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Hi, I'm Alice Roberts.

I'm here to do another post today on our year of polygamy series, helping us understand

our history and some of these important women involved in early LDS polygamy. So today's

podcast is on Patty Bartlett Sessions. And Patty Bartlett Sessions was an amazing woman.

And we know quite a bit about her because she kept extensive journals,

particularly as they were crossing the planes and coming to Utah.

Patty was a midwife through Navu and coming across the plains and also into Utah and has incredible

stories. So we'll get started with hers now. Patty Bartlett was born February 4th, 1795 in Bethelmae.

She was the first of nine children born to her parents, Enoch Bartlett, and Anna Hall. Anna was Enoch's

second wife. His first wife died, but prior to her death,

they had had ten children.

All but one of Patty's full siblings lived to adulthood.

Because there were more girls than boys,

Patty spent much time working the fields with her father.

Patty's parents were not well educated,

but they taught her the alphabet,

and she went to school where she learned to read and write.

Patty wrote of her mother, I felt thankful that I had a mother that put me to work when I was

young and learned me how. Of Patty's father, Patty's son Peregrin wrote, my grandfather made no

pretensions to religion and never belonged to any sect. He was a very liberal man to the poor

and was honest and upright in all his department, in all his deportment, and taught his children

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