Biographical sketch of Kezia Giles Carroll, 1933 : transcript.

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Biographical sketch of Kezia Giles Carroll, 1933 : transcript.

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This typescript is a copy made by Juanita Brooks in September of 1938 from a typewritten copy loaned to M. Wilford Poulson of Brigham Young University. The first section is a sketch of the life of Kezia Giles Carroll written by her daughter Emma Seegmiller Higbee. It serves as a biography and covers her conversion to Mormonism in England, describes her voyage from England to Utah, and speaks of her life in Heber City and at Orderville.

1 typescript.28 cm.37 pages.

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Carroll, Charles N. (Charles Negus), 1817-1902

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Carroll, Kezia Giles, 1840-1927.

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Kezia Giles Carroll was born in Broxholm, England on May 20, 1840. She was baptized into the Mormon Church in 1853 and in the following year she and her family made their way to the United States. After a six week voyage over the Atlantic, they arrived in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was not until the year of 1856 that they found themselves in Utah where they settled in Provo. In 1857 Kezia married Charles Negus Carroll and shortly thereafter went with him to help settle Heber City. By 1878 they w...

Chamberlain, Genevieve.

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