Day in the Life

Feb 20, 1877

Journal Entry

February 20, 1877 ~ Tuesday

20 A single key with teeth to the right A single key with teeth to the right A single key with teeth to the right Brother Miner Grant Prisby whose Mother
was a Thompson gave me the Geneologe of the Early
setlers of the Thompson family. I wrote letters to day to
Azmon and Thompson Woodruff and Susan Scholes
^ A hand pointing to the right^ and her daughter we baptized 789 for the dead A P Winsor
406, J L Smith 383, A H Raleigh confirmed 181, D H Cannon
297, H W Bigler 311, Total 789. David H Cannon Prayed

People

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Raleigh, Alonzo Hazeltine
7 Nov 1818 - 13 May 1901
Winsor, Anson Perry
19 Aug 1818 - 17 Jun 1917
Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
362 mentions
Family
Cannon, David Henry
23 Apr 1838 - 24 Dec 1924
156 mentions
Missionary
Bigler, Henry William
28 Aug 1815 - 27 Nov 1900
Smith, John Lyman
17 Nov 1828 - 21 Feb 1898
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
217 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
359 mentions
Family

Events

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Church membership reaches 115,065.
Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.
In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.
Wilford and others finished writing down the ceremonies and temple procedures.
Wilford resigns as President of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society after 15 years.

Feb 20, 1877