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Utah -- Emigration and immigration -- Religious aspects -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

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Mary Jane McCleve Meeks biography

 Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1627
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the biography of Mary Jane McCleve Meeks written by Naomi A. Jensen. Mary Jane McCleve was born in Crawfordsburn, Ireland, in 1840. Mary Jane emigrated to Utah with her family at the age of 16. The family traveled with the S. Curling ship to Boston and crossed the plains with the Daniel D. McArthur Company. She married Dr. Priddy Meeks in 1856 and they had eleven children. She died at the age of 93 in 1933.

Dates: 1969 July 21
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Mary Jane McCleve Meeks biography

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