Genealogy and memoirs of George Washington Gill Averett, c.1894.

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Genealogy and memoirs of George Washington Gill Averett, c.1894.

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George Washington Gill Averett (1824-1902) was born in Tennessee and moved to Illinois in 1830. He was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and followed the Mormons throughout Missouri and Illinois through the 1830s. He traveled overland to Utah in the late 1840s, and spent much of the following decade prospecting for gold in California.

1 manuscript, 62 pages.

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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...