Wilford Actted as Proxy

A young Wilford Woodruff

When the ordinance of Baptism for the Dead was first introduced during the Nauvoo years of the Church, who was Wilford Woodruff first baptized for?

 

a.      Asael Smith (Joseph Smith’s grandfather)

b.      The Signers of the Constitution

c.       David Patton

d.      Robert Mason

 

Yesterday’s answer:

a.      Continue to care for both her and her neighbor’s family

 

Illness and disease required a special kind of giving. Because most frontier communities had neither doctors nor hospitals, women provided the nurturing—and some had remarkable records of service.

When typhoid fever struck a family near Sarah Joy Surrage’s home in Weber County, she worked tirelessly. First her neighbor’s seven-year-old boy died, and Sarah prepared the body for burial. Then the disease claimed the life of the mother. When Sarah’s own family became infected, she struggled to save both families but lost one of her daughters. “I went without sleep so long that I finally got so I hardly needed sleep,” she remembered. After the epidemic ran its course, Sarah was asked to raise her neighbor’s family and did so.

Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo, Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 53.