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Day in the Life

Feb 20, 1877

Journal Entry

February 20, 1877 ~ Tuesday

20 [FIGURES] 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
^[FIGURE]^ 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
75 mentions
11 mentions
Woodruff, Azmon, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
348 mentions
Family
Cannon, David Henry
23 Apr 1838 - 24 Dec 1924
141 mentions
Missionary
1 mention
Bigler, Henry William
28 Aug 1815 - 27 Nov 1900
20 mentions
40 mentions
5 mentions
Woodruff, Ozem Thompson
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
200 mentions
Family
Scholes, Susan Cornelia Woodruff
25 Jul 1843 - 6 Oct 1897
357 mentions
Family

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.
March 21, 1877
Wilford and others finished writing down the ceremonies and temple procedures.
April 16, 1877
Wilford resigns as President of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society after 15 years.

Feb 20, 1877