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Latter Day Saint women -- Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 209 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of Mary Ann Reece Steele

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340488]
Identifier: MSS 2469
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Ann Reece was born in 1823 in England. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when she was 17 years old and came to America to follow her religion. She married Richard Steele in 1845 in Nauvoo, Illinois. She migrated to Utah in 1851 and settled in American Fork. She died in 1888.

Dates: 1932

History of Mary Ann Smith Steggell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340462]
Identifier: MSS 2471
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Ann Smith was born in 1848 in England. Her family soon joned the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She came to Utah in 1868 and married Jonathan Steggell in that same year. She settled in American Fork, Utah, and died there in 1933.

Dates: 1935

Biography of Mary L. Clements Steggle

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225523742]
Identifier: MSS 2825
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typewritten biography. Mary Letitia Clements was born in 1868 in American Fork, Utah. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and married John F. Steggle in 1890. She had 13 children and died in 1952.

Dates: 1954

Sunday School Anniversary Conference in rhyme, 1904

 Item — Folder 4: [Barcode: 31197231046001], item: 6
Identifier: MSS 1271

Barbara Toomer autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341288]
Identifier: MSS 2620
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Toomer was born in 1929 and went into nursing. She served as a nurse at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1955. She married Ross Toomer in 1953.

Dates: 2000

Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2214
Scope and Contents Includes an eighty-two-page holograph, plus a photocopy and a typed copy. Nancy Tracy reflects on her early life in New York state; marriage to Moses Tracy, 1832; conversion to Mormonism, 1834; occasional interactions with Joseph Smith Jr.; and experiences with her husband in New York, 1844. Includes information on her activities in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Winter Quarters, Nebraska; and Ogden, Utah. She also comments on her emigration to...
Dates: 1885

Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225531489]
Identifier: MSS 3218
Scope and Contents

Autobiography of Nancy Naomi Tracy (1816-1902), typed and edited by her great-grandson William C. Anderson. Describes her life, from her birth on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario in New York. She married Moses Tracy and both were early converts to the Mormon Church. They were acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith; served a mission in New York; lived in Kirtland, Missouri, and Nauvoo; and later made the trek to Salt Lake, eventually settling in Ogden, Utah.

Dates: 1885

Biographical sketch of the life of Eliza Maria Howes Trane

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339407]
Identifier: MSS SC 3337
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Eliza Maria Howes Trane was born in 1849 in England and her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and settled in Lehi in 1854. She married Thomas F. Trane in 1869 and had 8 sons and daughters. The title page states, "By Jean Chipman," but the last page of the document lists Bertha N. Sagar as the author.

Dates: 1928

Two foundation stones and life history

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306083]
Identifier: MSS SC 833
Scope and Contents

The two items of this collection are typescripts. "Two Foundation Stones" is five pages long and deals with the family life of the Packers and how they apply Mormon church principles in their family. The other document is a two page life history of Donna Smith Packer.

Dates: 1974-1978

Life story of Aunt Emma Webb

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230329762]
Identifier: MSS SC 3080
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten manuscript. The item is a biography of Mary Emma Lowder Webb, who was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1863. Her family moved to Parowan, Utah, in 1863 and then to Panguitch, Utah, in 1864. The family moved to Paragoonah, Utah, in 1866 because of the Black Hawk War with Ute Indians. At the end of hostilities, the family returned to Parowan. Most of the account is told in the words of Mary Emma Lowder Webb which was probably edited by Luella...
Dates: circa 1952