Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1879

Journal Entry

March 01, 1879 ~ Saturday

A coffin Wilford Woodruff
Born March 1, 1807
72 Years of Age March 1,
1879

March 1, 1879 At 10 oclok this morning I followed John D.
T McAllister
into the Creation Room in St George Temple I
there met with 159 Brethren and Sisters who had met to get
their Endowments for the dead and all but 10 of them had met to get
Endowments for my Dead friends as a Birth day Present for me
100 women & 48 Men were going through for me. My appearance
in the Room was a great surprise to the company for they did not
Know that I was in the city My first salutation as I Entered
the Room was Hosannah to God and the Lamb. Glory Alleluia
God Bless Zion, God Bless the Saints, God Bless those who are here
By this time myany Eyes were filled with tears. I went through
the labors of the day and officiated as Ell J. D. T. McAllister as Ye
D H Cannon as P. I took a few through the veil among the rest
Brother & Sister Samuel Hardy. Then I went to the Alter in com-
pany with sister Mariah Marks Harmon who officiated as
Proxy for my Dead friends And I had sealed to me at the
Alter 74 single women who were dead, which makes 267 in all
of the dead single women who have been sealed to me in the Endowment
House
in Salt Lake City, and in the St George Temple. I also was sealed
today for 65 couple of dead friends of the Hart family Making 139
sealings and 7 Adoptions Making 146 sealings and Adoptions in one

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Hardy, Caroline Bacon Rogers
16 Sep 1806 - 21 Nov 1898
Cannon, David Henry
23 Apr 1838 - 24 Dec 1924
156 mentions
Missionary
McAllister, John Daniel Thompson
19 Feb 1827 - 21 Jan 1910
648 mentions
Missionary
117 mentions
Scriptural Figure
Hardy, Samuel Bradford
21 Sep 1804 - 9 Sep 1899

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Daybook (28 February - 23 October 1879)
March 1. [FIGURES] I am 72 years of age this day I spent the day in the Temple we gave endowments to 159 persons 139 for {shorthand} relatives 100 women & 48 Men I had 74 dead single women sealed to me and I was sealed for 68 couple of Dead friends Total sealings 139, & 7 person Adopted to me I spent the night at E Snows the above & till March 6 was recorded in my Journal

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Mar 1, 1879