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Day in the Life

Apr 16, 1877

Journal Entry

April 16, 1877 ~ Monday

^[FIGURE 16] [FIGURE 4] This is the last time Prest Brigham Young & W Woodruff Ever met [FIGURE 1] on Earth alive^
16. [FIGURE 1] President Young & party left at 9.30 for Salt Lake Brigham
Jr. was quite sick I wrote a letter to Henry Dinwoody to
the board of the D. A. & M. Society Resigning my position
as President of that Society having been President of it some
15 years it was a rainy cold day

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
2404 mentions
Apostle, Family
Young, Brigham (Jr.)
18 Dec 1836 - 11 Apr 1903
478 mentions
Apostle
33 mentions

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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake 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.

Apr 16, 1877