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Day in the Life

Aug 4, 1841

Journal Entry

August 04, 1841 ~ Wednesday
Aug 4th 1841 HYMENIAL
Married—In Farmington Hartford Co Connecticut,
Aug 4th by Elder Willford Woodruff. Mr. Dwight
Webster, to Miss Eunice Woodruff of Farmington Ct

There was between 40 & 50 persons attended the
weding most of which were our relatives which gave
me the privilege of an interview with many friends
among whome was Uncle Ozem Woodruff family
John & Seth &c Also Bulah Hart, Ezra Hart, Lydia Hart
Betsey & Ann Cossett & others we spent the time [FIGURE]
agreeable while together though our interview was short
Sister Eunice Health is not vary good as yet

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Cossett, Anna
11 Jun 1811 - 2 Nov 1907
27 mentions
Family
Alvord, Betsey Cossett
19 Jan 1805 - 16 Feb 1884
103 mentions
Family
Hart, Beulah
bef. 1784-aft.1843
22 mentions
Family
Webster, Dwight
13 Apr 1814 - 19 Aug 1868
134 mentions
Family
Webster, Eunice Hart Woodruff
19 Jun 1821 - 14 Jun 1853
270 mentions
Family
Hart, Ezra
bef. 1801-1864
13 mentions
Family
Woodruff, John
15 Oct 1818 - 17 Sep 1886
25 mentions
Family
Hart, Lydia Woodruff
24 Jul 1793 - 3 Nov 1860
9 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem, b. 1787
3 Nov 1787 - 18 Feb 1871
159 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Seth
15 Dec 1822 - 30 Jun 1900
25 mentions
Family

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Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut

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Autobiography 1858 Deseret News

Dwight Webster in Farmington, Conn., Aug. 4, 1841[.] My father was a strong constitutioned man, and has done a great amount of labor. At eighteen years of age, he commenced attending a flouring and saw mill, and continued about 50 years; most of this time he labored eight- een hours a day. He never made any profession of religion, until I baptized him with all his household into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

Farmington, Conn., . My father was a strong constitu- tioned man, and has done a great amount of labor. At eighteen years of age he commenced attending a flour-

Autobiography 1892 Deseret News Notes

Conn., . My father at 18 worked in a flouring & saw mill, and continued about 50 years, laboring 18 hours a day most of the time. I baptized him and all his house- hold into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ

Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865

Webster]] in Farmington Ct. Aug 4th . She Died June 14th Aged 33 years. My step Mother Azubah Woodruff

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

My father was a strong constitutioned man, and has done a great amount of labor. At eighteen years of age, he com- menced attending a flouring and saw mill, and continued about 50 years; most of this time he labored eighteen hours a day. He never made any profession of re- ligion, until I baptized him with all his household into the [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|Church of Jesus Christ

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine

was on the . A few days afterwards my aunt Bulah Hart was baptized into the Church, and

Autobiography Volume 1 circa 1842-1865

This was on the A few days afterwards my aunt Bulah Hart

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Aug 4, 1841