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Jul 20, 1837

Journal Entry

July 20, 1837 ~ Thursday

20th I took the parting hand with my Father & Mother
& Sister Eunice {My father gave me} $5. may the Lord bless
my fathers household. I took the stage in company
with Phebe & rode to Hartford. 10 miles {My wife took the stage tonight inland to} worcester

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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
574 mentions
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Woodruff, Azubah Hart
31 Jul 1792 - 21 Mar 1851
266 mentions
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Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 14 Jun 1853
271 mentions
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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1579 mentions
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Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts

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Autobiography 1858 Deseret News

— . — I left my father's house, and, with my wife, rode by stage to Hartford.

Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

——I left my father's house, and, with my wife, rode by stage to Hart- ford.

Autobiography 1857 Draft 2

—, I left my Father's house and in company with my wife, took stage and rode ^by stage^ to Hartford.

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

continue my journey, and on the 20th of July I parted from my father, step- mother and sister, and took stage for Hartford with my wife. On my arrival at Hartford, not having money to pay the fare of both of us, I paid my wife's fare to Rowley, Massa- chusetts, where there was a branch of the Church, presided over by Brother Nathaniel Holmes, father of Jonathan and Milton Holmes, and I journeyed on foot. The first day I walked fifty-two miles, the second day forty-eight, and the third day thirty-six miles, and arrived at Row- ley at two o'clock, making one hundred and thirty-six miles in a little over two and a half days. I spent eight days at New Rowley, holding meetings and visiting the Saints, including the Holmes family, and left

Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865

I bid adieu to my father and mother on the and also my sister Eunice. I then took stage with my wife and rode with her to Hartford a distance of ten miles. She continued her journey to her father's in Maine by stage while I persued it on foot. The reason why I did not go farther with her by stage will be easily understood by those who are acquainted with the history of the first Elders of the Church who like the Apostles of old travelled and preached without purse or script I had only sufficient money to pay my wife's fare and thus it was that she continued her journey from Hartford per stage while I did it on foot. During the next three days I walked 136 miles. On

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

th I left my Fathers house and ^in company with my wife^ took stage for and rode to Hartford. st Not having money to pay the fare for both myself and wife I paid her fare in the stage to New Rowley Mass, and I walked through a hot sultry day 15 hours averaging 3 1/2 miles an hour making

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 1

the I parted with my father Step Mother

Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal

journey, and on the I parted with my father, step-mother and sister, and took stage for Hartford with my wife. On my arrival at Hartford, not having money to pay the fare of both of us, I paid my wife's fare to Rowley, Mass., where there was a branch of the Church, presided over by Brother Nathaniel Holmes, father of Jonathan and Milton Holmes, and I journeyed on foot. The first day I walked fifty-two miles, the second day forty- eight, and the third day thirty-six miles, and arrived at Rowley at two o'clock, making 136 miles in a little over two- and-a-half days. I spent eight days at New Rowley, holding meetings and visiting the Saints, including the Holmes family, and left

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Jul 20, 1837