Item Detail
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Chase, Tirzah Wells
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1796-1867
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MSS 1464
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Biography
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Tirzah Wells Chase was born July 29, 1796 to parents Elisha Wells and Tirzah Severance in Greenfield, Massachusetts. Tirzah married Ezra Chase on August 22, 1818. They then moved to Sparta, Livingston County, New York, and joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1839. Tirzah had ten children, nine surviving to adulthood. In 1841 they moved to Nauvoo, Illinois for five years. The Chase family then moved from Winter Quarters to Hiland Grove, Iowa, and in 1848, traveled to Utah with the Lorenzo Snow Company. After living in Utah for a year and a half, they moved to White Oak Township, Eldorado County, California. In 1853 the family moved to San Bernardino, and in 1858 returned to Utah, living for a short time in Ogden, finally settling in Harrisville, Weber County, Utah. Tirzah Wells Chase died April 4, 1867.
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A part of the Mary Ellen Stoddard Smith collection, located in the twentieth and twenty-first folder in the collection. The twentieth folder contains a one-page typescript biography of Tirzah by her granddaughter, Etta Gay Shupe and an insert by May L. Hix Marler. Tirzah is described as a gentle woman and her husband's and Tirzah's personalities blended well together. The manuscript goes on to say that the couple is buried next to each other in the Ogden Cemetery. In the twenty-first folder, is a two-page typescript biography, and contains a Character Sketch of Ezra Chase and Tirzah Wells Chase. Although it contains minimal personal details of Tirzah, the manuscript includes information on the locations to which the family moved during their married life.