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Latter Day Saints -- Persecutions -- Missouri -- History

 Subject
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Jane Walker Smith autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230325398]
Identifier: MSS SC 2631
Scope and Contents

Typewritten autobiography. Smith writes about being born in Pecham, Vermont, migrating to Haun's Mill, Missouri, what she observed during the "Haun's Mill Massacre," mob activities against the Mormons in Missouri, her life in Nauvoo, Illinois, her miraculous healing, her association with the first president of the Mormon Church, Joseph Smith, and her sister's marriage to Joseph Smith as a plural wife.

Dates: approximately 1900
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Jane Walker Smith autobiography

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