ERASTUS
SNOW AND FAMILY FROM THEIR PERSONAL LETTERS
©2016 Donald R. Snow (snowd@math.byu.edu)
of Provo and St. George, Utah
This page
was last revised 2016-03-02.
- Notes and
Erastus Snow letters posted on http://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html
- Powerpoint
presentation about Erastus Snow and his family
and the letter collection and some things we
have learned about them
- Meet Erastus
Snow
- Erastus Snow
==> Erastus Beman Snow ==> Eldon Stafford
Snow ==> Donald Ray Snow
- My Dad, Eldon
Stafford Snow, was in first graduating class of
Dixie College, 1913
- Our Erastus
Snow letter collection - several hundred letters
total, preserved in libraries now; we have
photocopies; have transcribed about 225 personal
and family letters
- About Erastus
Snow and his wives
- Transcribed by
my family and posted on the Internet; searchable
with Google; are still editing and adding
information and identifying people and places;
have several hundred more Church and business
letters to transcribe
- Things letters
preserve
- Excerpts from
some of the letters
- 1856-05-31 -
Artimesia (SLC) to Erastus (St Louis) -
resigned to living alone since Erastus
traveling until he dies
- 1851-06-24 -
Erastus (Liverpool) to Artimesia (SLC) -
talking via letters, takes 10 months to get
answers
- 1885-07-19 -
Erastus (Mexico City) to Elizabeth (StG) -
keep all my letters since not writing a
journal
- 1851-04-06 -
Erastus (Copenhagen) to Artimesia (SLC) -
pleasant visits with Joseph Smith in his
dreams
- 1860-11-18 -
Erastus (St Joseph, Missouri) to Elizabeth
(SLC) - telegraph wires to go from Nebraska to
SLC, if "Union don't burst up" [Civil War]
- 1886-10-11 -
Erastus (Mexico City) to Edward H. Snow (on
mission in Virginia) - about how Joseph Smith
translated the Book of Mormon with Seer Stone
- 1868-01-25 -
Erastus (SLC) to Elizabeth (StG) - shudders at
thought of returning to StG like a "sore back
horse at the sight of the saddle"
- 1851-04-06 -
Erastus (Copenhagen) to Artimesia (SLC) - "the
old cow did not eat up the grindstone"
- 1851-04-06 -
Erastus (Copenhagen) to Minerva (SLC) - "keep
the light side of the picture up"
- 1884-03-14 -
Erastus (Milford) to (Elizabeth) - "busy as a
________ and happy as a ________ in _________"
- 1855-01-14 -
Erastus (St. Louis) to Family (SLC) - offers
bribes to get the kids to learn
- 1881-03-14 -
Erastus (Colorado) to Elizabeth (StG) - hopes
someone will teach Herbert how to write better
- 1887-02-11 -
Erastus (Mexico) to Edward H. Snow (mission in
Virginia) - about Julia spending too much
- 1884-07-21 -
Erastus (SLC) to Elizabeth (StG) - Arthur has
to get his homework done to be able to go to
the ranch
- 1882-12-22 -
Minerva (StG) to Erastus (Arizona) - about
death of Artimesia
- Compiling and
editing letter collections - find, scan,
transcribe, edit, list of quotes, file naming,
programs that help
- File naming in
systematic form allows finding and showing in
order
- Free programs
to type, edit, search, and present
-- EVERNOTE -- https://evernote.com/
; EVERYTHING -- http://www.voidtools.com/
; to search the ES
Letter Collection online use Google
(see top of my Class Notes pages); to
search in text on your own computer use FREE
COMMANDER -- http://freecommander.com/en/summary/
- Conclusions --
have only looked at a little of what's in the
Erastus Snow letters; letter collections are
good for family history