Thursday, July 8th, 2021
As newly married Willard Bean entered a stake conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Richfield, Utah, in 1915, he was asked to immediately come to the podium by Joseph F. Smith, President...
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Thursday, June 24th, 2021
The James L. Bevan Tooele Pioneer Museum located at 50 E. Vine Street in Tooele is quickly becoming a “not to be missed” walk back into history. The museum director and other volunteers have made several intriguing...
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2021
Many know the story of Joseph Smith and his campaign for President of the United States in 1844. Most have considered it an impossible and foolish campaign with not even the barest chance of success. Not so...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2021
The headstone of Archibald McPhail symbolizes a magnificent story of the Mormon Pioneer Trail this writer had never heard before, though he traveled the trail four times and researched to lead three groups over it which included...
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
When I came home from an LDS mission to Sweden in 1969, I was surprised to find out that the church building on the corner of Main Street and Vine Street in Tooele had been bulldozed and...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2018
Unlike the Native American story called the “Trail of Tears,” a similar story about an oppressed people being driven from their homes is called the “Trail of Hope.” Leaving everything in the hand of the Lord,...
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Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Carol Johnson Cluff has been a busy farm girl, from helping deliver 700 calves on the Johnson Family Ranch in Rush Valley to sharing her family history with the Settlement Canyon Chapter of the Sons of Utah...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
Elayne Pearson wove a tale of pre-drugstore days when Utah pioneers had to find and use natural remedies to overcome various sicknesses during the local Sons of Utah Pioneers’ meeting on Feb. 1. Those same remedies and...
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Tuesday, January 23rd, 2018
The local Sons of Utah Pioneers have been restoring and replacing six damaged or vandalized Pony Express Trail monuments from East Rush Valley to Burnt Station near Gold Hill since 2016. The Settlement Canyon Chapter of the...
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Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Janette Bunn presented the Sons of the Utah Pioneers group with the history of Tooele’s first department store, built in the 1800s as an underground store. The store was owned and managed by the Ajax family in...
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