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Sep 17, 1891

Journal Entry

September 17, 1891 ~ Thursday

17. I signed 25 Recommends I received 20 Letters
A hand pointing to the right I wrote to Newton Sarah & Mary I Attended a Bank Meeting

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Woodruff, Mary, b. 1867
26 Oct 1867 - 15 Feb 1903
164 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Newton, b. 1863
3 Nov 1863 - 21 Jan 1960
153 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Sarah Brown
1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909
702 mentions
Family

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Letter from Jonathan Golden Kimball, 17 September 1891

Chattanooga, Tenn., President Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City Utah Dear Brother: Enclosed please find our quarterly ^1/2 yearly^ report. I am visiting the conferences and find the Elders feeling first rate. Occasionally release an Elder on account of sickness. Have some sickness amongst them, but trust all will work out right. We write this morning regarding the sending out to the Southern States one Elder at a time without us receiving any notice of his coming. We send them to their fields of labor and in some cases they will have to wait for the Pres of the conference for several weeks before he can reach them. If we had notice of these stray Elders coming, would be all prepared for them. Have had two Elders come in this way. One at a time. We need more Elders as we have only sixty-five ^65^ Elders all told. Elder Taylor joins in Kind regards. Your Bro &c. J. G. Kimball

Business/Financial - Account Book, 1889-1898

To Emma $4 Blanch 7 Allice 2 13

Letter from Jedediah Grant Lambert, 17 September 1891

Pres. Woodruff Dear Bro. Our Bishop Atwood is in Salt Lake & may have seen you & explan- ed all to you but in case he does not meet you I write Circumstances are such that I will be unable to report ready for my Mission Oct. 6th but I do not ask for release but will report when I am ready. It would take to much time & paper to explain all to you at present. Suffice it to say I feel asto be as obedient to the call of the gospel as ever. Your Bro in the Gospel J. G. Lambert O.K. J. F. S.

Letter from Ransom Marion Stevens, 17 September 1891

Fairview, . Pres. Wilford Woodruff, Dear Brother: In reply to your's of the 10th Inst. will say, that I am in a very bad condition for taking such a mission, as my obligations are quite heavy just now; having some $500 to meet in a short time. If you can please let me off until Spring it would be much better for me, and then I could more ready prepare myself for a mission of this kind. It is not because that I am unwilling to respond to the call at once that I write in this manner; but because it would be very hard for me to

Letter from Willard J. Kelly, 17 September 1891

Salt Lake City accepts mission Prest Wilfrod Woodruff. Dear Bro Your favor of the 2nd inst at hand. I have been able to place my affairs in competent hands & will try & be on hand at the appointed time It gives me pleasure to be able to devote a portion of my time to the cause to which I am espoused Hoping to be able to do some good I Remain your Bro in the Gospel W. J. Kelly. O.K. J. F. S.

Letter from Charles William Stayner, 17 September 1891

President Wilford Woodruff Dear Sir and Brother; I herewith forward the names of Elders to be released this Fall and Winter, and the places from which they will leave, and where their releases should be sent. In making these releases I should explain that while their full two years in the two cases are not quite expired, in Bro. Bank's case, I am informed his family needs his presence, and Bro Skinner who lives in Arizona has to put in his crops this ^in the^ Fall, and unless he leaves at least as early as Confce time, he might as well wait till next fall. The three brethren from the Iowa Conference ought anyway to be replaced before Spring, as there will have to be some others released then, and that ^if not provided quickly^ will overload us with inexperienced Elders, from which we would suffer in the Summer work. When I say "inexperienced Elders" I mean inexperienced in the ways of this Mission, as now conducted. Many details have to be learned,

Letter from Marriner Wood Merrill, 17 September 1891

Prest Wilford Woodruff Dear Brother in writing to you a few days ago and giveing you the Names of a few Old people who are most all Dead, and asked Permission to give them their second anointing. I Submitted the names of Bro & Sister [Awerl] and Clarissa Bullen, Bro Bullen died in 1858 in Salt Lake City, Sister Bullen still survives Him but is very feeble. I was not personally acquainted with Bro Bullen in turn from Others that he was a good faithful Latter day Saint, the old teacher [illegible] She is a good faithful woman and if you will endorse them for the second anointing I will take pleasure in attending to it for them Respectfully yours M. W. Merrill

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November 6, 1891
Wilford decides temple recommends will be signed by Bishops and Stake leaders only, not by Church president.

Sep 17, 1891