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Thompson family

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230349463]
Identifier: MSS 4135
Scope and Contents

Emily Lydia Snyder Thompson writes about her immigration to Utah in 1848, her father taking the family to California in 1850, her father starting a boarding house, a flood, being threatened by Indians, food shortages, following Brigham Young's counsel and abandoning her home in 1858, her husband's call to go to Sanpete in 1866, the Black Hawk War and other topics.

Dates: 1920

Thompson family biographical sketches

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237098]
Identifier: MSS SC 269
Scope and Contents

Typewritten sketches of Mormon families that emigrated from England and Scotland on the Ship Ellen in 1851 and their subsequent settlement in Utah.

Dates: undated

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Black Hawk War (Utah), 1865-1872 1
Diaries 1
Family histories 1
Immigration and American Expansion 1
Indians of North America 1