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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]
Church president Wilford Woodruff issued his Manifesto proscribing new polygamist marriages in September 1890. Smith's reaction to the Manifesto reveal that the church's movement away from polygamy was an incremental process rather than an abrupt turnaround. Smith wrote to one of his plural wives that the Manifesto would not affect their ...
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.
Formed in 2006 to serve post-9/11 veterans and their families after ABC news reporter Bob Woodruff was injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq, the organization has become a celebrity favorite with its ...
Wilford Woodruff with his son, Abraham Owen Woodruff, 1897. On November 23, 1872, Woodruff was born just south of Salt Lake City, Utah Territory, to Wilford Woodruff and Emma Smith Woodruff. [3] He was the sixth of eight children. His mother was the second plural wife of Wilford Woodruff and the niece of Abraham O. Smoot, after whom Woodruff ...
Issued by Church President Wilford Woodruff in September 1890, the Manifesto was a response to mounting anti-polygamy pressure from the United States Congress, which by 1890 had disincorporated the church, escheated its assets to the U.S. federal government, and imprisoned many prominent polygamist Mormons. Upon its issuance, the LDS Church in ...
Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from stunt performer to star of film such as “Cocoon” and “The Natural,” has died. Brimley's manager Lynda Bensky said the actor died Saturday ...
ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, who was severely injured in a roadside bombing while covering Iraq in 2006, is returning to the country — and the exact spot where he was hurt — in a new ...