Oral history by Clarissa Wilma Tolliver Minjarez [Transcript]

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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
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