A life sketch of Ida Frances Hunt Udall [microform]: 1941, July

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  Diary and family record of May Hunt Larson [microform]: 1894-1942

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  Microfilm of a diary and genealogical and family record kept by May Hunt Larson. The diary, identified as Journal No.2, was kept at Snowflake, Arizona, from 1897-1907. In it May records her daily activities, her attendance of church and suffrage meetings, and news on family members and acquaintances. The second volume, identified as Journal No.1 and dated 1894, contains a detailed family history and genealogy. The family history includes a detailed memoir covering the years 1866-1896. It also includes a history of Jefferson Hunt, with references to his service in the Nauvoo Legion and Mormon Battalion, as well as copied biographies of various family members including John Hunt, Happylona Sanford Hunt, Sarah Jane Crosby Hunt, Belle Hunt Flake, Mons Larson, and Louisa Barnes Pratt. The genealogy in the volume goes through 1942.

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  Life sketches of Arizona pioneers [microform]: c.1929-1940

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  Microfilm of 17 brief typescript biographies of Mormon pioneers to Arizona. Many of the biographies were written by Belva Willis Ballard, including those of Samuel Parish (1798-1873), Frances Reed Willis (1840-1924), John Henry Willis (1835-1886), William Wesley Willis, Sr. (1811-1872), Shadrach Roundy (1789-1872), Priscilla Parish Roundy (1833-1914), and Lorenzo Wesley Roundy (b.1819). Also included are a life sketch of Lulu J. Hatch Smith (b.1876) by her daughter Alice Smith Hansen, a sketch of Samuel Francis Smith (b.1873) by his daughters Alice Smith Hansen and Emma Smith Dewey, a sketch of Lois B. Hunt (1837-1885) by May Hunt Larsen, a sketch of May Louise Hunt Larson (b.1860) by Nettie Hunt Rencher, and biographies by unnamed relatives of Alice Hansen Hatch (b.1837), Smith Doolittle Rogers (b.1852), Eliza Snow Smith (1859-1927), John Albert Freeman (b.1860), Sarah Adaline Hall Freeman (1860-1901), James Irving Youngblood (1837-1883), and Susan Hamilton Youngblood (d.1926). Included throughout the biographies are references to conversions to Mormonism, the death of Joseph Smith and the expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, overland journeys to Utah, life in Toquerville, Parowan, and Beaver, Utah, life in Snowflake, Arizona, and experiences in the Mormon Battalion (see William Wesley Willis). Most of the sketches appear to have been written from 1929-1940.

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  Diaries of Oz Flake [microform] : 1896-1941

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  Microfilm of the diaries of Oz Flake, kept between 1896 and 1941. The first volume is identified as Book B and was kept while Flake was living in Arizona and Utah from 1896-1899, including at Holbrook, Snowflake, Salt Lake City, Provo, Fillmore, Beaver City, Lee's Ferry, Shumway, Pinetop, and Heber. Portions of the diary (p.105-164) were kept by Flake's wife, Elsie Abigail Owens Flake. The second volume is identified as Record G and was kept following Flake's return from his southern states mission in 1900. It primarily covers his life in Arizona, including Snowflake, Ellison, Fort Apache, and Mesa, from 1900-1913, and also has a brief section kept in 1925. The final, brief volume is identified as Record J, and was kept at Phoenix from 1935-1936. The second reel contains Book K, dated 1936-1938 (the early entries begin in 1917 before skipping to 1936). It was primarily kept at Phoenix, Randolph, and on a trip to California in 1937. Reel 3 begins with Record F, which was kept during Flake's mission to Mississippi and Louisiana from 1899-1900. Book H, dated 1915-1922, was kept at Snowflake and Phoenix as well as during a mission trip to Texas. Book I is dated 1922-1935 and was kept at Phoenix, Snowflake, Salt Lake City, and on a mission trip to North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. The final volume is Book L, which was kept at Phoenix, Snowflake, Mesa, and Salt Lake City from 1938-1941.

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  Life sketch of Mons Larson [microform]: 1935

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  Microfilm of a typescript biography of Mons Larson, written by his granddaughter Violet Elaine Alt in 1935. The biography traces Larson's early life his Sweden, his conversion to Mormonism, his decision to immigrate to the United States, his sailing to New York and traveling by train to Florence, Nebraska, his overland trip to Utah, his settlement in Tooele, his decision to enter into polygamy, his colonization of Snowflake, his moves to Pima and Mexico, and his death in Arizona in 1890. It also includes a long account of a return journey from Utah to Snowflake with the Silas S. Smith company, which took a difficult route near the Green River and got stuck near Hole-in-the-Rock. It also describes Larson's wife Olivia giving birth in a blizzard during the ordeal.

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  Short sketch of the life of John F. Nash [microform] : c.1927

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  Microfilm of John F. Nash's autobiography, written in about 1927. Nash recalls his childhood around the California gold mines, including his friendship with a nearby "Company of Chinese" over whom he "held arbitrary jurisdiction;" his family's move to Ventura County and his first experiences of attending school; and of his father's loss of a land grant after oil was discovered on their property in 1874. Nash then describes traveling toward Texas driving livestock, of his experiences in Woodruff and Snowflake, of the theft of his family's livestock, the family's settlement in the Gila Valley, encounters with Indians "on the warpath" and fear of ambushes, and his acquiring of a teaching license. He then describes his conversion to Mormonism in 1888 following his experiences at the Matthews settlement, his 1890 trip to Salt Lake City, his decision to attend the Brigham Young Academy, and his experiences teaching in Loa, Wanship, Pima, the St. Joseph Stake Academy, and the Thatcher Junior High School. He briefly recounts his joining of a local national guard and a mission to retrieve fellow soldiers from a saloon. Nash also recalls his mission to Australia, where he primarily preached in Sydney and Brisbane, and his clash with "Reorganists" there.

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  Diary and record book of James Madison Flake [microform] : 1887-1929 (bulk 1887-1889)

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  Microfilm of the diary and record book of James Madison Flake, primarily focusing on his British mission from 1887-1889. The diary opens with his departure from Snowflake in 1887, his overland travels by rail to New York, and his sailing across the Atlantic to Liverpool. It then describes his mission work in Scotland, primarily in and around Glasgow and Dunfermline, and England, where he lived in Stockton. He also describes trips taken to London and Paris in 1889 and his return voyage home. There is one 1891 entry made in Snowflake. The end of the volume includes a brief autobiography of Flake, records of baptisms he performed in Arizona and Britain, and various family records to about 1929.

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