Abstract

Contains books, records, diaries, correspondence, and other documents from Joseph Facer's life, dealing mainly with his service in the LDS Church. Also contains Hill and Richards family books and a detailed history on the John Kenny and Agnes Hill Richards families and the Alexander Hill and Elizabeth Currie Hill families(the grandparents and great-grandparents of Emma Richards Facer, Joseph's wife).

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Photocopies of some files from the Nauvoo Church Library, made on August 2, 2001.

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Photocopies of some files from the Nauvoo Church Library, made on December 27, 2001.

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Included are copies of a portrait pedigree chart made by Emma Facer and regular pedigree charts made by Emma Facer and printed in 1936. Also included are photocopies of the genealogical records of John and Joseph Richards and their families, copyright, 1941. The last photocopies are brief life stories of Joseph Hill Richards and Mary Willie Richards and a sketch of the life of Mary Willie Richards (written in 1934 by Nettie Hunt Rencher).

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Two letters from Ben E. Rich to the elders of the Southern States Mission in July 1897. The letters discuss money owed by missionaries to the mission office, laboring diligently, and remembering fast day.

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Two letters from Ben E. Rich to the missionaries of the Southern States Mission, which letters discuss a visit made by Brother Rich to Salt Lake City and the publishing and circulation of the Southern Star, the mission paper of the Southern States Mission. The letters date November and December 1898.

Scope and Contents Includes three letters related to Facer's missionary service in the Southern States Mission. One letter is a letter of advice to all of the brethren in the Southern States Mission, from Brother Louis Swensen in Princeton, North Carolina. The second letter is addressed to Joseph Facer in Princeton, North Carolina, from Ben E. Rich in Chattanooga, Tennesee. It is dated July 19, 1899 and talks about Joseph Facer's prepaid order for his ticket home, a statement of his account, and the cash he...

Scope and Contents One item is a letter (circular #7) to the Elders of the North Carolina Conference, from Lewis Swenson, H.C. Heninger, W.E. Morgan, Wilmington, (North Carolina, February 2, 1899) [4]p. Another is called "Special Circular" (letter) to the Elders of the North Carolina Conference, from Lewis Swenson, (Princeton, North Carolina, May 15, 1899) [4]p. Another letter (circular #10) is to the Elders of the North Carolina Conference, from Lewis Swenson, H.C. Heninger, J.M. Haws, (Princeton, North...