Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff dies at age 13 months.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 12, 1859 ~ Wednesday
Jan 12th
I attended the Legislature & spent the afternoon & evening
in picking up papers for Binding
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January 16, 1859 ~ Sunday 16th Sunday I attended meeting at the Tabernacle. O Pratt continued his lectures upon the evidences of the Book of Mormon He preached one the most convincing interesting sermons I ever heard He Quoted the 49 chapter of Genesis He spoke of the Blessings of Jacob upon the Head of Joseph also pupon Ephraim & Manasseh and the Blessing of Moses upon Joseph land & the the word of the Lord through Ezekiel concerning the sticks & recor[d]s of Judah & Joseph becoming one in the Hands of the Lord in the Last days and Ephraim becom- ing [illegible] a multitude of Nations in the midst of the Earth which was in America
~ Wilford Woodruff
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Wilford serves ninth term as member of Territorial Legislature.
Wilford performs marriage of daughter Susan to Robert Scholes (first child to marry).