History of Plain City Pt 2

I have two copies of the History of Plain City, Utah. The front indicates it is from March 17th 1859 to present. As far as I can tell, the book was written in 1977. At least that is the latest date I can find in the book.

One copy belonged to my Grandparents Milo and Gladys Ross. My Grandpa has written various notes inside the history which I intend to include in parenthesis whenever they appear. They add to the history and come from his own experience and hearing.

I will only do a number of pages at a time. I will also try to include scanned copies of the photos in the books. These are just scanned copies of these books, I have not tried to seek out originals or better copies.

History of Plain City March 17th 1859 to present, pages 33 through 38.

Past Bishops of Plain City

Henry J Gardner 1906 – 1910
Back (l-r): Wilmer J Maw, George E Knight, Elvin H Maw, Charles L Heslop; Front: George A Palmer, Gilbert Thatcher, Henry T Maw

Wilmer J. Maw      1920–1926

George E. Knight  1949–1953

Elvin H. Maw        1944–1949

Charles L. Heslop  1936–1944 (Married Milo Ross & Gladys Donaldson April 1942)

George A. Palmer 1926–1936

Gilbert Thatcher  1913–1920

Henry T. Maw     1910–1913

(l-r): Charles L Heslop, Elvin H Maw, George E Knight, Merrill Jenkins, Lyman H Cook, Rulon Chugg, Wayne W Cottle, Orlo S Maw

Charles L Heslop, 1936-1944

Elvin H Maw, 1944-1949

George E Knight, 1949-1953

Merrill Jenkins, 1953-1959

Lyman H Cook, 1959-1964

Rulon Chugg, 1960-1965, 2nd Ward

Plain City Ward – Wayne W Cottle, 1964 –

Plain City Ward – Orlo S Maw, 1965

(l-r) Kent Calvert, Robert Sharp, Kent Jenkins

Kent Calvert, 2nd Ward 1971-1974, 3rd Ward 1974-

Robert Sharp, 2nd Ward 1974-

Kent Jenkins, 1st Ward 1971-

PLAIN CITY BRANCH OFFICER

1859 – 1977

Submitted by Roxy Heslop                  Gilbert Thatcher                      1913 – 1920

PRESIDING ELDERS                                                     Wilmer J Maw                        1920 – 1926

William W Raymond              1859 – 1863                George A Palmer                   1926 – 1936

John Carver                             1863 – 1866                Charles L Heslop                     1936 – 1944

William W Raymond              1866 – 1870                Elvin H. Maw                           1944 – 1949

Lewis W Shurtliff                    1870 – 1877                George F Knight                     1949 – 1953

FIRST COUNSELORS                                                    Merrill Jenkins                        1953 – 1959

Daniel Collet                           1859 – 1866                Lyman Cook                             1959 – 1964

John Carver                             1872 – 1877                Wayne W Cottle                     1964 – 1971

SECOND COUNSELORS                                               Kent Jenkins                            1971 –

Jeppe G Folkman                    1859 – 1872               

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PLAIN CITY FIRST WARD

John Spiers                              1872 – 1877                FIRST COUNSELORS

CLERKS                                                                         John Spiers                              1877 – 1895

John Spiers                              1859 – 1872                Abraham Maw                        1895 – 1901

William W McGuire               1872 – 1877                Peter C Green                        1901 – 1903

PLAIN City Ward Officers        1877 – 1977                Henry J Garner                       1903 – 1906

BISHOP                                                                        Peter M Folkman                   1906 – 1910

Lewis W Shurtleff                   1877 – 1883                James L Robson                      1910 – 1920

George W Bramwell              1883 – 1906                George A Palmer                   1920 – 1926

Henry T Maw                         1910 – 1913                Elvin H Maw                           1926 – 1936

Gordon F Thompson  1936 – 1944                Abraham E Maw                    1936 – 1944

L Rulon Jenkins           1944 – 1949                Fred L Singleton                     1944 – 1946

Leslie T Maw              1949 – 1953                Llewellyn Hipwell                    1946 – 1949

Elmer Ericson              1953 – 1956                Howard Hadley                       1949- 1953

Rulon Chugg                1956 – 1956                William Searcy                        1953 – 1955

Thad Carlson               1959 – 1960                Rulon Chugg                            1955 – 1956

Carl Lund                     1960 – 1964                LeRoy P Folkman                    1956 – 1959

A Lew Jenkins              1964 – 1966                Kent Jenkins                            1959 – 1964

Darwin J Taylor           1966 – 1971                Delmar L Tanner                    1964 – 1969

G Earl Thompson        1971 – 1972                Blaine R Jensen                      1969 – 1971

Gary Jackson               1974 –                          Steven Miller                          1971 – 1974

SECOND COUNSELORS                                    Gary Jackson                           1972 – 1974

Peter C Green            1877 – 1901                Jerry Bradford                         1974 –

Samuel P Draney        1901 – 1903                WARD CLERK

Peter M Folkman       1903 – 1906                William McGuire                    1877 – 1887

Peter P Green            1906 – 1907                George Carver                        1877 – 1890

William G Rhead        1907 – 1910                Peter C Green                        1890 – 1903

William C Carver        1910 – 1913                William Kenley                        1903 – 1907

Marion Knight             1913 – 1914                William A Kerr                        1907 – 1914

William England, Jr    1914 – 1920                William H Heslop                   1914 – 1936

Elvin H Maw               1920 – 1926                LeRoy P Folkman                    1936 – 1942

Thomas Jenkins           1926 – 1936                Fred L Singleton                     1942 – 1944

Walter Moyes             1944 – 1947                A Glen Charlton                     1963 – 1965

A.Lew Jenkins              1947 – 1951                Gaylen Hansen                        1965 – 1966

Herbert E Barnes       1951 – 1953                Kent Calvert                            1966 – 1971

Blair Simpson              1953 – 1959                Robert Sharp                           1971 – 1974

Glen A Charlton         1953 – 1959                Rodney Roper                         1974 –

Kent Jenkins                1957 – 1959                SECOND COUNSELORS

Willard Wayment        1953 – 1959                A Glen Charlton                     1960 – 1963

Harold Hadley             1959 –                          LeRoy Folkman                        1963 – 1965

Wayne Skeen              1959 – 1965                Denton Hall                             1965 – 1971

Vernon Smith              1965 – 1965                Donald Skeen                          1971 – 1974

Robert Wade               1965 –                          John Stevens                           1974 –

Clair Truscott              1965 – 1971                CLERKS  

                                                                        Walter Moyes                         1960 – 1965

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PLAIN CITY SECOND WARD                             Lewis Moyes                           1965 – 1974

            Created June 12, 1960                        R John Maw                           1974 – 1976

BISHOPS                                                          Duane Bullock                         1976 –

Rulon Chugg                1960 – 1965               

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PLAIN CITY THIRD WARD

Orlo S Maw                1965 – 1971                            Created June 23, 1974

Kent Calvert                1971 – 1974                BISHOPS

Robert Sharp               1974 –                          Kent Calvert                            1974 –

FIRST COUNSELORS                                                    FIRST COUNSELORS

Jay Taggart                 1960 – 1963                            David Petersen                        1974 – 1976

Layne Thompson         1976 –

SECOND COUNSELOR

Robert Lewis               1974 – 1976

F. LeRoy Williams       1976 –

CLERKS

Keith Hamp                 1974 –

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Plain City Chapel. Dedicated 1889. Tore down in 1953. Was built just North of the present chapel.
Another view of the Plain City Chapel of 1889.
Present City Chapel. Dedicated 1954.

Plain City Stake Center Dedicatory Service

In Grandpa and Grandma’s possessions were two pamphlets from the 1979 and 1954 dedications of the church buildings in Plain City, Utah. Here is the 1979. Grandpa helped work on this building. He also helped extensively on the 1954 building. As I previously wrote, Grandpa also had a hand in obtaining the land for the construction of the 2, 7, and 8 Ward building. I will share the 1954 pamphlet at a later date.

Dedicatory Program for Plain City Stake Center 20 September 1979

Dedicatory Service

Plain City Utah Stake Center and Plain City Third & Fourth Wards

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

2120 North 4575 West

September 30, 1979

2:00 PM

Dedicated under the direction of Bernard P. Brockbank

Member – First Quorum of Seventy

Stake Presidencies

Plain City Utah Stake

Samuel S Lower – 1st Counselor

President Kent W Calvert

R. Alton Griffin – 2nd Counselor

Ogden Utah Farr West Stake

Robert E Jennings – 1st Counselor

President H Orvil Holley

Shirl K Fadel – 2nd Counselor

Bishoprics in Plain City Utah Stake

Plain City Third Ward

Robert Ewer – 2nd Counselor

Bishop Layne S Thompson

Dennis Carlson – 1st Counselor

Plain City Fourth Ward

Ronald L Larsen – 2nd Counselor

Bishop Harold O Hadley

Theodore G Balderree – 1st Counselor

Farr West First Ward

E Robert Rauzi – 1st Counselor

Bishop Dale John Chugg

Sheldon W Taylor – 2nd Counselor

Farr West Second Ward

Val Stratford – 1st Counselor

Bishop Harvey W Higley

Paul W Bryner – 2nd Counselor

Plain City First Ward

Alvin G Foremaster – 1st Counselor

Bishop Darwin J Taylor

Gary L Thompson – 2nd Counselor

Plain City Second Ward

Ronald H Olsen – 1st Counselor

Bishop Robert L Sharp

William A Van Hulten – 2nd Counselor

Program

Organ Prelude – Marjorie Westergard

Prayer Hymn “Abide With Me” Dedicatory Choir Donna Vause Conducting, Marjore Westergard, Organist

Welcome and Acknowledgements – President Kent W Calvert

Hymn “The Spirit of God Like a Fire is Burning” Choir and Congregation

Invocation – President J Raymond Johnson

Hymn “Oh How Lovely Was the Morning” (Jesus Lover of My Soul)

Multi-Media Presentation – Ward Conference Committee, Carl R Saunders, Rober Ewer, Harold Westergard, Photographer and Sound Technician Larry Hansen

Remarks – President H Orvil Holley

Remarks – President Kent W Calvert

Hymn “Song of Dedication”

Address and Dedicator Prayer – Bernard P Brockbank

Closing Hymn “Come Come Ye Saints” arr. by J Spencer Cornwall

Benediction – President Wayne Cottle

Organ Postlude – Marjorie Westergard

FLowers – McEntire’s Bachelor Bouquets

Historical Contributions – Plain City, Lyman Cook, Farr West, Helena Watson

Ushers – High Council & Assistants

Carl R Saunders, Boyd B Call, Ronald W Jenkins, F Leroy Williams, Owen C Garlick, R Kent Jenkins, Gary L Jackson, Steven F Smith, Dennis W Moss, Alan Yorganson, Rodney A Roper, Alan S Hadley, E Lionel Brady, Don H Wade, Robert A Ewer, Carl C White, Harold A Westergard, Ross C Moore, Duane Bullock, Scott K Jenkins, Sterling Mayhew, Lloyd Beutler

Stake Patriarch – Charles A Groberg

Dedicatory Program for Plain City Stake Center 20 September 1979

History of the Church in Plain City

A history of the Church in Plain City is and was directly related to the restoration of the Gospel in this dispensation and the organization of the Church in 1830. The conversion to Mormonism of many of the eventual settlers of Plain City and their testimonies of the truthfulness of this knowledge enabled the early saints to endure the physical hardships and the migration of modern Israel into the Salt Lake Valley.

A group of early saints, numbering about one hundred people, of neighbors, friends, and converts from Lehi, Utah, who found the water there had already been claimed, came north to Plain City on March 17, 1859 to make their new home, Their first homes were dugouts in the hill with a grass and dirt roof, and a dirt floor. Many of these dug-outs were used for meetings. Meetings were held outdoors and in a large tent.

One July 24, 1859, a dance was held on the barrens, near the dump to celebrate the saints arrival into the Salt Lake Valley. The music was furnished by a comb band, and many danced barefoot.

The first church and school was built in 1859 of adobe which was eighteen by twenty-four feet, and located on the south side of the square. In 1863 a twelve by eighteen foot split log addition was added. It was shingled at this time. A bowery of willows was constructed near the meeting house to be used in the summer. In 1874 a new building was built of adobe on the northeast corner of the square. In 1889 a brick chapel was dedicated which was across the street from the south side of the square. A kitchen, recreation all, upstairs, and classrooms were added in 1914. This building was born down in 1953. 1953-54 the present three-ward chapel was built and dedicated. This same building was remodeled and additions added. The dedication of the new remodeled building was February 14, 1971. 1978-79 the new Plain City Stake Center on 2125 North was built and dedicated September 30, 1979.

1859-1877 Plaint City was a branch with four different Presiding Elders. 1877-1960 Plain City was one ward with 12 different Bishops. 1960 the Plain City II Ward was created. 1974 the Plain City III Ward was created. 1977 the Plain City Stake was created. July 1979 the Plain City IV and V Wards were created.

History of Farr West Wards

On November 30, 1890, Harrisville and West Harrisville were divided and the west section was named Farr West. This name was selected to honor Lorin Farr, the first mayor of Ogden and former president of the Weber Stake, and Chauncy W West who prior to 1870 was presiding bishop of Weber County.

William Andrew Taylor Sr was chosen as the first bishop of the Farr West Ward (1890-1892), followed by William F McEntire (1892-1897), James Martin Sr (1898-1909), Moroni Chugg (1909-1928), Lorenzo Taylor (1928-1938), Almon D Brown (1959-1964), Brian L Taylor (1964-1971), Owen C Garlick (1971-1977). In 1972 the Farr West Ward was divided into Farr West First and Farr West Second Wards. Owen C Garlick remained bishop of Farr West First Ward and Jay A Davis became first bishop of the Farr West Second Ward (1972-1975), followed by Harold A Westergard (1975-1978), and Harvey W Higley (1978-present). Dale J Chugg followed Bishop Garlick as bishop of Farr West First (1977-present).

In 1873 the first building for church and school was built across from the present chapel. It was used until 1880 when the Ward Hall was built at the cost of $1,500. In 1926 the present chapel was dedicated by President Heber J Grant. This building cost $19,700. In 1958 an additional was built costing $142,000 and was dedicated by Richard L Evans.

In 1945 the Farr West Ward purchased 10 1/4 acres of land. This became the first welfare farm in the Farr West Stake.

The ward population listed for 1900 was 231; in 1931, 325; 1960, 577; in 1979, about 471 for Farr West First and about 670 for Farr West Second.

The Far West Wards have been in four different stakes; namely, Weber, North Weber, Farr West, and now Plain City.

Dedicatory Program for Plain City Stake Center 20 September 1979

“And that thou mayest more fully keep thyself unspotted from the world, thou shalt go to the house of prayer and offer up thy sacraments upon my holy day” D&C 59:9

Sterling R Lyon – Architect

John L Wadman – General Contractor

Dedicatory Program for Plain City Stake Center 20 September 1979

William Fredrick Andra Jr

This past week Issiah and Jennifer Andra stopped by and visited our family with theirs.  We had a pleasant lunch, opportunity to talk, and rekindling of distant family relationships.  During that conversation, Issiah mentioned that he really did not have much information on his grandparents William and Edith Andra.  I told him I would give him some more information.  I wrote a short pictorial history of his grandmother Edith Maude Gudmundson Andra last year after her passing.  I thought I would do the same for his grandfather, William Fredrick Andra Jr.

William Fredrick Andra was born 25 November 1920 in Whitney, Franklin, Idaho to William Fredrick Andra and Mary Louise Wanner Andra.  He was the oldest of 12 children.

I tried to somewhat organized the photos in order, but some of them I just cannot tell.  But generally they should be close.

Mary and Bill, William standing holding June.

1926, Bill with his arm around Mary, William standing in front of Mary, June beside William, and holding Millie.

 

Edith and William Andra Marriage Portrait.  William and Edith married 13 June 1947

William and Edith married 13 June 1947 in the Logan, Utah LDS Temple.

Back: Colleen, Millie, June, William, Mary, Bill; Front: Larry, Ross, Donald, Sergene at Richmond, Utah

 

William Military Picture

 

Elder William F Andra Jr, 1941-1943.

William served a mission to Mexico, learned the language there, and converted many people.

Gracias for the nice xmas card and money dear Grandmother. William

 

1946, William and Golden in back, Sergene, Millie, Colleen, June standing, Donald, Larry, Bill, Dale, Mary, and Ross sitting.

 

Portrait

 

1960s Reunion: William, Donald, Larry, Bill, Golden, Dale, Ross

 

1984 Reunion: Ross, Colleen, June, Millie, William, Golden, Donald, Larry

 

1989 Reunion (b) June, Colleen, Mary, Sergene, William, Millie, Dale (f) Donald, Ross, Bill, Dale, Larry

William, Donald, Dale, Bill, Larry, Golden, Ross Andra

 

Bill & Edith in Richmond for an Andra Reunion

Edith and William at Colleen’s

 

William at Deer Creek Inn

 

You can read more on Edith’s page.  William died 22 August 1992 in Weaubleau, Hickory, Missouri.  He was buried 23 August 1992 in the Mormon Cemetery, Arnica, Cedar, Missouri.