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Day in the Life

Dec 28, 1896

Journal Entry

December 28, 1896 ~ Monday

28 I spent the day in the office I wrote a Letter to
^ A hand pointing to the right^ Mrs Shuah C Moulton about the Death of her sister
Rhoda F Scammans we were visited by a Number of
the Brethren on business

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Scammans, Rhoda Farnham Carter
13 Mar 1809 - 23 Dec 1896
63 mentions
Family
Moulton, Shuah Coffin Carter
20 Dec 1811 - 19 Jun 1905
88 mentions
Family

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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah

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Letter from William Henry Toone Sr., 28 December 1896
President W Woodruff Dear Brother in ansure to your letter 24 i can say i will be readey all being well. from your Brother in ^the^ gospell, Wm H. Toone Sen. Geo. R. Thackeray B.P.
Letter to Shuah Coffin Carter Moulton, 28 December 1896
Copy 1 [end of sideways text] Salt Lake City Dec 28 [18]96 Shuah C. Moulton Mrs Shuah C Moulton Dear Sister I received a letter from Dr Ezra A Scamman on the 21 inst giving me the information of the Death of Sister Rhoda F Scammans of course the Dr has Notified you of her Death This of course leaves you the ownly surviving one of the family I see Rhoda was 87 years 9 Month & 5 days. old Father Carter & most of his family lived to a great age I think Father Carter was 96 Sister Foss was 94 I Attended to her burial was with her up nearly to her Death, I shall be 90 the first of March I am the oldest Woodruff of my Fathers family that has lived in America for 200 years Except 2 My Great Grand Father Josiah Woodruff reached 100 years Uncle Samuel Woodruff was 92. My Brother Thompson Woodruff Died this past year in his 90 year. this leaves me the ownly heir of my Fathers House. I baptized my Father & I baptized Father Ezra ^Carter^ in Cambridgeport the last time I ever saw him that was in 1850 I would be much pleased to hear from you if there was any chance I do not know that I ever received a letter from you in my life. I always realized that you do not like to write letters According to my Journals I have written some 12000 letters & received some 20000 And I have travelled some 175000 Miles in the Ministry

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November 5, 1896
Wilford changes fast day from the first Thursday to the first Sunday of each month.

Dec 28, 1896