Item Detail
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Adams, Charlotte H. Evans
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1853-1948
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MSS 630
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Charlotte Hyder Evans was born in Nephi, Utah on June 14, 1853 to William Minshall Evans and Charlotte Jarrold Hyder. Her parents both converted to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in England and journeyed to the United States. When Charlotte was seventeen, she went on a trip with her father to Salt Lake City where she heard the testimony of Martin Harris. Charlotte married Henry Adams on February 21, 1867 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of eight children, Henrietta Jane, Charlotte, Henry Merritt, John Winfred, William Lloyd, Alice, Degratia, and Walter Clarence. Charlotte died in St. Anthony, Fremont, Idaho on June 18, 1948.
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The collection is titled Charlotte H. Evans Adams and Henry A. Orme letters, and is comprised of one folder that contains a handwritten account of Charlotte Adams's experience of hearing Martin Harris testify of the Book of Mormon. Adams wrote the account in 1938, at age 85, about the experience that occurred in 1870. Also included is correspondence between BYU religion professor Richard L. Anderson and Adams' grandson Henry A. Orme about the account. The correspondence is dated December 13, 1967. Henry Orme includes some information about his grandmother's life as a pioneer woman. Henry Orme also writes about an opportunity he had to share his testimony of the Book of Mormon to a friend in 1955. Also included is a photocopy of the original account by Charlotte Adams.