Biography [microform] (Typescript).

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Biography [microform] (Typescript).

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Born in Mercer, Pennsylvania, daughter of Epaphroditus Shepherd Cossitt and Laura Hill. Marriage to William Mayfield; widow at age twenty with one son; marriage to Lewis Rice Chaffin, 1837; conversion to Mormonism; endowment at the Nauvoo Temple; mob action in Nauvoo, Illinois; stop in St. Louis, Missouri before moving west; arrival and settlement in Salt Lake City; removal to Cedar City, Utah.

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

Harold B. Lee Library

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