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    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • 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...

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