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    • Fish Family History, Part 3

    • Fish Family History, Part 3

    • Fish, Ferrell

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

    • In Part 1, Ferrell Fish tells the story of his great grandfather Fish migrating to Arizona in response to Brigham Young's sending out of Mormon pioneers in the mid-late 1800's. He adds how his grandfather and six other families moved to what would...
    • Fish Family History, Part 4

    • Fish Family History, Part 4

    • Fish, Ferrell

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

    • Part 2, Ferrell Fish continues to remember the early days of Lakeside and of his youth. He gives his impressions of attending school in Lakeside and gives special recognition to teachers who inspired him to go on to college. His own personal...
    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 1

    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 1

    • Frost, Nella

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Lakeside (Ariz.); Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Electric cooperatives

    • Nella’s great grandmother Medlock immigrated to Salt Lake City, Utah from England, pushing a hand cart across the United States. Joseph Albert Lewis, Nella's great grandfather, was born in Utah. They met and married there, and then moved to...
    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 2

    • Gardner Frost Family History, Part 2

    • Frost, Nella

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Mormon Pioneers -- Arizona -- Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Lakeside (Ariz.); Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Electric cooperatives

    • Part 2, Nella continues to talk about her father's contributions to the area, of his annual work as the cook feeding hundreds of Navopache Electric Co-op's customers and other community groups. She describes his full life to his death. Then she...
    • Jacobs Family History

    • Jacobs Family History

    • Jacobs, Sue Penrod and Jacobs, Jake

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.) -- History; Pinetop (Ariz.); Railroads -- Arizona -- History; Lodging-houses--United States--History--19th century

    • Jake Jacobs came to Arizona August 1953 to help his in-laws move to Chandler with full intentions of returning to Indiana. While working in a service station to get enough cash to return, he met the Superintendent of McNary Schools, who was...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 2

    • Johnson Family History, Part 2

    • Johnson, Raymond

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

    • Part 2: Raymond's story picks up describing the Great Depression in Lakeside, and then how World War II affected the community. He talks about those who left for the War and never returned. He describes the Lakeside schools, its educators, and...
    • Johnson Family History, Part 3

    • Johnson Family History, Part 3

    • Johnson, Raymond and Thomas, Martha

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

    • Part 3: Raymond Johnson graduated from high school during the Korean War. He was drafted shortly thereafter and served in the South Pacific. After he returned he went on a mission trip to South America. He returned in 1961, went to college and...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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 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...
    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 1

    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 1

    • Baeza, Jo

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Arizona Culture Keeper; Newspapers--Arizona; Pinetop, (Ariz.); U.S. Forest Service;

    • Part 1: Jo was born in Minnesota immersed in history and writing. Her great grandparents built one of the first hotels in the territory in 1854, encountering the Dakota-Sioux conflict on the edge of the frontier. Her grandfather Johnson was a...
    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 2

    • Baeza, Jo History, Part 2

    • Baeza, Jo

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; Arizona Culture Keeper; Newspapers--Arizona; Pinetop, (Ariz.); U.S. Forest Service;

    • Part 2: In 1965, Jo moved to Pinetop, bought the only house for sale from Pearl Penrod, a house built by Ethel Stephens, the cook at the McNary Guest House. She also got the only job in town working for Bob Fernandez Realty. There were about 600...
    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez Family History Part 1

    • Castillo Velasquez, Carmen

    • Oral histories; Arizona History; Arizona History 20th Century; Apache County (Ariz.); Navajo County (Ariz.); Biography; McNary (Ariz.)--History; Mexicans--Arizona; Mexicans--Attitudes; Mexicans--Employment--Arizona;

    • Part 1: Carmen's parents, Ernest and Antonio Castillo, came to McNary from Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1949 to work as a welder on the trains for the Southwest Forest Industries. Carmen was just entering school. She describes the layout of the...

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