Asahel Henry Smith and Pauline Udall family papers,

Asahel Henry Smith and Pauline Udall family papers,, 1860-1998.

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Ellsworth, S. George (Samuel George), 1916-
Title: Asahel Henry Smith and Pauline Udall family papers,
Dates: 1860-1998. (inclusive)
18601998
Quantity: 8.5 linear ft., (21 boxes)
Collection Number: UUS_COLL MSS 228h
Summary: Correspondence, record books, scrapbooks, documents, biographies, writings, postcards, etc. of Asahel Henry Smith; his wife, Pauline Udall Smith; his father, Jesse N. Smith; and his descendants from 1860-1998.
Repository: Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections and Archives Division
Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library
Utah State University
Logan, UT
84322-3000
Telephone: 4357978248
Fax: 4357972880
scweb@usu.edu
Access Restrictions: Restrictions
Open to public research.
Languages: English.
Sponsor: Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Asahel Henry Smith was born on December 5, 1880 to Augusta Maria Outzen and Jessie N. Smith. Asahel Henry Smith was the son of Jesse Nathaniel Smith, pioneer settler in the Snowflake, Arizona town and President of the Snowflake, Arizona stake. Pauline was born on March 26, 1885 to Ida Hunt and David K Udall. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple on April 2, 1909. They went on to have nine children. Asahel and Pauline were the parents of George Ellsworth's wife, Maria. Asahel and Pauline lived in Snowflake, Arizona for their first year of marriage. Then, they moved to Hunt, Arizona in 1910 and lived there until 1922. Asahel spent his time farming, ranching and serving for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. While in Hunt, Asahel served as bishop for 6 1/2 years and then he served 5 1/2 years on the Stake High Council. In 1922, the Smith family moved back to Snowflake. Pauline was named Stake Primary President and Asahel was named president of the High Priest Quorum, each served in their calling for 17 years. Asahel spent time as the town clerk in Snowflake. He also worked as secretary of Snowflake and Taylor Irrigation Company. Asahel died in Snowflake on September 7, 1947. In 1950, Pauline moved to Mesa, Arizona and lived there until her death on July 24, 1968.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Letters, record books, scrapbooks, documents, biographies, and writings of Asahel Henry Smith; his wife, Pauline Udall Smith; his father, Jesse N. Smith; and his descendants. (1860-1998)

This collection is organized by generation and family name. It begins with the life of Asahel Henry Smith and continues with the lives of his wife, Pauline, and their children and grandchildren. The collection includes many original letters and records with some typescript copies of the documents.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Permission to publish material from the Asahel Henry Smith and Pauline Udall family papers must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Preferred Citation

Asahel Henry Smith and Pauline Udall family papers, 1860-1998. (COLL MSS 228h) Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives Department.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged by Series as well as numeric sequence according to Box and Folder

Acquisition Information

Donated by S. George and Maria Ellsworth. After Pauline's second stroke, Maria went to Mesa to take care of her mother while caretaker Elsie was on vacation. While there disposition of family papers was determined. Maria searched the house for papers of historical value, and she and her mother sorted. A few articles, including pictures, were to be given to Ida Smith Church. The remainder were given to Maria. Of the experience, Maria wrote home: "During the past two days and nights I have pretty well searched out all written materials I want to take home with me. Only a few items are really valuable. The first afternoon I found the notebook with Grandma's journal. All of the family are pleased. . . . Today I found some letters from Grandma that pleased me. . . . It has been good for me to be around my family like this. I have so much more admiration for each one. . . . I have also been renewed in my desire to write about my people. (Maria to George, dated 30 May 1967, Mesa) Maria brought the papers to Logan in a citrus case. Since then they have been sorted and given proper arrangement and care.

Processing Note

Collection Processed by Julia Kenyon and Jolyn Hunting, March 2003

Related Materials

S. George Ellsworth papers (COLL MSS 228).
Ellsworth family photograph collection (P0142).
Maria Ellsworth papers (COLL MSS 229).
David King and Ida Hunt Udall family papers (COLL MSS 229b).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Asahel Henry Smith and Pauline Udall Smith: records, letters, memorabilia , undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Asahel Henry Smith: documents	undated
1	2	Asahel Henry Smith: patriarchal blessings	undated
1	3	Asahel Henry Smith: homestead application	undated
1	4	Asahel Henry Smith: notebook, outline of the Book of Mormon	undated
1	5	Asahel Henry Smith: ledger book	undated
1	6	Asahel Henry Smith: letters sent	1908
1	7	Asahel Henry Smith: letters sent	1909
1	8	Asahel Henry Smith: letters sent	1910-1930
1	9	Asahel Henry Smith: letters sent	1931-1947
1	10	Asahel Henry Smith: letters sent xerox copies	undated
1	11	Asahel Henry Smith: letters received	undated
1	12	Asahel Henry Smith: biographies, tributes	undated
1	13	Asahel Henry Smith: biography "The Story of Asahel Henry Smith" by Pauline Udall Smith	undated
1	14	Asahel Henry Smith: scrapbook created by Pauline Udall Smith (photographs removed and transferred to the Ellsworth Photograph Collection)	undated
1	15	Pauline Udall Smith: documents	undated
1	16	Pauline Udall Smith: patriarchal blessing	undated
1	17	Pauline Udall Smith: memorabilia	undated
1	18	Pauline Udall Smith: thoughts, articles collected	undated
1	19	Pauline Udall Smith: biographies, tributes	undated
1	20	Pauline Udall Smith: genealogy	undated
1	21	Pauline Udall Smith: funeral	undated

Pauline Udall Smith: record books, family information, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	1	Family record book (with genealogical records and documents; photographs removed and transferred to the Ellsworth Photograph Collection)	undated
2	2	Day book	undated
2	3	Pauline Udall Smith--Autograph Book	1899
2	4	Pauline Udall Smith--Autograph Book	1898-1908
2	5	Pauline Udall Smith--Student Autographs	1906
2	6	Notebook	undated
2	7	Miscellaneous	undated
2	8	Asahel Henry Smith Family Reunions	undated
		Item 1 : Asahel Henry Smith Family lists	undated
2	9	Pauline Udall Smith diploma	undated

Pauline Udall Smith: scrapbooks, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
3	Item 1 : United States tour	1954
3	Item 2 : European tour	1958

Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
4	1	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1905
4	2	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1906-1910
4	3	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1911-1915
4	4	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1916-1920
4	5	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1921-1930
4	6	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1931-1940
4	7	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1941-1949
4	8	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1950-1951
4	9	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1952-1954
4	10	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1955-1956
4	11	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1957
5	1	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1958-1959
5	2	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1960
5	3	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1961
5	4	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1962
5	5	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1963-1964
5	6	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	1965-1968
5	7	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	undated
5	8	Pauline Udall Smith: letters sent	undated

Pauline Udall Smith: letters received, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
6	1	M. E. Freeman	undated
6	2	Wallace B. Larson	undated
6	3	Mary Morgan	undated
6	4	Nicholas G. Morgan	undated
6	5	Pearl Udall Nelson	undated
6	6	Luella U. Pace	undated
6	7	Erma U. Sherwood	undated
6	8	Augusta M. Smith	undated
6	9	Josephine Stock	undated
6	10	David Udall	undated
6	11	David K. Udall	undated
6	12	Dora Udall	undated
6	13	Jesse A. Udall	undated
6	14	John H. Udall	undated
6	15	Lois Hunt West	undated
6	16	Ida Willis	undated
6	17	Others	undated
6	18	Post cards, greeting cards, mementoes	undated

Pauline Udall Smith Correspondence, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
7	1	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Alice Patterson	1910-1959
7	2	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Alice Berry (Patterson)	1908
7	3	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Alice Berry (Patterson)	1909
7	4	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Maud Pace Callison	1909
7	5	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Silas L. Fish	1908
7	6	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with May Hunt Larsen	1942
7	7	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Joe Crosby	1908
7	8	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Pearl and Joe Noble	1908-1909
7	9	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Pearl Potter	1906-1908
7	10	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Myrtle Robinson	1906-1907
7	11	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Leonora S. Rogers	1907-1909
7	12	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Andrew, Rebecca, and Rachel Rogers	1908-1952
7	13	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Hyrum Smith	1907
7	14	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Caroline Smith	1906-1908
7	15	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Josephine C. Stock	1950
7	16	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Jesse Udall	undated
7	17	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Luella Udall Pace	1907
7	18	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Pear Udall Nelson	1904-1909
7	19	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence with Mary Linton Morgon	undated

Pauline Udall Smith: writings, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
8	1	Personal	undated
8	2	"A Christmas Memory"	undated
8	3	"A Plunge Before Breakfast"	undated
8	4	"Down Memories Lane with Luella"	undated
8	5	Re. Her Children	undated
8	6	Ida Frances Hunt Udall	undated
8	7	"A Life Sketch of Ida Frances Hunt Udall"	undated
8	8	"Commentary on the Journal of Ida Hunt Udall"	undated
8	9	Asahel Henry Smith	undated
8	10	"The Story of Asahel Henry Smith"	undated
8	11	Re. Captain Jefferson Hunt Book	undated
8	12	"Pearl's Story"	undated
8	13	"The Diamond Wedding"	undated
8	14	"My Father's Ministry"	undated
8	15	Play: "Celia M. Hunt and Louis Barnes Pratt"	undated
8	16	Tributes, given	undated
8	17	Poems	undated
8	18	Notes, talks	undated

Pauline Udall Smith: "Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith", undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
9	1	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1905
9	2	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1906-1913
9	3	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1914-1921
9	4	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1922-1929
9	5	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1930-1935
9	6	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1936-1941
9	7	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1942-1947
9	8	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1948-1953
9	9	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1954-1956
9	10	"Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith"	1957-1961
9		Item 1 : Bound copy of The Memoirs of Pauline Udall Smith	undated
	Folder
9	11	Copy of Asahel Henry Smith's Book of Remembrance	undated
9	12	Smith-Udall Family History	undated

Rudger Grant Smith, Andrew Outzen Smith, Edna Richards Smith, Children of Andrew, and Ida Smith Church, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
10	1	Rudger Grant Smith: letters sent	1930-1979
10	2	Rudger Grant Smith: letters sent	1980
10	3	Andrew Outzen Smith: letters sent	1931
10	4	Andrew Outzen Smith: letters sent	1932-1950
10	5	Andrew Outzen Smith: letters sent xerox copies	undated
10	6	Andrew Outzen Smith: biographies, tributes	undated
10	7	Edna Richards Smith: letters sent	undated
10	8	Children of Andrew Outzen Smith: letters sent	undated
10	9	David Udall Smith: letters sent	undated
10	10	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1920-1937
10	11	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1938-1959
10	12	Ida Smith Church: letters set	1960-1968

Ida Smith Church: letters sent, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
11	1	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1969
11	2	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1970-1974
11	3	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1975-1976
11	4	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1977
11	5	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1978-1979
11	6	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1980-1981
11	7	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1982-1984
11	8	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1985-1986
11	9	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1987

Ida Smith Church, Emily Church McLaws, Elaine Church Carter, Norma Church Hastings, and A. Marion Smith, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
12	1	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1988-1989
12	2	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1990
12	3	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1991
12	4	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1992
12	5	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1993-1994
12	6	Ida Smith Church: letters sent	1995
12	7	Emily Church McLaws: letters sent	undated
12	8	Elaine Church Carter: letters sent	undated
12	9	Norma Church Hastings: letters sent	undated
12	10	A. Marion Smith: letters sent	1964
12	11	A. Marion Smith: letters sent	1965-1979
12	12	A. Marion Smith: letters sent	1980-1987

A. Marion Smith, Wanda May Turley Smith, Children of A. Marion Smith, Philip Addison Smith, Janice Beach Smith, Children of Philip A. Smith, A. Henry Smith, Jr., undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
13	1	A. Marion Smith: letters sent	1988-1992
13	2	A. Marion Smith: letters sent	1993-1994
13	3	A. Marion Smith: letters sent	1995
13	4	A. Marion Smith: letters sent xerox copies	undated
13	5	A. Marion Smith: writings	undated
13	6	Wanda May Turley Smith: letters sent	1975
13	7	Wanda May Turley Smith: letters sent	1976
13	8	Children of A. Marion Smith: letters sent	undated
13	9	Philip Addison Smith: letters sent	undated
13	10	Janice Beach Smith: letters sent	undated
13	11	Children of Philip A. Smith: letters sent	undated
13	12	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1942

A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
14	1	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1943 January-August
14	2	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1943 September-December
14	3	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1944 January-April
14	4	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1944 May-August
14	5	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1944 September-December
14	6	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1945 January-May
14	7	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1945 June-December
14	8	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1946

A. Henry Smith Jr., Children of A. Henry Smith Jr., and Richard Aikens Smith, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
15	1	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	1947-1957
15	2	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent fragments	undated
15	3	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters received from Army buddies	undated
15	4	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters received from Roy W. Doxey	undated
15	5	A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters received	undated
15	6	Children of A. Henry Smith Jr.: letters sent	undated
15	7	A. Henry Smith Jr.: miscellaneous	undated
15	8	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1959
15	9	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1960-1973
15	10	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1974-1977
15	11	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1978-1980

Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
16	1	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1981-1983
16	2	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1984-1987
16	3	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1988-1989
16	4	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1990-1991
16	5	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1992-1993
16	6	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1994
16	7	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1995
16	8	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent	1996
16	9	Richard Aikens Smith: letters sent Miscellaneous	undated

Jesse N. Smith, Augusta Maria Outzen Smith, Jens C. Outzen, Rebecca Smith Rogers, and Jefferson Hunt Papers, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
17	1	Extracts of Journals of Jesse N. Smith	undated
17	2	Jesse N. Smith: documents	undated
17	3	Jesse N. Smith: journal	1864 May 6-June 17
17	4	Jesse N. Smith: letters received	undated
17	5	Wives and children of Jesse N. Smith	undated
17	6	Jesse N. Smith: miscellaneous	undated
17	7	Augusta Maria Outzen Smith: autobiography	undated
17	8	Augusta Maria Outzen Smith: biography by Natalia Smith Farr	undated
17	9	Jens C. Outzen	undated
17	10	Outzen Genealogy	undated
17	11	Outzen Family genealogy	undated
17	12	Augusta Maria Outzen Genealogy	undated
17	13	Rebecca Smith Rogers: biography by Beatrice R. Papa	undated
17	14	Jefferson Hunt: John Hunt documents	undated
17	15	Jefferson Hunt: letters sent	undated
17	16	Jefferson Hunt: John Hunt Genealogy Book	undated
17	17	Jefferson Hunt: family reunions	undated
17	18	Jefferson Hunt: miscellaneous	undated
17		Item 19 : Jefferson Hunt: Memoirs of May Louise Hunt Larson	undated

Pauline Udall Smith Papers on Jefferson Hunt, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
18	1	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 1-2--Second Draft	undated
18	2	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 3-5--Second Draft	undated
18	3	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 6-9--Second Draft	undated
18	4	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 10-13--Second Draft	undated
18	5	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 14-17--Second Draft	undated
18	6	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 19-21--Second Draft	undated
18	7	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Table of Contents and Appendices--Manuscript	undated
18	8	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 1-3--Typescript for printer	undated
18	9	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 4-5, 7--Typescript for printer	undated
18	10	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 8-11--Typescript for Printer	undated
18	11	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 12-16--Typescript for Printer	undated
18	12	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Chapters 17-20--Typescript for Printer	undated
18	13	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Genealogy, Appendices, and Notes--Typescript for printer	undated
18	18	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Handwritten Drafts	undated
18	16	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Handwritten Drafts	undated
18	17	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Handwritten Drafts	undated
18	18	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Handwritten Drafts	undated
18	19	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt--Miscellaneous Documents	undated
18	20	Pauline Udall Smith--Jefferson Hunt Family Reunion--Papers	undated
18	21	Pauline Udall Smith--Correspondence and Map	undated

Articles of Jesse Nathaniel SmithReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
19	1	Sketch of the life of Silas Sanford Smith	undated
19	2	Memoirs, Correspondence, and Tributes	undated
19	3	Journal of Jesse Nathaniel Smith	undated
19	4	THE KINSMEN	1947 February-1959 September
19	5	THE KINSMEN	1960 March-1962 September
19	6	THE KINSMEN	1963 January-1964 August
19	7	THE KINSMEN	1964 December-1965 February
19	8	THE KINSMEN	1970 January-1981 March
19	9-14	The Snowflake Historical Society Article	undated

THE KINSMEN Newsletters, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
20	1	THE KINSMEN notes and correspondence	undated
20	2	THE KINSMEN	1955
20	3	THE KINSMEN	1958
20	4	THE KINSMEN	1962-1965
20	5	THE KINSMEN	1967-1971
20	6	THE KINSMEN	1973-1976
20	7	THE KINSMEN	1977-1979
20	8	THE KINSMEN	1980-1986

Postcards, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box
21	Postcard Collection of Asahel Henry and Pauline Udall Smith [Oversize]	undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Mormon Church--Arizona--History.
Mormon women--Arizona.
Mormons--Arizona--History.

Personal Names

Ellsworth, Maria S. (Maria Smith), 1918-
Smith, Asahel Henry, 1880-1947.
Smith, Pauline Udall, 1885-1968.

Family Names

Smith family.

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