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Diary of Gilbert Dunlap Greer [microform]: 1888-1895

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Description: Microfilm of the diary of Gilbert Dunlap Greer, along with various family biographies and notes. The majority of the film consists of Greer's 1888-1895 diary. It records his mission to the Lamanites and Pima Indians in 1888, including time he spent in Pima (he also learned the Pima language) and Papuga villages, lists of names of those baptized, and feeling an earthquake. The latter portions of the diary recall his life around Springville and St. Johns, Arizona, where he writes of plowing and ditch digging, attending to schools, and attending church meetings. Also included on the microfilm is a one page typescript of a portion of Greer's 1879 diary; a short biography of Greer; an essay entitled One Hundred Years by Grace Greer Nuttall, who recounts the story of the Greer family, primarily Nathanial Greer and Nancy Ann Terry Roberts, and their life in Texas, the death of Nathaniel from cholera in Kansas, and the family's move to Utah, as well as recalling her own departure for a mission to Texas in 1946; a biographical sketch of Gilbert Greer's mother, Catherine Ellen Camp (1837-1929) by his sister Margaret Ellen G. Pulsipher; and various family notes and genealogies.
Type: Manuscripts

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