Home and Family
Found in 1668 Collections and/or Records:
Pinegar family patriarchal blessings
Photocopy of microfilmed copies of the original materials. The collection consists of patriarchal blessings given to members of the Pinegar family. The partriarchs giving the blessings are John Smith (2), William Grotegut (1), and Hyrum G. Smith (2). Also included are Pinegar and Palmer family genealogies.
Lyman De Platt family papers
Contains six volumes of transcripts of the papers of the Lyman De Platt family. These include typed up journals, letters, notes, and family documents. The volume of journals also contains notes on the journal entries, written by Lyman thirty years later as he transcribed them. The six volumes are part of a larger collection: The Platt Family Records Center.
The poet's wife / Naomi Barlow Larson
Autobiography written by Larson, which includes information about her ancestors, husband and children, church and public service, hobbies, and travels. Also includes a flash drive that contains the appendix materials. Dated approximately 2010.
Portrait of a family
Photocopy of typewritten autobiographies of the family of James and Annie Eliza Petersen and their descendants. This work includes many photographs and charts which show relationships and vital statistics.
Olive Andelin Potter autobiography
Photocopy of a typewritten autobiography. The item was dictated in 1932. Olive married Wallace Edwin Potter in 1884 as a plural wife. She lived in numerous places in Utah especially when dodging federal officials. Olive gives her opinion on polygamy.
Jenniev Jorgensen Poulson account
Photocopy of a bound typescript of an account of a trip to places of Mormon historical interest and other places in the United States. Poulson describes her trip from Utah into Wyoming, the Midwest, and the Eastern States, Florida, and then her return to Utah.
Jessie Brooks Poulson papers
Photographs, newsclippings, printed programs, and handwritten testimonies (some photocopies) pertaining to Jessie Brooks Poulson. Also includes a biographical sketch of Henry C. and Jessie Brooks Poulson, written by their children, Mercedes Poulson Anderson and Brooks H. Poulson, which tells of their early lives, courtship, marriage, family, and life in Richfield, Utah.
Thomas Ambrose Poulter autobiography
Photocopy of a typed autobiography. Poulter's experiences in the British Royal Navy around the world, and as a pioneer in the western United States, are described in great detail.
Orlando W. Powers address
A 30-page typed lecture given by Utah Judge, Orlando W. (O.W.) Powers, on "The Old Fashioned Woman" in, approximately, the year 1897. He states that his purpose in this lecture was to identify the virtues in the Mothers of Israel, and throughout it praises those characteristics comparatively to the modern women. A label on a back panel is assumed to be written by the collector, Isaac Brockbank, Jr.
Belinda Marden Pratt papers
Letter to Belinda from her husband, Parley P. Pratt, written from San Francisco in January 1855, focusing on family concerns; and a fifteen-page autobiographical sketch written by her, dated 1884 on page one and 1889 on page eleven. Also includes an undated biographical sketch of Belinda written by Parker Pratt Robison, based on her autobiographical account. Her account discusses her conversion to Mormonism, church service, and marriage to Parley P. Pratt.