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Jun 22, 1838

Journal Entry

June 22, 1838 ~ Friday

22 I left my fathers & walked through Farmington meadows into Avon, while walking toupon the bank of the canal
I found a valuable honey bee tree I called upon Uncle Adna Hart & spent most of the day with him. I had an interview
with Aunt Hannah Woodruff at Adna Harts she was in a distressed situation being possessed with a devel &
bound fast in his chains I conversed & prayed with her. In the evening I left Abna's & walked to Woodfords
Mills
formerly owned by my Father It caused feeling of no ordinary kind to be permitted to again visit these
mills & walk the road & view the house & farm whare I was born & spent my infancy, childhood, & youth, their
is a cord of keene sensation touched when ones eyes are permitted to surveighy the place of his nativity after being
seperated for a laps of years. from this view I continued my journey into west street & spent the night with
Uncle Thadeus Thompson a brother to my Mother. Distance of this interesting day 7 miles

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48 mentions
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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
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Woodruff, Bulah Thompson
22 Apr 1783 - 11 Jun 1808
73 mentions
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Woodruff, Hannah Day Hart
20 Mar 1799 - 26 Dec 1887
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{The Lord often causes the pride of the rich and proud learned to be brought at the feet of weak things}
~ Wilford Woodruff

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22 I left my fathers & walked through Farmington meadows into Avon I called & spent most of the day with Uncle Adna Hart I found a valuable [Bea] ^massive^ tree standing on the bank of the ca- nall. I had an interview with Aunt Han- nah Woodruff at Adna Hart's she was in a distressed situation being possessed with a Devil & bound fast in his chains I conversed & prayed with her in the evening I walked to Woodfords mills formerly owned by my father I had a view of the place of my nativity & birth From thence to west Street & I spent the night with uncle Thadeus Thompson distance 7 miles

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Wilford receives news of his calling as an apostle; and call to go on mission to England with apostles.

Jun 22, 1838