In 1853, Woodruff renewed his marriage for time and eternity to Phebe and married two more women. Although Hyrum Smith had sealed Wilford and Phebe on November 11, 1843, church recorders had not properly noted the ordinance. Now almost ten years later in Salt Lake City, Woodruff and Phebe went to the Council House on March 13, 1853, where Young performed the ordinance again. At the same time Young also sealed Wilford, who had turned forty-six twelve days before, to fifteen-year-old Emma Smith and nineteen-year-old Sarah Brown. Sarah presented him with a son, David Patten Woodruff, the following year on April 4. He probably refrained from sexual relations with Emma until she became older, since she did not bear her first child, Hyrum Smith Woodruff, until October 4, 1857, seven months after she turned nineteen.