never know whare to begin or leave of. Remember me in your prayers before the Lord for you may rest assured I knead them & those of all good men for the whole burthen of my labours & carses at the present time ... -
Excerpt:I am absent from Nauvoo, including the 2nd volume of "The Neighbor," and 6th of "Times and Seasons", as my volumes are much broken that come to me. Myself, wife, Susan and Joseph are all well. we both wish to be re- membered to Brother and Sister Taylor and all inquiring friends. Please give our respects to Mr and Mrs Elias Smith—we wish them much joy—peace and prosperity ... -
Excerpt:forecastle of a small sloop, lived mostly upon black tea, land sea bread & Molasses, fresh fish, & Lobsters. I Began to feel Homesick the constant cold fogs, & smoke, filled up my Lungs, I coughed, raised Blood, & fell sick I preached one day in the Harbor to the fishermen, all men, The women were afraid to come ^out^ not knowing what ^A^ Mormon might do. they wanted me to preach more, but I felt more like trying to get on my journey. It was ownly 30 hours sail with good wind to Machias from -
Excerpt:in Plainness for not remembering his promise to me of A Debt of £30 but vary smoothly past it by without either paying the debt or refering to it in his letter to me January 20, 1846 ~ Tuesday 220th I spent the day at the office And a hard days work it was in trying to settle my accou- nts & wind up m[y] business & be prepared to put of at half past 9 ock I took steemer to Rock ferry cross the Mercy & spent ...Dates:January 20, 1846 January 21, 1846 -
Excerpt:May 28, 1846 ~ Thursday 28th We rode to Farmington I rode to the whole company bought there flour at Farmington I bought flour 4 barrels we crossed the Desmoin River at the Farmington ferry went out 4 mile & camped got [got durg] our waggon out 25 miles from Nauvoo 25 mile May 29, 1846 ~ Friday 29th we lay still through the day with our teems. I reloaded my waggons And sent back toDates:May 28, 1846 May 29, 1846 May 30, 1846 May 31, 1846 June 1, 1846 June 2, 1846 June 3, 1846 June 4, 1846 -
Excerpt:& fired upon the people and killed 21 and wounded 33 the spirit of Mobing has been Manifest evry since in New York and the spirit of Mobing war confusion and anarchy is appearing all ove[r] the Earth. A mob of late arose in Canida of 7000, surrounded t[he] Parliament House broke in the windows stoned & egged the Govornour Lord Elgin & all members of Parliament burnt the Parliament House to the ground & all the Canidia Canadian Record[s] for 5000 years war is poured out upon all ...Dates:May 15, 1849 May 16, 1849 May 17, 1849 May 18, 1849 -
Excerpt:September 12, 1849 ~ Wednesday 12th [FIGURE] I wrote two letters one to Allexander Badlam & one to Calvin I Foss of San Francisco sent by Brother Baldwin Sister Baldwin was attacked at our house this morning with sumthing like the cholera we laid Hands upon her & rebuked the desease & she was healed almost instan- ly got up dressed herself eat breakfast & went into Boston. September 13, 1849 ~ Thursday 13th I rode ...Dates:September 12, 1849 September 13, 1849 September 14, 1849 September 15, 1849 September 16, 1849 September 17, 1849 September 18, 1849 -
Excerpt:the grave of John C Campbell & a child buried to day from Br Snows company of cholera June 28, 1850 ~ Friday 28 Our Teamsters had another blow up this morning 5 or 6 gold diggers who were driving baggage waggons said they would leave their object was to take advantage of our situation & compel us to pay high wages for driving I told them they might quit as quick as they pleased And they would none of them go I turned off Williams ...Dates:June 28, 1850 June 29, 1850 June 30, 1850 July 1, 1850 July 2, 1850 July 3, 1850 July 4, 1850 July 5, 1850