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ALLPHIN, Israel Dodge

  • January 25, 2021
A TURBULENT TIDAL WAVE RAGED THROUGH THE CREEK CHASM DESTROYING EVERYTHING IN ITS PATH. THERE WOULD BE NO ACCOUNTABILITY AS TO WHAT WOULD TAKE PLACE AT THIS TRAGIC MOMENT…A CENTURY LATER, HISTORY BOOKS WOULD CHRONICLE THE EVENTS OF THE JULY 16, 1863 PINE VALLEY FLOOD.
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WADLEY, William

  • July 13, 2020
In most respects William Wadley was typical of many other people who joined the LDS Church in the mid-1800s in England. Many of them migrated to the Utah Territory, many…
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BRYCE, Ebenezer

  • June 3, 2019
This article originally appeared in Pioneer Magazine, 2010 Vol.57 No.3 by Wendell A. Bryce Ebenezer Bryce was born in Dunblane, Perthsire, Scotland, on November 17, 1830. His parents were Andrew…
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DALTON, Charles Wakeman: A True Pioneer

  • October 24, 2010
Exploration in the early 1850 's confirmed the southern half of Utah had the potential to grow cotton, grapes, figs, flax, hemp, rice, sugarcane, tobacco and produce iron ore. In May of 1854 Brigham Young sent a group of missionaries under the leadership of Rufus C. Allen to the South. This company arrived in Pine Valley, about 35 miles Northeast of St. George, Utah on the headwaters of the Santa Clara Creek in early spring. Charles W. Dalton and family was in this company.
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