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Day in the Life

May 06, 1861 ~ Monday

6 A cold morning I spent most of the day planting my Garden
I planted, Cucumbers, Mellon, squashes, peas, Beenes, corn, & a variety
of other seeds

View selected events in the two months surrounding this date in Wilford Woodruff's life.

News arrives in of firing on and the beginning of the Civil War.

Wilford's father dies.

first child is born in ; Wilford learns of death.