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The handcart companies of 1856 and Arza Erastus Hinkley
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1770
Scope and Contents
Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.
Dates:
1980
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Life history of Betsy Williamson Smith
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 189
Scope and Contents
Typewritten biography of Betsy Williamson Smith, a handcart pioneer and a settler in Utah. Also included is the "Smith Family History" tracing the Smith family from the 17th century to the 20th century.
Dates:
approximately 1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Nancy Jane McCleve Meeks, wife of Dr. Preddy Meeks
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 2733
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typewritten biography of Nancy Meeks. She was born in 1840, joined the Mormon Church in 1856, married Phines Cook and later David Riley Russell, migrated to Utah with the second handcart company in 1856, and married Priddy Meeks on 12 Nov. 1856. She lived in Orderville, Utah. The date of the composition of the item is uncertain.
Dates:
approximately 1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections