Title |
Oral history by Clarissa Wilma Tolliver Minjarez [Transcript] |
Creator |
Minjarez, Clarissa Wilma Tolliver |
Publisher |
Utah Historical Society |
Date |
1991-07-12 |
Access Rights |
Utah Historical Society |
Date Digital |
2024-05-02 |
Spatial Coverage |
City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html |
Subject |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Daughters of Utah Pioneers; Death; Drowning; Erythroblastosis fetalis; Flour mills; Grandfathers; Grandmothers; Great-grandfathers; Marriage; Monuments; Mormon Battalion (United States. Army); Native Americans; Nebraska; Parker, Robert Leroy, 1866-; Personal narratives; Tuberculosis; Wives; Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah) |
Description |
Oral history by Clarissa Wilma Tolliver Minjarez that was transcribed by Janet Taylor. Topics include: Spending five years in the hospital with tuberculosis; Family history connections; The death of her maternal grandfather, Samuel Campbell's, two wives (half-sisters, Diana Leona France and Sarah Matilda France), and his sister (Harriet Rosella Campbell), by drowning and their bodies never being recovered; Placing a marker at the drowning site as a monument to the women who drowned; Daughters of Utah Pioneers; relations with the Natives; Butch Cassidy; Her grandfather's carpenter shop in Logan and moving to Ashley Valley to range cattle; Her great-grandfather, William Pitt Reynolds, building the flour mill during the hard winter of 1879; Grandfather Campbell's marriage to Clarissa Adelaide Reynolds after the death of his two wives; Clare's love for his children who lost their mother; Accidental shooting and death of an uncle; Family reunions; Erythroblastosis and its effects on babies; Her grandfather serving in the Mormon Battalion; and the death of great-grandparents at Latter-day Saint Winter Quarters in Nebraska. |
Collection Number and Name |
Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
Type |
Text |
Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
Format |
application/pdf |
Extent |
16 leaves |
Language |
eng |
Rights |
|
Source |
Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
Scanning Technician |
Michelle Gollehon |
Metadata Cataloger |
Amy Green Larsen |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6jdbnf3 |
Setname |
dha_uhsoh |
ID |
2535909 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jdbnf3 |