Background
Maurine Ward was born on January 29, 1939 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. She is the daughter of Cecil Alma Carr, a printer, and Ivy (Streeper) Carr, a printer, bookkeeper, and homemaker.
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The forced flight of Mormons from Nauvoo, their arduous trek across Iowa, the rebuilding of community and economic life in transitional villages near the Missouri River, and the crucial part of women in a struggling frontier society are vividly portrayed in these moving and detailed journals and letters. When she began writing, Mary Haskin Parker Richards was twenty-two, a Mormon convert who had traveled from England to the American frontier separately from her parents, and a newlywed just parted from her husband, sent to Britain as a missionary. She lived with her in-laws, an extended family led by Willard Richards, also a leader of the Mormon church. Reorganized in the aftermath of the assassination of Joseph Smith, the church was making its way west under the guidance of Brigham Young, a Richards cousin. Mary Richards was a far less prominent Latter-day Saint, but she observed and portrayed, in intimate detail, the personalities and everyday activities of both renowned and obscure church members. The Iowa crossing was the most difficult portion of the Mormon trek west, and life at Winter Quarters and nearby camps was among the most trying of any period in Mormon history. Hundreds died; thousands more suffered sickness and privation. Mary Richards was often ill from typhoid, malaria, or muscular dystrophy, depressed, or lonely, and she spent many days nursing sick friends and relatives. She lived in wagons or tents while crossing Iowa and during the first winter alongside the Missouri, and she braided hats and did other work to earn income and sustenance. Yet, her expressive writing often conveys vitality, curiosity, and joy, as she goes to camp dances, visits with friends and family, writes poetry, and during walks on the prairie, delights in natural beauty. The writings begin with a memoir describing Mary Richards's life in England, early Mormon missionary work there, her family's conversion, and her voyage to America. The journals and letters pick up with her departure from Nauvoo and husband Samuel Richards in 1846 and end with his return from Britain in 1848. Editor Maurine Carr Ward has added a comprehensive introduction and notes, filling out Mary's life story through her later years in Utah, where continuing physical ailments and psychological stress (including her resistance to Samuel's plural marriages) contributed to her early death in 1860. An appended listing contains biographical data on the hundreds of individuals mentioned in the journals and letters.
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Maurine Ward was born on January 29, 1939 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. She is the daughter of Cecil Alma Carr, a printer, and Ivy (Streeper) Carr, a printer, bookkeeper, and homemaker.
Ward attended University of Utah for 2 years from 1957. After she moved to Utah State University, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree (magna cum laude) from it in 1978.
Ward worked as a self-employed historical researcher and publisher of family histories. Also she served at the position of piano instructor for a pretty long time from 1960 till 1996.
At the Utah State University she was an adjunct instructor in piano and instructor with Youth Conservatory.
Ward was a piano and organ accompanist.
At Cache Pioneer Museum she held the position of volunteer curator of photograph collection.
She was editor and author of Winter Quarters: The 1846–1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards, her most popular books.
She also authored several articles in Mormon Historical Studies and was on a committee to research and write Hyrum Stake of Zion: The First One Hundred Years, April 28, 1901–December 8, 2002.
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Ward is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).
Quotations: “I love historical research, primarily in the early Latter-day Saints period. The magazine that I edit publishes many previously unpublished letters, journals, and stories. Each story I read or research for myself, my magazine, or my clients suggests ideas for further writing. I especially am drawn to the stories of Mormon women and their lives. Many of their stories have never been told.”
Ward is regarded as a member of Mormon History Association, National Piano Teachers Association, Daughters of the American Revolution, Iowa Mormon Trails Association, Utah State Historical Society, Utah Piano Teachers Association, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Ward married Gary A. Ward on September 21, 1960. The couple have 3 children - Lyle, Betsy and Adam.