Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1889

Journal Entry

March 01, 1889 ~ Friday

March 1, 1889

A heart with a key inside Wilford Woodruff
Born March 1, 1807
Aged 82 Years
May God preserve
me to finish my
work

A heart with a key inside Emma Smith Woodruff
Born 1838 March 1
Aged 51 Years
God Bless her to
council my
children

March 1, 1889 This is my Birth day I gathered
together My family At Emmas at the farm House.
I had of Emmas children Asahel & wife Naoma and daughter
Roxey, And Clara & Husband Ovando Beebe & daughter
Vedi, And Wilford & wife Julia & son Elias and also
Baby, and Bulah and Daughter Ellen And Emmas
son Owen & Daughters Blanch & Allice And Delight
& son Marion wife & child & Emeline Husband &
child Wilford, and Ensign and John, & Julia
& James & Daughter I had 67 sons and 5 daughters
present and 68 grand children I also had G Q Cannon
Br ^C^ Wilken & John Galager Also the Salt Lake glee
club who came to serenade me and Many other friends
we staid untill 1 oclok and had a Joyous time I recd
several presents A nice Morning gown By A. C Brixon
and presents from friends


I receivd the following Present from John Galager
A vary nice cake with the following Motto

To President Wilford Woodruff, Four score & tow [two] long
long Eyears have fled in work for Zions cause on
Earth. This day we greet our Honored head
to show our love and tell his worth. We pray that
Heaven may long Extend your life to testify,
unmoved. Then with your family in the End
find welcome By the Gods Approvd

This was one of the Most satisfactory Birth day
Meetings I Ever had we had a vary interesting time we had
a Quire of singing we went to bed at abot 2 oclok

People

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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jun 1904
642 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
17 mentions
Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
708 mentions
Family
3 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Beulah Augusta Beatie
19 Jul 1851 - 13 Jan 1905
261 mentions
Family
87 mentions
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
419 mentions
Family
5 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Elias Smith
15 Dec 1873 - 16 Nov 1941
23 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emeline Burrows
26 Jul 1863 - 25 May 1915
58 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
1038 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ensign
23 Dec 1865 - 4 May 1955
54 mentions
Family
1 mention
Cannon, George Quayle
11 Jan 1827 - 12 Apr 1901
2287 mentions
Apostle
4 mentions
Family
Woodruff, James Jackson
25 May 1847 - 8 Dec 1927
90 mentions
Family
9 mentions
Woodruff, John Jay
14 Aug 1873 - 1 Nov 1964
14 mentions
Family
21 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Julia Spencer
6 May 1856 - 1 Feb 1895
37 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Marion
1 Jun 1861 - 5 Feb 1946
50 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Mary Alice McEwan
2 Jan 1879 - 14 Jan 1916
216 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Naomi Abbott Butterworth
21 Mar 1864 - 15 Nov 1948
58 mentions
Family
Beebe, Ovando Collins
14 May 1867 - 27 Dec 1928
194 mentions
Family
Beatie, Phebe Eleanor Bynon
8 Oct 1869 - 27 Apr 1899
13 mentions
Family
10 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Delight Stocking
26 Jun 1838 - 28 May 1906
171 mentions
Family
Beebe, Vedi Clare Byer
5 May 1888 - 28 Feb 1964
26 mentions
Family
2 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
722 mentions
Family
Daynes, Winnifred Blanche Woodruff
9 Apr 1876 - 2 Apr 1954
282 mentions
Family

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Mar 1, 1889