James blev gift med Fanny Lloyd den 21 dec. 1868 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Fanny (datter af William Lloyd og Catherine Lewis) blev født den 14 okt. 1849 i Leominster, Herefordshire, England; døde den 8 maj 1931 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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Like many early Latter Day Saints, Woodruff practiced plural marriage. He was married to nine women (some historians claim 10-12);[5] however, not all of these marriages were concurrent. His wives:

Phoebe Whittemore Carter (8 March 1807 - 10 Nov 1885), m. April 13, 1837
Mary Ann Jackson, (18 Feb 1818 - 25 Oct 1894) m. Aug 2, 1846 (later divorced)
Sarah Elinor Brown, (22 Aug 1827 - 25 Dec 1915) m. Aug 2, 1846 (left after 3 weeks)
Mary Caroline Barton, (12 Jan 1829 - 10 Aug 1910) m. Aug 2, 1846 (left after 3 weeks)
Mary Meek Giles Webster (6 Sept 1802 - 3 Oct 1852) m. March 28, 1852
Emma Smith (1 March 1838 - 4 March 1912) m. March 13, 1853
Sarah Brown (1 Jan 1834 - 9 May 1909), m. March 13, 1853
Sarah Delight Stocking (26 Jul 1838 - 28 May 1906) m. July 31, 1857
Eudora Young Dunford (12 May 1852 - 21 Oct 1921) m. March 10, 1877 (later divorced)[6]

Woodruff's wives bore him a total of 34 children, with 14 preceding him in death.[7]

Woodruff met his first wife, Phoebe Carter, in Kirtland shortly after his return from his first mission through Southern Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky. Woodruff came to Kirtland on November 25, 1836, along with Abraham O. Smoot. He was introduced to Phoebe by Milton Holmes on January 28, 1837. She was a native of Maine and had become a Latter Day Saint in 1834. Woodruff and Phoebe were married on April 13, 1837, with the ceremony performed by Frederick G. Williams.[8] Their marriage was later sealed in Nauvoo by Hyrum Smith.[9] In the late 1840s, Phoebe was set apart as a missionary and served with Woodruff as he presided over the Eastern States Mission. Phoebe was later numbered among the "leading ladies" who helped organize the Relief Society in Utah Territory in the 1860s through the 1880s.[10]

During Woodruff's time as president of the LDS Church, his wife, Emma Smith Woodruff, accompanied him to public functions, and she was the only wife he lived with after Phoebe's death in 1885.[11] She was a niece of Abraham O. Smoot. Although she married Woodruff, then age 46, when she was 15, she did not have the first of her eight children until she was 20. Emma was involved in the Relief Society, serving as both a ward and stake president for that organization. She also served as a member of the Relief Society General Board from 1892 to 1910.[12]

Among Woodruff's children was the LDS Church apostle Abraham O. Woodruff. Woodruff's daughter, Phoebe, was a wife of Lorenzo Snow, and Snow succeeded Woodruff as president of the LDS Church.

Wilford blev gift med Mary Ann Jackson den 15 apr. 1846 i Florence, Douglas, Nebraska, USA. Mary blev født den 18 feb. 1818 i Liverpool, Lancashire, England; døde den 25 okt. 1894 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

William blev gift med Catherine Lewis den 7 jul. 1831 i Pembridge, Herefordshire, England. Catherine blev født i 1803 i Leominster, Herefordshire, England; døde den 12 jun. 1887 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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History of Wilford Woodruff, Millennial Star 27 (1865), 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 Thompson and Azubah Hart; Titus, Louisa Allen; Helen, Amos Wheeler; and Ozem, Acksah Merrill and Hannah Hart; all of whom had large families. My grandfather died in Farmington, with the spotted fever, in 1806, aged 55 years. My grandmother, Dinah, died in 1824, in the same place, with a cancer in the left breast; her sufferings were very great. My father, Aphek Woodruff, was born in Farmington, November 11, 1778; he married Beulah Thompson, who was born in 1782, November 29, 1801. She bore three sons--namely, Azmon, born November 29, 1802; Ozen Thompson, born December 22, 1804; myself born March 1, 1807. My mother died with the spotted fever, June 11, 1808, aged 26 years, leaving me fifteen months old. My father's second wife, Azubah Hart, was born July 31, 1792; they were married November 9, 1810; they had six children--viz., Philo, born November 29, 1811, and died by poison administered by a physician November 25, 1827; Asahel Hart, born April 11, 1814, and died in Terrahaute [Terrehaute], October 18, 1838; Franklin, born March 12, 1816, and died June 1; Newton, born June 19, 1818, drowned September 1820; Julius, born April 22, 1820, and died in infancy; Eunice, born June 19, 1821. I married her to Dwight Webster, in Farmington, Connecticut, August 4, 1841. My father was a strong-constitutioned man, and has done a great amount of labor. At eighteen years of age he commenced attending a flouring sawmill, and continued about 50 years; most of this time he labored eighteen hours a day. He never made any profession of religion until I baptized him, with all his household, into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on the first day of July 1838. He was a man of great charity, honesty, integrity and truth, and made himself poor by giving to the poor, and accommodating his fellowmen by loaning money and becoming surety for his neighbors, and always saying yes to every man who asked a favor at his hand.

Aphek blev gift med Beulah Thompson den 25 nov. 1801 i Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. Beulah (datter af Lott Thompson og Anna Hart) blev født den 22 apr. 1782 i Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; blev døbt den 25 maj 1783 i Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; døde den 11 jun. 1808 i Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut, USA; blev begravet i West Avon Cemetery, Avon, Hartford, Connecticut, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

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CEMETERY: West Avon Cemetery, Avon, Hartford County, Connecticut. In Memory of Mrs. Beulah wife of Mr. Aphek Woodruff, who died June 11th, 1808. AE 25 years. A pleasing forgiving generous gentle heart. A good companion honest without end. In slumber resting faithful sober friend. Beloved through life remembered in the end.