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Day in the Life

Jan 6, 1877

Journal Entry

January 06, 1877 ~ Saturday

6 [FIGURES] I finished copying the procedings of the dedication today
I received 3 letter from Emma, Nelly, and Asahel I wrote Letters
to Emma, Nelly, Clarria & Owen 4. I attended the Theater in the Evening I sent
the prosedings of the dedication to D O Calder by Wells Fargo & co. I sent
D. O Calder a short letter by the way of Explanation

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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jul 1904
612 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
692 mentions
Family
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
413 mentions
Family
Calder, David Orson
18 Jun 1823 - 3 Jul 1884
33 mentions
Woodruff, Emma Manella
4 Jul 1860 - 30 Nov 1905
241 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
999 mentions
Family

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Letter to Abraham Owen Woodruff, 6 January 1877

most because she would want to have them in the family I canot write much now for I want to say sumthing to the other children your Affectionate Father W. Woodruff Dear Clarrie I want you to be a good girl and help your mother, and mind her, you are getting old Enough to lay aside all childish and nauty ways and begin to be a good young Lady I wish to hear a good report of you I want to have you learn what you can this winter I hear a vary bad report of many young people in salt Lake City. I hope my boys and girls will be good I should feel vary bad to have them do wrong to swair steal and become wicked I want to have you learn to pray, Pray the Lord to Bless poor Blanch and make her well I love my children when they are good and it makes me feel bad when they are Naughty I send you some raisons By Brother Wilckin. Your Affectioate Father W Woodruff Dear Owen, I hope you are a good Boy, and say your prayer and are kind to your Ma, Nelly, Asahel & Clarrie and help take good care of poor Blanch I want to have you be careful & not say any words that are Nauty and then the Lord will love you I sent you a package of raisions and a Brass top I think Asahel can show you how to ^s^pin it I want to say to Asahel that I want to have him excuse my not writing to him now I will remember him next time He has done well bean a good Boy and He shall be Blesed and you have my Blessings Your Affectionate Father W Woodruff

Letter to Emma Manella Woodruff, 6 January 1877

to my lot to do it. I have got my Eyes open to see that it would take me 3 yeasrs to go through the Enowments of one thousand of my dead, and that to evry day as I could owy [only] wbe washed and anotd ^washed anointed^ for ownly 1one person each day, but I will stop talking about this now, and say I sent a letter to you by Br Wilcken and a Box with packages to all of your family and some of the Neighbors which I expect you will distribute. I am now expecting to be kept very busy while here in giving Endowments in the Temple, it is a great treat to me to get letters from my family, I look with anxiety evry week for letters ferom you and am glad to hear from you (I felt some anxiety about you) as the mail is about to go out I cannot write much more now Yours in Love W Woodruff Dear Nelly. I am glad to get letters from you I hope you will be able to go to school some this winter if possible I want to have you do all you can to help your Mother and take good care of that Dear little Blanch I do hope she will not be sick long but will son get well I sent you and the children a package of Raisons but I sent your Mother

Letter to Clara Martisha Woodruff Beebe, 6 January 1877

most because she would want to save them in the family I canot write much now for I want to say sumthing to the other children your Affectionate Father W Woodruff Dear Clarrie I want you to be a good girl and help your mother, and mind her, you are getting old Enough to lay aside all childish and nauty ways and begin to be a good young Lady I wish to hear a good report of you I want to have you learn what you can this winter I hear a vary bad report of many young people in salt Lake City. I hope my boys and girls will be good I should feel vary bad to have them do wrong to swair steal and become wicked I want to have you learn to pray, Pray the Lord to Bless poor Blanch and make her well I love my children when they are good and it makes me feel bad when they are Naughty I send you some raisens By Brother Wilckin. Your Affectioate Father W Woodruff Dear Owen, I hope you are a good Boy, and say your prayers and are kind to your Ma, Nelly, Asahel & Clarrie and help take good care of poor Blanch I want to have you be careful & not say any words that are Nau[gh]ty and then the Lord will love you I sent you a package of raisions and a Brass top I think Asahel can show you how to ^s^pin it I want to say to Asahel that I want to have him excuse my not writing to him now I will remember him next time He has done well bean a good Boy and He shall be Blesed and you have my Blessings Your Affectionate Father W Woodruff

Letter to Emma Smith Woodruff, 6 January 1877

St George Washington Co My Dear Emma I just received your letter of Dec 29, and was truly glad g to get it, and was ^glad to^ find that all was as well as it is the ownly thing that mared my peace in it was that dear Blanch was sick I shall make it a special matter of prayer, and I know that you will take the best care of her, their is a great many children sick in the North I am well you ask what I was doing on Christmas I spent the whole day with 20 Men & 40 women in the Temple of the Lord in laying down carpets, puting curtains on the petitions, and covering Alters, and preparing the Temple for its dedication President Young informed me that he would expct me to make the first dedication prayer in dedicating the lower part of the Temple I had to prepare it in writing which coverd 10 pages of close writing in my Journal and all our time has been spent in getting ready for the first day of Jan and then we were hardly ready On New Years day the people began to Enter the Temple 15 minuts to 12 oclok and 15 mints to 1 oclck the doors were closed

Events

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1877
Church membership reaches 115,065.
February 23, 1877
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
March 1, 1877
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.

Jan 6, 1877