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Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 3218
Scope and Contents
Autobiography of Nancy Naomi Tracy (1816-1902), typed and edited by her great-grandson William C. Anderson. Describes her life, from her birth on the eastern shore of Lake Ontario in New York. She married Moses Tracy and both were early converts to the Mormon Church. They were acquainted with the prophet Joseph Smith; served a mission in New York; lived in Kirtland, Missouri, and Nauvoo; and later made the trek to Salt Lake, eventually settling in Ogden, Utah.
Dates:
1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Nancy Alexander Tracy autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 918
Scope and Contents
Typescript of autobiography. Nancy was born in New York and raised by her grandparents. She married Moses Tracy in 1832 and joined the Mormon Church in 1834. She lived in Kirtland, Ohio; Far West, Missouri; Nauvoo, Illinois; "Winter Quarters"; and Ogden, Utah. She witnessed and experienced some of the persecutions of Mormons in Missouri and Illinois. She went with her husband on a mission to New York and was a member of the Mormon Relief Society in Nauvoo. She covers her life until 1860.
Dates:
1885
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Biographical sketch of the life of Eliza Maria Howes Trane
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 3337
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten biography. Eliza Maria Howes Trane was born in 1849 in England and her family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She migrated to Utah in 1853 and settled in Lehi in 1854. She married Thomas F. Trane in 1869 and had 8 sons and daughters. The title page states, "By Jean Chipman," but the last page of the document lists Bertha N. Sagar as the author.
Dates:
1928
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Trip on the Oregon cattle trail
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 165
Scope and Contents
Typewritten autobiographical account with handwritten corrections by and unknown author. The writer used his diary to help him remember what had happened. The autor writes about leaving Boston, Massachusetts, to go to Wyoming and drive cattle.
Dates:
approximately 1878
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Trip to Montana by wagon train
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 122
Scope and Contents
Handwritten journal of Cauthorn's overland journey by wagon train from St. Joseph, Missouri to Virginia City, Montana and Oregon in 1865. Detailed diary entries describe much of the daily routine, weather, and labor involved in the journey. Cauthorn mentions company politics, trouble with Indians, his feelings about leaving his wife and child in Missouri, and a group of Mormons apparently leaving Utah. Upon arriving in Virginia City, Montana, he found the towns almost abandoned, but observed...
Dates:
1865
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lola Turley biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1713
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typescript of the biography of Lola Turley who settled in Mesa, Arizona as a farmer's wife.
Dates:
approximately 1975
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lola Jesamine Ollerton Turley biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1712
Scope and Contents
Typescript of a biography of Seth and Jane Rogerson Ollerton, English converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who emigrated to America. She died while crossing the plains to Utah. He finally settled in Arizona.
Dates:
1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Theodore Turley biography and autobiography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 560
Scope and Contents
Typescript (duplicated). The collection includes many quotes from Turley's journal covering his early life in England, Latter-day Saint Church conversion in Canada, Mormon difficulties in Missouri, 1838-1839, details of his mission to England accompanying the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, 1839-1840, the expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois and his colonizing mission to San Bernadino, California, 1850-1857. Also includes one page of corrections and additions by Olive K. Turley...
Dates:
Undated
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Susan Morris Buckwalter Turner biography
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1735
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a typed biography of Susan Morris Buckwalter Turner, English convert to the Mormon Church, who settled in American Fork, Utah.
Dates:
approximately 1960
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Stewart L. Udall research on the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6936
Abstract
Research papers of Stewart L. Udall regarding the Mountain Meadows Massacre.
Dates:
1950-2003
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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