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Terry, Thomas S., 1825-1920. Autobiography.

Title: Autobiography.

ArchivalResource: 60 pp. : photocopy of manuscript.

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Lund, Nora Hall, 1903-. History of Thomas Sirls Terry family, 1954.

Title: History of Thomas Sirls Terry family, 1954.

These materials are photocopies of microfilm copies of a typewritten mansuscript. The collection is a compilation of biographies of family members of Thomas Sirls Terry. These persons were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and most of them live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the area nearby.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (197 pages).

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Terry, Thomas Sirls, 1825-1920. Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

Title: Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

Born in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, son of Thomas Sirls Terry and Mary Ann Markins. Family genealogy; early life; affiliation with the Mormons in 1842 while in Pennsylvania; introduction of the doctrine of polygamy into his branch in 1843 through Joseph Newton, who had learned it from Brigham Young; work at his trade as a printer until 1845; endeavors to raise money through various jobs to gather with the Mormons; exodus west from Pennsylvania by way of the Ohio River and St. Louis, Missouri; arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1847; re-baptism that winter; ordination as priest by Bishop Edward Hunter and Joseph Starpten; survival the first winter; marriage to Mary Ann Pulsipher, 1849; settlement in Union Fort; counsel to his children; a letter from his father Thomas Sirls Terry, Sr., and one from his sister Ann Terry; war declared by Chief Walker; preparations for a fort, and peaceful settlement of the war; called on a mission to Philadelphia; crossing the plains again in charge of a company of Saints; miraculous blessing and revival of Lucy Stevenson; many blessings and miraculous healings from injuries received as a result of a stampede; second wife Elize Jane Pulsipher, 1855; sealed to Lucy Stevenson as a third wife, 1857, and troubles following; call to the Dixie Mission, 1862; call to settle Shoal Creek, Utah, 1863; building of a ranch in Moroni Springs, Utah; removal to Hebron, Utah, 1874; call to preside over the Hebron Ward of the LDS Church, 1876-1894; marriage to Hannah Louisa Leavitt, 1878; move to Beaver Dams Wash, Washington County, Utah, 1885; narrow escape during anti-polygamy raids; ordination as patriarch by President Francis M. Lyman, 1908; death, 1920.

ArchivalResource: 15 p. ; partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

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Terry, Thomas S., 1825-1920. Journal, Jun-Oct 1857.

Title: Journal, Jun-Oct 1857.

ArchivalResource: 60 pp. : photocopy of manuscript.

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Lund, Nora Hall, 1903-. History of Thomas Sirls Terry family [microform] 1954.

Title: History of Thomas Sirls Terry family [microform] 1954.

These materials are photocopies of microfilm copies of a typewritten mansuscript. The collection is a compilation of biographies of family members of Thomas Sirls Terry. These persons were members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and most of them live in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the area nearby.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (197 p.)

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Terry, Thomas Sirls, 1825-1920. Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

Title: Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

Born in Bristol Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, son of Thomas Sirls Terry and Mary Ann Markins. Family genealogy; early life; affiliation with the Mormons in 1842 while in Pennsylvania; introduction of the doctrine of polygamy into his branch in 1843 through Joseph Newton, who had learned it from Brigham Young; work at his trade as a printer until 1845; endeavors to raise money through various jobs to gather with the Mormons; exodus west from Pennsylvania by way of the Ohio River and St. Louis, Missouri; arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1847; re-baptism that winter; ordination as priest by Bishop Edward Hunter and Joseph Starpten; survival the first winter; marriage to Mary Ann Pulsipher, 1849; settlement in Union Fort; counsel to his children; a letter from his father Thomas Sirls Terry, Sr., and one from his sister Ann Terry; war declared by Chief Walker; preparations for a fort, and peaceful settlement of the war; called on a mission to Philadelphia; crossing the plains again in charge of a company of Saints; miraculous blessing and revival of Lucy Stevenson; many blessings and miraculous healings from injuries received as a result of a stampede; second wife Elize Jane Pulsipher, 1855; sealed to Lucy Stevenson as a third wife, 1857, and troubles following; call to the Dixie Mission, 1862; call to settle Shoal Creek, Utah, 1863; building of a ranch in Moroni Springs, Utah; removal to Hebron, Utah, 1874; call to preside over the Hebron Ward of the LDS Church, 1876-1894; marriage to Hannah Louisa Leavitt, 1878; move to Beaver Dams Wash, Washington County, Utah, 1885; narrow escape during anti-polygamy raids; ordination as patriarch by President Francis M. Lyman, 1908; death, 1920.

ArchivalResource: 15 p. ; partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

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