Thy Purposes O! Lord must roll on. Thy Decrees are Sure [FIGURE] Wisdom how [FIGURE] Precious thou [FIGURE] art. February 15, 1841 ~ Monday Feb 15th Elder Kimball received a letter from his wife Dated Nauvoo Dec 30th, she informed us that [FIGURE] Joseph had written for the Twelve to come immediately home for our personal safety, as great Judgments are nigh in this land even at the Door. She spoke of our families being well, as far ...

stop. the families of warsaw had gone to Quincy the bells of the town were ringing & men were called to arms, but where the end would be time alone must detirmin the foregoing items I draw from the papers we shall look for terrible accounts each day untill the close of the scene. We also recieved a hand bill in the evening concerning the mob war excitement &c in philadelphia which was tremendious in fact the nation seems to be ripe for Judgment. I ...

Sister Foss gave me $1. Calvin 50 cts Rhoda Scammans $2.50 cts to help bear my expenses home I had to pay $2.75 cts to Boston July 11, 1844 ~ Thursday 11th All accounts from the west confirm the report of the Death of the Prophet & Patriarch of the Church viz Joseph & Hiram Smith & some reports say that Elders Richards & Phelps were ...

me from the hands of wicked and ungodly men who seek my destruction while their angor is kindled against me. We sailed acrosst the Penobscot bay and went up the goose river. We here took the parting hand with Br. Ames who returned home while walked to James Andrews, who is ingaged in making the baggage waggons for Brother Nathaniel Thomas & the saints to journey to the land of Zion with Brother Thomas possesses the true spirit of Christ and ...

Thus the Lord has given me the desire of my heart & Blessed me far beyound my expectations for I am now privleged of thaving more than fifteen hundred Saints in this interes ting field which I first opened one year ago the 5th of this present months, all of which have embraced the work since that Date many of which the Saints have gatherd to Zion from that region & the rest are anxious to go & ownly waiting for a door to be open for them. I have never ...

[Two thirds of the page blank] March 23, 1841 ~ Tuesday March 23rd I arose in the morning refreshed by sleep & after conversing several hours with Elders Richards Kington, Kay, & Ockey & others I was under the ne cessity of taking the parting hand with the Saints in this region, & among others with Br Edward & Sister Ann Ockey, these are a Brother & sister of one family & the ownly ones of the Ockey ...

September 26, 1838 ~ Wednesday Sept 26th I rode to Elder James Townsend. I procured a two horse waggon of Mr William Harmon {for Sister Sarah Foss} & drew it to sister Sarah Foss's Elder Townsend returned with me distance of the day 20 m September 27, 1838 ~ Thursday 27th It is a dark cold rainy day & gloomy also, & what makes it more so the Camp of the Saints do not get a long from the east yet, & I have not herd ...

i.e for the press I copied it off with my pen & it filled four sheets of common letter paper. I extracted it mostly from my journals & signed it Kinball, Woodruff & Smith We also sent a lengthy letter to Bishop Elias Smith, we are sparing no pains to communicate any intelligence to our friends in America that we may have in our possession, I have just recieved two letters from our Maine friends one from Sister Foss & the ...

THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 18. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1858. VOL. VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) IN tracing the history of my fathers, I find it difficult to obtain a satisfactory account of the Woodruff family for more than three gen- erations. My great grandfather, Josiah Woodruff, lived nearly one hundred years, and possessed an iron constitution and performed a great amount of manual labor nearly ...

March 12, 1854 ~ Sunday March 12th 1854 In company with Levi Richards & G. A. Smith I called upon President Brigham ^Young^ at his room as He was not able to get out & conversed with him concerning the buriel of the corps of President Willard Richards He Advised us to bury him at 2 oclock I went to meeting in the morning at the Tabernacle and Jedediah M. Grant Preached to the People concerning executing ...