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Dec 12, 1883

Journal Entry

December 12, 1883 ~ Wednesday

Dec 12 1883
[FIGURES] I went to the Temple & rowrote a letter to President
Taylor. We attended to Endowments to day Emma
Woodruff
was Baptized for the renewal of her cov-
enants
. Emma Woodruff got Endowments to day
for her Grand Mother Smith and we were sealed
for 46 couple of my dead Relatives We had 66 End-
owments and 25 ordinations. E Snow read a vision
of Jacob Gates

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Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
877 mentions
Family
Snow, Erastus
9 Nov 1818 - 27 May 1888
641 mentions
Apostle
Gates, Jacob
9 Mar 1811 - 14 Apr 1892
70 mentions
Taylor, John, b. 1808
1 Nov 1808 - 25 Jul 1887
1843 mentions
Apostle
2 mentions

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Daybook (6 December 1883 - 3 May 1884)
12 I went to the Temple to attend to the Endowments Emma got Endo[w]ts for her Grand Mother Smith I and Emma were sealed for 46 of my Dead relatives we had 66 Endowments Ordained 1 Living 24 Dead McAllister 1 Living & 17 Dead D H Cannon 2 living 3 Dead & J G Bleak 38 dead Adoptions J G B 2 Dead E Snow brought a vision of J Gates A plesant Day

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Majority of proxy endowments completed for Eminent Men and Women; some proxy sealings also completed.

Dec 12, 1883