Wilford moves to St. George to assist in readying temple for dedication.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
December 17, 1876 ~ Sunday
17. Sunday we drove 3 Miles to Leeds and held a Meeting at
Br Alma Angels House at 10 oclok this settlement is surrounded
with a great Mining Camp of Gentiles Enough to overwhelm them
Sunday Meeting opened by Prayer By Br G. Hougan B Young jr spoke
44 M[inutes], T O Angel 4 W Woodruff 30 M. I then rode with Br
Hougan to Tokerville & held a Meeting in the Meeting House W Woodruff
spoke to the People 55 Minuts then the Meeting was Dismissed I spent the
Evening in conversation with the Brethren & visiting John M Higby
He was 72 yers old & in poor Health I spent the night with Bishop
Bringhurst Distance 6 Miles
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Angell, Alma Truman
12 Jan 1834 - 12 Jun 1911
1 mention
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
589 mentions
Apostle
2 mentions
Higbee, John Somers
1804-1877
13 mentions
Angell (Angel), Truman Osborn Angell
5 Jun 1810 - 16 Oct 1887
41 mentions
Bringhurst, William A.
1839-1912
17 mentions
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National election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden (outcome determined after the Compromise of 1877).
Wilford, L. John Nuttall and John D. T. McAllister begin writing down the temple ceremony.
Church membership reaches 115,065.
First baptism for the dead administered in St. George Temple font.
First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in St. George Temple.
First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in St. George Temple.
Brigham Young asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.
Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the St. George Temple.
Wilford administers second anointing by proxy for the first time in the St. George Temple.