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Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

John T. Flake mission journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3894
Abstract

Two leather bound diaries containing entries by John T. Flake about his mission to the Northern States, 1909-1910. Also a typed copy of these journals and two earlier ones about the first part of his mission (1907-1908).

Dates: 1907-1910
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / John T. Flake mission journals

Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230336791]
Identifier: MSS 920
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a 260-page handwritten autobiography. Smith includes copies of correspondence and patriarchal blessings in her account. She joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1837, lived with the Mormons in Missouri and Illinois, married George Albert Smith in 1841, allowed him to take additional wives, came to Utah in 1849, and served as president of the Relief Society.

Dates: 1844-1906
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Bathsheba W. Bigler Smith autobiography

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