[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] {March 1, 1883 Wilford Woodruff 76 years of Age} This is my birth day. I have lived to see 76 years in the flesh this day at 10 oclok. Through the Blessing of God I have lived to reach this age and Am in the Enjoyment of good health. I thank my Heavenly Father for this great Blessing, and Esspecially that I have lived to receive the fulness of the Everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ and have been blessed with the Apostleship and have the great honor of being the President of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and through the Blessings of God have been Enabled in Connexion with my family of Being Baptized for about 3,000 of my Dead relatives and Also through the Assistance of friend I have been Enabled to get Endowments in the Temple of St George for about 2,500 of my relatives Besides having Been Baptized in the font of St George Temple for 100 Eminent Men including all the Signers of the Declaration of Indipendance of the United States. For these Blessings I feel to thank my Heavenly Father and Praise his Holy Name. My wife Phebe W Carter Woodruff has been preserved unto me we having been Married 49 years the 13 day of next month Aprail. This is also my wife Emma Birth day Making her 45 years old to day she being born March 1, 1838. ...
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
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