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Day in the Life

Mar 21, 1877

Journal Entry

March 21, 1877 ~ Wednesday

21. [FIGURES] I spent the day in the Temple we gave Endowments
to 183 persons mostly for the dead W Woodruff sealed 41 persons &
E Snow 7, Total 48. President Young has been laboring all winter
to get up a perfect form of Endowments as far as possible they
having been perfected I read them to the compayny today
{I gave Eudora Lovinia Young her} 2nd {annointing today}

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3299 mentions
Apostle, Family
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
641 mentions
Apostle
22 mentions
Family

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St. George Temple, St. George, Washington County, Utah Territory

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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.

Mar 21, 1877