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. 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. On the same reel as MFILM 223 (1), MFILM 223 (2), MFILM 223 (3), MFILM 223 (4), and MFILM 223 (5). Microfilm. 1950. 1 microfilm reel 35 mm;Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Gilbert Dunlap Greer (1860-1895) was born in Bosque County, Texas. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1878 and appointed as a teacher in the Snowflake stake. In 1879 he served on a mission to the Lamanites and worked on the Lamanite Missionary farm at St. Johns in 1880. He spent 1880-1881 learning Spanish and living among Mexican settlers in St. Johns. In 1883 he served as a missionary to the Laguna, Isleta, and other Pueblo Indians in New Mexico. In 1888 he moved to the Heber ward in New Mexico, where he served as bishop before returning to St. Johns until his death in 1895.
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