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Bountiful 1st Ward was
organized February 14, 1909, from the north part of East
Bountiful Ward with Wilford Barlow as Bishop. The Bountiful
Tabernacle, being within the limits of the Bountiful
1st Ward, became the meeting house for the saints in that
district. In 1925 an addition was made to the building
at an expense of $40,000. This new structure, attached
to the north side of the original building, has an amusement
hall and several class rooms. By opening folding doors,
an auditorium seating 1,200 people is made available and
the edifice is also used as the headquarters of the South
Davis Stake. In 1855 a Lyceum Association was organized
at Bountiful for mutual improvement, and Apostle George
A. Smith, visiting the society the same year, suggested
that the members should try to establish a library in connection
with it, which they did. As early as 1853 a Sunday
school was held in the home of Jeremiah Willie in the Sessions
Settlement but after the “move” in 1858, on
account of the approach of Johnston’s Army, no record
of Sunday schools in Bountiful for several years has been
found, but at the close of 1868 there were six day schools
and three Sunday schools in active operation in Bountiful.
In 1868, also, a permanent Relief Society was organized
at Bountiful with Mrs. Elizabeth Barlow as president. A
Relief Society had previously been organized in 1853, but
ceased to operate after the “move” in 1858. In
1870 the Young Ladies Cooperative Retrenchment Association
(later a Y.L.M.I.A.) was organized and in 1874 the Bountiful
Young Men’s Association (later a Y.M.M.I.A.) was
organized. In 1874 also a branch of the United Order was
established in Bountiful with Anson Call as president.
Wilford Walter Barlow, Bishop of the Bountiful
1st Ward, South Davis Stake, Utah, from 1909 to1915, was
born Oct. 26, 1880, in Centerville, Davis Co., Utah, a
son of Wilford
W. Barlow and Laura Jackson. He was ordained a High
Priest Feb. 14, 1909, by Joseph H. Grant, and a Bishop
March 27, 1909, by Francis M. Lyman.
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Bishop Walter Barlow
was succeeded in 1915 by Richard Stringham, who, being
called into the stake presidency, was succeeded in 1924
by Quayle Cannon, who presided as Bishop December 31, 1930.
On that date the ward had 1,190 members, including 214
children. |
On May 23, 1915, the
Burley Ward was divided into two wards to be known as the
Burley 1st Ward and the Burley 2nd Ward. David R. Langlois
was sustained as Bishop of the Burley 1st Ward and acted
in that capacity until the Burley Stake was organized July
27, 1919, from part of the Cassia Stake, when he was chosen
to preside over the newly organized stake and was succeeded
as Bishop of Burley 1st Ward by Kimber
C. Barlow, who was succeeded in 1923 by George T. Foutz,
who was succeeded in 1927 by Ralph Peter Unander, who presided
in 1930. The numerical strengthof the Burley 1st Ward Dec.
31, 1930, was 577 souls, including 128 children.
Kimber
C. Barlow, Bishop of the Burley 1st Ward, Burley
Stake, Idaho, from 1919 to 1923, was born Jan. 14, 1892,
at Bountiful, Utah, the son of Truman Barlow and Fannie
Call. He was baptized May 06, 1900, ordained a
High Priest March 30, 1919, by Wm. J. Black and ordained
a Bishop July 27, 1919.
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David R. Langlois was
appointed president of the Burley Stake at the time of
its organization and he still holds that position. Following
are the names of the officers who have actedwith President
Langlois during this period:
First counselors:
Myron
C. Barlow 19191924
George H. Lewis 19241930
Second counselors:
George H. Lewis 19191924
Frank I. Hill 19241928
Horace O. Hall 19281930
Stake clerks:
Henry W. Tucker 19191920
David A. Harding 19201921
Henry W. Tucker (second term) 19211922
Jesse E. Wood 19221930 |
The saints in Grouse Creek Valley were
organized as a ward in 1877, with Samuel Heber Kimball
as Bishop. He was succeeded in 1880 by Charles Kimber,
Senior, who in 1895 was succeeded by David H. Toyn, who
in 1916 was succeeded by Joseph
Smith Barlow, who in 1921 was succeeded by Wilford
Francis Richins who in 1927 was succeeded by John Hadfield,
who presided Dec. 31, 1930. On that date the ward had 317
members, including 73 children.
At the organization of the Raft River Stake John A.
Elison was chosen as president with Joseph Harper as
first and Henry Belnap as second counselor. Pres.Elison
together with Joseph Harper,his first counselor, presided
Dec. 31, 1930, on which date the stake had a membership
of 1,344, including 362 children. Second Counselor Henry
Belnapwas succeeded in 1921 by Joseph S. Barlow,who died
Sept. 9, 1925, and was succeeded by Isaac James Neddo,
jun., who acted as second counselor in 1930. George R.
Richens was the first stake clerk. He was succeeded by
John T. Horne in 1926, who acted at the close of 1930.
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Joseph
Smith Barlow, second counselor in the presidency
of the Raft River Stake, Cassia Co., Idaho, from
1921 to 1925, was born Jan. 27, 1870, in Fairfield, Utah
Co., Utah, a son of Joseph Smith Barlow and Amanda Morgan.
He was baptized when nine years old, ordained a Seventy
Dec. 12, 1902, by Rulon S.Wells, filled a mission to
Great Britain in1903-1904,was ordained a High Priest
July 18, 1915, by John A. Elison, and set apart as second
counselor in the Raft River Stake presidency Aug. 7,
1921, by Melvin J. Ballard.
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| Holbrook Ward, Curlew
Stake |
The settlement of Holbrook
dates back to 1878, and among the first settlers there
was a Mr. Joice, who subsequently sold out to some of the
saints. In 1902 there were 20 families in Holbrook and
vicinity and a post office was established there, named
Holbrook, in honor of Heber A. Holbrook, the first Bishop
of the ward. The saints in Holbrook were organized as a
branch of the Church June 25, 1901, with Heber A. Holbrook
as presiding Elder. This branch was organized as a ward
Oct. 26, 1902, with Heber A. Holbrook as Bishop.
Following are the successors to Bishop
Holbrook:
Ira Baker, 19091915
Leo Peck, 19151919
Elbert H. Barlow,
19191922
Warren H. Sweeten, 19221927
Alma L. Hunsaker, 19271930
On Dec. 31, 1930, the membership of the Holbrook Ward consisted of 311 souls
including 66 children. |
That part of the Snake
River Valley,which is now included in the Iona Ward, was
uninhabited until 1883, when a few Latter-day Saints from
Utah settled at different places along Sand Creek. Among
these first settlers were Joseph Smith Mulliner, C.J. Owens
and others, who built houses, fenced land and made water
ditches; and when the Eagle Rock and Willow Creek Canal
Company was organized most of them subscribed for stock
in said company and went to work in earnest to construct
a canal to convey the water from Snake River into the natural
channel of Willow Creek. The saints who had settled on
Sand Creek were organized into a branch of the Church June
17, 1884 with Cadwaladar Owens as presiding Priest. This
branch was afterwards, under the name of Sand Creek Branch,
attached to the Lewisville Ward. In June, 1884, a townsite,
originally called Sand Creek, was surveyed, but it was
subsequently “jumped” by
certain parties, after which the present townsite was surveyed
in 1886. On May 23, 1886, the Sand Creek Branch was organized
as a regular bishop’s ward, with James E. Steele
as Bishop. The ward was named Iona after a small town in
Palestine, the meaning of which is “beautiful.” On
the same occasion a branch organization called Taylor was
effected on Lower Sand Creek with John Priest as presiding
Elder. He presided under the direction of the Iona Ward
bishopric. Bishop James E. Steele acted as Bishop of Iona
until 1890, when he was succeeded by Joseph S. Mulliner,
who in 1895 was succeeded by George P. Ward, who in 1896
was succeeded by Alfred J. Stanger, who in 1901 was succeeded
by Charles W. Rockwood, who in 1913 was succeeded by Truman
C. Barlow, who in 1919 was succeeded by Henry J. Bodily,
who in 1928 was succeeded by Arthur W. Schwieder, whopresidedDec.
31, 1930. On that date the Church membership of the Iona
Ward was 567, including 121 children. The total population
of the Iona Precinct was 824 in 1930, of which 386 reside
in the Iona village. Truman
C. Barlow, Bishop of the Iona Ward, Idaho Falls Stake,
Idaho, from 1913 to 1919, was born Oct. 29, 1879, in
Bountiful, Utah, a son of T.H. Barlow and Fanny Call.
He was ordained a Bishop Nov. 2, 1913, by David O. McKay
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In the fall of 1838 a
Latter-day Saint Elder by the name of Israel
Barlow left the state of Missouri under the exterminating
order of Gov. Lilburn W. Boggs. By missing his way, or, what
is more likely, directed by divine providence, he left Missouri
on a different route to that followed by the great body of
the exiles. Taking a north-easterly course he struck the
Des Moines River a short distance above its mouth and traveled
into Iowa where he was received kindly by the people who
supplied him with much needed food and raiment. To the few
settlers in that region of country he told the story of the
persecutions of the saints in Missouri and how his people,
poor and destitute as himself, were fleeing from Missouri
en masse. The sympathies of the people in Iowa being aroused,
they gave Elder Barlow letters of introduction to several
gentlemen among whom was Dr. Isaac Galland, a man of some
influence living at Commerce, Ill. Dr. Galland owned considerable
land in Commerce and vicinity which he offered for sale and
which was later bought by the Church. Other purchases were
subsequently made and thus most of the saints who had been
expelled from Missouri settled in Commerce which, the next
year (1840), was incorporated as the city of Nauvoo. |
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