Microfilm of the autobiography of Mary Brown Pulsipher, dated 1872 and which gives a very brief account of her childhood and her family's conversion to Mormonism, spending the winter in Far West, the death of her mother near Nauvoo, the family's move to Salt Lake City, and her husband's death in 1872. In 1880 she added a more thorough account of her religious background and conversion. Following Mary's death in 1886, her son John added an account of the last years of his mother's life to the volume, focusing on her time with family in St. George and Hebron, Utah. He also transcribed some of his mother's earlier writings, including her account of an 1879 celebration of her 80th birthday and her "Farewell Address to Hebron" (1883). The last few frames include diary entries Mary's daughter Eliza Terry made during a 1907 trip to Idaho. The very brief entries focus on traveling by train to Salt Lake City and Idaho, and her return trip to Salt Lake through Brigham City, Willard, and Ogden. The manuscript (frames 41-62) is on the same reel as the diary of Jesse B. Martin and the diary of Thomas Sirls Terry. 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., 1948. 1 microfilm reel : negative 35 mm. Forms part of the Manuscripts Department's Mormon file, c.1805-1995. Mary Brown Pulsipher (1799-1886) was born in Litchfield, Connecticut. She married Zera Pulsipher in Pennsylvania in 1815. Mary was raised Methodist but in 1832 was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Pulsiphers moved to Kirtland, Ohio, before settling in Missouri. After being driven out by mob violence, they spent the winter in Far West and from 1839-1841 lived in Bear Creek Woods near Nauvoo, Illinois. The Pulsiphers later emigrated to Utah, where Zera died in 1872. Mary lived in Hebron until her own death in 1886.
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