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Abby Groesbeck Jenson diaries and account books, 1924-1963. (COLL MSS 123). Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives department.
Abby Groesbeck Jenson originally lived in Brigham City, moving to Logan after the death of her husband in 1939. In Logan, she worked as an officiator in the Logan Temple.
The diaries of Abby Groesbeck Jenson contain a virtually daily account of her life from 1928 to 1963. She originally lived in Brigham City, moving to Logan after the death of her husband in 1939.
Entries are mostly ordinary household matters, concerned with her literary and gardening interests, and probably give a good day-by-day account of average household work in a middle-class northern Utah home during the period. While her entries are daily during World War II, there is very little mention of any event outside of her own circle and her own home.
In Logan, she worked as an officiator in the Logan Temple, and she provides some insight to the special arrangements made for Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Satins servicemen to obtain their endowments before leaving for the U.S. Army.
When ill-health forced her to leave her own home, she moved to Sunshine Terrace; her last entries record her life in that nursing home and the events in it.
Arrangement: chronological organization.
Labeled "Diary of Trip South."
Labeled "Diary of Trip South."