Microfilm of a typed autobiography of Sariah Louisa Chamberlain Redd, written by her daughter Terresa Atremesia Redd Romney. The account describes Sariah's childhood, her life with her ill father in Santa Clara, her move to live with her mother after his death in 1862, her work as a housekeeper and marriage to Lemuel Redd, her work sewing and embroidering gloves to earn money, her keeping out of sight to avoid polygamy charges (including a description of a search by U.S. Marshals in 1890), the family's 1890 move to San Juan County and 1891 settlement in Mexico, and Sariah's life in Mexico. It concludes with a list of her children with birth dates. On the same reel as MFILM 398 (item 1) and MFILM 398 (item 2). All inquiries about this item should be directed to the H. Russell Smith Foundation Curator of Western Historical Manuscripts at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA. Microfilm. San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library Photographic Dept., 1958. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Sariah Louisa Chamberlain Redd (1849-1908) was born in Salt Lake City, a daughter of Solomon Chamberlain and Terresa Phelps. Her parents separated when she was eight and she acted as her sickly father's caretaker. Following his death in 1862, she moved to Harmony and worked as a housekeeper. She married Lemuel Hardison Redd as a plural wife in 1866. The family moved to Mexico in 1891 to avoid polygamy charges, and Sariah died in Colonia Juarez in 1908.
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