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Latter Day Saints -- California

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Ancestors and descendants of James Gale

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331800]
Identifier: MSS SC 3235
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a printed book. The item includes many family genealogies and biographies of family members. Also included is an autobiography of James Gale (1846-1928) as dictated to Mae McGrath in 1919. Gale was born in Australia and came to the United States with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1853. He lived for a time at San Bernardino, California, and came to Utah where he settled in Beaver. He later moved to Arizona and settle din...
Dates: 1956

Journey across the Sierra Nevadas

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230335306]
Identifier: MSS SC 3323
Scope and Contents

The author of the account was 11 1/2 years old when he made the journey from Sacramento, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1860. He apparently recorded this event later in life. He uses fictional names and never identified himself or his family's name. An older couple decided they wanted to go to Utah at the last minute, and because his family's wagon was the lightest, they took the older couple with them. Along the way, they encountered a few difficulties and the old lady died.

Dates: 1960

My life story

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230236447]
Identifier: MSS SC 225
Scope and Contents

Signed typescript which tells of Isom's life in Salt Lake City, Utah; her marriage to Alma Isom of Hurricane, Utah; and their later life as Mormons in Southern California.

Dates: 1978

Clyde Stanley Romney mission papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231016632]
Identifier: MSS 7600
Scope and Contents

Contains the mission materials of Clyde Stanley Romney, dating from 1941 to 1944. These include his missionary journal, mission records, missionary handbook, church materials, and church books.

Dates: 1941-1944