Wilford's daughter Phoebe Amelia is sealed to Lorenzo Snow as his eighth wife.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
May 19, 1859 ~ Thursday
19th I started early in the morning with Robert & Wilford
for the top of the mountain to cut poles A Grizzerly bear went
up before us he made a vary large track in the snow & mud
we waided through snow & over it whare it was 8 feet deep
we worked all day in about 3 feet of snow our boots
soaked full of water and our feet became vary cold in
the Afternoon we cut about 100 poles mostly dry pine
which would averadge 35 feet long. We slid them dow the
mountain through & over 63 or 4 feet of snow, about a
quarter of a mile & went down to our camp at night cold
& wet we made a good fire & dried ourselves mostly
I shot three sage Hens one of which we cooked for
supper, then turned into our waggon & slept for the
night.
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Scholes, Robert
19 Nov 1835 - 14 Jul 1891
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Woodruff, Wilford (Jr.)
22 Mar 1840 - 9 May 1921
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