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Church History Library of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Collection Name Wilford Woodruff collection, 1830-1898
Collection Description Journal, 1838 October 3-1839 March 4
Collection Number MS 5506
Collection Page 1-46
Source Link The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Introduction Wilford Woodruff's discourse to Saints in Iowa Territory, from Historian's Office general Church minutes.
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People

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118 mentions
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Benjamin Brown
1794–1878
7 mentions
1 mention
Charles Brown
abt. 1805-1839
37 mentions
Family, Maine Mission

Henry Brown
7 Mar 1808 - 24 Apr 1852
97 mentions
Sarah Mumford Brown
20 Apr 1795 - 1 Jan 1879
3 mentions
2 mentions
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1 mention
2 mentions
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Ezra Carter (Jr.)
29 Apr 1804 - 11 May 1887
176 mentions
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Ezra Carter, b. 1773
18 Mar 1773 - 10 Mar 1868
291 mentions
Family
Ebenezer Waterman Carver
1 Dec 1804 - 8 Jan 1896
37 mentions
Maine Mission
Benjamin Lynn Clapp
19 Aug 1814 - 21 Oct 1865
141 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
2 mentions
Host
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Host
5 mentions
Lucinda Hughes Curry Jaques Dow
20 May 1759 - 21 Nov 1843
2 mentions
Maine Mission
2 mentions
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Jonathan Drake (Jr.)
abt. 1803-1882
2 mentions
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William D. Harden
8 Sep 1795 - 30 Mar 1882
2 mentions
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2 mentions
Abner Hart
3 Dec 1766 - 29 Nov 1840
3 mentions
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Gideon Baldwin Hart
14 Feb 1776 - 31 Aug 1842
4 mentions
Family
2 mentions
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Milton Holmes
16 Jan 1811 - 30 Apr 1881
218 mentions
Maine Mission
Nathaniel Holmes
15 Aug 1775 - 20 Feb 1849
37 mentions
Samuel Holmes
5 Apr 1804 - 6 May 1878
4 mentions
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Seth Warren Ingalls
aft. 1790- abt. 1834
17 mentions
2 mentions
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Ephraim Luce
30 Sep 1799 - 2 Mar 1880
35 mentions
Maine Mission
Lydia Maria Macomber Luce Markham
17 Aug 1798 - 30 Jun 1873
13 mentions
Maine Mission
5 mentions
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Elisha Miller
1779-1854
2 mentions
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Martin M. Ray
1818–1872
7 mentions
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1 mention
Joseph Sawyer
30 Mar 1777 - 25 Sep 1861
2 mentions
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Adna Scoville
abt. 1797-1862
2 mentions
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Abraham Owen Smoot
17 Feb 1815 - 6 Mar 1895
583 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
2 mentions
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Cyrus Starrett
21 Feb 1802 - 31 Dec 1879
31 mentions
Host, Maine Mission
1 mention
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Arnold Stephens
unknown-1847
11 mentions
1 mention
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2 mentions
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Levi Taylor
13 Feb 1802 - 5 Apr 1884
86 mentions
1835 Southern Convert
Clara Newel Thomas
1833–1838
7 mentions
Maine Mission
Nathaniel Thomas
abt. 1803-1844
73 mentions
Maine Mission
Susanna Luce Thomas
1 Jan 1808 - 9 Oct 1886
10 mentions
Maine Mission
4 mentions
Maine Mission
James Foss Townsend
20 Feb 1808 - 2 Apr 1886
93 mentions
Lewis Turner
abt. 1816-1895
3 mentions
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2 mentions
Host
1 mention
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Levi Way
1797-unk.
3 mentions
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2 mentions
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Eunice Hart Woodruff Webster
19 Jun 1821 - 14 Jun 1853
272 mentions
Family
1 mention
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11 mentions
Maine Mission
Aphek Woodruff, b. 1779
11 Nov 1779 - 28 May 1861
579 mentions
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Asahel Hart Woodruff, b. 1814
11 Apr 1814 - 18 Oct 1838
219 mentions
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Azmon Woodruff, b. 1802
29 Nov 1802 - 14 Jan 1889
365 mentions
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Ozem Thompson Woodruff
22 Dec 1804 - 28 Dec 1893
222 mentions
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Phebe Whittemore Carter Woodruff
8 Mar 1807 - 10 Nov 1885
1589 mentions
Family
Sarah Emma Woodruff
14 Jul 1838 - 17 Jul 1840
165 mentions
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it was for a moment a trial to my feelings to take my tender wife with an infant at her breast into a cold tent to sleep upon the ground but after we became reconciled to it their was a door open for her to go into a house to spend the night & as she
~ Wilford Woodruff
How or when we shall get to Zion the Lord ownly knows shurely the Lord is sending snows upon the Earth & that to I expect in judgment I look for a Distressing winter to come may the Lord open the way for me I pray. We travled through mud water & snow to an In 3 miles East of Elk Creek & spent the night which was freezing cold
~ Wilford Woodruff
our company is truly getting small one of my horses is vary sick for the night truly the Lord ownly can open my way to con- tinue my journey
~ Wilford Woodruff

Our whole company is much afflicted we pased Brother Thomas by the way side mending his waggon that had broke down & Brother Townsend was quite sick I had not passed this afflicted company but two miles before I was called to stop my horses for the purpose, to all appearance, to behold my wife my companion give up the ghost to brea- the her last while lying in the waggon in the midst of the street but while our two sisters stood round her bedside to behold the scene God was vary mer ciful & she again revived.
~ Wilford Woodruff
after getting my wife & things into the house & my team put out I confined myself to taking care of my wife which to human appearance is at the gates of Death she called me to her bed side in the evening & said she felt that a few moments more woul would end her existance in this life she manifested great confidence in the caus she had embraced & exhorted us to co- nfidence in God & to keep his commandm- ents & to appearance was dying but she aga in revived as on the day before I prayed with her & layd hands upon her & com mended her to God She revived & slept some during the night
~ Wilford Woodruff
Phebe is still vary feeble & low I returned to Eaton to get some necessaries for her I felt the power of the destroyer resting up[on] me in the fore part of the day In the evening Phebe for the first time during her sickness began to lay hold on faith for her recovery her faith was strong in God we laid hold of faith together repented of all our sins & confessed them before God & covenanted to keep his commandments. I had some oil that was consecrated for my anointing while in kirtland I again consecrated it before God ^for^ anointing the sick I bowed myself down before the Lord & prayed with my companion & annointed her with oil in the name of the Lord I lade my hands upon her & in the name of Jesus Christ I rebuked the fever the destroyier the deadly maldy that was preying upon her & we both obtained a blessing in so doing & acor- ding to her faith her fever left her & praised be the name of God for we will ever keep his commandments & trust in him Phebe was still weak in body but rested better than she had done prais the Lord O my soul
~ Wilford Woodruff
by the grace & mercy of God Phebe was enabled to perform the journey of the day quite comfortable I will ever praise the Lord for his mercy endureth forever
~ Wilford Woodruff
in far West Mo. perse- cution still rages in Zion many of the first Elders of the church are in Bonds & imprisionments
~ Wilford Woodruff