Mormon Battalion recruited by United States Army.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
September 15, 1846 ~ Tuesday
15th In company with Father Woodruff & John
Fowler And my family I started with my
carriage & Mules for a ride we rode 4 miles to
the general Hayfield I crossed the table land
to the buff there left the family & carriage
& we mounted our Horses & rode about 2 miles
to A lake about 2 miles in length & 1/4 mile wide
It was surrounded by High grass, weeds, & peavine
the surface of the lake was dotted over with a
great variety of Ducks young & old geese brant &c
I shot 6 Ducks & got 4 of them by waiding into
the lake after them I waided for near a mile
in the lake & weeds lost one of my shoes & had
to travel bare foot Br Fowler was taken sick
And in travelling through the high weed's, grass
mud & water back to the place of begining I
was exceding weary, but before returning home
I took my salmon rod & line & spent a few
moments in trying to ketch fish but could not
start any, we then mounted our mules & returned
to our carriage, took the family & returned to the
camp wet cold and Hungry changed my cloths
& retired to rest 10 [miles]
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Woodruff, Aphek, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
580 mentions
Family
Fowler, John Sherman
1819-1860
23 mentions
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and distress with blood in my shoes & spent years & years at it & left my wife & children who have also suffered much. let them do as we have done & they will not be jealous of me about blessings. If the Lord should give me a thousand women is it any mans business No. Let such go and spend as much time as I have and there will be many clinging on to there skirts to be saved. the majority of the men of the gentile world will be damned and the women wish to be saved by going with good men. And a woman that has the spirit of God will go with a good man who has been with faithful & spent much of his time in saveing mankind and has the priest hood such men if they continue faithful will be saved in eternal glory & those that are with him. I an determined that my affections shall be with God, I will not allow them to be placed on things that perish when plagues & diseases get hold of our bodies we become loathsome & beauty fades away but our affections should be placed upon things that are noble exhalted lasting & glorious I love an exhalted mind for it is eternal & cannot fade I want all my affections to be subject to God and glory & eternal life. May God bless you amen
~ Wilford Woodruff
Events
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Woodruffs cross Missouri River to Cutler's Park, Nebraska.
Wilford rebaptized second time; rebaptizes Phebe, Sarah E. Brown, Mary C. Barton, Mary Ann Jackson, and Rosetta King.
Wilford expels Sarah Elinor Brown and Mary Caroline Barton from his family for misconduct.
Wilford severely injured by falling tree while cutting logs to build his family a cabin: breaks breastbone, three ribs, suffers internal injuries.
Phebe's fifth child Joseph dies at age 16 months in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.