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Thomas Farrar Whitley missionary diaries

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3112
Scope and Contents

The Thomas Farrar Whitley missionary diaries, 1935-1938 includes the diary typescript. The typescript includes an introduction containing biographical information about Whitley and historical background about Tonga.

Dates: 1935-1938

Xanthe K. Farnworth oral histories

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7723
Scope and Contents

Contains two cassette tapes that contain the oral history of Alice Armena Oliver Shumway and James Barton Ashcroft, who is Farnworth's grandfather. Recordings were made around 1980. Also includes audio transfers of recordings on CD.

Dates: approximately 1980

David S. and Rosalie Lehner King papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7930
Scope and Contents

Contains two drafts of an autobiography of David S. King and an oral history interview of Rosalie L. King. Items document their life experiences, including his political service, their service as Mormon missionaries in Haiti, and their work as president and matron of the Washington Temple. Materials date from between 1990 and 1995.

Dates: 1990-1995

Thea Daniel collection on Judd family

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7960
Scope and Contents

Contains a story titled A Little Indian Girl written by Nancy Asay, daughter of Priddy Meeks, and the history of Carlos W. Judd and Esther Brown Judd, and five audio cassettes and one CD of Esther Judd stories she made and told. Dated 1956-2006.

Dates: 1956-2006

The songstress of Dernford Dale : the life of poetess, diarist and Latter-day Saint pioneer Hannah Tapfield King / Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill and Leonard Reed

 Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 8020
Scope and Contents

Contains one biography, written by Dorothy Brewerton, Carolyn Gorwill, and Leonard Reed in 2011, about Hannah Tapfield King. The biography contains transcriptions of her journals, her writings, and some of her autobiographical sketches. The biography describes her life in England and her journey to Utah as a pioneer. There is also some information about her ancestors, as written by Hannah Tapfield King.

Dates: 2011 May

Oral history interview with Debbie Halliday on the Provo Tabernacle

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 7709
Scope and Contents

Contains an oral history interview with Debbie Halliday. In the interview, Halliday describes the fire at the Provo Tabernacle on December 17, 2010.

Dates: 2010

Mary A. Hicks interview with Mandy Coverson

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2879
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coverson 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. Coverson was a child when her mother died, and she was raised in the plantation house. She describes the Union Army briefly, talks about the Ku Klux Klan, and gives thanks for her freedom.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Viney Baker

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2882
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Baker 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. Baker was freed after the Civil War, but he continued to be forced to work, and he was treated very poorly. His mother was sold in the middle of the night. He describes severe beatings and being reunited with his mother.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Ann Dunn

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2884
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dunn 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. She describes the master's house and the slave cabins on the plantation. She gives both her own and her master's reaction to the Yankee invasion. She also gives a heartfelt account of her courtship and marriage to her late husband, Jim Dunn.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with David Blount

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2885
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Blount 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. Blount tells a detailed story of how his master fired an abusive overseer. He also tells of how he stopped a slave revolt from occuring on the plantation. He acompanied his master to the Civil War as his "personal servant." Blount talks about Jim, a slave who...
Dates: 1937

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