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Utah -- Emigration and immigration

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Subject Source: Lcnaf

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Biography of Eliza Faulkner Welsh

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230339423]
Identifier: MSS SC 3339
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilm copy of a typewritten autobiography. Eliza Faulkner Welsh was born in Halifax County, Nova Scotia, in 1843. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1855 and left for Utah the same year. She tells about the hardships of the migration to Utah and the many deaths from Cholera in her family. She died in American Fork, Utah, in 1927.

Dates: 1920
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Biography of Eliza Faulkner Welsh

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