Wilford performs marriage of daughter Susan to Robert Scholes (first child to marry).
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
February 25, 1859 ~ Friday
25 I spent half of the day in the office on History. I rode
to the Penetentiary in company with Samuel Richards
as Inspe[c]ters A P Rockwood had gone before us we
visited the whole of the Buildings and found some of
them damaged by heavy winds. there was but 2 prisi-
oners in the penetentiary & they were Indians waiting trial
[FIGURES] I gave President Young a peace of Susans wedding cake
and an Apple I wrote a Letter to Felix H Benton St Louis Mo.
for 50 descriptive Honey Bird Grass pamphlets sent 10 cts
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Rockwood, Albert Perry
9 Jun 1805 - 26 Nov 1879
131 mentions
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3466 mentions
Apostle, Family
Benton, Felix Hall
7 Aug 1824 - 15 Jan 1899
1 mention
Richards, Samuel Whitney
9 Aug 1824 - 26 Nov 1909
110 mentions
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
362 mentions
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Wilford's daughter Phoebe Amelia is sealed to Lorenzo Snow as his eighth wife.