Phebe's fifth child Joseph dies at age 16 months in Winter Quarters, Nebraska.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
December 18, 1846 ~ Friday
18th I spent the day getting Br
John Sherman Fowler ready to go to
Missouri to get a load of Provisions
for the family's use in the evening
I went to the store to trade out my
bill of goods consisting of shugar
Molasses, salt, salaratus, cotton cloth
drilling, striped, shirting flannel cotton
batting shoe thread coffee, tea, a lantern
3 primmers calico and s amounting
in all to $ [blank]
returned home Mrs Woodruff took
out of her family box her portrait to
see the likeness of her little Joseph we
had buried
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Fowler, John Sherman
1819-1860
23 mentions
Woodruff, Joseph
28 Jul 1845 - 12 Nov 1846
34 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1581 mentions
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Wilford recovers enough to resume work on cabin for his family.
Of 483 people living in Winter Quarters, 334 are sick, 53 are wives of Mormon Battalion soldiers, and 75 are widows.
Church membership is 34,694.
Wilford organizes "adopted" family (40 heads of households) under covenant to abide rules.