Guide to Women's Manuscript Collections

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Bowen, Emma Lucy Gates This large collection consists of ten boxes full of letters and papers. The letters are unique because they were Lucy and her family's primary source of communication when Lucy lived abr...
Brockbank, Mary Ann Park This is a typewritten copy of Mary's biography of her parents entitled, Biographical Sketch of John and Louise Smith Park, however the bulk of this seven page account is autobiographical. She f...
Fillerup, Moneta Johnson This manuscript is fifty pages long, copied from the original. There are three pages of copied photos, which appear faint. She includes a lengthy list of her descendants and also talks briefly abou...
Beesley, Elizabeth Ellen Solomon This collection contains biographical materials relating to the Beesley family. The biographies of Nellie and Frederick Beesley are included in this collection, as well as history of the Beesley M...
Bennion, Cora Lindsay Several letters, documents, and photographs make up this collection of Cora Bennion's memorabilia. These documents reveal that those who knew Cora considered her worthy of their respect. In lette...
Payne, Emma Powell This collection contains biographical information relating to the Payne family. Emma's five-page, typewritten biography was written by her son, H. M. Payne. It chronicles important events in Emma...
Foy, Margaret Ann Payne Margaret's two-page, typewritten biography is included in a collection of biographical materials related to the Payne family. It was compiled and written by her children in 1964. This brief biogr...
Brinkerhoff, Hellen Lucinda Leithead This collection contains the biographies of the James Leithead Family. Each biography consists of copied pages and many include pictures of the subjects and of their families. Also included in the ...
Moore, Almeda Harmon This is a biography of Almeda written by her daughter Eliza Moore Rawlinson. It is eight pages long and typed, although the type is a little faded, making some spots slightly difficult to read. E...
Beebe, Carol Alldredge This collection contains Carol's certificates, medical documents, letters, photographs, and a twenty-seven page autobiography written in December of 1977. Besides containing Carol's memories of ch...
Jolley, Effie Sevella Leithead This collection contains the biographies of the James Leithead Family. Each biography consists of copied pages and many include pictures of the subjects and of their families. Also included in the ...
Frost, Nancy Pate This folder contains a total of 34 photocopied pages of handwritten letters from Nancy Pate Frost to her daughter and son-in-law, Mary Ellen Frost Rawlins and Joseph Sharp Rawlins. There are 5 differe
Moody, Virginia Finlinson This manuscript is a scrapbook supporting Virginia's nomination for Utah's Mother of the Year in 1976. It is 21 pages altogether. It contains a newspaper clipping from Spanish Fork's newspaper da...
Montierth, Harriet West Crapo This collection is entitled 'Biography of Alvin Moroni Montierth and wife Harriet West Crapo and some of their posterity.' It is composed and compiled by their daughter Eva Mae Montierth Gourley, ...
Foote, Artemisia Sidnie Myers This abstract is two typewritten over-sized pages. It is mainly dedicated to Artemisia's account of the Haun's Mill Massacre and persecution in Missouri. She mentions her birth and baptism but ...
Monson, Helen Campbell In this collection is a typed three-page, double-spaced autobiography of Helen Campbell Monson. It tells of the major events in her life: where she was born, where she grew up, where she went to ...
Norman, Mary Smith This collection is a letter dated October 21, 1915 written by Mary Smith Norman in Idaho Falls, Idaho to her niece 'Susie' or Sue Smith Beatty. It is 11 pages handwritten on paper that is approxim...
McCullough, Margarett This collection contains the biographies of the James Leithead Family. Each biography consists of copied pages and many include pictures of the subjects and of their families. Also included in the ...
Nichols, Elizabeth Betsy Evarts This manuscript is a short, typed biography, five pages in length. It details the lives of both Elizabeth and John Nichols, their lives before they were married and after. This biography describe...
Owens, Abigal Burr This biography is part of the 'Horace B. Owens Papers' collection. Horace B. Owens is Abigal's oldest son. Her part of the collection is one page, typed. It was written by her granddaughter Medo...
Merkley, Jehzeel Gibb This typed, 38-page biography is missing pages 3-8. Pages 1-23 of the biography were written by Rissa M. Clark, pages 23-26 are various letters between family members typed out, pages 27-29 are Je...
McKell, Esmeralda Andrus This 12 page typed manuscript is a little faded and difficult to read. It describes the events in Esmeralda Andrus McKell's life as recalled by her daughter, Lucy Stone. Several interesting littl...
Smith, Lucy Mack This two page typewritten biography of Lucy Mack Smith was written by Ruby Kate Smith, great-granddaughter of Lucy, and is found in the bound book entitled 'Family Biographies' (Box 6, Folder 1). ...
McClellan, Almeda Day This collection contains a short account of Almeda's life as recalled and recorded by her granddaughter Zitelle McClellan Snarr. The ten page manuscript tells of the many unique circumstances of ...
Taylor, Louisa R. A short record book of the meetings of the Female Relief Society, with the first entry on January 24, 1854. The first meeting of the Society was held on February 9, 1854 in the home of one of the ...
Teasdale, Tilly This letter is written on one sheet of paper, folded into four sections. The hand- writing is a little faded and somewhat difficult to read. Tilly tells her friend of the journey to Mexico, witho...
Terribilini, Virginia Allen This collection contains almost 60 pieces of poetry, 11 personal essays, and 5 short stories written by Virginia. Also included is a letter from Roberta L. Cordon, the Stake Relief Society Preside...
Freeze, Mary Ann Burnham This collection of diaries and papers that cover the dates from 1875-1899 are held in two boxes. The original journals and papers are in the first box and photocopies of the material are i...
Morse, Eva Eva's diary covers events in her life from May 5, 1859 and October 18, 1859. It is 34 pages, typed, kept as she traveled west with a large group of people'friends and family. They started on the Il...
Moss, Mary Buys This manuscript is four typed pages in length. It is written by Mary's grandson Robert Alvin Moss. There is some written concerning the difficulties and trials of frontier life such as the hostilit...
Morrey, Polly Lucina Scheffield Tindral Moore This manuscript is written by Polly's granddaughter Eliza Moore Rawlinson. It is two pages typed and only a little faded. There is some description of Polly's life during her first marriage to Furn...
Larkin, Mabel Zamina Shirk The collection consists of 12 handwritten diaries for the years 1918 to early 1941 with many gaps, a biography written by Mabel's daughter-in-law, Montrue Grey Larkin, handwritten shopping lists, a...
Steed, Caroline Holland This is a two-page typewritten biography written by Margaret Steed Hess, Caroline's granddaughter. It includes an account of James Steed on the ship sailing from Liverpool to New Orleans; George Al...
Lovesy, Emma Amelia Townsend This manuscript is a 5-page photocopy of a typescript autobiography, entitled, Life History of Emma Amelia Townsend Lovesy: As told to her Granddaughter in her own words.
Whipple, Ellen Bowen Mullen This autobiography is written in a notebook, with a photograph of Ellen on the front cover, along with the title, The History of Ellen B. Whipple, dated August 7, 1976. There are 31 pages, type wr...
Wilson, Margaret Campbell Margaret was an amazing example of faith and persistence. When she was only nine years old, Margaret went to work in a cotton mill to help her family survive. She married very young, and had to d...
White, Clara Burge This autobiography is 29 pages typewritten. Clara gives a brief history of her ancestors, telling how her father came to the area. She loved living near the Hobolochitto River as a child, with a ...
Clarke, Margaret Vilate Green This is an 86-page typescript biography of Margaret Vilate Green Clarke as written by her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Sadie) Boyer. She begins with a description of her mother's home, a...
Coombs, Ellis Day This is a 116-page typewritten autobiography. A table of contents is provided in the beginning outlining important events in Ellis's life. Ellis begins with a brief background on her paren...
Gardner, Bernella E. Snow Bernella wrote in four diaries. The first is a book in poor condition with 144 pages covering the dates from February 26, 1887 to November 12, 1929. At the beginning of this diary Bern...
Stringham, Miranda Campbell This is a 34-page typed autobiography, titled the 'History of Miranda Campbell Stringham.' Included in the back is a 4-page ward newsletter from the Riverview Ward of December 1978 tha...
Justet, Nellie Waddie Leithead This collection contains the biographies of the James Leithead Family. Each biography consists of copied pages and many include pictures of the subjects and of their families. Also included in the ...
Smith, Ann Cross Leithead This collection contains biographies of the James Leithead Family. Each biography consists of copied pages and many include pictures of the subjects and of their families. Also included in the coll...
Cox, Zina Kunz Hatch Fuit This is a 204-page, typewritten autobiography of Zina Kunz Hatch Fuit Cox. It is bound and entitled The Hills of Bern. It was written in the early 1970's and completed around 1976. The first two...
Thomas, Mary Davies Morgan This collection contains the biographies of Jonah Phillips and his wife Ann Thomas Phillips, both which are available in collections MSS SC 234, MSS SC 1837. This collection has been as...
Bennion, Eliza Ann Harker This collection consists of a 71 page, typed-spiral bound copy of a transcription of Eliza Bennion's journal prepared by her granddaughter Dawn Bennion Sandberg. It is a record of the years 1871-1...
Carter, Lucy Mack Smith This collection consists of three 'Pocket Notes' notebooks. They are approximately four inches by seven inches with about one hundred lined pages in each one. The entries in these little diaries ...
Bates, Irene May This collection contains papers dealing with events in Irene's life. It is divided into four folders. The first folder contains information on her graduation from UCLA including a program of the co...
Orth, Alice Griffith This autobiography is three pages typed. It was written in 1977. Also included in this collection is a passport photo of Alice with the year 1975 written on the back. In this autobiography she t...
Schultz, Alita Marucci This address was given in the Norfolk Virginia Stake Conference in October 1977. Alita addressed the servicemen's wives who were required to spend many hours apart from their husbands who were cal...