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English
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Dairy of Ruth Page Rogers, 1823-1907
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Payson, Utah
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n.p.
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"Retrospective background, 1823-1850s. Gap: late 1850s to 1873. Diary entries, 1874-87. Also letters, genealogy, poems. Born in New Jersey, 1823. Poverty during childhood. Worked in mill. Joined Mormons, 1843. Worked for seven years to save money for trip to Utah. Reached Kanesville, Iowa, 1850. Hired on as cook and washerwoman for company going to Salt Lake City, 1852. Married Samuel Hollister Rogers, 1853. Lived in Lehi. Husband called on Iron County Mission but left her behind. She joined him at Parowan, 1856. Her sister also married Rogers. Family still living in Parowan, 1874. Baptized into United Order. Intermittent diary tells of many activities'daily chores, meetings, visits to people. Church responsibilities included being "Presidentess of the relief Teachers of the Second Ward." When S.H. Rogers was called to settle in Arizona, he took the other wife, Ruth's sister. Letters, dated 1880. Author moved to Snowflake, Arizona, 1882. Description of journey. Family meeting in which husband asked wives, now three, whether they wished to continue in celestial marriage, 1883. Author decided to continue. ("I have resolved that I will practice with greater exertion to be more particular in my language [and] always strive to consider what I am going to say and with what spirit I speak.") Pressures of antipolygamy campaign in Arizona." [Abstract from Davis Bitton's Guide to Mormon Diaries and Autobiographies, 1977]