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Mar 2, 1881

Journal Entry

March 02, 1881 ~ Wednesday

[written in red ink]^[FIGURE] March 2 I set apart James G Bleak to seal at the Altar^[end of red ink]
March 2d We gave Endowments to 106. I sealed 7 couple
and gave 2nd Anointing to 6 couple I gave 2d Anointing to
[FIGURES] Calvin Foss & Sarah B Foss and Sarah B Foss
was sealed to her Father Ezra Carter and her husband
Calvin Foss was adopted to Wilford Woodruff and I found By
the Record that the Woodruff Thompson Hart & Carter Family
were all adopted to Wilford Woodruff I spent the Evening
at Agustus Hardy's his Father & Mother was present
3[FIGURE] I wrote 2 letters to L John Nuttall & Phebe I got a Telegram
from Phebe saying that Br O Pratt was failing

People

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Hardy, Augustus Poore
2 Mar 1831 - 23 Dec 1912
8 mentions
Foss, Calvin
7 Apr 1800 - 28 Jan 1835
6 mentions
Family
Hardy, Caroline Bacon Rogers
16 Sep 1806 - 21 Nov 1898
4 mentions
Carter, Ezra, b. 1773
14 Feb 1773 - 10 Mar 1868
284 mentions
Family
Bleak, James Godson
15 Nov 1829 - 30 Jan 1918
448 mentions
Nuttall, Leonard John
6 Jul 1834 - 23 Feb 1905
397 mentions
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1037 mentions
Apostle
Woodruff, Phebe Whittemore Carter
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1544 mentions
Family
Hardy, Samuel Brocklebank
21 Sep 1804 - 9 Sep 1899
47 mentions
Foss, Sarah Brackett Carter
30 Sep 1800 - 4 Mar 1894
176 mentions
Family

Quotes

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his is my birth day I am this day 74 years of Age And I wish to bear my Testimony to all persons whomsoever may read this Journal that the God of Israel has sustained me and watched over me by his power or agency from the hour of hism^y^ birth up to the present hour
~ Wilford Woodruff

Events

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Wilford appointed General President of Young Men's Mutual Improvement Association.
Apostles wash feet against enemies as directed in Wilford's Wilderness Revelation.

Mar 2, 1881