In October 2015 I copied three items from the local news while following the Heyburn municipal election. Two were articles from the Times-News and one was a paid political advertisement. Six years later I photographed four pieces of campaign literature from the November 2021 Heyburn mayoral election. All seven documents have sat in folders. I am publishing them now because the people in them should be remembered and the documents together tell a story of a small city working through hard years.
The 2015 Election
Article — “Heyburn Council Spats Over Consultant Pay”Campaign flyer — “Attention Heyburn Voters”Article — “Candidates Spar over Past in Heyburn Forum”
The first article, by Eric Quitugua of the Times-News, concerned a dispute over pay raises granted to two city consultants — Ralph Williams, who advised on electrical matters, and Paul Aston, who handled building site consultation, agendas, legal notices, and fact-finding for planning and zoning meetings. Aston had worked with the city since the late 1980s and asked Mayor George Anderson for a raise. The council approved the raises 2-1. Councilwoman Cleo Gallegos, who was running for mayor against businessman Mark Rosa, voted against and questioned why she had not been consulted. Anderson said at the board meeting he had no answer for her. The article cited Heyburn City Code § 1-12-1, which provides that while the mayor has power to hire or discharge employees, the mayor is “without the authority to enter into any employment contract with any employees of the city without the express prior consent of the council, obtained by resolution of the council.” When a reporter asked City Attorney Steven Tuft about the matter, Tuft refused to discuss it and hung up the phone.
The campaign flyer, paid for by Lyle Santos, urged support for Rosa for mayor, Anderson for city council, and Rocky Baker for city council. It listed credentials and accomplishments for each, and charged that Gallegos and former councilwoman Joanne Justesen had voted in December 2012 for a waste contract 22% above the lowest bid, costing the city $48,000 plus $13,000 in attorney fees from the resulting lawsuit, and that Gallegos had voted to shift police dispatching from Cassia County to Minidoka County at an added cost of $7,954 per year since 2009.
The second article, also by Quitugua, covered a candidates forum hosted by the Times-News on 23 October 2015. All five candidates attended: Gallegos and Rosa for mayor, and Justesen, Baker, and Anderson for two council seats. The garbage contract was the dominant source of friction. Gallegos said she had voted for the higher bid because of an issue she could not discuss. Rosa countered that the vote had cost the city $48,000 more than necessary plus litigation costs. Anderson said he had tried to instruct the council not to fix something that wasn’t broken, but the members had not listened. Justesen said the lowest bidder had been in litigation over its ownership and she had concluded the other company was the better choice; she said she discussed it with Baker, who at the forum denied the conversation had taken place.
On the substantive questions the candidates found more common ground. Gallegos emphasized water rights and underground electric lines. Rosa spoke of fiscal responsibility and running the city like a business. Baker highlighted lift stations and sewer infrastructure costs and cautioned against the city getting ahead of itself. Anderson pointed to the 21st Street water project. Justesen raised the theme of growth, noting the city had “beautiful business parks but no businesses” and was “missing a factor.”
Transparency was the other main theme. Justesen said council minutes were too vague. Baker suggested projecting meeting paperwork on a screen for the public. Rosa agreed the minutes needed clarity. Gallegos said the city needed more public discussion of its decisions. Anderson said executive sessions were “highly sensitive” and suggested transparency would be helped if regular meetings drew crowds as large as the forum had.
Background on the Garbage Contract
The garbage contract dispute that dominated the 2015 forum had a longer history worth understanding.
In December 2012 the Heyburn City Council voted to award the city’s garbage service contract to PSI Environmental Systems at $5.65 per residential customer per month — 21 percent above the lowest bid of $4.46 submitted by Western Waste Services. Total Waste Management had also bid lower, at $4.50. The council additionally designated PSI as the city’s sole commercial garbage contractor, requiring businesses using other providers to switch. Rocky Baker was the sole dissenting vote on both motions. He called it “the worst business decision made by Heyburn in the more than 10 years he’s served on the City Council” and objected to forcing businesses away from their current providers. “We didn’t have a system that was broke,” he said.
The contract’s path to approval was itself contentious. The council heard public opposition at its regular meeting on 28 March and declined to vote. The following day it convened an emergency meeting — invoking an Idaho Open Meeting Law exemption allowing cities facing immediate financial loss to meet without the usual 24-hour posted notice — and approved the contract. Gallegos and Justesen voted yes. Baker voted no. City Attorney Tuft defended the emergency meeting: “They would have had a loss if they didn’t have a garbage contract in place today. I think it’s legitimate, personally.”
Lyle Santos, co-owner of Total Waste Management, was not informed the council would vote until about an hour before the meeting and was not allowed to address the council. He faced a 20 percent loss of his Heyburn commercial accounts and said he would have to lay off a Heyburn employee. Total Waste Management subsequently sued the city. In response, the council voted to terminate the PSI contract. The $48,000 figure cited in the 2015 campaign flyer and at the candidates forum reflected the cost difference between PSI’s contract and the lowest bid over the contract period, plus the $13,000 in attorney fees from the resulting lawsuit.
Lyle Santos was the same man who paid for the October 2015 campaign flyer attacking Gallegos and Justesen over that vote. Every figure on the flyer was accurate. The context it did not supply was that Santos had a direct financial interest in the outcome of the election. Baker, the sole vote against the contract in December 2012, appeared on that same flyer as a candidate to be supported.
Background on Heyburn and Mini-Cassia
Heyburn sits in Minidoka County on the north bank of the Snake River, across from Burley in Cassia County. The two counties together are known as Mini-Cassia, and their relationship has always been complicated — by sports rivalries, by water and land disputes, by the question of who gets to control shared resources. The J.R. Simplot Company’s departure from Heyburn is still discussed. Simplot had operated a potato-processing plant in Heyburn; after a years-long legal battle over electrical rates, the company closed the plant and gave the property to the city of Burley, which developed it into what became the Burley-Heyburn Industrial Park. “Simplot’s gift to Burley was a hard slap,” Gallegos told the Associated Press in 2018. Meanwhile, when Burley sought a site for a new airport, Heyburn annexed 320 acres into its impact zone to keep Burley from acquiring the land. Each county had its grievances and its retaliations, and they accumulated over generations.
George Anderson had been Heyburn’s mayor for twelve years by the time of the 2015 election. Cleo Gallegos had been on the city council since around 2000. Dick Galbraith had served on the Minidoka County Planning and Zoning board for nineteen years, including as its chairman, before joining the city council, where he had served for several years. Rocky Baker had served on the Heyburn Fire Department for twenty years, fourteen as assistant chief, before becoming a fire commissioner and then council president. These were not newcomers. They were people who had watched Heyburn’s struggles with infrastructure, growth, and its larger neighbor across the river for a long time.
The wastewater system was a live problem throughout this period. Heyburn’s treatment plant dated from the 1960s and had been upgraded in 1991 and 2008. The city’s collection system comprised 25 miles of pipe and 18 lift stations. By the mid-2010s the plant was falling out of EPA compliance and facing fines that threatened to bankrupt the city. Baker’s comment at the forum about lift stations and sewer lines being “a huge cost to the city” was not abstract campaign language.
What Happened: 2015–2021
Cleo Gallegos won the November 2015 mayoral election. George Anderson’s bid for a council seat was unsuccessful. Rocky Baker won a council seat.
On 6 December 2016, thirteen months after the forum, Clarence Lanier “Rocky” Baker died from injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. He was 62. He had been born on 27 October 1954 — the candidates forum the day after his sixty-first birthday. He had married Georgia Schneider on 8 March 1975 at the Emerson Ward Building west of Paul, built a house in Heyburn in 1976, and never left. He had started at Ore-Ida in 1971 and worked his way up to maintenance supervisor at what became McCain Foods. His family wrote that he collected heart-shaped rocks to give to the people he loved. He was buried at the Riverside Cemetery in Heyburn. His funeral was held at the Burley United Methodist Church.
Meanwhile Gallegos was working on the wastewater problem. Through a judicial confirmation process — used because the scope of work required it — the city bonded for $12.4 million and arranged a financing package that brought the taxpayer burden down to $5.5 million through grants from the Army Corps of Engineers, USDA, and a Community Development Block Grant, saving Heyburn taxpayers $3.1 million against the total $9.6 million project cost. A $5.7 million construction contract was signed in November 2019. “I am excited for Heyburn to be moving in the right direction,” Gallegos said. “And I have nothing but pride in the direction it is going.”
In 2017, Dick Galbraith defended his council seat in one of the more unusual elections in Heyburn’s history. His race ended in a 112-112 tie. A coin toss was held per state guidelines; Galbraith called heads, and the coin fell tails. He contested the result and requested a recount. During the recount, officials discovered one ballot marked too lightly to be read by the machine, and Galbraith won 113-112. The story was picked up by CNN. “I was on City Council for 16 years and mayor for two, and I’ve never seen it,” Gallegos told CNN. “Every vote counts, especially in your small city elections.”
In November 2019 Mark Rosa defeated Gallegos for mayor and took office in January 2020. His administration was immediately contentious. At his first council meeting — a session lasting nearly three hours — Rosa requested the council restore his executive authority over city personnel, which Gallegos had delegated to the city administrator. The council tabled the request. Councilman Galbraith observed that the administrator was “here with boots on the ground, day in and day out all day long.” Councilwoman Rose Schmitt told Rosa: “I don’t know why you want all the power.” The question of mayoral authority over city employees — the same structural question at the heart of the 2015 consultant pay dispute — had not gone away.
In August 2020 a recall petition bearing more than the required 230 signatures was filed against Rosa. The petition charged that he had created a bullying culture at city offices and a hostile work environment for city employees, council members, and the city attorney; that he had refused to listen to citizens; that he had overstepped his financial authority by seeking to add funds to the budget to cover personal attorney fees to sue the city; and that he had tried to impede the city’s sewer projects. Rosa refused to resign. “I absolutely will not resign,” he told the Times-News. “All of these allegations are simply not true.”
On 3 November 2020 Heyburn voters recalled Mark Rosa by a vote of 748 to 440 — 62.96 percent in favor of recall. Rosa had won the office the prior year with 199 votes. “It’s too bad for Heyburn,” he said on election night. “But it is what it is. I feel like I never had a chance to do anything for Heyburn.”
One week later the City Council unanimously appointed Dick Galbraith as mayor and unanimously elected Joanne Justesen as council president. Galbraith said he hoped for “some healing in the city of Heyburn” and accepted the appointment as part of the responsibility he had taken on when he ran for his council seat.
The 2021 Election
Rosa campaign flyer, front — November 2021Rosa campaign flyer, back — November 2021Galbraith campaign flyer, front — November 2021Galbraith campaign flyer, back — November 2021
Mark Rosa ran again in November 2021, as he had promised on the night of his recall. His campaign flyer attacked Galbraith and the council directly. It charged that “Dick broke his oath of office when he voted to transfer the Mayoral authority to the un-elected city administrator, as did Rose, Chad and Joann while he was on city council.” It called the judicial confirmation bond process a betrayal of the voters: “They basically told the judge, the people in Heyburn were too stupid to make the best decision by not allowing us to vote. They had to spend 5.5 Million, BUT they asked the judge to spend $12.4 Million!” It called the wastewater treatment plant location a “bad idea” and warned: “Mark doesn’t want HEYBURN to be BURLEY’S TOILET!” The flyer was paid for by the Committee to Elect Mark Rosa, Deb Hopkins, Treasurer.
Dick Galbraith’s campaign flyer offered a quieter contrast. It noted his nineteen years on the Minidoka County Planning and Zoning board, seven years on the city council, and his appointment as mayor after Rosa’s recall. It credited his tenure with establishing “proper procedures and processes to avoid any abuses by current or future elected officials and employees” and noted his work on the wastewater bond refinancing, which “saved residents almost $1 million.” His stated vision: “to provide responsible leadership for the citizens of Heyburn. I want to see Heyburn grow, but not at the expense of its citizens.” His closing line: “Working as a team is best for our city.”
Dick Galbraith won the November 2021 election. Cleo Gallegos also won a seat, returning to the mayor’s office. Mark Rosa did not prevail.
After 2021
George Anderson, who had served as Heyburn’s mayor for twelve years and whose name appeared on the 2015 opposition flyer, died on 20 September 2024 at the age of 87. He had been born in Burley on 21 June 1937. A neighbor remembered him as “a good friend, neighbor, and a great mayor.” His funeral was held at the Paul Stake Center.
These documents are offered as a record of two moments in the life of a small Idaho city — the people who served it, the questions they argued about, and what became of them afterward.
Rocky Baker collected heart-shaped rocks. George Anderson served his city for twelve years. The sewer plant got built. The city went on.
Sources: Times-News (Twin Falls), Eric Quitugua reporting, October 2015; Times-News, staff reporting, 2012–2013; paid political advertisement, Lyle Santos, October 2015; KMVT, Amy Reid reporting, December 2016 (link); Baker family obituary, December 2016; Times-News, Laurie Welch reporting, 2018–2020; Associated Press, Laurie Welch reporting, April 2018; CNN, Ryan Struyk reporting, December 2017 (link); campaign materials, Committee to Elect Mark Rosa and Dick Galbraith for Mayor, November 2021; Echovita, George A. Anderson obituary, 2024 (link).
This document found its way into my family history files for good reason. Settler no. 68 — William Sharp (1826–1900) — is my ancestor. William was born 10 December 1826 in Misson, Nottinghamshire, England. He married Mary Ann Padley and the couple crossed the plains in the Moses Clawson Company, arriving in Salt Lake City on 15 September 1853. They went first to Lehi, but as the Plain City History records, “the land was not too good and there was no good grazing for their cattle.” They consecrated their Lehi property to the Church on 8 January 1857 — the same day as William Clark himself — before joining the group that would found Plain City.
The Daughters of Utah Pioneers history of Plain City describes William Sharp simply as “the first stone mason in Plain City.” That understates it considerably. He built the Episcopal Church in 1877, the old Singleton home, and Robert Maw’s adobe house — that last detail connecting two Lehi consecrators (nos. 68 and 47) in the work of building their new community. He played the cornet in Plain City’s first band alongside Abraham Maw. He made adobe bricks with Joseph Skeen, Joseph Robinson, and Jeppe G. Folkman — all men who appear on Clark’s consecration list. He worked with Thomas Singleton constructing many of Plain City’s early houses. His daughter Victorine Mary Sharp married Robert Edward Maw, connecting the two founding families by marriage as well as by community. His son Milo Riley Sharpplayed first base on Plain City’s founding baseball team, and Milo’s wife Lillie Stoker Sharp performed in Plain City’s second dramatic association. Milo served as school trustee beginning in 1897. Across generations, W. Albert Sharp served as a founding trustee of both the town board and the cemetery district when Plain City incorporated in 1944.
The Sharps were not alone in making that journey north from Lehi. The consecration list reads almost like a founding roster for Plain City — and the primary sources confirm it. Robert Maw (no. 47) left his own first-person account: “I Robert Maw, say that I was one of the first pioneers who came to Plain City on March 17, 1859. We left Lehi on the 10th of March.” The fall 1858 scouting party that selected the Plain City site included Daniel Collett (no. 14), Joseph Skeen (no. 69), William Wallace Raymond (no. 64), Joseph Robinson (no. 67), Joseph Folkman and Jeppe Folkman (no. 28), and Thomas Ashton — men who had consecrated their Lehi properties just months before. When Plain City Branch was organized in May 1859, William Wallace Raymond was appointed the first Presiding Elder, with Daniel Collett and Jeppe G. Folkman as counselors. Joseph Skeen — who built Plain City’s first log cabin and is credited with introducing adobe making to Utah — was appointed the first water master. His wife Alice Booth Robinson was recorded as the first white woman to set foot on Plain City soil.
Jeppe Jorgen Folkman (no. 28) managed Plain City’s cooperative ZCMI store from its founding in 1869 and operated one of the settlement’s first stores from his home. The Folkman family remained central to Plain City’s commercial and civic life for generations. Robert Maw (no. 47) founded the Maw family line in Plain City — his descendants produced three generations of ward bishops, a commercial dynasty in the Maw store and canning operations, and civic leaders serving on the town board and irrigation company board well into the twentieth century. William Van Dyke (no. 78) operated one of Plain City’s earliest merchant stores, confirmed as a living pioneer at the 1909 50th anniversary celebration. The Raymond family (nos. 63–64) provided the first Presiding Elder, first Relief Society president, and LDS Sunday School assistant superintendent.
The Lehi fort of the 1850s was, in a very real sense, the nursery of Plain City. Clark’s consecration list and the Plain City founding history are two windows into the same group of people, two years apart.
The following is a transcription of Clark’s paper, with the three original images and footnotes collected at the end.
Wayne E. Clark, a Lehi native and retired Auburn University professor of entomology, spent years examining the consecration deeds signed by early Lehi settlers, comparing them against Utah County property records, the 1860 Federal Census, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, and family history sources. His 2017 paper, part of the Wayne E. Clark Collection at the Lehi Historical Society and Archives (lehihistory.com), has been cited by the University of Utah’s Century of Black Mormons project and published in the Lehi Free Press. The underlying deeds are held in the Utah County Office of Land Records and at the BYU L. Tom Perry Special Collections.
Early Mormon Settlers in Lehi, Utah Territory, Consecrated Their Properties to Their Church
Wayne E. Clark
Lehi, Utah, 2017
The Lehi Pioneer Monument was erected in 1908 on the Northeast corner of First North and First West Streets in Lehi, Utah. A photographer pointing his lens toward the Southeast captured a portion of a small adobe home in an early photograph of the monument. That home stood on First North Street on the block on which the Lehi Memorial Building would come to stand in a few years. In pioneer times the block on which it stood was the northeastern-most of sixteen city blocks that were enclosed within a twelve-foot-high mud wall erected as protection against the fear of hostile Indians. The monument was constructed on the site of the last crumbling remnants of the old wall.
Things have changed in Lehi since the little adobe home stood across the street from the monument. The wall is gone and forgotten. The old Lehi High School/Junior High School athletic field that came to occupy the site on which the monument and the adobe house in the background is gone, if not entirely forgotten. Instead of the athletic field, chairs and umbrellas surround a small wading pool on a deck that extends south of the swimming pool that’s part of the large Lehi Legacy Center complex on the ground on which the monument stood, and a large parking lot covers the ground on which the house once stood. Today, if one stands on the spot where the photographer stood in 1908, or some time not long afterward, automobiles that carry people to and from the Lehi Legacy Center occupy a prominent portion of the scene. The Memorial Building can be seen along the photographer’s line of site in the background.
The owner of the home was my second great grandfather, English Mormon immigrant William Clark (1825–1910). He and at least 84 other heads of families in Lehi did what he did between 11 April 1856 and 30 January 1858. A little more than three years later he consecrated his little adobe house to the church.
Feramorz Young Fox provides an explanation of the “Consecration Movement” of the 1850s.2 He writes that the movement was church-wide. Hundreds of documents he calls “deeds of consecration” were generated in the Utah Territory between 1855 and 1862.3 The first public announcement of the Consecration Movement was given at general conference in April 1854, but the implementation was delayed until a proper form compliant with the laws of the Territory could be developed and printed. He writes that Brigham Young’s consecration deed4 is dated 11 April 1855, but notes the existence of an earlier deed recorded in Millard County on 1 January 1855.
Fox presents a table5 in which the numbers of deeds by county are listed, along with the population of each county between the years 1855 and 1857. The total for the fourteen counties in the table is given as 2,747. This must be the figure used by Leonard Arrington to calculate that about forty percent of the 7,000 heads of families in the Utah Territory deeded all their property to the church during the period in which the program was in effect.6 Fox gives the following numbers for Utah County: 69 (1855), 147 (1856), and 92 (1857) for a total of 922.
William Clark’s consecration deed is representative.
Be it known by these presents that I, William Clark, of Lehi City, in the county of Utah, and Territory of Utah, for and in consideration of the good will which I have for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, give and convey unto Brigham Young, Trustee in Trust for said Church, his successors in office, and assigns, all my claim to and ownership of the following described property, to wit:
One lot in the City of Lehi with buildings thereon and improvements: Lot no. 6 in Block 16 containing 50/160 of an improvement.
Also Lot 9 in Block 7 of Plat B in the American Creek Survey of Farm Land containing 5 acres … $25.00
Also Lots 12 & 13 in Block 5 Containing 2 acres in the Lehi Garden Lot Survey … $20.00
Also Lot 15 in Block 10 Containing 10 acres in Plat B, American Creek Survey of Farm Land … $30.00
Also outstanding account in land … $200.00
1 yoke of oxen, 1 horse … $140.00
1 wagon, $45, 1 rifle, $10 … $55.00
2 cows @ $30.00 each, 1 two year old, $25 … $55.00
1 yearling heifer, $15, 1 hog, $17 … $32.00
Farming tools, $10. Mechanics tool, $2.50 … $12.50
Household furniture … $50.00
35 Bu. of Wheat @ $2 per Bushel … $70.00
10 Bu. of Corn @ $1.5 per Bushel … $15.00
30 Bu. of Oats @ $1 per Bushel … $30.00
30 Bu. of Potatoes @ $1 per Bushel … $30.00
Garden Vegetable $6, Hay $24 … $30.00
120 lbs of Pork at 20¢ per lb … $24.00
Total Amount of William Clark’s property … $1048.508
Together with all the rights privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or pertaining. I also covenant and agree that I am the lawful claimant and owner of said property and will warrant and forever defend the same unto the said Trustee in Trust, his successors in office and assigns, against the claims of our heirs and assigns, against the claims of any heirs, assigns, or any person whosoever.
[signed] William Clark his x mark
Witnesses: Thomas Taylor George A. Leslie Thomas Ashton
Territory of Utah, County of Utah. I Lucius N. Scovill, Recorder of the aforesaid County, certify that the signer of the above transfer, personal known to me, appeared this 8th day of January AD 1857, and acknowledged that he of his own choice executed the foregoing transfer.
Lucius N. Scovill Recorder of Utah Co. UT.
The property William Clark and his neighbors in Lehi consecrated to the church included title to land. This falls into three categories for Clark and for the others: farm land, garden plots and lots on city blocks. The farm land is defined in what the deeds refer to as the “American Creek Survey of Farm Land.” This survey has not been located.9 Likewise, the survey for the Garden Plots referred to on the consecration deeds has not been located.10 The third category of property in land recorded on the consecration deeds refers to a “Lehi Survey of Building Lots.” The survey was evidently done in 1853 by Bishop Evans, as described in the consecration deeds.
The sixteen blocks inside the fort were numbered beginning with the block on the Southeast corner as Block 1 and continuing east to west with Blocks 2 through 4, then switching to east on the second tier of blocks and so forth to Block 16 on the Northeast corner of the fort.
Although the blocks inside the fort had to be re-numbered, this numbering system is consistent with one in use today. The current system apparently dates from 1861. According to Gardner,13 on April 27, 1861, the council received a numerously signed petition asking that the city be enlarged. This unmistakable sign of growth occasioned much discussion. For one, Bishop Evans seriously objected to any such extension of the city, giving as his reason the lack of water in Dry Creek to supply any considerable addition to the population of Lehi. Finally, however, all objections were satisfactorily adjusted, and the City Council ordered that a tier of blocks be surveyed around the wall. These did not supply the unexpected demand for building lots, so a tier each on the North and South was subsequently surveyed and sold to home builders.
Gardner included a diagrammatic depiction of the fort, surrounded by the wall, in his history,14 with four gates for ingress and egress, four guard towers, and the locations and layouts of each of the blocks, as well as the layout of the building lots on the blocks, are depicted. The numbers of blocks 1–16 are shown, with the corresponding numbers of the same blocks in the later surveys and continuing to this date, in parentheses. The lot and block numbers are listed on 71 of the 85 1856/1858 Lehi consecration deeds.15 The building lots on the diagram as assigned to the individual settlers are identified by the following numbers. Some of the homes listed on the consecration deeds are still standing. The house nearest current addresses of these are listed. The apparent location of houses no longer standing are also given below.
The Settler Lists
Note: Seventy-two of the 85 examined consecration deeds list the block number and the lot number of property in the city. All of the blocks listed are inside the fort. A few deeds list portions of additional lots, and some list two or more complete building lots. Thirteen deeds list no city lots. Presumably those individuals did not own their own homes. Thirty-two deeds list an adobe house and one lists a “mud house.” These are valued from $150.00 to $1,100.00. Two individuals, Abram Hatch and John Riggs Murdock, specified that their adobe houses had four rooms and one cellar. Joseph Skeen listed a 6-room adobe house. Eight log houses (on 7 lots), with values ranging from $60.00 to $200.00, are listed on the deeds. Eighteen deeds list a lot number and a block number but specify only that the property was “with improvements,” without describing the type of house. Fourteen of the 85 deeds have no lot or block numbers or houses. Presumably these individuals did not own their own homes. Lehi settler’s consecrations ranged from $127.75 to $3,075.00, for a total of $93,128.70.
South, 400 West 1. Andrew Anderson (1833–1909). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 12, with adobe house, $400.00, $1,203.00 total consecration. 17 November 1856. BK C, 1855, p. 83. 37 South, 400 West
South, 200 West 2. Thomas Ashton (1813–1903). Lehi, Lot 8, Block 11, with log house, $200.00, $1,543.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 109. 36 South, 200 West
140 South, 200 West 3. Charles Barnes Jr. (1827–1911). Lehi, Lot 2, Block 7, with adobe house, $300.00, $1,008.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 129.
69 South, 300 West 4. Alfred Bell (1794–1874). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 11, with adobe house, $400.00, $1,201.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 123.
5. Jens Peter Ipsen Benson [Peter Benson] (1831–1898). Lehi, no city lot, $135.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 177.
6. Yeppa Benson [Jeppe Bendtsen] (1795–1872). Lehi, no city lot, $168.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 177.
West, 300 South 7. Samuel Briggs (1826–1898). Lehi, Lot 3, Block 4, with adobe house, $150.00, $997.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 131. 382
West Main Street 8. George Brough (1823–1914). Lehi, Lot 7, Block 16, with adobe home, $150.00, $421.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 180. 55 North Center Street
North Center Street 9. Abram Brown [Abraham Brown] (1808–1891). Lehi, Lot 9, Block 12, with adobe house, $250.00, $608.00 total consecration. 26 January 1857. BK F, p. 208. 333 West Main Street
West Main Street 10. John Brown (1820–1896). Lehi, Lot 7, Block 9, with improvements, $150.00, $3,083.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 81. 45 West Main Street
15 West, 100 South 11. Martin Bushman (1802–1870). Lehi, Lot 6, Block 8, with improvements, $300.00, $1,032.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 167.
284 West, 200 South 12. David Clark (1816–1889). Lehi, Lot 2, Block 6, with adobe house, $600.00, $1,520.00 total consecration. 5 February 1857. BK G, p. 71.
100 West, 100 North 13. William Clark (1825–1910). Lehi, Lot 6, Block 16, with adobe house, $200.00, $1,048.50 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 91. 45 West, 100 North
West Main Street 14. Daniel Collett (1807–1894). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 15, with improvements, $200.00, $1,313 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 126. 188 West Main Street
West Main Street 15. Sylvanus Collett (1835–1901). Lehi, Lot 6, Block 10, with adobe house, $150.00, $360.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p.
104, 115 West Main Street 16. Sarah Couzens [Sarah Jaque] (widow of Joseph Couzens [Joseph William Cousins (1809–1856)], deceased). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 13, with improvements, $150.00, $927.20 total consecration. 9 March 1857. BK H, p. 40.
206, 389 West, 100 South 17. Daniel William Cox (1801–1858). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 5, with adobe house, $450.00, $2,225.50 total consecration. 20 January 1857. BK F, p.
West Main Street 18. William Taylor Dennis (1810–1894). Lehi, no city lot, $4,115.50 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 111.
West Main Street 19. Joseph Dobson (1804–1872). Lehi, Lot 2, Block 15, with mud house, $200.00, $721.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 83. 130
86 North, 400 West 20. James Downs (1815–1882). Lehi, Lot 6 and W1/2 of Lot 7, Block 13, with adobe house, $250.00, $1,813.00 total consecration. 9 March 1857. BK H, p. 46.16
North, 100 West 21. Robert Dunn (1818–1885). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 16, with improvements, $250.00, $1,085 total consecration. 20 January 1857. BK F, p. 272.17 86 North, 100 West
North, 100 West 22. Shadrack Empy (1822–1892). Lehi, Lot 7, Block 14, with adobe house, $200.00, $820.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 130. 229
West, 100 North 23. Abel Evans (1812–1866). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 14, except NE Quarter of lot, with house, $150.00, $528.00 total consecration. 31 December 1856. BK F, p. 40.18 90 North, 300 West
Main Street 24. David Evans (1804–1883). Lehi, Lots 2 and 6, Block 14, $1,100.00, $3,075.00 total consecration. 10 May 1856. BK C, p. 39.19 288 West Main Street
Main Street 25. Henry Beck Evans (1830–1911). Lehi, no city lot, $180.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 284.
200 West 26. Joseph Field (1831–1911). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 10, with improvements, $200.00, $489.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 178. 49
200 West, South 27. John Folker (1814–1884). Lehi, Lot 8, Block 6, with adobe house, $200.00, $984.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 94. 166
South, 200 West 28. Jeppe George Folkmann [Jeppe Jorgen Folkman] (1824–1916).20 Lehi, Lot 6, Block 1, with improvements, $65.00, $394.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 285. 65 West, 200 South
200 West, South 29. William Fotheringham (1826–1913). Lehi, Lot 3, Block 1, with two log houses, $100.00, $1,845 total consecration. 4 November 1856. BK C, p.
73, 66 West, 300 South 30. Charles Wesley Gallup. Lehi, no city lot, $438.50 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 170.
31. John Henry Glines (1831–1897). Lehi, no city lot, $387.00 total consecration. 31 March 1857. BK H p. 90.
Block 6, Lot 6, 6 North 32. Abram Hatch [Abraham Chase Hatch] (1830–1911). Lehi, Lot 6, Block 4, with adobe house, $750.00, $2,891.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, np. 132.21
100 South 33. Lorenzo Hill Hatch (1826–1910), and Sylvia S. Hatch. Lehi, Lot 2, Block 13, with buildings and improvements, $800.00, $1,608.00 total consecration. 11 April 1856. BK C 1855, p. 41.22 212 South, 300 West
125 West 34. John Joseph Hayes (1825–1899). Lehi, E1/2 Lot 7, Block 7, $100.00, $311.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 105. 125 West, 100 South
96 North, 200 West 35. William Brown Hill (1836–1883). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 15, with improvements, $150.00, $931.75 total consecration. 29 December 1856. BK F, p. 30. 96 North, 200 West
93 North, 100 West 36. William Hyde (1818–1874). Lehi, Lot 8, Block 15, $150.00, $1,040.00 total consecration. 23 December 1857. BK H, p. 106.
187 West Main Street 37. Ezekiel Hopkins (1801–1872), or his son, Ezekiel Hopkins (1839–1911). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 10, with log house, $200.00, $610.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 120.23 187 West Main Street
87 North, 300 West 38. Daniel James (1807–1880). Lehi, E1/2 Lot 7, and N1/2 Lot 8, Block 13, with adobe house, $200.00, $871.00 total consecration. 28 February 1857. BK H, p. 21. 87 North, 300 West
South, 300 West 39. Samuel James (1825–1893). Lehi, Lot 7, Block 12, with adobe house, $150.00, $490.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 278. 24
West Main Street 40. John Karren (1834–1905). Lehi, Lot 7, Block 11, with adobe house, $150.00, $441.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 181. 231
West Main Street 41. Thomas Karren (1810–1876). Lehi, Lot 2 & the E1/2 of Lot 3, in Block 12, with log house, $150.00, $1,766.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 92. 390 West, 100 South
217 South, 100 West 42. Henry Kearns (1778–1859). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 1, with improvements, $350.00, $1,049.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 128.
West Main Street 43. Suel Lamb (1833–1913). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 9, with adobe house, $150.00, $652.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 127. 95 West Main Street
261 South, 200 West 44. John Irvin Lawson [John Lawson] (1805–1884). Lehi, N1/2 Lot 3, Block 3, with improvements, $50.00, $145.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 117.
290 South, 200 West 45. Abraham Losee (1814–1887). Lehi, Lot 1, Block 3, with improvements, $150.00, $1,153.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 115.
290 South, 200 West 46. John Smiley Lott (1826–1894) and Permelia Darrow Lott (widow of Cornelius P. Lott, deceased) and Peter Lott (1805–1882). Lehi, Lot 1, Block 3, $150.00, $1,153.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 115.
[Peter] Lyman Lott (1842–1906). Lehi, Lots 6 and 7, Block 3, with improvements, $600.00, $2,226.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 100. 241 West, 200 South
47. Robert Maw (1834–1920). Lehi, no city lot, $285.00 total consecration. 19 January 1857. BK F, p. 182. PC
45 West, 100 North 48. James McGaw (1824–1872) & Elias Bassett.24 Lehi, Lot 6, Block 16, with adobe house, $400.00, $2,255.00 total consecration. 23 December 1857. BK H, p. 108.
100 North 49. Ephraim Mecham (1808–1891). Lehi, no city lot, $392.50 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 280.
50. John Miller (1846–1939). Lehi, no city lot, $127.75 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 280.
300 West 51. John Murdock (1792–1871). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 3, with house, $100.00, $295.00 total consecration. 31 December 1856. BK F, p. 38. 209 South
300 West 52. John Riggs Murdock (1826–1913). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 3, also 3/8 of Lot 3, Block 4, Lehi, with 4-room adobe house with cellar, $800.00, $5,097.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 114. 269 South, 300 West
238 West, 300 South 53. Orrice Clapp Murdock (1824–1915). Lehi, Lot 2 and 2 rods of the E side of Lot 3, Block 3, with house, $500.00, $1,665.50 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 95. 238 West, 300 South
South Center Street 54. Jens Nelson [Jens Nielsen] (1796–1875). Lehi, N1/2 of Lot 7, Block 8, $50.00, $306.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 171. 140
South Center Street 55. Henry Elliot Norton (1826–1913). Lehi, no city lot, $460.00 total consecration. 7 May 1856. BK C, p. 42.
74 West, 100 South 56. Peter Madsen Peel [Peder Madsen Pihl] (1820–1900). Lehi, Lot 3, Block 9, with log house, $100.00, $537.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 279. 74 West, 100 South
140 South Center Street 57. Hans Peterson [Hans Pederson] (1823–1881). Lehi, S1/2 of Lot 7, Block 8, with log house, $60.00, $537.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 286. 140 South Center Street
88 South, 300 West 58. Canute Peterson (1824–1902). Lehi, Lot 1, Block 12, with improvements, $150.00, $1,957.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 85.
59. Peter Peterson (1821–1901). Lehi, no city lot, $307.50 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 283.
290 South, 100 West 60. Stephen Howard Pierce (1816–Deceased). Lehi, Lot 1, Block 2, with improvements, $466.00, $761.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 275.
290 South, 100 West 61. Charles Price (1800–1873). Lehi, no city lot, $680.00 total consecration. 27 November 1856. BK C, p. 104.
South Center Street 62. Tunis Rappley (1808–1883). Lehi, Lot 8, Block 1, with adobe house, $200.00, $772.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK F, p. 282. 220 South Center Street
260 South, 100 West 63. Alonzo Pearls Raymond (1821–1904). Lehi, Lot 8,25 Block 2, with adobe house, $300.00, $2,305.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 108. 260 South, 100 West
215 South, 100 West 64. William Wallace Raymond (1824–1881). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 2, with log house, $200.00, $2,020.00 total consecration. 31 March 1857. BK H, p.
88 West, 215 South 65. William Reid (1805–1858). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 13, with improvements, $23.00, $450.50 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 179.
86 North, 400 West 66. Alonzo Donnell Rhodes (1824–1893). Lehi, E1/2 of Lot 1, Block 10, with house, $200.00, $1,164.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 102. 90 South, 100 West
125 West, 100 South 67. Joseph Robinson (1814–1891). Lehi, W1/2 Lot 7, Block 7, with improvements, $100.00, $521.00 total consecration. 28 January 1857.26 BK F, p. 281. 125 West, 100 South
100 South 68. William Sharp ([1826]–1900). Lehi, no city lot, $235.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 86.
86 West, 125 South 69. Joseph Skeen (1816–1882). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 4, with 6-room adobe house, $1,000.00, $2,764.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 99. 377 West, 200 South
205, 390 West Main Street 70. Joseph Johnson Smith (1821–1902). Lehi, Lot 3, Block 13, with adobe house, $500.00, $1,804.00 total consecration. 20 January 1857. BK F, p.
89, 267 South, 400 West 71. Samuel Thomas Smith (1823–1890). Lehi, Lot 4, Block 4, with adobe house, $150.00, $507.50 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p.
West Main Street 72. James Taylor [James Whitehead Taylor] (1819–1891) and Ann Taylor. Lehi, Lot 8, Block 7, $700.00, $1,300.00 total consecration. no date, no month,27 1856. BK C 1855, p. 40. 110 South, 100 West
382 West, 300 South 73. Thomas Taylor (1826–1900). Lehi, Lot 2, Block 2, with adobe house, $300.00, $932.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 106–107.
65 South, 100 West 74. William Taylor [William Whitehead Taylor] (1828–1907). Lehi, Lot 3, Block 10, adobe house, $200.00, total consecration $625.00. [no date]. BK C 1855, p. 81. April 1856. 65 South, 100 West
186 South, 300 West 75. Daniel Stillwell Thomas (1803–1878). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 12, with adobe house, $300.00, $842.50 total consecration. 26 February 1857. BK G, p. 204. 405 West Main Street
West Main Street 76. Preston Thomas (1814–1877). Lehi, Lot 5, Block 11, with log houses, $200.00, $2,207.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 97. 281 West Main Street
186 South, 300 West 77. John Titcomb (1800–1858). Lehi, Lot 1, Block 5, with adobe house, $300.00, $1,150.00 total consecration. 10 January 1857. BK F, p. 122.
37 West, 200 South
78. William Van Dyke (1830–1901). Lehi, Lot 7, Block 1, with adobe house, $200.00, $523.75 total consecration. 30 January 1858. Not found in Utah County book.28
11 West, 200 South 79. Andrew Vince [Moses Andrews Vince] (1809–1859). Lehi, Lot 8, Block 8, $450.00 total consecration. 8 January 1857. BK F, p. 88. 11 West Main Street
216 South, 200 West 80. William Sidney Smith Willes (1819–1871). Lehi, Lot 8, Block 3, with improvements, $700.00, $2,020.00 total consecration. 9 January 1857. BK F, p. 112–113.
168 West, 200 South 81. Thomas Griffin Winn (1829–1904). Lehi, Lot 3, Block 7, with adobe house, $200.00, $666.50 total consecration. 7 January 1857. BK F, p.
80 West, 168 South 82. William Henry Winn (1833–1884). Lehi, no lot or block, $148.00 total consecration. 9 April 1857. BK H, p. 84.
240 South, 100 West 83. Solomon Wixom (1809–1879).29 Lehi, Lot 7 and N1/2 of Lot 8, Block 2, with adobe house, $400.00, $1,308.50 total consecration. 28 January 1857. BK H, p.
36 West, 100 South 84. Georg Gottlieb Zimmermann (1781–1866). Lehi, Lot 2, Block 9, with improvements, $125.00, $443.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 169.
88 South, Center Street 85. John Zimmerman (1820–1908). Lehi, Lot 1, Block 9, $125.00, $1,873.00 total consecration. 16 January 1857. BK F, p. 176. Fort Cabin Occupants
The cabins were arranged end-to-end to form a hollow square in the first of two phases of the fort. Van Wagoner says nearly three hundred settlers occupied sixty cabins, but he names only fifty-three individuals31 on the list corresponding to the numbers (1–85) of the diagram.
East Side (7)
North Side (12)
West Side (18)
South Side (16)
William Goates
2. Thomas Ashton
John Andreason
Orrace Murdock
81. George Zimmerman
4. Alfred Bell
17. Daniel Cox
51. John R. Murdock Sen.
John Zimmerman
22. Abel Evans
Samuel James
50. John Murdock
John Spires
23. David Evans
38. Samuel James
31. Abram Hatch
61. Tunis Rappley
14. William Dobson
75. Luke Titcomb
45. Mrs. Pamelia Lott
Martin Bushman
Philip Olmstead
Charles Partridge
45. John S. Lott
John Brown
Prime Coleman
7. Samuel Briggs
Ira J. Willes
William Coleman
William Goates
77. W. S. S. Willes
George Coleman
70. Samuel T. Smith
44. Abraham Losee
William Burgess
12. David Clark
Mrs. Lydia Losee
Jehial McConnell
57. Canute Peterson
68. Joseph Skeens
Joel W. White
9. Abraham Brown
40. Thomas Skeens
Israel Evans
John Mercer
Alonzo D. Rhodes
David Evans
69. Joseph J. Smith
Thomas Karren
Riley Judd
84. Daniel S. Thomas
John Winn
David Judd
Samuel Harwood
Silas P. Barnes
John W. Norton
Daniel Cox
61. Tunis Rappley
Henry Norton
Oley Ellingson
J. Wiley Norton
David Norton
Closing Notes
Some of the settlers remained in Lehi after their 1856/1857 consecrations were accepted and recorded. The locations of the homes of several of them in later years have been located in other studies.32 Some moved from Lehi. Some moved from the fort in Lehi to other property in Lehi. For example, William Clark moved from the Lot 6 property on Block 16(40) to a home on Lot 4 of the same block some time before he received title to both lots in 1871.
Some of the names absent from the cabins list are absent from the consecration deeds. This could reflect the fact that the individuals left Lehi before the consecration movement began, or that the individuals did not consecrate their property, or that their consecration deeds have not yet been located.
Sixty-eight of the 128 building lots on the sixteen blocks in the fort are represented on the consecration deeds. If 40% of the men in the Lehi settlement consecrated their property, as Arrington says was the estimated percentage of the participation of the men in the Territory, 51 lots should have been claimed on the deeds. It appears that participation in the consecration movement was higher in Lehi than in other parts of the Territory.
Notes
1 This, and similar documents by Wayne E. Clark, are posted at the Lehi Historical Society and Historical Archive Indexes, https://www.lehihistory.com. Thanks to John Knollin Haws Jr. and the other volunteers at the Lehi Historical Society and Archives for encouragement and support, and to Dan Olds for heartily pushing for the search for consecration deeds and for other important historical information. Corrections or additions welcome. wayneeldenclark@gmail.com.
2 Fox, Feramorz Y. (March 1944). The Consecration Movement of the Middle ‘Fifties,’ Improvement Era, 47 (2) February, March 1944: 80–81, 120–21, 124–25, 146–47, 185, 187–88.
3 He wrote that the recorded deeds were to have been sent to the office of the Trustee-in-Trust of the church in Great Salt Lake City. These must include the deeds now preserved in the LDS Church History Library, in Salt Lake City. Consecration Deeds, 1854–1867. One book, Consecration book, circa 1857–1858, Call Number CR 5 53, Identifier CR 5 53/b0001. No. 233, has a list of deeds from throughout the Territory. The original deeds on the printed forms of many are accessible from CR 5 53: Consecration Deeds 1854–1867. For example, the original consecration deed of John Brown is accessed from Deeds, B, #271–288. Fox mentions the existence of two deeds in possession of a man who found them in a rubbish pile.
4 Found in “Book A of Deeds” in the church historians office, and in “Pioneer Records, Salt Lake County Recorder’s Office, p. 249.”
7 Fox notes that this is an exact count, taken from records in office of the county recorder. He must have seen the copies of the deeds preserved in LDS Conveyance books in the Utah County Office of Land Records, 100 East Center Street, Suite 1300, Provo, Utah 84606. The contents of the books are indexed for electronic searching. Consecration deeds of early Lehi settlers are found in books labelled LDS Church Conveyances, BK C, BK F, and BK H.
8 His consecration was twenty cents below the average, $1,048.70.
9 Ownership and numbers of Lots and Blocks and acreage on various surveys throughout the county are contained in Webb Access to Utah County Land Records – Abstract Images — LDS Church Conveyance. Included are “American Creek Survey 1851,” “American Creek Survey of Farm Land,” 1853–1855, “Upper Dry Creek Survey of Farming Land,” 1853, and “Lake Farm Land.”
10 Presumably the garden plots in 1855/1856 were the same as the ones on later records. The earliest entry in the Utah County abstract book for garden plots for Lehi is for 1 December 1879.
23 Original in LDS Church History Library, CR 5 53, box 3, fd. 3
24 James McGaw, age 34, was in Ogden, Utah, in the 1860 Census. His wife, Mary Matilda Bassett (1800–1878), age 56, was with him, as was Mary’s mother, Matilda Salter Bassett (1800–1878), age 56, (1837–1906), age 23, and Elias Bassett, age 40. Elias must have been James’s brother in law.
25 This may be listed in error for Lot 6. Lot 8 of Block 2 is also recorded as having been claimed by Solomon Wixom on 28 January 1857. Alternatively Raymond and Wixom could each have occupied 1/2 of Lot 6 in 1857.
26 Immediately follows the deed of David Evans, dated 10 May 1856, and precedes the deeds of Lorenzo Hill Hatch, dated 11 April 1856, and of Henry C. Norton, dated 7 May [1856].
32 A subsequent study of the consecration deeds combined with the 1860 Census and other sources of information resulted in a more complete picture of the Lehi City fort in the years following the issuance of the deeds. Mormon Pioneers in Lehi, Utah Territory, 1854–1871, https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5wDxipAGQN2YzRBczAxMjlhsVFU/view?usp=sharing
Wayne E. Clark, Lehi, Utah, 2017. Part of the Wayne E. Clark Collection at the Lehi Historical Society and Archives, https://www.lehihistory.com. Contact: wayneeldenclark@gmail.com. Corrections or additions welcome.
Back (l-r): Bob Reading, Smo Smolinsky, Dick West, Jack Seabolt, Norm Reid, Bill Plunkett, Skull Nelson, Wes Harper, Junior Locher; Front: Jack Simmerman, Bob Johnson, Mike Michaelson, Al Thorngren, Norm Schram, Hoot Nejdl, Ted Wallover.
I continue to scan photos that belonged to my Great Uncle and Aunt, Dave and Betty Donaldson. This one had names typed on the back. Chauncey “Mike” Michaelson married my Grandma’s sister, Dena Donaldson on 7 December 1943 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
This photo says “Navy Air Show” at “NAS Santa Rosa, Calif.” on 31 March 1945. Dena and Mike had a son born 29 October 1944 in Brigham City, Utah.
The back of the card has the names written on it. I assume it is accurate as it was likely from the time, but the handwriting gives further definition. I can also tell there are a number of nicknames, so I wasn’t able to find most of the people listed in the photo. Either the name was too common or the name given is not sufficient.
Wes Harper – could be Wesley Raymon Harper (1922 – 1982) of Larned, Kansas.
Bob Johnson – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Junior Locher – could be Junior Lewis Locher (1919 – 2003) of Glasgow, Virginia.
Chauncey De Orr “Mike” Michaelson (1922 – 2006) of Montpelier, Idaho.
Hoot Nejdl – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Skull Nelson – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Bill Plunkett – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Bob Reading – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Norm Reid – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Norm Schram – could be Norman Hayner Schram (1922 – 2011) of Pontiac, Michigan.
Jack Seabolt – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Jack Simmerman – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Smo Smolinsky – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Al Thorngren – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Ted Wallover – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
Dick West – could not find anyone that seemed to fit.
