Autobiography of David Osborne, Sr., 1860-1870.

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Autobiography of David Osborne, Sr., 1860-1870.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779641918

Typescript of an autobiography begun by David Osborne (also spelled Osborn) in February 1860. Osbourne recounts his childhood in Virginia, his conversion to Mormonism, persecutions against the Mormons, the Osbournes' travels throughout Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, the deaths of his wife and several of their children, and his life in Utah. The autobiography covers the years from 1807 to 1870. A note written by David A. Osborne records the death of his father in 1893.

1 bound typescript, 46 pages.

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Osborne, David, 1807-1893.

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David Osborne, Sr., was born on March 31, 1807, in Greenbrier County, Virginia. He married Cyntha Butler in 1826, and they were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1835. The Osbornes moved to Missouri in the 1830s and, after losing their home to mob violence, stayed briefly in Caldwell County before settling in Iowa until 1840. They then returned with the Mormons the Illinois, settling near Nauvoo in 1842. They moved back to Missouri in the mid-1840s, and in 1852 beg...