Wilford returns to Nauvoo with other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
October 02, 1844 ~ Wednesday
October 2nd Wednsday, ^Tuesday 1st^ I returned to New Hartford
called a few moments upon Charles Lyman, rode to
Canton had an interview with John Woodruff
called upon uncle Alson Thompson, & took dinner
with him And I spent two hours with Br
Thompson Woodruff [FIGURES] I had not seen him
before for fourteen years except one evening in
Richland N Y about seven years since. we were both
glad to meet. we talked over many old times, he
was much worn down. I returned to my fathers
House & spent the night in company with uncle
Ozem Woodruff we were also glad to meet.
O how sweet are the hours spent in the society of my friends
who stand with me in the same covenant of the gospel
their is an increase of Interest in the visits I make
at my fathers house [FIGURE] 30 m[iles]
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Thompson, Alson
8 Jan 1793 - 26 Jan 1864
13 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
580 mentions
Family
Lyman, Charles Pyncheon
1801-
5 mentions
Woodruff, John
15 Oct 1818 - 17 Sep 1886
26 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
221 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Ozem, b. 1787
3 Nov 1787 - 18 Feb 1871
160 mentions
Family
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O how sweet are the hours spent in the society of my friends who stand with me in the same covenant of the gospel
~ Wilford Woodruff
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Meeting where majority of Church members sustain the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles as governing body of the Church.
Wilford accepts call to preside over the European Mission for one year.
Wilford and Phebe baptized in Mississippi River for deceased relatives.
