Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Woodruff's funeral in the Salt Lake Tabernacle Grave marker of Wilford Woodruff Grave marker of Wilford Woodruff. Woodruff died in San Francisco, California, on September 2, 1898, after a failed bladder surgery. [136] He was succeeded as church president by his son-in-law, Lorenzo Snow. Woodruff was buried at the Salt Lake City Cemetery. [137]
Wilford Woodruff gave similar instructions for his funeral, requesting that the attendees and decorators avoid the color black. This tradition continued for some time; beginning in 1888, the Salt Lake Tabernacle was decorated with white banners for funerals.
George Quayle Cannon (January 11, 1827 – April 12, 1901) was an early member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), and served in the First Presidency under four successive presidents of the church: Brigham Young, John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, and Lorenzo Snow.
English: Wilford Woodruff, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 to 1898, with his son, Abraham Owen Woodruff, photographed in 1897.
Missionaries were sometimes attacked. In February 1913, an anti-Mormon riot in Sunderland possibly led to the death of an American missionary, Ralph H. Hendricks, [40] though his death certificate stated he died from fever [41] and the LDS Church's own publication's obituary stated he died after a two-month illness. [42]
Wilford Woodruff and George A. Smith ordained. 4 May 1839 William Smith and Orson Hyde removed from the Quorum by vote of the church. 25 May 1839 William Smith restored to Quorum by vote of the Church. 27 June 1839 Orson Hyde restored to the Quorum by vote of the church.
Ann-Margret, widely considered one of the most beautiful starts of the 1960s and 70s, is still a knockout in 2019 at 78 years old.
In a church general conference address on April 8, 1894, Wilford Woodruff stated that "I have not felt satisfied, nor has any man since the Prophet Joseph Smith who has attended to the ordinance of adoption in the temples of our God. We have felt there was more to be revealed on this subject than we have received … and the duty that I want ...