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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230347376]
Identifier: MSS 410
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of a typescript of a diary. Pearce migrated to Utah in 1851. She went by way of New Orleans, Louisiana, and St. Louis, Missouri. She gives details on the trek to Utah. She lived in Ogden, Utah. There is a gap in the diary from 1852 to 1868. Pearce moved to California in 1869.

Dates: 1851-1877
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce diary

Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce papers

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232593530]
Identifier: MSS 8768
Scope and Contents

Contains digital copies of papers related to Jean (Jane) Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce. Includes marriage and other legal documents for her progenitors and children, letters, receipt for her burial plot, and her original handwritten diaries from 1851 and 1878. The 1851 diary documents Jean (Jane) Rio's journey from England to America to join the Latter-day Saints in Utah, including her trials crossing the ocean by ship and the plains. Dated 1780-1878.

Dates: 1780-1878
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jean Rio Griffiths Baker Pearce papers

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