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Latter Day Saint women -- Utah -- Diaries

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Lucy Mack Smith Carter diaries and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MSS SC 2129
Scope and Contents

Collection includes three handwritten diaries kept by Lucy Mack Smith Carter. She writes about her daily life, her church activities, and family responsibilities, dated 1913 to 1914. Also includes photographs and negatives of Lucy Mack Smith Carter's family and her extended Smith relatives, mainly in California and Utah, dated 1868 to 1974.

Dates: 1868-1974

Memoirs of Alice Parker Isom and George Isom

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330349]
Identifier: MSS SC 3141
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typescript. This manuscript is an autobiography and a diary of Alice Parker Isom and a biography of George Isom. Alice writes about her family who came from England to Nauvoo, Illinois. Alice was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1848. She migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1852. She tells about the Utah Expedition, 1857-8, moving to Virgin, Utah, in 1862, serving in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and marrying George Isom in 1868. She...
Dates: 1917-1925

Margaret Jones diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230330570]
Identifier: MSS SC 3136
Scope and Contents

Phoocopy of a microfilm copy of a handwritten diary. Jones was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jones writes about her family and their health, cleaning, quilting, visits with neighbors and friends, and her association with the Rock Spring Relief Society of the Mormon Church.

Dates: 1890

Kowallis family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 9554
Scope and Contents Collection contains photographs taken by Reinhart Kowallis during his service in and after WWII in the United States Army from 1940 to 1946, and letters between Reinhart and Norma Kowallis from 1944 to 1945 while Reinhart was deployed during World War II. Includes images of Guam and Okinawa. Also contains Norma Kowallis's 1948 journal, which includes mementoes from President George Albert Smith's visit to Pleasant View, Utah, and a book written by Bart J. Kowallis in 2015, transcribing...
Dates: 1944-2015

Hester Telle Richards diary

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 6943
Abstract

Collection consists of photocopied pages from Richards' diary from 1891 to 1933, and a transcribed copy of Richards' diary of 1892.

Dates: 1994

Dora M. Hall Stout journal ledger and history

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8400
Scope and Contents

Contains the journal ledger of Dora M. Hall Stout of Rockville, Utah. The journal contains entries of meetings, blessings, school notes, family events, a history of her parents, and other recordings, dated 1888 to 1935. Also contains a personal history started by Dora, and continued by her children Erma Stout Bringhurst and Edwin Hall Stout, touching on Dora's life in Rockville and Hurricane, Utah. Collection material dates from 1888 to 1948.

Dates: approximately 1888-1948

Ida Y. Thorne diaries and other material

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2354
Abstract

This collection contains the manuscript of "The Life and Times of Ida Vilate Young Thorne" and other writings of Ida Vilate Young Thorne, including her fifteen diaries, 1882-1969.

Dates: approximately 1882-1969

Emmeline B. Wells diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Vault MSS 510
Scope and Contents Contains Emmeline B. Wells's original diaries from 1844 to 1920. Her often daily entries spanning nearly 80 years present pragmatic descriptions of daily activities along with her own daily opinions, insights, and impressions. The accounts are often lengthy and detailed. Volume 1 begins with her departure from Massachusetts in 1844 and also includes her journey from Nauvoo, Illinois, with other Saints headed West. Other volumes provide insights into her roles with the Woman's Exponent and...
Dates: 1844-1920

Emmeline B. Wells diary typescripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1407
Abstract

Includes two linear feet of unedited typed transcripts including the years 1844-1846 and 1874-1920. Her entries are daily, tell of her activities, and often present her opinions and impressions as well. The accounts are often lengthy and detailed. The 1882 diary also includes entries by Well's daughter, Louisa.

Dates: 1844-1920