Item Detail
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Fawson, Charlotte Perhson
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1875-1957
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MSS 827
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Biography
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Charlotte Perhson Fawson was born in Vernon, Utah on November 4, 1875 to Eric Perhson and Anna Jonsson. She attended grade school and high school in Vernon until she was sixteen, after which she entered the LDS College, which she attended while working for nearly two years. She married Joshua Abraham Fawson on November 14, 1899, and they had five children. Charlotte died April 16, 1957.
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Part of the J. Allen Parkinson collection, this is a one-page typescript biography written by one of Charlotte's granddaughter, Sharlene Fawson. It is located in the seventh folder of the collection, which is labeled, Biographies, FA-FR. Sharlene writes that Charlotte was a good wife and mother and active in the LDS Church. She taught Sunday School, served as organist, secretary, Primary president, and first counselor of the Stake Relief Society for several years. She taught different classes of Sunday School for more than eighteen years, and she helped teach in Primary and Relief Society as well. Sharlene describes Charlotte as being extremely independent, as she lived alone in a large house doing her own work. She had good eyesight and health, drove her own car, and had her own land and cattle. She worked on her own farm raising chickens, cows, and lambs. Sharlene concludes by writing that Charlotte was a wonderful woman.