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Polygamy -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edwin Dilworth Woolley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 1403
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diaries, notes, and miscellaneous items relating to Edwin Dilworth Woolley, Erastus Snow, and their families which were related through marriage. The materials deal with family associations with various Mormon Church leaders, the Grand Canyon, and a wide wage of Mormon and Utah history topics.

Dates: approximately 1850-1920

Flora Snow Woolley memoirs

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230306174]
Identifier: MSS SC 856
Scope and Contents

This collection is a typescript of memoirs by Flora Snow Woolley which was compiled and illustrated by Julius Woolley Dalley. Flora describes her early life in Salt Lake City, Provo, and St. George, Utah; her life as a polygamous wife and a young mother; her experiences on the "underground" to avoid arrest by federal officials for polygamy; and the rearing and educating of her own and her husband's other wife's children.

Dates: 1976