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Box 5

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Contains 25 Results:

Coleman, Emma Beck

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents A short account of early Mormon days and her family's move into Missouri when Emma was eight years old. 3 pages.
Dates: 1857-1986

Coleman Family

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents Excerpt from a biography by Evans Coleman. This portion begins on page 11 of the history and extracts brief portions describing the country and life in southern Utah and northern Arizona. 14 pages.
Dates: 1857-1986

Udall, Ida Frances Hunt

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 14
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents A short biographical sketch by Pauline Udall Smith which tells of Ida Hunt's early years and the meeting of David K. Udall. She shared a home with her husband and his first wife. Writes of the polygamy hunts in Arizona and her stay with David's parents when she expected her first child. David Udall and Brothers Tenney, Tempe, Christopherson, and Flake spent several weeks in court in Prescott during the polygamy trials. David was sentenced to prison in Detroit. During the two years she was...
Dates: 1857-1986

George, William

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 15
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents To President Wilford Woodruff, July 21, 1885. Requests release from the St. Johns mission. He cannot make enough to support his family.
Dates: 1857-1986

Platt, W. J.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 16
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents To Ammon M. Tenney, 1885. Tells of court procedures in St. Johns. Mexicans on the jury are very anti-Mormon.
Dates: 1857-1986

Tenney, Ammon M.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 17
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents To L. H. Hatch, February 20, 1879. Appeals for help for the Zuni in planting crops. Wants brethren to assist him in this and his work with the Indians. To Wilford Woodruff, January 19, 1889. Acknowledges his release from Zuni mission and explains the financial settlement. To Wilford Woodruff, May 21, 1889. Requests permission to take another wife in Deming, Grant County, New...
Dates: 1857-1986

Tenney, Ammon M.

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 18
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents Points in the case of the United States vs Ammon M. Tenney, indictment for polygamy and cohabitation.
Dates: 1857-1986

Udall, David King

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 19
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents Letters copied from David King Udall and Pearl Udall Nelson, Arizona Pioneer Mormon, David King Udall (Tucson, Arizona, 1959). These letters deal with the land purchase handled by Ammon M. Tenney from Solomon and Morris Barth for the townsite of St. Johns; a protest from Marcus Baba de Padia and others claiming infringement on their land; and a letter from John Taylor appointing Udall bishop of St. Johns with instructions to take over all responsibility of...
Dates: 1857-1986

Woodruff, Wilford

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 20
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents To Ammon M. Tenney, November 24, 1879. Discusses the land purchase from the Barth brothers. To Ammon M. Tenney, April 21, 1880. Grants permission from Brother Taylor and the council to use all tithing stock in the territory to help pay for St. Johns unless the brethren can occupy the land and pay for it. This to be used as a loan. To Ammon M. Tenney, May 25, 1880. The Saints of St....
Dates: 1857-1986

Young, Brigham Jr., and Erastus Snow

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 21
Identifier: IV
Scope and Contents To Ammon M. Tenney, 1874 and 1880. Asks Tenney to assist Jacob Hamlin in the Indian Mission. A reprimand for his attitude and questionable involvement in the purchase of the Barth brothers land.
Dates: 1857-1986