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Latter Day Saint pioneers -- Utah -- History

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Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman diary

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231045763]
Identifier: MSS 1217
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a typescript of a diary kept by Patridge. The item begins with a brief autobiography. Lyman writes about being sealed to the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, her marriage to Amasa Lyman after Smith's death, her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, her migration to Utah, the excommunication of her husband from the Mormon Church, her life in Fillmore, Utah, and her efforts in favor of the Mormon practice of polygamy.

Dates: 1846-1885
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman diary

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