Oral history interviews with Blanding pioneers
Scope and Contents note
Oral history interviews with Caroline Bayles, Retta Hurst, Ellen Henry Lyman, and Mary Poole, conducted on 30 June 1971, 12 July 1972 and 5 September 1973. Interviewed by Louise Lyne, Anne Banas, Mark Hollenbeck, Sylvester and Cleal Bradford and Debbie Fellbaum for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program. Each interviewee discusses the history of Blanding, Utah from their perspective. Other subjects include the Mormon colonies in Mexico, the American Indians of southeastern Utah, the Mormon church, the L.C. Ranch of Blanding, Utah, and farming.
Dates
- 1971-1973
Creator
- California State University, Fullerton. Oral History Program (Organization)
- Utah State Historical Society (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access note
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use note
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from the oral history interviews with five Blanding pioneers must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Caroline Lyman Bayles was born 13 May 1890 in Scipio, Millard, Utah to Platte DeAlton Lyman and Adelia Robison. She grew up in Bluff, Utah and married Hanson Durham Bayles 20 December 1911 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. They had eight children. Caroline died 21 June 1984 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah.
Biographical History
Alfretta (Retta) James Hurst was born 10 October 1884 in Wilford, Apache, Arizona to Joseph Henry James and Elizabeth Salome Bloomfield. Her family moved to the Mormon colonies in Mexico when she was two-years-old. She married Oscar Parley Hurst 31 August 1902 in Dublan, Galeana, Chihuahua, Mexico. They lived in Mexico until the Revolution, then moved to Utah. They had eleven children. Retta died 22 December 1979.
Biographical History
Ellen Jane Nielson Lyman was born to Niels Peter Nielson and Florence Virginia Dutson on 15 November 1884 in Leamington, Millard, Utah. She married Frederic Stanley Lyman on 3 June 1910 in Salt Lake, Utah. They had seven children. Ellen died 30 October 1973 in Monticello, Grand, Utah.
Biographical History
Henry Mason Lyman was born 17 February 1888 in Oak city, Millard, Utah to Joseph Alvin and Nellie Grayson Roper Lyman. He married Tamar Black in 1911, Ethel Jamison in 1925 and Leah Brown in 1945. He helped to settle L.C. Ranch, north of Blanding, Utah. Henry died 21 September 1977 in Utah.
Biographical History
Mary Elizabeth Mathis Poole was born 22 September 1875 in Spartanburg, South Carolina to John Henry and Sarah Ann Crocker Mathis. She married John Simpson Poole 12 September 1894. Mary died 25 February 1976 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah.
Extent
1 folder (0.10 linear ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Oral history interviews with Caroline Bayles, Retta Hurst, Ellen Henry Lyman, and Mary Poole, conducted on 30 June 1971, 12 July 1972 and 5 September 1973. Interviewed by Louise Lyne, Anne Banas, Mark Hollenbeck, Sylvester and Cleal Bradford and Debbie Fellbaum for the Utah State Historical Society and California State University, Fullerton Oral History Program.
Custodial History note
Purchased from Gary L. Shumway in 1987.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Purchased; Gary L. Shumway; 1987.
Appraisal note
Utah and the American West (Collection development policy of 20th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts, August 2007).
Processing Information note
Processed; Karen Glenn; 11 February 2009.
- Title
- Register of Oral history interviews with Blanding pioneers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Karen Glenn, student processor; John Murphy, curator
- Date
- 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States