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Short sketch of the life of Lydia Thornton Adams : pioneer of American Fork, Utah, 1852

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Identifier: MSS 2405
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Photocopy of microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Lydia Thornton was born in 1830 in Canada. Her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; and to Utah in 1852. She settled in American Fork, Utah, married Joshua Adams, had 10 children, and died in 1901.

Dates: 1934
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Short sketch of the life of Lydia Thornton Adams : pioneer of American Fork, Utah, 1852

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