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Day in the Life

May 31, 1875

Journal Entry

May 31, 1875 ~ Monday

31. I drove home to S. L. City in a cold wind with Sarah D
Woodruff & her children during the Evening my Brother
[FIGURES] Azmon Woodruff & his wife Elizabeh
Pierce Woodruff arived at my house I should not have
been much more surprised if an Angel from Heaven
had called upon me It had been 38 years since we had
met before we hardly knew Each other. He had sold out
his place in west Monroe N. Y. and come to Zion to live
President G. A. Smith is vary low He has not been able to
sleep more than 2 minuts at at time for some three hweeks
as soon as he falls asleep his breath stops & he strangles
it is sumthing of the Athsma, they thought He was dying yested
morning He had some more favorable symptoms this evening

People

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Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
348 mentions
Family
30 mentions
Family
Smith, George Albert
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
1376 mentions
Apostle, Missionary
Woodruff, Sarah Delight Stocking
26 Jun 1838 - 28 May 1906
168 mentions
Family

Events

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July 17, 1875
Wilford rebaptized (for the sixth time) along with other members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

May 31, 1875