April 15, 1877
My family came March 27 left April 14 stayed 18 days
Met in the Tabernacle at 102 oclok A F McDonald prayed G Q Cannon spoke 2 Minuts President Young spoke 12 M[inutes] J W Young 12 Minuts Bishop Preston 10 Minutes, E Snow 6 M[inutes] G Q Cannon 23 Wm Gibbs 5 M[inutes]. I spent the Evening at President Youngs Junius Wells spoke 2 M[inutes], D H Wells spoke in the forenoon
~ Monday
^ This is the last time Prest Brigham Young & W Woodruff Ever met on Earth alive^
16. President Young & party left at 9.30 for Salt LakeBrigham
Jr. was quite sick I wrote a letter to Henry Dinwoody to
the board of the D. A. & M. Society Resigning my position
as President of that Society having been President of it some
15 years it was a rainy cold day
~ Tuesday
17. we baptized 342 for the dead, W Woodruff ordained 2 Bishops
one councillor and set apart another Bishop McAllister ordained
2 High Priests & set apart as councillors
~ Wednesday
18. I ordained David H. Cannon a Bishop in the 4 ward I received a letter from Jesse N. Smith and sent
him one in returne. we gave 44 Endowments and WW
gave 5 persons their 2 Anointings W. Woodruff sealed 10 co
& J D T McAllister 3 couple, 16 Elders ordained. I wrote a
letter to Emma & Asahel
~ Thursday
19 we gave 88 Endowments I wrote a letter to Sarah and Delight 2 letters And I gave 3, 2 Anointings
I sealed 16 couple J D T McAllister 8 couple 29 Elders
Ordained for the Dead
~ Friday
20 . We gave 290 Endowments 31 Elders ordained for the dead I wrote to Leslie W Snow. W Woodruff sealed 13 couple J. D. T. McAllister 15 couple WW gave 3 second Anointings and
sealed 3 Sons of Artiemus Millet to him I sealed 6 children
to Artemus Millet to hism
FIGURES This is the last time Prest Brigham Young & W Woodruff Ever met [FIGURE] on Earth alive
16. [FIGURE] President Young & party left at 9.30 for Salt LakeBrigham
Jr. was quite sick I wrote a letter to Henry Dinwoody to
the board of the D. A. & M. Society Resigning my position
as President of that Society having been President of it some
15 years it was a rainy cold day
~ Tuesday
17. we baptized 342 for the dead, W Woodruff ordained 2 Bishops
one councillor and set apart another Bishop McAllister ordained
2 High Priests & set apart as councillors
~ Wednesday
18. I ordained David H. Cannon a Bishop in the 4 ward
FIGURES I received a letter from Jesse N. Smith and sent
him one in returne. we gave 44 Endowments and WW
gave 5 persons their 2 Anointings W. Woodruff sealed 10 co
& J D T McAllister 3 couple, 16 Elders ordained. I wrote a
letter to Emma & Asahel
~ Thursday
19 we gave 88 Endowments I wrote a letter to Sarah
[FIGURE] and Delight 2 letters And I gave 3, 2 Anointings
I sealed 16 couple J D T McAllister 8 couple 29 Elders
Ordained for the Dead
~ Friday
20 . We gave90 Endowments 31 Elders ordained for the dead
[FIGURE] I wrote to Leslie W Snow. W Woodruff sealed 13 couple
J. D. T. McAllister 15 couple WW gave 3 second Anointings and
sealed 3 Sons of Artemus Millet to him I sealed 6 children
to Artemus Millet to him
"Journal (January 1, 1873 – February 7, 1880)," April 15, 1877 - April 20, 1877, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed November 21, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/86W3