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Coleman family histories
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 796
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of typescripts. File contains excerpts from three documents, all originally compiled by Evans Coleman: "History of the Coleman Family;" "Saint Johns Purchase;" and "Biography of Emma Beck Coleman." These documents were originally compiled between 1938 and 1942, although all of them refer to events either in Missouri during the late 1830s or in Arizona during the 1880s.
Dates:
1942
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Ethel Johnson Lewellen journals
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7602
Scope and Contents
Materials include transcriptions of the journals of Ethel Johnson Lewellen. Journals contain excerpts of her financial records, daily activities, and grocery lists, and document her daily life and community events. Also includes newspaper clippings and family history materials. Collection contains compact discs with electronic transciptions of the journals; the original journals are in the donor's possession. Dated from 1935 to 1972.
Dates:
1935-1972
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Joseph Young affadavit of Haun's Mill massacre
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 791
Scope and Contents
Materials include Joseph Young's original eyewitness account of events that occured during the Haun's Mill massacre on October 30, 1838. His account was witnessed and sealed on June 4, 1839, by John Woods of the Circuit Court in Adams County, Missouri. Young describes the mob, his escape, and the conditions of the victims. Young also writes that he helped bury the dead. The account was later used by the Church as evidence of the sufferings of its members in Missouri. Dated June 4, 1839.
Dates:
1839 June 4
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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