March 8, 1884 Phebe W. Woodruff is 77 years old today
This is Phebe Whitemore Carter Woodruffs Birth day She is 77 years old this day
at 10 oclok A.M. w[e] have both been
preserved in a wonderful manner
through all the vicissitudes of this life so
far and both are still in good reasonable health.
I took cars & rode to Woods Cross to attend a quarterly
conference at Bountiful we Met at 10 oclok Peter Barton Prayed The Statistical Report was read
Davis stake contained 2 Patriarch, 136 High Priest
220 seventies, 326 Elders, 75 Priests, 70 Teachers, 108 Deacons
3810 Officers & Members, 1586 Children under 8 years
5396 Total of Souls. Four Bishops then made a verbal
report of their wards. Then W Woodruff spoke 50 Minuts
upon the organization of the Priesthood and its labor
we dined with Br Call, and Met again at 2 oclok J. B. Nobles Prayed. 4 Bishops Reported then Joseph F
Smith spoke 60 Minuts I spent the night at Br Calls 10 M[iles]
~ Sunday
9 Sunday we Met at 10 oclok G Q Cannon having arived
He spoke 63 M[inutes] followed By W Woodruff 15 M[inutes]. I dined
with Phebe Sessions & Met in the Afternoon at 2 oclok
Prayer By Samuel W Richards. Wm R Smith spoke 12 M[inutes] John W Hess spoke 5 M[inutes], Anson Call 7 M[inutes], Samuel W Richards Joseph F Smith 35 G Q Cannon 15, W Woodruff 5 which
closed the conference. Samuel W. Richards said whare a
Man had 2 or 3 wives one After the other and did not have but one
at a time He would still be in Poligamy in the next world
the same as though He had them all at one Joseph F Smith
~ Saturday
March 8, 1884
[FIGURE] Phebe W. Woodruff is 77 years old today
This is Phebe Whitemore Carter Woodruffs
Birth day She is 77 years old this day
at 10 oclok A.M. we have both been
preserved in a wonderful manner
through all the vicissitudes of this life so
far and both are still in good reasonable health.
I took cars & rode to Woods Cross to attend a quarterly
conference at Bountiful we Met at 10 oclok
Peter Barton Prayed The Statistical Report was read
Davis stake contained 2 Patriarch, 136 High Priest
220 seventies, 326 Elders, 75 Priests, 70 Teachers, 108 Deacons
3810 Officers & Members, 1586 Children under 8 years
5396 Total of Souls. Four Bishops then made a verbal
report of their wards. Then W Woodruff spoke 50 Minuts
upon the organization of the Priesthood and its labor
we dined with Br Call, and Met again at 2 oclok
J. B. Nobles Prayed. 4 Bishops Reported then Joseph F
Smith spoke 60 Minuts I spent the night at Br Calls 10 Miles
~ Sunday
9 Sunday we Met at 10 oclok G Q Cannon having arived
He spoke 63 Minutes followed By W Woodruff 15 Minutes. I dined
with Phebe Sessions & Met in the Afternoon at 2 oclok
Prayer By Samuel W Richards. Wm R Smith spoke 12 Minutes
John W Hess spoke 5 Minutes, Anson Call 7 Minutes, Samuel W Richards
Joseph F Smith 35 G Q Cannon 15, W Woodruff 5 which
closed the conference. [FIGURE] Samuel W. Richards said whare a
Man had 2 or 3 wives one After the other and did not have but one
at a time He would still be in Poligamy in the next world
the same as though He had them all at one Joseph F Smith
"Journal (February 1880 – December 1885)," March 8, 1884 - March 9, 1884, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 27, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/DqVK