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Latter Day Saint churches -- Missions -- Southern States -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:

Junius Wilford Keyes missionary diaries

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2041
Scope and Contents

Ten volumes documenting his service in the North Texas Conference of the Southern States Mission for the Mormon Chuch. His mission was from June 15, 1903 to September 17, 1905. One of the volumes contains a collection of songs compiled by the author. A transcription of the diaries, with a transcriber's note and an index of persons and places, is also included.

Dates: 1903-1905

Jesse Holyoak LeFevre journal

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230315290]
Identifier: MSS SC 1803
Scope and Contents

Leatherbound handwritten journal of a Mormon missionary in the Southern States including Georgia and Tennessee. There is a handwritten copy of Jesse Lefevre's patriarchal blessing at the end of the journal.

Dates: 1900-1902

Heber Meeks papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1677
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, and speeches. The materials relate to Meeks' assignment as the mission president to the Southern States Mission for the Mormon Church and to his work with the Democratic Party in Utah.

Dates: 1942-1951

Fredrick Willard Morgan diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2206
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries. Morgan writes about his daily life and various experiences while serving on his mission. Some entries have been edited and rewritten.

Dates: 1890-1891

Jessie E. Murphy diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 1010
Scope and Contents

Holograph diary. Murphy describes his activities as a missionary for the Mormon Church in the Southern States Mission.

Dates: 1867-1869

James Lewis Rushton diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348226]
Identifier: MSS 1389
Scope and Contents

Phtotocopy of a handwritten diary kept while Rushton served as a Mormon missionary in the Southern States. He seems to have spent much of his time in South Carolina.

Dates: 1907

David Crockett Shupe diary and biographical sketches

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 799
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a handwritten diary and short biographies of Shupe family members. The diaries were kept from 1898 to 1901 when Shupe was serving on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Southern States, primarily in Tennesee, Kentucky, and Virginia.

Dates: 1898-1945

David Crockett Shupe journals

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230313352]
Identifier: MSS SC 1585
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of handwritten journals which describe David C. Shupe's missionary experiences in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia.

Dates: 1898-1901

A. O. Smoot papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 896
Scope and Contents The A. O. Smoot papers comprise the accumulation of records over the period of fifty-seven years and include journals, diaries, financial records and correspondence dealing with business, personal, church, and Brigham Young Academy matters. The letters are holograph and typewritten, the journals are in both the original handwritten form and xerox copies.The missionary journals were written by A.O. Smoot for the years of 1837 to 1838 and 1844 to 1845 while he was serving in the...
Dates: 1837-1894

Moses Whitaker Taylor papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1441
Abstract

Includes original diaries, 1884-1909. Other papers include patriarchal, father's and missionary blessings; copies of reports to the First Presidency of the Church concerning problems in Coalville, Utah; newspaper clippings; and a Latter-day Saint stake president's certificate for Taylor's son, Moses C. Taylor.

Dates: 1862-1922