How Wilford Woodruff, the Missionary, Became a Father, Almost a Widower, and Finally an Apostle
by Steven C. Harper
“Her name is Sarah Emma Woodruff,” Wilford, a proud, new father, wrote in his journal. He penned, “She was born July 14th, 1838 at half past five oclock in the morning,” then prayed, “O Lord prepare her for thyself.” Thirty-one-year-old Phebe Carter, the baby’s petite mother, had married Wilford shortly after he returned from a mission in Tennessee and Kentucky, in the spring of 1837 at Kirtland, Ohio, where she was teaching school.
