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WILFORD WOODRUFF RECEIVED HIS NAME AT THE INVITATION OF APOSTLE WILFORD WOODRUFF OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS, A CLOSE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.(B7)

PERMELIA DUNN ATTENDED BENNINGTON ID SCHOOL. SHE HAD NO COLLEGE EDUCATION BUT OFTEN SUBSTITUTED FOR TEACHERS IN GEORGETOWN ID IN HER LATE TEENS AND EARLY MARRIED YEARS. PERMELIA WAS LADYLIKE. SHE WAS REARED ON A CLOCK-LIKE SCHEDULE IN THE DUNN HOUSEHOLD. SHE BECAME EXASPERATED WHEN SHE WAS REARING HER FAMILY FOR THEY DISREGARDED BEING ON TIME.(B7)

WHEN COURTING THE FOLLOWING COMMENT WAS MADE: "WILFORD IS TRYING TO CORRAL THE DUNN HEIFER ON THREE-MILE CREEK."(4MI)(B7)

WILFORD HOMESTEADED 160 ACRES OF THIS AREA. ABOUT THE TIME HE WAS MARRIED HE SECURED A GOVERNMENT TITLE TO SEVERAL HUNDRED ACRES OF GROUND THAT LAY BETWEEN GEORGETOWN ID AND THE BEAR RIVER. THIS LAND HAD FORMERLY BEEN SET ASIDE BY THE RESIDENTS OF GEORGETOWN ID AS A RANGE FOR THEIR CATTLE. WHEN HE SECURED THE TITLE, OF COURSE THEY FELT CROWDED. THEY GAVE WILFORD THE COLD SHOULDER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. BUT HE CULTIVATED THE LAND AND SHARED IT WITH HIS RELATIVES AND GOOD FEELING WITH THE TOWNSPEOPLE EVENTUALLY WAS RESTORED.(B7)

IN JUNE OF 1889 WILFORD WAS CALLED TO THE SOUTHERN STATES MISSION. HE WAS GONE TWO YEARS. PERMELIA WENT AND LIVED IN A LITTLE HOUSE NEXT TO 1-18 WHILE HE WAS GONE. IT HAD BEEN USED FOR THE HELP THERE. HE CAME HOME IN SPRING OF 1891.(B7)

IN 1892 HE WAS CALLED TO BE THE COUNSELOR TO BISHOP HENRY A. LEWIS. ON THE 8 MAY 1893 HE WAS CALLED TO BE THE BISHOP IN MONTPELIER ID. THEIR FOUR CHILDREN, WOODRUFF JR, WILLIAM, VERA AND ROYAL, WENT WITH THEM. THE OTHER CHILDREN WERE BORN IN MONTPELIER ID. HE WAS THE BISHOP FOR 19 YEARS.(B7)

DURING PART OF THIS TIME THE TWO OLDER BOYS, WOODRUFF JR AND WILLIAM STAYED ON THE FARM IN GEORGETOWN ID. IN THE WINTER THE COWS WERE AT THEIR PLACE IN MONTPELIER ID AND IN THE SPRING THEY WOULD BE TAKEN TO THE FARM IN GEORGETOWN ID.(B7)

WILFORD WOODRUFF CLARK WAS RELEASED AS BISHOP IN 1912. HE SAID "I AM GOING HOME NOW TO GEORGETOWN ID TO REAR MY CHILDREN ON THE FARM." (B7)

THE THREE OLDER BOYS WILFORD JR, WILLIAM & ROYAL NEVER LIVED AT HOME WHILE LEORA WAS GROWING UP. THEY WENT ON MISSIONS AND THEN MARRIED. LEORA'S OLDER SISTER VERA TOOK CARE OF HER WHEN SHE WAS BORN AND SHE THOUGHT SHE WAS HER MOTHER.(XXXX)

LEORA SAID SHE WAS A LOT OLDER THAT THE OTHERS IN HER FIRST GRADE CLASS. THE TEACHER, MRS. BLAINE, RECOMMENDED THAT SHE GO TO THE THIRD GRADE.(XXXX)