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Day in the Life

Nov 20, 1876

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November 20, 1876 ~ Monday

Nov 20, 1876
20 to 24. I spent this week and most of the time
since I have been in St George In preparing the names of the
Hart family for sealing in the Temple when I have an
oppertunity also the Woodruff family. I have 360 sealing
for the Hart family, and a good many for the Woodruff

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November 1, 1876

Wilford moves to to assist in readying temple for dedication.

November 7, 1876

National election between Republican and Democrat (outcome determined after the Compromise of 1877).

November 13, 1876

Wilford, and begin writing down the temple ceremony.

Church membership reaches 115,065.

January 1, 1877

Wilford, , and dedicate portions of .

January 9, 1877

First baptism for the dead administered in font.

January 11, 1877

First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in .

January 11, 1877

First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in .

January 14, 1877

asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.

January 16, 1877

Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the .

Nov 20, 1876