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Mar 6, 1885

Journal Entry

March 06, 1885 ~ Friday

6 [FIGURES] I wrote Letters to Emma, Clara, Owen,
Blanch & Alice I sent $5 to the children I had the
following Dream in the night I dreamed the Presidency
& Twelve Apostles were about to take a Mission together
and President Brigham Young called on me to Pray and


while Praying the spirit of the Lord rested upon me in
a powerful manner and when I closed President
Young laid his hands upon my head & Blessed me &
Ordained me to sumthing I do not remember what
it was. He said I was one born out of Due time the
tears ran down my face while he was Blessing me

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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jul 1904
439 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
3301 mentions
Apostle, Family
Beebe, Clara Martisha Woodruff
23 Jul 1868 - 29 Dec 1927
381 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Emma Smith
1 Mar 1838 - 6 Mar 1912
874 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Mary Alice McEwan
2 Jan 1879 - 14 Jan 1916
181 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Winnifred Blanche Daynes
9 Apr 1876 - 2 Apr 1954
237 mentions
Family

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Letter to Clara Woodruff Beebe, 6 March 1885
My Dear Clara I got your letter last Evening and I was glad to get it I want to say that I have not Been in Ogden or Salt Lake since the 17 Jan nor within 350 miles of it. I would like vary well to have you sent me one of those Likenesses of Savages if they are fit to be seen, the negatives they showed me was as blak as a Negro. I have got your Mothers Likeness & you children with me and I have shown them to a good many people and they think they are vary nice many know your Mothers they ownly find one one fault with yours & Blanches and that is the fault I find with them the hair covers there Noble fore heads all up down to the Eyes which I think is a bad custom look at your ^Mothers^ likeness it shows the organization of the forward

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Mar 6, 1885