Scope and Contents Collection consists of letters related to the family of Lois Angeline Smith Bushman. Includes six letters: 1) letter from Bushman's grandfather, Benjamin Foscue, to her father, John Smith, dated July 4, 1849, expressing displeasure that Smith and his wife, Maria, Benjamin's daughter, were moving from Texas to Utah with the Mormons; 2) letter from Maria Foscue Smith, Goshen, Utah, to Lois Angeline Smith Bushman, dated May 7, 1877, asking her to come to Goshen to help take care of her mother's...

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Typewritten biographies of Alexander Jameson Jr. (1859-1943) and Millicent Ferris Hatfield Jameson, a handwritten obituary of their grandson, Dale Seely Jameson, and a typewritten genealogy of the children of Alexander and Millicent Jameson. All items are photocopies.

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Typewritten autobiography. Teeples relates that she was born in Richland, Michigan, migrated to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1848, settled in Goshen, Utah where she met Ute Indians on several occasions, moved to Pima, Arizona with her husband, and migrated to Bear Lake Valley after his death in 1883.

Scope and Contents Handwritten autobiography which has been encapsulated and bound. The item starts with Thurber's biographies of her father, James Keeler, and her mother, Eliza Shelton Keeler. James Keeler's account was copied from his autobiography and diary. Laura lived in Santaquin, Goshen, and Richfield, Utah, and in Grass Valley, Nevada. Laura married Joseph Thurber in 1876, who entered into polygamy by marrying another woman in 1885. James Keeler joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...