Church membership reaches 115,065.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 19, 1877 ~ Friday
19. Endowments given 1 for the Living, 18 for the dead, Ordained 7 Elders
for the dead, 1 for the living, W Woodruff ordained 3. B Young sealed 12 co
I received 3 letters from Emma & Nelly I wrote 9 letters
2 to Phebe 2 to Emma 1 to Brigham to Asahel, Nellie, Clara, Owen,
& Blanch, {Emma [illegible shorthand]}. Held a prayer meeting at McDonalds a good Meeting
People
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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jul 1904
616 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
MacDonald, Alexander Findlay
1825-1903
101 mentions
Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
693 mentions
Family
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3427 mentions
Apostle, Family
Woodruff, Brigham Young, b. 1857
18 Jan 1857 - 16 Jun 1877
63 mentions
Family
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
413 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Manella
4 Jul 1860 - 30 Nov 1905
242 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
1002 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1580 mentions
Family
Daynes, Winnifred Blanche Woodruff
9 Apr 1876 - 2 Apr 1954
276 mentions
Family
Events
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First baptism for the dead administered in St. George Temple font.
First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in St. George Temple.
First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in St. George Temple.
Brigham Young asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.
Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the St. George Temple.
Wilford administers second anointing by proxy for the first time in the St. George Temple.
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.
Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th President of 38 United States.
Wilford sealed to Eudora Lovina Young by her father Brigham Young.