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Saint George (Utah) -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Erastus Fairbanks Snow statement

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230322650]
Identifier: MSS SC 2600
Scope and Contents

Handwritten statement dated 9 April 1872. Snow claims that he is the owner of eight lots of land in St. George, Utah.

Dates: 1872 April 9

Frank Snow letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232501178]
Identifier: MSS 1646
Scope and Contents

Handwritten letters. The collection consists primarily of letters written by Frank Snow to his wife, Effie Mae Harrison Snow, and family while he was serving as a missionary for the Mormon Church in Mississippi from 1897 to 1899. The collection contains thirty-nine letters to Frank's wife and four pages from letters. Miscellaneous items include: a missionary blessing by George Teasdale, letters by other persons, and a poem. The materials largely document Snow's missionary experience.

Dates: 1897-1899

William Snow diary and biographies

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306182]
Identifier: MSS SC 857
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopies both of typescripts of excerpts from the diary of William Snow and of typescripts of two biographies of the same man. The authors of the biographies are unknown.William Snow was a captain of a wagon train en route to Utah, was sent to colonize in St. George, Utah with his families, became the bishop of the Pine Valley Ward and later, the patriarch of the St. George Stake of the Mormon Church. He was also a judge in St. George, Utah. The...
Dates: 1832-1850

George Spilsbury autobiography

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 117
Scope and Contents

Handwritten autobiography with a photocopy of the item. The volume includes handwritten copies of letters received and patriarchal blessings of family members. Spilsbury writes about travelling in southern Utah as a patriarch, gives a brief description of his mission to Wales, talks about some of the prophecies of the first president of the LDS Church, Joseph Smith (1805-1844), and describes the exodus west of Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois to Utah. Dated from 1843 to 1911.

Dates: 1843-1911

St. George Temple sealings record

 Item — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349174]
Identifier: MSS 4014
Abstract

A temple record with recorded sealings from the St. George temple, 1881.

Dates: 1881

St. George Utah Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tithing list

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230340264]
Identifier: MSS 100
Abstract

The folder contains a handwritten list of the dollar amounts of tithing paid by the various wards of the St. George Stake in 1883.

Dates: 1883

Ammon M. Tenney papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230320480]
Identifier: MSS SC 2214
Scope and Contents

Handwritten correspondence, certificates, patriarchal blessings, family histories, and genealogies. The items relate to Ammon M. Tenney and to other members of the Tenney family. The letters and certificates are from prominent Mormon Church leaders.

Dates: 1874-1942

History of William Theobald

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330745]
Identifier: MSS SC 3120
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. The item is an autobiography of William Theobald. Also included is an index to the item. Theobald was born in England in 1813 and worked on his father's farm until he was sixteen years old. He later became a carpenter and a wheelwright and served in the British navy from 1836 to 1840. He married Martha Lane in 1841, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1848, and migrated to Utah in 1851. He worked as a police officer...
Dates: approximately 1875

Thomas Vickers journal

 Digital Record
Identifier: MSS3822

Totals of ordinance work in St. George Temple

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230327196]
Identifier: MSS SC 2670
Scope and Contents

Handwritten list of totals for ordinance work done in the St. George temple from 1877 to 1883. Farnsworth lists the numbers of ordinances performed in such categories as baptisms, endowments, ordinations, sealings and "Second Anointings."

Dates: 1883