Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Fillmore -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Martha Knight letters received
Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197227342182]
Identifier: MSS 837
Scope and Contents
Photocopies of a handwritten letter and a handwritten card received by Martha Knight. The items are apparently from friends and family members and deal with personal matters. The materials were collected by Della Daine Edmunds.
Dates:
1871-1875
Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman diary
File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045763]
Identifier: MSS 1217
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript of a diary kept by Patridge. The item begins with a brief autobiography. Lyman writes about being sealed to the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, her marriage to Amasa Lyman after Smith's death, her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, her migration to Utah, the excommunication of her husband from the Mormon Church, her life in Fillmore, Utah, and her efforts in favor of the Mormon practice of polygamy.
Dates:
1846-1885