Autobiographies
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Remembering Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs writings of the Mormon pioneers at the Missouri River
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329606]
Identifier: MSS SC 2964
Scope and Contents
Compilation by Karen and Paul Larsen, of excerpts from diaries and reminiscences of Latter-day Saints who resided in the Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs area between about 1846 and 1852. Includes writings of Job Taylor Smith, Eliza Maria Patridge Lyman, Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Aroet Lucius Hale, Anna Clark Hale, Jane Snyder Richards, Joseph Fielding, Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith, Lucy Meserve Smith, Richard Ballantyne, Sarah Studevant Leavitt, Alfred Boaz Lambson, Allen Joseph Stout,...
Dates:
1998
Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith autobiography
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336791]
Identifier: MSS 920
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a 260-page handwritten autobiography. Smith includes copies of correspondence and patriarchal blessings in her account. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1837, lived with the Mormons in Missouri and Illinois, married George Albert Smith in 1841, allowed him to take additional wives, came to Utah in 1849, and served as president of the Relief Society.
Dates:
1844-1906