Wilford woodruff biography

Early Life and Joining the Saints

Genealogy

In tracing the history of my fathers, I find it difficult to obtain a satisfactory account of the Woodruff family for more than three generations.

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 to the time of his death. His wife’s name was Sarah; she bore to him nine children, as follows:–Josiah, Appleton, Eldad, Elisha, Joseph, Rhoda, Phebe, and [two names not given.]

My grandfather, Eldad Woodruff, was the third son of Josiah. He was born in Farmington, Hartford County, Connecticut, in 1751; he also possessed a strong constitution. It was said that he performed the most labor for several years of any man in Hartford County, and from overexertion in hewing timber, he was attacked with rheumatism in his right hip, which caused severe lameness for several years before his death. He married Dinah Woodford, by whom he had seven children–viz., Eldad, Elizabeth, Samuel, Aphek, Titus, Helen and Ozem.

Eldad married Lewey Woodford; Elizabeth, Amasa Frisby; Samuel, Miss Case; Aphek, Beulah Thom

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Cynthia Doxey Simple, “Wilford Woodruff: Missionary upgrade Herefordshire,” flat Banner diagram the Gospel: Wilford Woodruff, ed. Conqueror L. Baugh and Susan Easton Sooty (Provo, UT: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University; Salt Cork City: Deseret Book, 2010), 149–66.

Cynthia Doxey Green critique a onetime associate academician of Service history take doctrine classify Brigham Adolescent University

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“The Life and Ministry of Wilford Woodruff,” Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff (2011), xv–xxxvii

“The Life and Ministry of Wilford Woodruff,” Teachings: Wilford Woodruff, xv–xxxvii

“God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea and rides upon the storm.”¹ So begins President Wilford Woodruff’s favorite hymn, “God Moves in a Mysterious Way.”

“He loved [that hymn],” remarked President Heber J. Grant, who served as an Apostle when Wilford Woodruff was President of the Church. “We sang it, I am sure, sometimes twice a month in our weekly meetings in the Temple, and very seldom did a month pass by when that song was not called for by Brother Woodruff. He believed in this work with all his heart and soul, and labored with all the power that God gave him for its advancement.”²

Matthias F. Cowley, who also served with President Woodruff, observed: “Perhaps no man in the Church ever felt more profoundly the truth of the words, ‘God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform,’ than Wilford Woodruff. He was so intensely spiritual, so completely devoted to the service of God, that all through his life the miraculous manifestations of God’s purposes were abundantly given. He had never based his faith upon mi