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Day in the Life

Apr 28, 1856

Journal Entry

April 28, 1856 ~ Monday

28th [FIGURE] I have been a marked victem as an attack
for the power of the destroyer from my infancy up to the present
day. I have faced Accident, misfortune, & apparently death so many
times & in so many shapes & forms from my childhood through
life thus far that it has become a proverb with me to say that
there has seemed to be two powers constantly watching me & at work
with me one to kill & the other to save me thus far the power to save me
& preserve my life has prevailed. How long I shall be blessed with this
preserving power & care time must determin. I have never untill now

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April 28, 1856 ~ Monday 28th [FIGURE] I have been a marked victem as an attack for the power of the destroyer from my infancy up to the present day. I have faced Accident, misfortune, & apparently death so many times & in so many shapes & forms from my childhood through life thus far that it has become a proverb with me to say that there has seemed to be two powers constantly watching me & at work with me one to kill & the other to save me thus far the power to save me & preserve my life has prevailed. How long I shall be blessed with this preserving power & care time must determin.
~ Wilford Woodruff

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Autobiography 1858 Deseret News

the my arm began to swell, was in great pain and showed signs of mortification. I showed it to Prest. Young, who advised me to cleanse my stomach immediately, and put on onion poultices, and anything that would draw the poison from my system into my arm, which counsel I immediately put in execution. The

Autobiography 1865 Millennial Star

wardly. On the my arm began to swell, was in great pain and showed signs of mortification. I showed it to President Young, who advised me to cleanse my stomach immediately, and put on onion poultices, and anything that would draw the poison from my system into my arm, which counsel I immediately put in execution. The

Autobiography 1857 Draft 1

on the th day my arm began to swell was in great pain and showed signs of mortification I showed it to President Young who advised me to clens my stomach immediately and put on onion poltices and any thing that would draw the poison from my system into my arm which council I immediately put into execution

Autobiography 1858 Notes

showed itself outwardly. on the my arm began to swell, was in great pain and showed signs

Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 3

I became satisfied on Monday that I had this enemy poison and mortification to meet and that to in the worse form. There is but a small chance for a man to live who is innoculated with poison and mortification by dissecting the body of either man or beast. It is much worse than drinking poison or being bit by poisonous serpants for it is in a much more deadly form. Several have died this Spring by skining cattle which have died. All should be more cautious than what I have been in this matter, and not run the risk of loosing their lives to save the skins of animals who die of disease. The following account will show the opperation of this disease with me from day to day and how near I came loosing my life: in fact I was only saved through the power and mercy of God This morning the affected spot upon my wrist had grown to about the size of a dime and had risen above the arm and main ^flesh^ about half an inch and turned black as ink. My arm began to swell and pain me and I felt the poison and mortification working through my system I called upon President Young and showed him my arm and asked his advice and he counselled me to go to immediately and clense my stomach and bowels and poultice my arm with onions earth or anything that would draw it from my system He also advised me to show it to Dr Sprague. I did so and he in addition to what President Young had recommended dug me up some dock ^elecampane^ blazing star roots, and advised me to make a tea of it also to make a poultice of it and put in on my arm. I went immediately home and put these things into execution for I saw that I had a strong warefare in order to save my life

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March 17, 1856
Wilford rebaptizes family members over the age of 8 (3 wives, 3 children, and "Lamanite" boy Moroni).
April 7, 1856
Wilford appointed Assistant Church Historian (serves in Historian's Office from 1856 to 1883).
April 28, 1856
Wilford poisoned while skinning livestock; life saved through priesthood blessings.

Apr 28, 1856