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    • Wilbur Family History, Part 2

    • Wilbur Family History, Part 2

    • Wilbur, Tilden and Wilbur, Carol

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.)--History; Pinetop--Lakeside (Ariz.); Grocery stores--1950-2000; School boards--Arizona;

    • Part 2: Tilden and Carol describe McNary as it once was. They then give the history of their stores, Wilbur's Markets, and a businessman's perception of the changing culture in the White Mountains as it evolved from the timber industry to that of...
    • Wilbur Family History, Part 1

    • Wilbur Family History, Part 1

    • Wilbur, Tilden and Wilbur, Carol

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; St. Johns (Ariz.); Prescott (Ariz.)--History; Verde Valley (Ariz.); Mormon pioneers--Apache county--Biography;

    • Part 1: Tilden's grandfather, John Brown, was sent by Brigham Young to St. Johns in the 1880's to set up the school systems for St. Johns and the academy at Snowflake. Jo (Josie) Brown, Tilden's mother, went to business school in Salt Lake City,...
    • Webb Family History, Part 2

    • Webb Family History, Part 2

    • Webb, June and Cherie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormons--Biography; Mormons--Arizona; Sawmills--Arizona; Lakeside (Ariz.);

    • Part 2: June and Cherie raised a family of 9 children. While Cherie raised kids, gardened, canned and raised beef and pigs, etc. June was busy in the woods with the family's sawmill operation. As June's brothers would acquire various timber...
    • Webb Family History, Part 1

    • Webb Family History, Part 1

    • Webb, June and Webb, Cherie

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormons--Biography; Mormons--Arizona; Sawmills--Arizona; Lakeside (Ariz.); Mesa (Ariz.). High School;

    • Part 1: June's grandfather, Edward Milo Webb Jr., was a blacksmith in Nauvoo, Illinois when the Latter-day Saints' migration to Utah began. He then immigrated to Woodruff, Arizona, but because he was a polygamist, was soon forced to move on to...
    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 2

    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 2

    • Riley, Mary Velasquez

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Scouts and Scouting--Arizona--Biography; Velasquez Family; Military Camps--Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Indian Reservation...

    • Part 2: Mary Velasquez grew up neighbors with her future husband, Peter Riley. She was working, cleaning the hospital when he returned from school and they met again at a dance. She candidly tells of their marriage, then explains the Apache...
    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 1

    • Velasquez Riley Family History, Part 1

    • Riley, Mary Velasquez

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Scouts and Scouting--Arizona--Biography; Velasquez Family; Military Camps--Arizona; White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona; White Mountain Indian Reservation...

    • Part 1: Barry Richens interviewed Mary Velasquez Riley at the home of Mrs. Minnie Guenther February 18, 1977. Mrs. Riley gives us insight into the Apache culture as she tells her life story. Her father, Jesus Velasquez, was of Spanish descent...
    • 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...
    • Russell Family History, Part 2

    • Russell Family History, Part 2

    • Russell, David

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

    • In Part 2, David Russell continues describing McNary and the fringe communities of Pinetop, Lakeside, Show Low, and the White Mountain Apache Reservation, also involved in the McNary timber industry in the 1940's and later. But now, he speaks as...
    • Russell Family History, Part 1

    • Russell Family History, Part 1

    • Russell, David

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Timber--Arizona; McNary (Ariz.)--History; African American families--Arizona--McNary

    • David Russell tells of how he came to the saw mill town of McNary, Arizona as a teenager, and how he worked his way into a variety of positions in the mills, in the forest, and on the Apache Railroad until he retired a supervisor and an active...
    • Rhoton Family History, Part 2

    • Rhoton Family History, Part 2

    • Rhoton, Kent

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

    • Part 2: Lakeside schoolchildren didn't go to the Academy in Snowflake, but had their own high school. Lakeside schools were very small, so Kent remembers easily each teacher by name. His oldest brother was one of them. Kent interned for...
    • Rhoton Family History, Part 1

    • Rhoton Family History, Part 1

    • Rhoton, Kent

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

    • Part 1: In the 1880's, Kent's great grandfather Lorenzo Dow Rhoton and family immigrated from Kentucky, first to Taylor, and then to Shumway, Arizona. Lorenzo subsistence farmed and worked at Shumway's gristmill. Wilson Shumway was a Mormon...
    • 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,...
    • Peterson Family History

    • Peterson Family History

    • Peterson, Jack

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

    • Joseph and Amanda Andelin Peterson moved from Utah in 1898, to teach at the new Academy in Snowflake, Arizona. In 1906 the young family was one of the first families to move to Lakeside. A year later they homesteaded in the area their grandson...
    • Perry Family History, Part 3

    • Perry Family History, Part 3

    • Perry, Edgar

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

    • Part 3: After Edgar and Corrine Perry returned to Arizona, he began teaching for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Edgar worked for Arizona Tourism for a time, traveling around the country and throughout Europe, tempura painting now, instead of...
    • Perry Family History, Part 2

    • Perry Family History, Part 2

    • Perry, Edgar

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona; White Mountain Apache Indians--Biography; White Mountain Apache Indians--Arizona;...

    • Part 2: Even though Edgar Perry was McNary High School's Best Player when he graduated in 1959, he was denied a scholarship because he chose Grand Canyon College in Phoenix, a private Christian school. While attending college, he and his wife...
    • Perry Family History, Part 1

    • Perry Family History, Part 1

    • Perry, Edgar

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); McNary (Ariz.); White Mountain Apache of the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, Arizona; White Mountain Apache Indians--Biography; White Mountain Apache Indians--Arizona;...

    • Part 1: Edgar Perry is a History, Sociology and Anthropology scholar of his people, the White Mountain Apaches. He is also a renowned artist, vocalist, and terrific storyteller. He begins by telling us the story of the Athabaskan ancestors of the...
    • 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...
    • 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. ...
    • 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...

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