UUM_Ms0026.xml Inventory of the Eliza Maria Partridge Smith Lyman diary [photocopy] Lyman (Eliza Maria Partridge Smith) diary [photocopy] Finding aid prepared by Fae Dix. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections

1973 (last modified: 2019 and 2024)

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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-08-07. Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard), 2nd Edition. J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Eliza Maria Partridge Smith Lyman diary [photocopy] Lyman, Eliza Partridge, 1820-1886 MS 0026 0.25 linear feet 1 box after 1889 The Eliza Maria Partridge Smith Lyman diary [photocopy and typescript] (after 1889) consist of a record of a woman's day-to-day hardship and heartbreak while crossing the United States as a young wife and mother. Communities such as Salt Lake City, Oak City, Fillmore, and the San Juan country play important roles in the journal as family members moved and settled down. English .

Eliza Maria Partridge Smith Lyman was born on 20 April 1820 in Ohio to Edward and Lydia Clisbee Partridge. Her parents were well-to-do business people who joined the LDS faith and gave up their entire holdings to follow the prophet, Joseph Smith Jr. The family moved to Missour where they witnessed the tarring and feathering of their father at the hands of a mob. At age 23, Eliza and her sister, Emily, became a plural wife of Joseph Smith. Following the martyrdom of the prophet in 1844, she lived with the Coolidge family and then became a wife of Amasa Lyman, who later left the LDS Church. Eliza Lyman died in 1886.

The Eliza Maria Partridge Smith Lyman diary (after 1889) consist of a photocopy and typescript copy of Eliza Lyman's journal. The journal is a record of a woman's day-to-day hardship and heartbreak while crossing the United States as a young wife and mother. Communities such as Salt Lake City, Oak City, Fillmore, and the San Juan country play important roles in the journal as family members moved and settled down.

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Lyman, Eliza Partridge, 1820-1886--Diaries Lyman, Eliza Partridge, 1820-1886--Family Partridge, Edward, 1793-1840 Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844 Nauvoo (Ill.)--Expulsion of the Latter Day Saints Utah--Social life and customs--19th century--Sources Latter Day Saint women--19th century--Diaries Latter Day Saint pioneers--19th century--Diaries Latter Day Saint families--19th century--Diaries Latter Day Saints--Persecutions--West (U.S.)--19th century Polygamy--Religious aspects--Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--19th century Frontier and pioneer life--Utah--19th century--Sources Mormonism (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Overland Journeys to the Western United States Diaries Photocopies Journal of Eliza Marie (Partridge) Lyman 1 1

Typescript of journal spans from 1833-1885.

Life and Journal of Eliza Marie Partridge Lyman 1 2

Copy of journal spans from 1833-1885. Includes Lyman's obituary and affidavit from The Historical Record by Andrew Jenson written in 1889.