Sketch of the life of Mary Minerva Dart [Judd] [microform]:

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  Mary Minerva Dart Judd autobiography, (bulk 1879-1885)

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  This is the original handwritten manuscript of Mary Minerva Dart Judd. The bound volume consists of Judd's reminiscences of her life; family records such as births, deaths, and baptisms; and poetry and songs. The subjects covered include Judd's recollections of her move to Utah, her marriage to Zodak Knapp Judd, their movement between various Mormon settlements, and her descriptions of her life as a woman pioneer. She also provides accounts of the births and deaths of her children, relationships with Native Americans, frontier and pioneer life, the purchase of Native American children, and the various activities of Jacob Hamblin (1819-1886)

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  Autobiographies of Zadok Knapp Judd, Mary Minerva Dart Judd, and Wandle Mace [microform]: approximately 1881-1892

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  Microfilm of typescript autobiographies by Zadok Knapp Judd and Mary Minerva Dart Judd, along with the manuscript autobiography of Wandle Mace. The second reel contains a copy of the Zadok Knapp Judd autobiography.

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  Diaries of Thomas Judd [microform] : 1876-1908

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  Microfilm of the diaries of Thomas Judd, covering the years 1876-1878 and 1906-1908. The first two diaries, dated 1876-1877 and 1877-1878, cover Judd's mission to Britain. The 1906 diary covers Judd's activities in La Verkin, his business trips around Washington County, and a trip to Las Vegas and California, including Los Angeles, Pasadena, several beaches, and Santa Catalina Island (where he took a glass bottom boat ride). The 1907 diary describes a second trip to California, including San Francisco, as well as Utah business activities, and the 1908 diary traces Judd's sea voyage from New York to Los Angeles. Portions of the diary are very faint and may be partially illegible.

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  Sketch of the life of William Morley Black [microform] : c.1915

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  Microfilm of the life history of William Morley Black, probably in the handwriting of his daughter Eva Minerva Black Palmer. Black opens with recollections of the difficulties of frontier life in Ohio and Illinois, his work as a farmer and mason after his father's death, and his marriage to Margaret Bonks in 1846. While living in Illinois in 1848, Black notes that "news of the discovery of gold in California created quite a fever in our town, and I caught the fever in the spring 1849." He describes joining William Maxwell's joint stock company, passing through Nauvoo, and crossing the plains. His overland account is limited except for his notes on buffalo hunting, of which he reflected "sad indeed it was for the Sioux nation when the white man made a through fare [sic] thru [sic] their well stocked hunting grounds." The party entered the Salt Lake Valley in July 1849, and "were all on tip toe to see what kind of civilization the Mormons would exhibit." Black learned of the "martyrdom" of Joseph Smith, was impacted by the persecutions the Mormons had suffered, and was so impressed by a church sermon that he wrote "if that is Mormonism then I am a Mormon." He writes that "any desire and ambition for gold was swept away," and he abandoned the California company to remain in Utah. In February 1850 he was selected to go on a mission to the Sanpete Valley, which he was not eager to do. "I could not see just what right the President had to call me. I understood and expected them to guide me in spiritual matters, but this was of a temporal nature and beyond their jurisdiction." Black ultimately submitted to the call and writes of paying tributes to Indians on the road to Sanpete, quoting Brigham Young as saying that it was "cheaper to feed them than it was to fight them." Black describes living with a Father Morley at Manti, building a grist mill, and marrying his first plural wife. In 1851 he was finally allowed to travel back to Illinois with the J.M Grant company to retrieve his family. He broke his ribs falling into a well and was in poor condition when he arrived in South Canton in December. He writes that he was "full of enthusiasm" for Mormonism, and when he told his family about his conversion his mother-in-law was "wild with rage" and his father-in-law would not share a house with him. His wife and two children, as well as a brother and sister he converted, traveled back to Utah in October 1852. Along the way he was cheated out of wages by a Brother Leonard, but Brigham Young convinced Black to let Leonard use the money to fund a mission to China instead of paying him. Back in Utah Black partnered with a Brother Washburn in tanning and shoemaking. When local grist millers were killed during the Walker War in July 1853, Black took over the mill. He describes running various mills, including those at Nephi (he writes that with the establishment of Camp Floyd in 1858 his "wheat was turned to gold"), Ephraim, and Circle Valley, where he was held under siege by Indians (two brothers recently arrived from Illinois were killed). After abandoning the Circle Valley settlement in 1867, Black moved to Beaver before being called to a mission in Washington. He later helped John R. Young build a grist mill at Kanab. He praised the establishment of United Orders and lived at Orderville until the late 1870s. He describes moving to Mexico in 1889 "not out of choice but of necessity," and of his various homes there. He writes that when war broke out between the Madero and Diaz parties in Pacheco, his family fled to El Paso and later returned to Utah. The final pages of the autobiography contain genealogy and a note on Black's death probably written by Eva Palmer.

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  Manuscripts of Mary E. Lightner [microform] : 1863-1914

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  Microfilm of manuscripts related to Mary E. Lightner, including a journal, miscellaneous writings, and letters. The first item on the reel is a journal kept by Mary while she was traveling by steamer to Omaha and overland to Utah from May to September 1863. The journal opens with Mary boarding the steamer Canada for St. Louis. Mary writes of a soldier who had lost his leg in battle during the Civil War, of a coffin containing another soldier, and of the difficult conditions on board with leaks, livestock, and disreputable passengers. She also writes of Mormons coming on board and that she had "not seen the face of a brother Mormon for 17 years." After landing at Omaha, Mary joined a camp with Mormons from England, Denmark, and Africa. She subsequently records her overland journey to Utah, and the journal ends with her arrival in Minersville. The miscellaneous writings include a speech made by Mary in 1889 (regarding her travels to Utah for her faith and the history of the Church), a short sketch of her marriage to Joseph Smith (1902), a sketch of the organization of the Minersville Relief Society (1914), and typed remarks given by Mary at B.Y.U. regarding Joseph Smith and the persecution of the Mormons (1905). The microfilm also contains 13 letters written to Mary, including one from Presendia L. Kimball (1890), three from Eliza Roxcy Snow (1865-1870, including mention of the Relief Society in Minersville), five from Emmeline B. Wills, the editor of the Woman's Exponent (1880-1889), 3 from Zina D.H. Young (1886-1887), and one from Brigham Young regarding Brother Henry, bishop at Minersville (1867). There is also one letter from Mary to Brother Henry and family (1895).

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  The story of my life as affected by polygamy [microform], 1948

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  Microfilm of two drafts of Mary Bennion Powell's The Story of My Life as Affected by Polygamy. The first, shorter draft describes the polygamous past of Mary's family, including the plural marriages of her grandfather John Bennion, which she writes led to much unhappiness in her father's childhood, and the story of her mother's widowed mother Mary Ann Frost and her plural marriage to Parley Pratt and the monogamous marriage of her grandparents Oscar Winters and Mary Ann Stearns (Mary describes that Mary Ann, pressured by the Church, convinced her husband to enter a plural marriage with her mother Mary Ann Frost, which was quickly annulled). Much of the document focuses on "the struggle with the horror of polygamy," and particularly of Mary's hatred of her father Heber Bennion's third wife Mayme Bringhurst, who he married after "an unfortunate experience" and "ensuing scandal" between her and his brother. Mary writes scathingly of "this creature" Mayme and the disaster she brought on the family (Mary ascribes the deaths of her sisters and mother to polygamy) and that when she found out her father had married Mayme he became "a monster hideous beyond description." The second draft was written for the Sociology Department of the University of Wisconsin in 1948, to be used as "case material in a study of Mormon sex mores." The content is similar to the first draft although includes more writings on Heber's childhood, his resignation as bishop of Taylorsville over polygamy issues, Mary's indictments of the Mormon Church's approach to polygamy, and more of Mayme's infamy, including her dressing "like a prostitute" and behaving as a "kept woman." Mary concludes the draft with the note "Please, sirs, will you tell me why I can't stop hating them, after all these years." Also included are various letters Mary wrote to the University of Wisconsin regarding the project, as well as a letter to T.C. McCormick in which she enquires about libel laws.

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