The Wilford Woodruff Papers: How a Team of Individuals Are Making Possible the Impossible!
by Donald W. Parry, Jordan Woodruff Clements
When Orson Pratt died in 1881, John Taylor and Wilford Woodruff were the only two apostles remaining who had been called before the death of Joseph Smith in 1844. All the others had been released, died, or left the church. When John Taylor died in 1887, Wilford served for another 11 years and continued recording his daily history of the Restoration until his death in 1898.