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Flora Robertson Brimhall autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 458
Scope and Contents
Typewritten autobiography. Brimhall writes about her family background, her youth in Spanish Fork, Utah, her marriage to George H. Brimhall, and gives her reflections on polygamy. As an adult, she lived in Provo, Utah.
Dates:
1938
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
A memorial
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 326
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and signed family history and autobiography. Tanner writes about her family joining the Mormon Church, its migration to Nauvoo, Illinois, and its eventual arrival in Utah. She also mentions her marriage in a polygamous relationship and her life in Payson, Utah.
Dates:
1880
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ellen Elvira Nash Parkinson papers
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 468
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a typewritten autobiography, two typewritten letters, and two biographies. In her autobiography, Parkinson writes about her life in Utah and Idaho, the polygamous marriage of her husband, and her attitude towards the Mormon Church. Also included is a brief biographical statement of Parkinson's daughter telling of Ellen's last years. The two letters are from Isaac B. Nash to "Vie" stating that he was given a three-month sentence for polygamy. The biography is of Mary Cramer...
Dates:
1885-1940
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Olive Andelin Potter autobiography
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 690
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. The item was dictated in 1932. Olive married Wallace Edwin Potter in 1884 as a plural wife. She lived in numerous places in Utah especially when dodging federal officials. Olive gives her opinion on polygamy.
Dates:
1932
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lydia Susanna Goaslind Purnell papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1796
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and typewritten correspondence, histories, biographies, genealogical group sheets, patriarchal blessings, diaries, and land indentures in Idaho. The correspondence are between Purnell, her husband, and other relatives and deal largely with family matters. One of the letters is an account of the Battle of Bear River in 1863 by an observer. Purnell also writes to many persons about family history. Purnell also writes about being a polygamous wife and the various persecutions by...
Dates:
1875-1942
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Laura Ann Keeler Thurber autobiography
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 436
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography which has been encapsulated and bound. The item starts with Thurber's biographies of her father, James Keeler, and her mother, Eliza Shelton Keeler. James Keeler's account was copied from his autobiography and diary. Laura lived in Santaquin, Goshen, and Richfield, Utah, and in Grass Valley, Nevada. Laura married Joseph Thurber in 1876, who entered into polygamy by marrying another woman in 1885. James Keeler joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
Dates:
approximately 1900
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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