Biograpifical scetch of the life and adventures of George Washington Gill Averett, [18--].

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Biograpifical scetch of the life and adventures of George Washington Gill Averett, [18--].

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Photocopy of handwritten journal of George Washington Gill Averett. Gives a brief account of his life and childhood in Illinois and Missouri, including his conversion and descriptions of persecutions of Mormons in Missouri. He gives details of his trip overland to California to prospect for gold and the sea voyage back to Illinois, setting out for Salt Lake, Utah about 1858 with his wife, settling in Manti, travels and difficulties in Utah's Dixie, trading his land in Dixie for Arizona land, and experiences with Indians. The manuscript copy breaks off in the midst of his account in Arizona.

1 item (p. 147-174) ; 34 cm.

Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library

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Averett, George Washington Gill, 1824-1902.

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Manuscript compiled by George Washington Gill Averett containing a detailed prose account of his family's genealogy, as well as memoirs of his life history. He writes of his birth in Tennessee and the family's move to Illinois in 1830, of their travels with the Mormons to Missouri and back to Illinois throughout the 1830s, thier overland journey to Utah in the 1840s, and their experiences gold mining in California from 1849. The manuscript appears to be incomplete. From the descripti...