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Myron Alma Abbott autobiography
File — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 661
Scope and Contents
Handwritten autobiography of Abbott written in 1917. Includes a description of Abbott's life including his birth in Weber County, and life in Tocquerville and Plymouth, Utah, before moving to Bunkerville, Nevada, in 1877. He describes the stay of the Mormon Apostle, Wilford Woodruff, when he was in Bunkerville while dodging federal officials for polygamy. Also includes Abbott's marriage to Mary Leavitt in 1881 and life in Annabella, Sevier County, Utah, from 1886-1910, where he was involved...
Dates:
1917
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Julius S. Dalley collection of Mormon materials
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3927
Abstract
Materials from the lives of Elizabeth R. Snow and Erastus Snow, 1851-1933.
Dates:
1851-1933
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
John Edwards journal
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 8367
Scope and Contents
Materials include photocopies and transcriptions of John Edwards' journal written four years before his death. Included is Edwards' life history from 1831 to 1894. The autobiographical journal provides details about his joining the church in Wales, immigrating to the United States with his family in 1849 (as well as the deaths of his family around the same time), and his account of settlement and family life in Salt Lake City, Utah. Among other recollections, he writes about his faith,...
Dates:
1894
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Alvira Lavona Smith Hendricks statement
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 470
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a handwritten statement with a typewritten transcript. The item was dictated when Hendricks was 89 years old. She was present at the Haun's Mill Massacre in 1838 and tells how her mother treated her twin brother, Alma, who had been seriously wounded there. She also mentions hearing Joseph Smith, first president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speak.
Dates:
1919
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Mary A. Hicks interview with Henry Bobbitt
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2896
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bobbitt was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bobbitt tells about working and living conditions on the plantation. The slaves were not allowed to read and write or attend church. He talks about the slave trade and marriages. He thinks Lincoln was cruel for emancipating salves and not giving them a...
Dates:
1937
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
B. F. Larsen painting catalogue raisonne
Collection — oversize: 1
Identifier: MSS 6698
Abstract
An index including all of B.F. Larsen's works. It is a photocopy of a photocopy.
Dates:
1914-1954
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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