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    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 5

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 5

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 5: Esther was 13 years old when she first met Lawrence Lee. She had gone to stay with one of her sisters who lived at Copper Glance in Miami, Arizona, where several other White Mountain families lived. Lawrence stayed at Robber's Roost and...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 6

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 6

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 6: Esther stayed to live with her grandmother Mary Ann McNeil after the funeral of John L. Fish. She started going to high school in Snowflake. The disruption of having her there traveling back and forth to school irritated her grandmother,...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 7

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 7

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 7: Esther and Lawrence began their family that would eventually grow to 10 children. (One son was drowned in Rainbow Lake.) As the Great Depression set in, Lawrence worked 3 jobs simultaneously. He took the job as the High School Shop...
    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 8

    • McNeil & Lee Family History, Part 8

    • Lee, Esther McNeil

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Part 8: Esther and son Raymond remember how the community entertained itself during the hard times of the Great Depression under isolated conditions. Through it all, the family bond was tight and was well seasoned with light-hearted teasing. ...
    • Penrod Family History

    • Penrod Family History

    • Penrod, Sue Jacobs

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Educators -- Arizona -- Biography; Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography;

    • Sue tells the stories passed down through her family of the history of Pinetop, Arizona from the earliest Penrod family settling the area to the recent past. She shares her childhood memories of growing up, the school, her friends and relatives...
    • Buell Family History, Part 1

    • Buell Family History, Part 1

    • Buell, Ed and Buell, Ted

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Biography; Educators -- Arizona -- Biography; Navajo County (Ariz.); Pinetop-Lakeside (Ariz.) -- History; Holbrook (Ariz.) -- History;

    • Ted and Ed Buell tell about their mother's family coming to Bisbee, Arizona at the turn of the century and their father's arrival shortly after WWI. Alice Anderson was a young teacher when she met Ed Buell on a blind date in Globe, Arizona. The...
    • Guenther Family History, Part 1

    • Guenther Family History, Part 1

    • Guenther, Minnie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Biography; Missionaries -- Arizona --Biography; Native Americans; Lutheran minister; Navajo County (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona; Guenther, Edgar E.; Guenther, Minnie

    • This interview of Minnie Guenther, the wife of Edgar Guenther, an early Lutheran missionary to the Apache Indians, was recorded in 1977. She gives a background of her German immigrant upbringing, of meeting her future husband, and their subsequent...
    • Fish Family History, Part 1

    • Fish Family History, Part 1

    • Fish, Rollin

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers -- Arizona -- biographies; Sawmills -- accidents; Sawmills -- Arizona;

    • This interview of Rollin Fish, Ferrel Fish's father, was conducted by Barry Richens, a Northland Pioneer College instructor, in 1977. Rollin is a son of one of the six original Mormon families to settle Lakeside, Arizona. He tells about his...
    • Cooley Family History

    • Cooley Family History

    • Penrod, Lillie Cooley

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Cooley, Corydon E. (Corydon Eliphalet Cooley) 1836 - 1917; White Mountain Apache Indians -- Arizona; Show Low (Ariz.); Clark,...

    • This rare and priceless interview is of Lilly Cooley Penrod, a daughter of Corydon E. Cooley. It was conducted by Glenn West and Byde Amos, her grand nephew and nephew, in 1966. She gives a clear, never before glimpsed, and intimate account of...
    • Russell Family History, Part 3

    • Russell Family History, Part 3

    • Russell, Verna Mae and Russell, David

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Verna Mae tells of how she came to McNary, Arizona as a child. She describes the typical African-American quarters, the African-American and Indian schools she attended, the churches and restaurants, and the jobs she held in the logging and...
    • Porter Family History, Part 2

    • Porter Family History, Part 2

    • Porter, Zina

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography;

    • Zina Porter continues her story at the time of her husband Wilmer's death, and of a trip back to Mexico with friends and family in search of the mountain where Joseph Smith reported receiving the Book of Mormon. She ends with an exhortation for...
    • Porter Family History, Part 1

    • Porter Family History, Part 1

    • Porter, Zina

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Polygamy--Religious aspects -- Mormon Church -- History

    • Zina Scott Porter was born in 1904 in Mexico. Her grandparents on both sides had moved there after the Manifesto was passed, in order to keep their polygamous families intact. Zina remembers growing up in Mexico, tells of floods, her education,...

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