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Sep 21, 1845

Journal Entry

September 21, 1845 ~ Sunday

21st Sunday I spent the day at home with
my family through the day & evening. Mrs.
Woodruff was more composed concerning the
death of her Mother & slep comfortible during
the night we had both dreamed of loosing
teath which is generally a sign of a death
of some friend

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Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1580 mentions
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Carter, Sarah Fabyan
8 Apr 1775 - 24 Jul 1845
90 mentions
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Mission - Herefordshire Conference Minutes, 14 September 1845
Mars Hill Conference met on the , in the parish of Suckley, Worcester- shire. The meeting was called to order by elder J. A. Stratton, there being present, 1 high priest, 1 of the seventies, 9 elders, 8 priests, 3 teachers, and 1 deacon. There were represented 11 branches containing 466 members including 15 elders, 25 priests, 11 teachers, 7 deacons. 10 baptized since previous conference. E. F. SHEETS, President. H. ARNOLD, Clerk. We are informed by the letters accompanying the minutes that elder Stratton visited the various branches of the above conferences, in connexion with elder Sheets, they both de- livering lectures, much to the profit and edification of the Saints.
Letter from George Albert Smith, 21 September 1845
City of Joseph Elder Woodruff I have Received a letter and several Favors from you which remain unanswered. Please except My grattitude for them as a melenial star or line from my old fellow traveler is like cold water to a thirsty man I have Ben Engaged this season in Building the Nauvoo House as one of the Trustees the walls are now 20 feet high from the Basement we have made upwards of a million of Brick on the old Nauvoo yard we have got all the square timber from the Islands and have Employed the whole season from one to 4 as hands. But as commotions making and violence are the order of the Day we Have Had to quit our work for the past week and go at the command of the sheriff to main- tain the supremacy of the laws on Wednesday the 10 instant ^the mob^ went to the house of Edmon Durphy in Morly settlement turned the people out Doors and set fire to the Building threatning Instant Death to men women and children if they showed the least Resistance you will remember the place where this destruction commenced for 1843 you and I put up at Bro Durphy's while attending the Lima conference (and oh How your Heel got Anchored Between the Bed sted and the wall) they then Proceeded to Burn all the Houses Barns shops near the Morly settlement they Immeadiately sent to us for Council we Sent a Hundred and ten teams and Brought all their families into Nauvoo with the Little which^ground^ which was not Burnt leaving about 3000 Bushels of corn in their fields. They a attacted [attacked] the Prarie Branch and Burned all their Houses

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Sep 21, 1845