Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

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Autobiography [microform] (Typescript).

Born in Chester County, South Carolina, daughter of Anthony McMeans and Esther Hunter. Conversion to Mormonism, 1834; marriage to Abraham O. Smoot; Mormon persecutions in Missouri and Illinois; exodus west; arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, 1847; move to Provo, Utah.

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

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