Wilford Woodruff
Born March 1, 1807
70 years of Age this March 1,
1877
March 1, 1877 I Wilford Woodruff record in my birth
Journal A History of the celebration of this my Seventieth
birth day. I arived at the Temple of the Lord in Staint George
Washington County, Utah, at 8 oclok in the Morning. I was
there surrounded with one hundred and fifty four
virgins, Maidens Daughters and Mothers in Zion from
the age of fourteen to the Aged Mother leaning upon her
staff. All had assembled for the purpose of Entering
into the Temple of the Lord to make me a birth day Present
by being washed And Anointed and receiving their Endo-
wments for and behalf of one hundred and Thirty
of my wives who were dead and in the spirit wor[l]d
the majority of which had been sealed to me and the rem-
ainder were to be, therse persons had been sealed to me during
the last fifteen years by Presidents Brigham Young, Heber
C. Kimball, Daniel H. Wells, G. Q. Cannon, and Joseph F.
Smith. Also 2Twenty four near relatives were added to
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