Supreme Court denies George Reynolds' challenge to Morrill Law; plural marriage a criminal offense.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
March 04, 1879 ~ Tuesday
March 4, 1879
I this day looked over my Temple Record
And found that myself and family had Been Baptized
up to this date for 27053 including the Woodruff & hart
family A few of the Thompson and HartCarter family there
were in this number of the Woodruff family Males
152, Females 201, Total 353. Of the Harts Males 614
Females 621 Total 1235. Of the Thompsons Males 10,
Females 18 Total, 28. Of the Carter family Males 3 Females 2
Total of the Carter family 5. This leaves 10842 of other families
which have received Baptisms for the Dead mostly persons who
have Married into the Woodruff, Thompson, and hart family
I have received Endowments for my Dead in thi[s] Temple
from Jan 1, to1877 to March 1, 1879, 1639. This leaves
1064 still to get Endowments, 861 Males & 203 Females,
Total 2703 Baptisms as recorded in my record
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Wilford goes into hiding to avoid arrest for polygamy.
Wilford spends a year in Arizona "on the underground" serving a mission among the Native Americans.