Biographical sketch [microform] (Typescript).

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Biographical sketch [microform] (Typescript).

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Born in Hancock County, Illinois, daughter of Oliver Thornton and Mary Griswald. Conversion of parents to Mormonism, 1839, in Upper Canada; movement of family to Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois; death of Joseph Smith; further moves to Nauvoo, Illinois, Lynn, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa; exodus west; arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1852; marriage to Stephen Mott, 1856; pioneer life. (Part of the Adams Camp Collection, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.).

1 p. ; partial reel : microfilm ; 35 mm.

Harold B. Lee Library

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