170 years ago today - Jul 25, 1845

July 25 1845 Friday Joseph Woodruffs [b.18 Jul 1845 - d.12 Nov 1846] Blessing received under the Hands of his Father Wilford Woodruff ... I seal thee against the power of Death sickness & the destroyer untill thy work is finished ... Thou shalt lay thy hands upon the heads of thy Father and Mother in their old age and bless them & thou shalt be a Comfort unto them. Thou shalt be Baptized the day thou art eight years of age ...

I ordain the to be a High Priest after the order of Melchisedic ... when thou shalt arive to years of accountability & discretion thou shalt have power to administer in the ordinances thereof..

[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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  1. AnonymousJuly 25, 2015

    Wilford Woodruff’s second wife [1st polygamous] was Mary Ann Jackson; they married on April 15 or August 2, 1846, at the Nauvoo Temple or at Winter Quarters. Mary Ann was twenty-eight, Wilford was thirty-nine. They had one child, James Jackson, but divorced in 1848. ...

    The records are contradictory, but he married Mary Ann on that occasion or on August 2, at Winter Quarters. The marriage produced one son, James Jackson Woodruff, who was born on March 25, 1847 [thus conceived circa June.25,1846), at Florence, Nebraska. Mary Ann and Wilford subsequently divorced, but James remained on good terms with his father.”

    Source: http://toddmcompton.com/WWfamilies.htm

    Thus we see that the terrible judgment of the Lord fell on Joseph Woodruff for his fathers entering into the whoredom of polygamy about 5 months earlier.

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