Joseph Smith directs Church members to stop proxy baptisms in Mississippi River, wait for completion of Nauvoo Temple font.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
October 18, 1841 ~ Monday
18th A cold stormy day I went with Phebe to
collect her houshold furniture which she left in
Ioway when she went to Maine we first went to
Zarahemla swaw many old friends among them
was George A. Smith, John Smith, Samuel Smith, father
Hawley, & many others Br Abbot &c I returned &
spent the night at father Clarks was quite unwell through
the night with the bowel complaint 12 mi[les]
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Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1437 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Smith, John, b. 1781
16 Jul 1781 - 23 May 1854
75 mentions
Abbott, Lewis
30 Nov 1793 - 30 Nov 1850
5 mentions
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1587 mentions
Family
Hawley, Pierce
14 Nov 1788 - 16 Aug 1858
13 mentions
Smith, Samuel
11 Jun 1807 - 28 Jun 1850
65 mentions
Family, 1835 Southern Convert
Clark, Timothy Baldwin
15 Mar 1778 - 29 May 1848
26 mentions
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Wilford and Phebe move into their own home for the first time in their married life.
Wilford is appointed to Nauvoo City Council.
Wooden font dedicated in the unfinished basement of Nauvoo Temple.
Wilford witnesses first baptisms for the dead in the Nauvoo Temple.