~ Thursday
March 1, 1883
March 1, 1883 Wilford Woodruff 76 years of Age
This is my birth day I have lived
to see 76 years in the flesh this day at
10 oclock. Through the blessing of God
I have lived to reach this age and
Am in the Enjoyment of good health
I thank my Heavenly Father for this
great Blessing, and esspecially that I have lived to receive
the fulness of the Everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ and have
been blessed with the Apostleship and have the great honor
of being the President of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints, and through the Blessings of God
have been Enabled in connexion with my family of Being
Baptized for about 3000 of my Dead relatives and also
through the Assistance of friends have been Enabled to get Endowments
in the Temple of St George for about 2500 of my relatives Besides
having Been Baptized in the font of St George Temple for 100
Eminent Men including all the signers of the Declaration of
Indipendence of the United States for these Blessings I feel
to thank my Heavenly Father and praise his Holy Name
My wife Phebe W Carter Woodruff has been preserved
unto me me we having been Married 49 years the 13 day
of next month Apriail. This is also my wife Emmas Birth
day Making her 45 years old to day she being born March 1, 1838
I met a few friends at my House with my family & spent the
Even[in]g there were present G. Teasdale & Sisters Eliza R Snow Smith
Zina Young, Sarah Kimball, and Sister Horn. We spent the
Evening vary Plesantly conversed upon past days and Events
I pray the Lord to give me power to spend the rest of my days in his service
~ Thursday
March 1, 1883 [FIGURE] March 1, 1883 Wilford Woodruff 76 years of Age This is my birth day I have lived to see 76 years in the flesh this day at 10 oclock. Through the blessing of God I have lived to reach this age and Am in the Enjoyment of good health I thank my Heavenly Father for this great Blessing, and esspecially that I have lived to receive the fulness of the Everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ and have been blessed with the Apostleship and have the great honor of being the President of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and through the Blessings of God have been Enabled in connexion with my family of Being Baptized for about 3000 of my Dead relatives and also through the Assistance of friends have been Enabled to get Endowments in the Temple of St George for about 2500 of my relatives Besides having Been Baptized in the font of St George Temple for 100 Eminent Men including all the signers of the Declaration of Indipendence of the United States for these Blessings I feel to thank my Heavenly Father and praise his Holy Name My wife Phebe W Carter Woodruff has been preserved unto me me we having been Married 49 years the 13 day of next month Aprail. This is also my wife Emmas Birth day Making her 45 years old to day she being born March 1, 1838 I met a few friends at my House with my family & spent the Evening there were present G. Teasdale & Sisters Eliza R Snow Smith Zina Young, Sarah Kimball, and Sister Horn. We spent the Evening vary Plesantly conversed upon past days and Events I pray the Lord to give me power to spend the rest of my days in his service
