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Nov 5, 1840

Journal Entry

November 05, 1840 ~ Thursday

5th The Efagy of Guydo [Guido] Fawkes is before our door
this morning attended by about 100 boys they are
carrying him through the streets of London in
memory of the great gun powder plot on the 5th of Nov
1605. I received two letters one from Elder
Samuel Jones containing £1 & good news
[FIGURE] {Phebe} I received a letter from Phebe & Elder Wm
Clark
which gave me great joy it was Dated
Sept 8th 1840 Mrs Woodruff bears her affliction
with patience & resignation, haveing lost one child,
& the other is sick, but her own health is quite good
at present she is at Father Clarks & comfortable for
temporal things. Elder Wm O. Clark says do not
trouble yourself about Phebe & little Willford for they
shall not want any thing that I can bestow & may
God hold it as an everlasting covenant between me &
thee. He further says the temporal state of the
Church was never in a more prosper state than at the
present time. No mobing at the present time in this
country but gathering vary rapid a number of
familie[s] arived from England Phebe had had
an interview with Br Wm Benbow

[FIGURE] We wrote two letters one to Elder Geo. W.
Robinson
& one to Elder W Richards I wrote
to Phebe in Robinsons letter & gave her an account of
all the letters I had sent her

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Robinson, George W.
14 May 1814 - 2 Oct 1878
15 mentions
Fawkes, Guy
1570-1606
2 mentions
Historical Figure
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family
22 mentions
1840 British Convert, United Brethren
Woodruff, Sarah Emma
14 Jul 1838 - 17 Jul 1840
160 mentions
Family
Clark, Timothy Baldwin
15 Mar 1778 - 29 May 1848
26 mentions
Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
699 mentions
Family
Richards, Willard
24 Jun 1804 - 11 Mar 1854
519 mentions
Apostle
Benbow, William
11 Feb 1803 - 19 Dec 1886
31 mentions
1840 British Convert
Clark, William Oglesby
25 Jun 1817 - 7 Nov 1912
21 mentions

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 1
Fawke's]] day in London on the but the crowd of boys with their historical effigy was not so interesting to me as the letters which the postman brought. One was from Samuel Jones containing good news and a pound to assist me. The others were from my wife and Elder Wm Clark who informed me that Phebe and my little son Willford was at his father's house. He said they shall not want anything which I can bestow and may God hold it as an everlasting covenant between thee and me. He further informed me that the temporal affairs of the church at Headquarters was never in a more prosperous state and that a number of families had arrived from England and my wife had an interview with Bro Benbow. There was no mobing against the Saints but they were gathering rapidly to the body of the Church in Nauvoo. Next Sunday we preached and broke bread with the Saints but only very few attended our

Nov 5, 1840