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Older people in missionary work -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Abram and Sadie Dalley journals

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3155
Scope and Contents

Collection includes the journals of both Abram F. Dalley and Sadie Buttars Dalley between 1978 and 2004. The journals include descriptions of the writers' personal thoughts and daily activities, including a desciption of their missionary service to South Carolina. Some of the journals include indexes and some greeting cards.

Dates: 1978-2004
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Abram and Sadie Dalley journals

LaVorn and Beatrice Sparks mission papers, approximately 1986-1990

 Series
Identifier: MSS 2224 Series 4
Scope and Contents Materials include papers from the Sparks' time as missionaries working in the Family-to-Family Book of Mormon program. In addition to their missionary work they purchased Books of Mormon and distributed them with their testimonies pasted in the cover to many international missions. There are responses regarding their Book of Mormon donations from recipients, missionaries, and mission presidents. The responses are both personal and adminstrative in nature. Dates range approximately...
Dates: Other: approximately 1986-1990
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / MSS 2224, Beatrice Sparks papers

Winslow Farr and Emily Whitney Smith papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232573920]
Identifier: MSS 8517
Content Description

Contains personal papers of Winslow Smith, brother of George Albert Smith, and his wife Emily Whitney Smith. Includes family correspondence, cards, articles, newspapers and newspaper clippings. Also contains a scrapbook of newspaper articles pertaining to events during Winslow's mission presidency for the LDS church in the Northern States mission from 1919-1923 as well as various poems by family members. Materials dated 1908-1982.

Dates: 1908-1982
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Winslow Farr and Emily Whitney Smith papers

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