Item Detail
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Phillips, Alta Ann Evans
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1887-1969
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MSS SC 871
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Autobiography
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Alta Ann Evans was born on October 26, 1887 in Springville, Utah, the eldest child of David R. Evans and Ida Mathson Evans. As a child she attended school, primary, and Sunday School in Spanish Fork. At the age of 15 her family moved to Mapleton, Utah where Alta finished school and worked in Sunday School and Mutual. When she was eighteen years old she married Theophitus (Theo) A. Phillips in Mapleton on June 21, 1906. After their marriage, the couple moved to the Uintah Basin and began their own farm. They had five sons and two daughters. Alta was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served for 25 years in the Stake Primary Presidency. In 1949 she started assisting her oldest son at the Phillips Motel in Roosevelt, Utah and worked there until 1953. On June 24, 1956 she and her husband Theo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Motel. Because of failing health Alta was admitted into the Stewart Nursing Home on August 1, 1961. She remained there until the day she died on February 5, 1969 at the age of 81. She was buried in the Roosevelt City Cemetery next to her husband, who had died on November 20, 1967.
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This collection contains the biographies of Jonah Phillips and his wife Ann Thomas Phillips, the collection has been assembled by their descendants as a record of the Phillips Family. The collection is 143 lose sheets in length, containing biographies for Jonah and Ann Phillips and all their children and the wives of their sons. Alta Ann Evans Phillips, daughter-in-law of Jonah and Ann Phillips, is included in the collection on pages 127-130. These pages contain an autobiographical history written in July of 1947, an addenda to her biography compiled by Evans J. and Ida M. Phillips, transcripts of obituaries and funeral services for Alta Ann Phillips and a transcribed copy of Alta's patriarchal blessing, given on October 26, 1887 by Ephriam Lambert. Alta's autobiography mentions main events in her life but interestingly focuses primarily on her church service, providing dates at which she was called to different positions and all the callings she had. She considered church service a major priority in her life and found great joy in it.
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