Posts Tagged ‘utah’

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Henry Maiben ( 1819-1883 ) was an English convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, who came to America with his brother.  He first married Caroline Penn while in England and later married Flora Louisa Maddison as a plural wife.  He was involved in the early theatre and musical productions in the Utah […]

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This keepsake photograph shows my grandmother Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire on the left of the photograph and her friend and neighbor, Mrs. Dittman.  I am told that they were preparing to clean the chicken coop at the Pugmire home in Union (now Midvale), Utah.  The name of Mrs. Dittman came up regularly in my childhood.  […]

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This wonderful keepsake photograph captures the fifth grade class at Union Elementary School in Union (now Midvale), Utah in 1937.  It captures the styles of the times and the poverty that many people were still experiencing following the Great Depression if judging clothes is any indicator.  I love the crossing guard in the front row.

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This wonderful and odd photograph was in my mother’s collection.  It shows Clara Barker Pugmire, without her teeth and looking quite cold. Also her husband Justin G. Pugmire with their two daughters;  Theora Pugmire Hammer next to her father and June Pugmire next to her mother.  Theora is likely holding her oldest son Ronald. I […]

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My grandmother Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire played the guitar.  She learned to play as a young girl and became good enough to play with her brothers at community dances.  Her brothers played a variety of instruments.  Together they spent many evenings in the beautiful Bear Lake Valley, both in Utah and Idaho, making music for […]

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This keepsake photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin.  The unknown woman is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families of Utah.

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This group photograph is connected to a school science fair in Sevier County, Utah about 1893.  The young man on the left in front is Nephi James Bates (1875-1958).  Others in the group photograph appear in other photographs from the same sitting.  Who are the young men in this and its companion photographs on this […]

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This keepsake photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin.  The young man is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families of Utah.  Do you know who he is?

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This wonderful keepsake photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin.  This baby is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families of Utah.  Do you know whose baby she is ?

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This keepsake photograph is from the collection of Julie Martin.  The woman in the photograph is connected to the Newberry-Morris-Jenkins families of Utah.  Do you know who she is?