I clearly Picked out the identical spot that my Father placed me on the ridgepole of the House on
Sunday whare we could listen to the bombardment
of New London by the British fleet in the war
of 1812. The british burned New London upon
that occasion I could also point out the place
in Grand Father Thompsons House which was the
Birth Place of my mother, whare I fell off a porch
and broak my other Arm. Uncle Ozem
Woodruff House looks vary natural. I baptized
him & his wife Hannah Hart in 1837, and
two of their children in fulfillment of a dream
I had when I was Eight years of age
Uncle Ozem Woodruff has been dead several
years Aunt Hannah died over a year ago
passed 90 years of Age. Their daughter Malinda W Hatch occupies the Homestead
she is the ownly relative I have in Connecticut
who now corresponds with me. I preached
in their House the last time I was in Avon
over 50 years ago she has done all she
could in Assisting Brother Wells in getting
up the likenesses for me when Brother Wells
first presented me with the Likenesses of the
two nearest Neighbors to the place of my birth
I recognized them readily the first House
was Horace Judd's about 1/4 mile West of our
House. I was by the bed side of the old gentleman
when He died it being the first death I Ever
I clearly Picked out the identical spot that my
Father placed me on the ridgepole of the House on
Sunday whare we could listen to the bombardment
of New London by the British fleet in the war
of 1812. The british burned New London upon
that occasion I could also point out the place
in Grand Father Thompsons House which was the
Birth Place of my mother, whare I fell off a porch
and broak my other Arm. Uncle Ozem
Woodruff House looks vary natural. I baptized
him & his wife Hannah Hart in 1837, and
two of their children in fulfillment of a dream
I had when I was Eight years of age
Uncle Ozem Woodruff has been dead several
years Aunt Hannah died over a year ago
passed 90 years of Age. Their daughter
Malinda W Hatch occupies the Homestead
she is the ownly relative I have in Connecticut
who now corresponds with me. I preached
in their House the last time I was in Avon
over 50 years ago she has done all she
could in Assisting Brother Wells in getting
up the likenesses for me when Brother Wells
first presented me with the Likenesses of the
two nearest Neighbors to the place of my birth
I recognized them readily the first House
was Horace Judd's about 1/4 mile West of our
House. I was by the bed side of the old gentleman
when He died it being the first death I Ever
"Journal (January 1886 – December 1892)," September 6, 1892, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed April 24, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/XQ18