Wilford is dying; gives family final instructions on funeral and disposition of belongings.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
December 05, 1859 ~ Monday
5th An exceding cold day I spent the day in the Historians
office. It was a Bitter cold night I wrote 5 letters to
L. Johnson, Benyon, Kelsey, Scholes & S D Woodruff
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Scholes, Robert
19 Nov 1835 - 14 Jul 1891
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Woodruff, Sarah Delight Stocking
26 Jun 1838 - 28 May 1906
171 mentions
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Church membership 61,000; population of Utah Territory 40,273, population of 33 United States 31,443,000.