Item Detail
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Snow, Eliza Ann Carter
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1818-1897
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MSS SC 184
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Two typewritten histories, one a duplicate copy of an older faded copy.
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Eliza Ann Carter was born on the 28, September 1818 in Newry, Maine. She is the daughter of John Carter and Hannah Knight Libby Carter. Eliza was the eighth of their eleven children. Eliza was born into a Methodist home but in 1834 a pair of Mormon Elders brought the gospel into their home. It is likely that she was baptized in June of 1834. With her family, Eliza left Maine in 1836 in order to join the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio. The next year John Boynton, who had first brought the gospel to her family and who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, apostatized from the church and became one of its bitterest opponents. The persecution became so intense that Eliza and her family left Kirkland for Far West, Missouri. Eliza Ann married John Chauncey Snow in 1838. In 1838 they set out with William F. Carter for Missouri. Eliza and John had nine children Sarah Jane, John, Carlos Z., Eliza Ann, James Erastus, Richard Garter, Dominicus, Mary Ellen, and Arlitta Colister. After arriving in Utah the family settled in Provo. There John was called to be in the Presidency of the Utah Stake. Eliza died on March 12, 1897 in Provo, Utah.
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The history is clear, insightful and well-written, consisting of seven typed pages. The author of the history is unknown. The history is a biography of Eliza's mother Hannah Knight Libby Carter but contains several of Eliza's personal accounts. Eliza gives an account of she how embraced the gospel after seeing a pair of Mormon Elders give her mother a blessing and heal her from a severe illness. The first elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that Eliza ever heard preach where John F. Boynton and Daniel Bean. The history contains interesting personal experiences and details on early Church history in Kirtland Camp, Far West and Nauvoo, particularly the persecutions experienced by early church members. The history contains Eliza's account of their journey to Missouri with an oxen team. It also contains biographical information for Hannah's sons and other daughters plus interesting and insightful accounts of events that occurred in their lives. The history details the family's move to Utah and their service in the church. Trek.
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1943-1974