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Day in the Life

Mar 1, 1886

Journal Entry

March 01, 1886 ~ Monday

[FIGURE] Mar 1, 1886
Wilford Woodruff
79 years old
this day


[FIGURES] March 1, 1886
This is my Birth day I am
79 years old this day How strange
thes figures look to me That I have been
Preserved to this age while all the Prophets
and Apostles have been taken away much younger Joseph
Smith the Prophet was 39 when Martered I had a Meeting in the
Evening at my farm House with my wives & sons & daughters
the first time I had met with them together for more than
a year Then I was the first to leave to go to a safe resting place

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Smith, Joseph (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
2227 mentions

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Woodruff Farm, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory

Mar 1, 1886