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Lyman, Eliza Maria Partridge, 1820-1886

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1820 - 1886

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045763]
Identifier: MSS 1217
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of a diary kept by Patridge. The item begins with a brief autobiography. Lyman writes about being sealed to the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, her marriage to Amasa Lyman after Smith's death, her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, her migration to Utah, the excommunication of her husband from the Mormon Church, her life in Fillmore, Utah, and her efforts in favor of the Mormon practice of polygamy.

Dates: 1846-1885
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Redd family papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232491073]
Identifier: MSS 678
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten and typewritten materials. Most of the items were collected by the descendants of Lemuel Hardison Redd (1856-1923). Included in the collection are minutes of a Redd family meeting, a biography of Eliza M. Partridge Lyman, a list of persons buried in Bluff, Utah, from 1880 to 1951, correspondence of family members, two patriarchal blessings given by Hyrum Smith, and an essay by John Redd, a student at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah.

Dates: 1844-1966
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Remembering Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs writings of the Mormon pioneers at the Missouri River

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329606]
Identifier: MSS SC 2964
Scope and Contents Compilation by Karen and Paul Larsen, of excerpts from diaries and reminiscences of Latter-day Saints who resided in the Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs area between about 1846 and 1852. Includes writings of Job Taylor Smith, Eliza Maria Patridge Lyman, Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Aroet Lucius Hale, Anna Clark Hale, Jane Snyder Richards, Joseph Fielding, Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith, Lucy Meserve Smith, Richard Ballantyne, Sarah Studevant Leavitt, Alfred Boaz Lambson, Allen Joseph Stout,...
Dates: 1998
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Subject
Material Types 2
Autobiographies 1
Bibliographies 1
Biographies 1
Bluff (Utah) -- History 1
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Cemeteries -- Utah -- Bluff -- History 1
Correspondence 1
Council Bluffs (Iowa) 1
Diaries 1
Essays 1
Histories (Literary works) 1
Immigration and American Expansion 1
Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- History 1
Latter Day Saint women -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History 1
Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Fillmore -- History 1
Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo -- History 1
Latter Day Saints -- Iowa 1
Latter Day Saints -- Nebraska 1
Latter Day Saints -- Utah -- Bluff -- History -- Sources 1
Minutes (Records) 1
Patriarchal blessings (Latter Day Saint churches) -- History 1
Photocopies 1
Pioneers 1
Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History 1
Typescripts 1
Winter Quarters (Neb.) 1
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