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English
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The Diary of Patty Sessions
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Covered Wagon Women : Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1890, v. 1
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Glendale, Calif.
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Arthur H. Clark
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157-87
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1847 journal of Patty Sessions, including a midwife's record of births. Patty Sessions kept a journal from Feb 10, 1846, 'for some forty years following, off and on.' She is called the 'mother of Mormon midwifery' and is reported to have delivered 3,977 babies. This section of her diary only covers the 1847 covered wagon journey to Salt Lake.