Item Detail
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Snow, Jane Maria Shearer Wines
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1819-1910
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MSS SC 2788
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Biography
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Jane Maria Shearer Wines Snow was born 12 February 1819 to Jane McCutcheon and Daniel Shearer in Lucern, Saratoga County, New York. When she was four years old, her mother died and her father married Lucy Noble. On May 20, 1834 she married Ira Doty Wines when she was 15 before she could become a teacher which her father had hoped for. They had five sons together: Leonard, Daniel, Alvin, Norman and Ira Doty Jr. Daniel and Alvin died in infancy. On December 28, 1844, Ira Doty Wines died, leaving Jane Maria with plenty of money from his work. Two years later on 3 February 1846, she joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being baptized the same day as her eldest son Leonard. She then moved to Nauvoo, Illinois with her father. Her family suffered the same tribulations as the rest of the saints and was driven out by the mobs. She stayed in Winter Quarters until the spring of 1850 when she left with her boys. She travelled with William Snows company and led a team of oxen with her sons helping her. They faced many trials on the trail, but they arrived in Salt Lake on August 3 of the same year. Two weeks later, she became the fourth wife of William Snow on August 15, most likely making plans to marry during the trek. The two had five children: William Jr., Maria Lovina, Erastus, Mary Lorena, and Mason Levi. In approximately 1855, she and her husband went back to Fort Supply to help other pioneers. When Johnstons army grew close, Brigham Young called for the settlers there to burn down the Fort and everything in it and for the settlers to return to Salt Lake, Jane Maria and William Snow returned. They lived in Lehi until William was called to settle the south in 1866. Jane Maria stayed in Lehi until 1867. In 1868, William Snow and the rest of his family moved back to Pine Valley, Utah where Jane Maria died on the 14th of November 1910.
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Part of the Rose Snow Rick Woodruff Family Papers collection. The collection contains handwritten and signed correspondence, a biography, and autobiography, and cards notifying family members of deaths. The materials were collected by Rose Snow Rick Woodruff. The correspondence is largely between extended family (Rowley and Bedford family members) and deal with personal matters. One page contains the typed biography of Jane Maria Shearer Wines Snow by her granddaughter, Rose Snow Rick Woodruff. The biography describes Jane Marias life according to stories from Rose Woodruffs father and other grandchildren of Jane Marias. The page tells of her journey to Utah with the Mormon Church and marriages. The back of the page is glued to another hand-written autobiography.
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1819-1910