Susan Amelia Young Dunford Gates
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Excerpt:February 24, 1870 ~ Thursday Feb 24, 18670. I laid Hands upon Asahel who was quite sick & then in company with G. Q. Cannon & Heber Kimball rode to American Fork & met President Young G. A. Smith J. Taylor B Young Jr & John W Young Joseph Young & Lorenzo Young we held a Meeting in the meeting ...
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Excerpt:OFFICE OF The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints P.O. Box, B. Salt Lake City, Utah. Nov. 27th, 1891. Susie Y. Gates Provo, Dear Madam: We would like you to meet with us and a number of other friends at our office, at 12 o'clock noon, on Tuesday, Dec. 1st ^8th^, you having been selected as one of a committee to take in charge the erection of a statue of the late President Brigham Young. A prompt ...
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Excerpt:Nov 1, 1876 and many others who accompanied us to York the Terminus of the southern Rail Road. On our arival there we took carriges which were taken down on the cars there were four carriages in all & one Baggage waggon 1st carriage President Young Amelia & Daughter Mirah. 2nd 1 Daughter of president Young & one of President Joseph Young 3rd carriage G. Q. Cannon wife & son. 4 carriage B ...
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Excerpt:January 7, 1877 ~ Sunday Jan 7, 1877 Sunday [FIGURE] I wrote 3 letters to D. H. Wells Phebe W. Woodruff, & Brigham I attended meeting at the Tabernacle in the afternoon Jacob Gates Prayed. B Young Jr spoke 28 M[inutes], W. Woodruff 24 M[inutes], E Snow 20 W. Woodruff gave some instruction on the Endowments I spokeent the evening at President Young {President Young reproved Erastus Snow vary hard in many matters ...
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Excerpt:to this list of wives for whom these beloved Sisters in Zion were to receive their Endowments this day. As this was to be confined to the sisters alone No men were to receive their Endowments to day. I put into this list all my near Relatives and saved none of the Thompson, Hart, or Woodruff family Except My own Mother Bulah Thompson Woodruff and Grand Mother ^Dinah^ Woodford Woodruff My Step Mother Azubah Woodruff was officiated for. Eudora L. Young Officiated for my ownly ...
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Excerpt:decorated, foand a Table set loaded with all the luxeries of life, surrounded by nearly one hundred of those who had been receiving Endowments for my dead during the day. President Young set at the head of the Table surrounded By his family and after Blessing was asked their was presented before me a present of a birth day Bridal Cake three stories high adorned with the beasts of the field from the Elephant down, and ornamented with two satin sheets covered with Printed Poetry composed for the occasion and ...
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Excerpt:March 11, Sunday be held responsible for the use we made of them W. Woodruff followed and spoke 30 Minuts {in the power of God} Br Folsom spoke 5 Minuts J. Gates spoke 5 Minuts A. H. Raleigh spoke 10. The Meeting was then dismissed I spent the Evening with President Young {and the night with Eudora} March 12, 1877 ~ Monday 12. [FIGURE] I wrote 5 letters to Elias Smith Sarah Woodruff
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Excerpt:March 15 1877 E Snow sealed 41 couple & W Woodruff 26 couple (I gave President Brigham Young his second Anointing for Br Morris Whiteside And Amelia Young her 2 Anointing for her Mother March 16, 1877 ~ Friday 16. I Presided at the Temple to day, we gave Endowments to 171 we ordained 68 Elders. E. Snow sealed 35 couple W Woodruff 7 I spent the Evening with President Young March 17, 1877 ...
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Excerpt:April 21, 1877 ~ Saturday April 21, 1877 Received A Telegram from John W Young presidt Young and company well. Brigham Jr getting Better a snow storm in the morning a strange thing at St. George on the 21 day of April. April 22, 1877 ~ Sunday 22. Sunday I attended meeting at the Tabernacle all day J Gates Prayed J. D. T. McAllister spoke 30 Minuts
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Excerpt:Aug 21, 1877 when Br McAllister had Baptized me for the 100 Names I Baptized him for 21, including Gen Washington & his forefathers and all the Presidents of the United states that were not in my list Except Buchannan Van Buren & Grant. It was a vary interesting day I felt thankful that we had the privilege and the power to administer for the worthy dead esspecially for the signers of the declaration of Independance, that inasmuch ...