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Day in the Life

Jun 4, 1897

Journal Entry

June 04, 1897 ~ Friday

June 4th I slept most of the time from midnight till 8 am.
at 10 am drove to the office, met with the Directors of the Pioneer CoElectric
Co. until 140 took lunch and back to meeting again till 330 pm
left for home at 4, & arrived all right. I rested & slept until 7 p.m.
ate supper. during the evening Ashael & wife & children
came in & the time was spent in singing & conversation. I said
I wam fond of music and singling gatherings, and when I shall
leave this life I hoped my family would gather often to sing. andfor if I
was permitted I would like to visit my loved ones and enjoy their
sweet singing. After prayer in which I was mouth I went to bed &
soon fell asleep.

People

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Woodruff, Asahel Hart, b. 1863
3 Feb 1863 - 2 Jul 1939
648 mentions
Family
Woodruff, Naomi Abbott Butterworth
21 Mar 1864 - 15 Nov 1948
44 mentions
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President's Office, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah

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Letter from Hyrum Jensen, 1 June 1897
Collinston, Utah Pres. Wilford Woodruff Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Bro: Your letter of May 21st calling me to take a miss- ion to Scandinavia is received. I am pleased to respond and shall try to meet in Salt Lake City at the proper time to be set apart. Your Brother in the Gospel, Hyrum Jensen Mantua, Utah
Letter to Zina Diantha Huntington Jacobs Smith Young, Jane Snyder Richards, and Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith, 4 June 1897
Salt Lake City, Utah, . Sisters Zina D. Young, Jane S. Richards, Bathsheba W. Smith, City. Dear Sisters: The labors which devolve upon Sister Zina in the Temple and those connected with the presidency of the Relief Society, prompt us, in consideration of her advanced age, to suggest that she should have some active help in answering correspondence she receives from the various branch societies throughout the Church. Sister Zina Y. Card is visiting here for the present, and we think she would be very suitable to act as her mother's private secretary to attend to her correspondence and other labors connected therewith, that you, and all of you, may be relieved as far as possible from these duties that are so onerous upon you at your time of life. Trusting that this suggestion of ours, whiCch is made solely in the interest of the Relief Society and to benefit each and all of you, will be received in the spirit in which it is offered, and praying the Lord to bless you in all your labors, and to preserve your lives, we remain, with kindest regards, Your Brethren, Wilford Woodruff Geo. Q. Cannon Jos. F. Smith
Letter from Brighamine Hansen Pratt, 4 June 1897
Salt Lake City, . President Woodruff + Council, Dear Brothern,- For some six or seven years my hus- band, Parley P. Pratt, one of the Pioneers of 1847, has had but little or no work. During the last five mon- ths he has been out on a lecturing tour. Soon after starting out he took a heavy cold which rendered him unfit for work, and at the time I thought to wright you of his condition; but Mr. Pratt felt when approached on the subject to struggle on hoping to get better. But finally through exposureand cold and over- exertion, Sagrippe set in; when he was obliged to return and now lies at home very sick, haveing lost 27 pounds of flesh. Since being a married man he has spent at least one fourth of his time in the missionary field. He has also contributed hundreds of dollars in Tithe and offer- ings. During the most critical times we have ^applied^ to the Bis-

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Jun 4, 1897