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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. This copy is very dark and difficult to read. Margaret Cunningham Binnall was born in 1845 in Scotland. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the ill-fated Willie handcart company. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died in 1921.

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography of James and Elizabeth Nicholson Cunningham. James Cunningham was born in 1801 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1879. Elizabeth Nicholson was born in 1805 in Scotland and died in American Fork, Utah, in 1890. They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and migrated to Utah in 1856 with the Willie handcart company. Included with the narrative is the detailed account of their ordeal in the Willie...

Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Loveless writes about the live of George Cunningham. Cunningham was born in 1840 in England an later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with his parents. He migrated to Utah in 1856 with the James Willie handcart company. Most of the biography is Cunningham's account of the miseries of the trek in the handcart company, written when he was 30 years old. Cunningham settled in American Fork, Utah, and was a...

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Softbound typescript of an account of the rescue of the Martin Handcart Company, taken from journals and oral family histories.

Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography with a typescript of the item. The history includes comments by John's daughter, Laletas Dixon. As a young woman Emma James migrated to Utah with the ill-fated Willie Handcart company. Emma describes how the decision was made to travel to Utah late in the season and gives many details on the nature of the journey and the tragedy which followed. She tells about the starvation, cold, hardships faced by her family, and the death of her father, William James...

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Typewritten biography of Caroline Mortensen Durham (1850-1915). McGregor tells of her mother's migration to Utah with a handcart company, her settling in Parowan, Utah, and her mother's activities at home.