July 4, 1877
Wilford Woodruff. This was a great surprise to me and
a vary pleasing one as it is helping me vary much
to redeem my dead we ordained 55 Elders. W Wood-
ruff sealed 1 Living, McAllister 5 for the dead D H C 13
total 19. I went at 10 oclock to the Tabernacle & delivered
a speach as the oOrator of the day followed By J D. T
McAllister

July 5, 1877 ~ Thursday

5 We gave Endowments to 115 ordained Elders 45
J McAllister sealed 11 couple D. H. Cannon 17. Total 28
sealed 14 children to Parents Adoptions 3, second Anointing
7 By J D T McAllister

July 6, 1877 ~ Friday

July 6. we gave Endowments to 124, ordained 561 Elders
W W sealed 5 couple J McAllister [blank] D H Cannon [blank]
I had five single women sealed to My son
Brigham Young Woodruff who was drowned
in bear River on the 16 June 1877. I also had 1 one sealed
to my Brother Philo Woodruff, all of the Hart family. D H
Cannon done the sealing

Marvelous are the ways of the loLord and his deali
ngs with the children of men, past finding out. I have been
reading this day ^reading^ the first Journal I ever wrote in 1834
in my travels to Kirtland my first acquaintance
with Joseph Smith the Prophet in kirtland and travels
with him to Missoori in Zions Camp, thein the spring of
1834 And my first acquaintance with President
Brigham Young in kirtland in the spring of 1834. I met
him going down the Hill from the Temple and Joseph
Smith introduced me to him. He gave me a Butcher knife

July 4, 1877 Wilford Woodruff This was a great surprise to me and a vary pleasing one as it is helping me vary much to redeem my dead we ordained 55 Elders W Woodruff sealed 1 Living, McAllister 5 for the dead DHC 13 total 19 I went at 10 oclock to the Tabernacle & delivered a speach as theOrator of the day followed by J D T McAllister

July 5, 1877 ~ Thursday

5 we gave Endowments to 115 Ordained Elders 45 J McAllister sealed 11 couple D. H. Cannon 17. Total 28 sealed 14 children to Parents Adoptions 3, second Anointing 7 By J D T McAllister

July 6, 1877 ~ Friday

July 6. we gave Endowments to 124, Ordained 51 Elders WW sealed 5 couple J McAllister [blank] D H Cannon [blank] FIGURES I had five single women sealed to My son Brigham Young Woodruff who was drowned in bear River on the 16 June 1877. I also had 1 one sealed to my Brother Philo Woodruff all of the Hart family D H Cannon done the sealing

FIGURES Marvelous are the ways of theLord and his dealings with the children of men, past finding out. I have been reading this day the first Journal I ever wrote in 1834 in my travels to Kirtland my first acquaintance with Joseph Smith the Prophet in kirtland and travels with him to Missoori in Zion's Camp,in the spring of 1834 And my first acquaintance with President Brigham Young in Kirtland in the spring of 1834. I met him going down the Hill from the Temple and Joseph Smith introduced me to him He gave me a Butcher knife