Joseph Woodruff
Joseph Woodruff (1845-1846) was born 28 Jul. 1845 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. He was the fifth child of Wilford Woodruff and Phebe Whittemore Carter. He died 12 Nov. 1846 in Winter Quarters (later Omaha, Douglas Co., Nebraska).
Footnotes
Joseph Woodruff (KWVG-XRD), “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org, accessed 20 Jan. 2021). Joseph Woodruff, Wilford Woodruff Papers (https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/subjects/joseph-woodruff, accessed 8 Feb. 2022). “England and Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915,” database, Ancestry.com (https://ancestry.com, accessed 27 Jan. 2021); General Register Office, London England. “Joseph Carter Woodruff,” Mormon Pioneer Cemetery, Omaha, Douglas Co., NE.; Find A Grave, 8 Jun. 2009, memorial no. 38094878 (https://findagrave.com, accessed 27 Jan. 2021).
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Excerpt:November 12, 1846 ~ Thursday NOV 12th 1846 We found our little boy [FIGURE] JOSEPH was failing and could not possibly hold out longer evry exhertion had been made to make him comforrable and if possible to restore him to health but it seemed that he must go he continued to fail through the day and night Sister Abbot took the main charge of him during the night as Mrs Woodruff strength was mostly exhausted. He had suffered much from convulsions ... -
Excerpt:said the interpetation was the people were full of evil and speaking evil of them but would not grumble while they were present December 16, 1846 ~ Wednesday 16th I put father Woodruffs ruff on his house and they moved into it December 17, 1846 ~ Thursday 17th I drew hay to day met in council in the evening some of the bishops made a report of there wards, we herd a letter read from Br Holebrook at the Punka Nation who ... -
Excerpt:AD. 1846 has been a day of the sacrafice of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Through the fatigues and labours & exposers of the Saints many have been laid in the grave I have my- self been called to part with two of my sons which God hath given me they lie in the dust untill the ^resurrection^ and I came nigh being killed by accident by the fall of a tree which broke my breast bone and three ribs but ... -
Excerpt:April 29, 1848 ~ Saturday 29th President Young made a feast & invited a few of his friends inasmuch as we were about to seperate the company was composed of the following persons B Young, H. C. Kimball, O Pratt, W Woodruff, A. P. Rockwood Joseph Young, E. T. Benson Levi Richards & their ladies we had a plesent time Br Benson gave sumthing of an account of his begging mission in the ... -
Excerpt:July 17, 1848 ~ Monday 17th I spent the day at St Louis but left in the evening on board of the Herald at 5 oclok I took cabin passage with my family July 18, 1848 ~ Tuesday 18 Early in the morning the Pilot in a fog run the boat aground in a Pickerel swamp & it lay 12 hours before it was got off we could not get any milk for our little Shuah She was taken with bowel complant & was vary ... -
Excerpt:I am absent from Nauvoo, including the 2nd volume of "The Neighbor," and 6th of "Times and Seasons", as my volumes are much broken that come to me. Myself, wife, Susan and Joseph are all well. we both wish to be re- membered to Brother and Sister Taylor and all inquiring friends. Please give our respects to Mr and Mrs Elias Smith—we wish them much joy—peace and prosperity ... -
Excerpt:the Nauvoo Hancock Co mob & Disturbance. the publik press has been ^mostly^ silent for a length of time in this country [leaving] us but is begining to be stired up again at present I have publised 20,000 of the proclamations & we are calculating to supply members of the Houses of parliamnt the Lords Dukes Bishops & clergy & all [illegible] men with them as far as possubl◇e throghout these realms of [eng[lan]d] we shall hear sumthing from the press & pulpit upon the subject soon ... -
Excerpt:Liverpool Oct. 17th My Dear Phebe I want to see you very much and kiss you your Mother Phebe that went in the big ship has not forgotten you at all but very often thinks of you and feels as though she could fly to get to you. I will come home and see you and bring your little sister Susan and a little new brother Joseph to play with her and then we will go to see brother -
Excerpt:Bath Street Stanley Building Bath Street Liverpool Sept 4th 1845 Dear Brother & Sister Benbow In great Haste we sit down to drop a few lines to you We would have been glad to have written a long letter to you at this time but being overwhelmed in business you must take the will for the deed. We are all enjoying a comfortable degree of health, My health is about as usual Mrs Woodruff has had some vary Ill days since her confinement but ... -
Excerpt:& in fact many judgments are begining to be poured out upon the world. I am Enjoying a tolerable degree of health as is my wife & children my little Joseph is a fine child & doing well All the American Elders are well as far as I know. We hear good News from the City of Joseph all the while for which I feel thankful I suppose you have interesting times continually with you. as to myself I can say of a truth in no stage of the ...