Oral history interview with Hilda Oliver Perkins
Scope and Contents note
Oral history interview with Hilda Oliver Perkins, conducted on 9 July 1972 by Pat Whitaker for the Utah State Historical Society and California State Historical Society, Fullerton. The subject is the general history of Bluff, Utah. Bound manuscript, 30 pages, including 3 pages of photocopied pictures and an index.
Dates
- 1972
Creator
- Whitaker, Pat, 1946- (Person)
- Perkins, Hilda Oliver, 1912-1999 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use note
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the oral history interview with Hilda Oliver Perkins must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Hilda Oliver Perkins (1912-1999) married Owen Kent Nielson and when he died she married Owen's second cousin, Ray William Perkins.
Hilda Oliver Perkins was born 11 August 1912 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah to John Henry and Sara E. Dalton Oliver. John died when Hilda was only six weeks old of typhoid fever. Her widowed mother eventually moved her family to Bluff, Utah, when Hilda was seven-years-old. Hilda first married an Owen Kent Nielson. He died in March of 1952. Hilda married Owen's second cousin, Ray William Perkins, on 29 August 1952 in Aztec, San Juan, New Mexico. She died 19 May 1999.
Extent
1 folder (0.10 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Oral history interview with Hilda Oliver Perkins, conducted on 9 July 1972 by Pat Whitaker for the Utah State Historical Society and California State Historical Society, Fullerton.
Custodial History note
Purchased from Gary L. Shumway in 1987.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Purchased; Gary L. Shumway; 1987.
Appraisal note
Utah and the American West (Collection development policy of 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts, August 2007).
Processing Information note
Processed; Karen Glenn; 17 February 2009.
- Title
- Register of Oral history interview with Hilda Oliver Perkins
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Karen Glenn, student processor and John Murphy, curator
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States