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The history of Louisa Barnes Pratt : being the autobiography of a Mormon missionary widow and pioneer
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ISBN: 0874216435 0874212529 0874213053 0585033668 9780874213058 9780585033662 9780874212525 9780874216431 Year: 1998 Publisher: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press,

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Volume 3, Life Writings of Frontier Women series, ed. Maureen Ursenbach BeecherIn her memoir, and 1870's revision of her journal and diary, Louisa Barnes Pratt tells of childhood in Massachusetts and Canada during the War of 1812, and independent career as a teacher and seamstress in New England, and her marriage to the Boston seaman Addison Pratt.Converting to the LDS Church, the Pratts moved to Nauvoo, Illinois, from where Brigham Young sent Addison on the first of the long missions to the Society Islands that would leave Louisa on her own. As a sole available parent,

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