Day in the Life

Nov 29, 1894

Journal Entry

November 29, 1894 ~ Thursday

29 Thanksgiving this is the 80th Thanksgiving I have
Lived to see I gathered my family together all I could
get And had a feast Asahel & Ovando was absent
with 50 other Men shooting Rabbits Asahel got 9 and
Ovando 19 one Man got 35 At the Close of our dinner
we all gatherd into the Parlor And Allice repeats
to the company verses of Poetry sent her by our son
Abram Owen then followed by verses from myself
it was quite Affecting to the company we had a plesant
day I felt to thank God that my life had been preserved
untill the present day

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Woodruff, Abraham Owen
23 Nov 1872 - 20 Jul 1904
633 mentions
Apostle, Family, Missionary
Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
707 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Mary Alice McEwan
2 Jan 1879 - 14 Jan 1916
214 mentions
Family
Beebe, Ovando Collins
14 May 1867 - 27 Dec 1928
194 mentions
Family

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Nov 29, 1894