Salt Lake City May 2, [18]98
Sister Susa Young Gates

I received your
Letter of April 27, And in reply will say
in answering your questions, concerning my Mother
^she^ Died with the spotted fever in Avon ^AD^ 1808
leaving 3 sons, ^I^ I the youngest, being 14 Months old
so I never knew a Mother and cannot give much
of an account of her, she was rather short, stocky
in build, thicck got vary quie[t] said but Little,
Left to talking as a legacy for her youngest Son to
carry out in his Day & Generation she was
spoken vary highly of by those who knew her
I Baptized her Husband my Father Aphek
Woodruff and ordained him a high Priest
& Patriarch by order of President young I had my
Mother sealed to my Father among the earliest
work in the Temple. I had my Father brought to Zion
or rather He drove his Team in A O Smoots
Company the first that followed the pionners and
when He died He was buried with the Saints in our
Cemetery I remain your Brother in the Gospel
Wilford Woodruff

Salt Lake City May 2, 1898 Sister Susa Young Gates

I received your Letter of April 27, And in reply will say in answering your questions, concerning my Mother she Died with the spotted fever in Avon AD 1808 leaving 3 sons, I I the youngest, being 14 Months old so I never knew a Mother and cannot give much of an account of her, she was rather short, stocky in build, thicck got vary quiet said but Little, Left to talking as a legacy for her youngest Son to carry out in his Day & Generation she was spoken vary highly of by those who knew her I Baptized her Husband my Father Aphek Woodruff and ordained him a high Priest & Patriarch by order of President young I had my Mother sealed to my Father among the earliest work in the Temple. I had my Father brought to Zion or rather He drove his Team in A O Smoots Company the first that followed the pionners and when He died He was buried with the Saints in our Cemetery I remain your Brother in the Gospel Wilford Woodruff