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Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography

File — Multiple Containers

Identifier: MSS 2214

Scope and Contents Includes an eighty-two-page holograph, plus a photocopy and a typed copy. Nancy Tracy reflects on her early life in New York state; marriage to Moses Tracy, 1832; conversion to Mormonism, 1834; occasional interactions with Joseph Smith Jr.; and experiences with her husband in New York, 1844. Includes information on her activities in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Winter Quarters, Nebraska; and Ogden, Utah. She also comments on her emigration to...

Dates: 1885

Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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Subject: Council Bluffs (Iowa) -- History X
Subject: Latter Day Saint women -- Biography X
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