Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson writes about her immigration to Utah in 1848, her father taking the family to California in 1850, her father starting a boarding house, a flood, being threatened by Indians, food shortages, following Brigham Young’s counsel and abandoning her home in 1858, her husband’s call to go to Sanpete in 1866, the Black Hawk War and other topics. 17 photocopied pages.

Ephraim Hesmer Nye writes about his family members’ work as hired-out farm laborers, going to Australia with his father in 1852, fighting Australian wildfires, coming in contact with Mormon missionaries in Australia and being baptized as a family, the splitting of his parents, emigrating to Ogden, Utah, weddings of himself and his siblings, a horse buggy accident and his missionary service in Great Britain. Here, in 1882, his daily journal entries begin. He returns to Ogden in 1884 and has a difficult time finding employment. He is set apart to serve in Presidency of the 77th Quorum of the Seventy. He sees the funeral procession of missionaries killed by a mob in Georgia. He becomes a home missionary. Here, the journal ends. A few blessings are included. Correspondence is copied into the journal.

1 bound volume, 123 photocopied handwritten pages.