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Excerpt:October 26, 1841 ~ Tuesday 26th got my brick & mortor on the ground for a brick chimney & oven but got disap pointed in a mason to do the work to day I walked 15 miles after masons was vary feeble in body with the bowel complaint & piles 15 October 27, 1841 ~ Wednesday 27th Mr Treat & Coulton came to put up my chimney I was feeble in body but laboured hard October 28, 1841 ~ Thursday 28 was quite Ill but laboured ... -
Excerpt:LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. of despair, believing that he had committed the unpardonable sin. However, I told him what the unpardonable sin was, and that he had not committed it; but that it was a trick of the devil to make him think so, in order to torment him. He then acknowledged that he went down to the wharf a few evenings before, with the intention of drowning himself, but when he looked into the cold, dark water he desisted and returned home, and had ...Dates:March 1, 1838 March 5, 1838 -
Excerpt:I RECEIVE MY ENDOWMENTS—ATTEND SCHOOL. President of the Twelve Apostles, presided. All the branches in Tennessee and Kentucky were represented. Brothers Randolph Alexander, Benjamin L. Clapp and Johnson F. Lane were ordained Elders and Lindsay Bradey was ordained to the lesser Priesthood. I assisted President Marsh to obtain fifteen hundred dollars from the Southern brethren, to enter land in Missouri for the Church. The brethren made me a ...Dates:April 13, 1837 -
Excerpt:LEAVES FROM MY JOURNAL. apostles, dreams, visions and revelations in the church of Christ, the same as they had who lived in ancient days; and he believed the Lord would raise up a people and a church, in the last days, with prophets, apostles and all the gifts, powers and blessings, which it ever contained in any age of the world. The people called this man, the old prophet Mason. He frequently came to my father's house when I was a boy, and taught me ... -
Excerpt:will be several hundred Baptzed soon in this part of the vineyard there is now nearly 200 sants here & the work if but just begun to human appearance Elders Young, & Richards, & myself will continued in this part of the vineyard untill we have secured the grain which is ripe for the harvest the work is rooling [rolling] on in every part of England where the word is faithfully proclamd we have sent the Minutes of our Conferene to the Editors of the Times & Seasons ... -
Excerpt:52 Ironmonger Row, St Lukes, London. Octr. 30th 1840. My Dear Phebe, I received your kind & affectionate letter ^written^ in the midst of affliction & mourning under Date of July 18th 1840. truly your letter brought tidings which were painful & sorrowful to me, but notwithstanding this it was not without its joys, For while I keenly felt the [roots], & to mourn the Loss of the lovely flower which God had lent unto us a few days & then taken it away in an hour that ...Dates:October 30, 1840 -
Part of Autobiography 1858 Deseret NewsExcerpt: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 up ...Dates:November 11, 1778 July 31, 1792 November 29, 1801 November 29, 1802 December 22, 1804 March 1, 1807 March 1, 1807 June 11, 1808 November 9, 1810 November 29, 1811 March 11, 1814 March 12, 1816 June 1, 1816 June 19, 1818 March 22, 1820 June 19, 1821 November 25, 1827 December 29, 1833 December 31, 1833 January 2, 1834 February 1, 1834 April 11, 1834 April 25, 1834 May 1, 1834 May 7, 1834 November 5, 1834 January 13, 1835 January 18, 1835 January 19, 1835 July 1, 1838 October 18, 1838 August 4, 1841 -
Part of Autobiography 1858 Deseret NewsExcerpt:THE DESERET NEWS. TRUTH AND LIBERTY. No. 19. FILLMORE CITY, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1858. VOL VIII. [Column 1] HISTORY OF WILFORD WOODRUFF. (FROM HIS OWN PEN.) -[CONTINUED.]- March 2—We cut down a large cotton wood tree, and in two days dug out a canoe four feet wide and twelve long, put on a pair of oars and then rowed down the Arkansas river, 125 miles to Little Rock, begging our food by the way, a meal at ...Dates:March 2, 1835 March 24, 1835 March 27, 1835 April 4, 1835 June 23, 1835 June 28, 1835 July 23, 1835 November 15, 1835 February 26, 1836 May 27, 1836 May 28, 1836 May 31, 1836 June 19, 1836 June 29, 1836 July 14, 1836 July 30, 1836 July 31, 1836 August 11, 1836 August 29, 1836 September 2, 1836 September 19, 1836 September 20, 1836 October 20, 1836 October 28, 1836 November 17, 1836 November 25, 1836 November 29, 1836 December 20, 1836 January 3, 1837 January 25, 1837 January 29, 1837 January 30, 1837 February 19, 1837 March 23, 1837 April 4, 1837 April 6, 1837 -
Excerpt:& shall be an active assistance unto Bishop Hunter in gathering the Tithing of the people that the Temples of our God may be built & his works carried on. Let your heart be comforted you shall be blessed with evry hgood thing your heart shall desire & your heart words shall be like a two Edged sword among the people & we seal you up unto Eternal Life & no man shall take your Crown we seal all these Blessings upon your head in the name of Jesus Christ ...Dates:October 13, 1856 October 14, 1856 -
Excerpt:June 21, 1856 ~ Saturday 21st I spent most of the day at home I was vary weary through the day June 22, 1856 ~ Sunday 22nd Sunday I spent the fore part of the day at home. Joseph Young preached in the forenoon followed by H. C. Kimball. President B [FIGURE] Young Preached in the afternoon one of the most interesting sermons containing the most interesting information light, truth & knowledge ever revealed by God through any Apostle or prophet ...