Emma's first child Hyrum Smith Woodruff dies at age 13 months.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
January 14, 1859 ~ Friday
14th I spent the day in the Legislature I wrote 4
Letters one to I. F. Carter one to Ozem T Woodruff
one to Joseph Harris Rochester New York & sent
him $6 for 16 subscribers for the Genessee Farmer
I send this letter by John Y Green I also send by
Him $186 to deliver to me in Great Salt
Lake City one of Hodges Free & Co One horse
cast Iron virtical Mill for grinding sugar cane
the wait is 650 lbs 20 cts per lb freight $130 price of
Mill $56 total $186. President Young sent the above
Money with some of his by Brother Green to Brother
Kesler to bring on the Mill for me I put $6 in gold
in the Letter to Mr. Harris & sealed it up and rush
it in the post office in the states after Brother Green
gets there or it is delivered to H. S. Eldridge to mail He will
mail all my letters on their arival
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3447 mentions
Apostle, Family
Kesler, Frederick
20 Jan 1816 - 12 Jun 1899
56 mentions
Eldredge, Horace Sunderlin
6 Feb 1816 - 6 Sep 1888
143 mentions
Carter, Ilus Fabyan
8 Nov 1816 - 11 Dec 1888
409 mentions
Family
Greene, John Young
1826-1880
4 mentions
Harris, Joseph
1816-aft. 1900
3 mentions
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
221 mentions
Family
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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).