Find Your Relatives
Find Your Relatives
Images of Wilford's Family

Discover Your Relatives in Wilford Woodruff's Papers

with the help of
Start Here
Wilford Woodruff Papers Wilford Woodruff Papers
About Volunteer Meet the Team Partners Impact Editorial Method
2023 Conference Articles Photos Podcasts Updates Videos Newsroom

Day in the Life

May 17, 1876

Journal Entry

May 17, 1876 ~ Wednesday

17. we have another Hard Rainy day with some snow
and turned vary cold if the snow had not melted there would
have been a foot of snow on the ground at night I spent the day
[FIGURE] in the Endowment House we Baptized for the dead 525 persons
W Woodruff ^sealed^ 131 couple for the dead & Joseph F Smith 11 couple
and done all the clerking at the desk

People

Browse people Wilford Woodruff mentioned on this day in his journal.

Smith, Joseph Fielding
13 Nov 1838 - 19 Nov 1918
3573 mentions
Apostle

Places

Browse places mentioned in Wilford Woodruff's journal entry on this day.

Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

Events

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

May 17, 1876