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 Gerald Hatch Gerald Hatch married Carol Kirkham from Rexburg, Idaho. 7 sons, 15 grandchildren, living in Colonia Juarez in summer 2008. | Dos Gringas (Kim and Kelly, sisters) Kim and Kelly are descendants of several families who lived mainly in Colonia Juarez and Colonia Morelos, although we have a few ties to Colonia Pacheco and Colonia Dublan. We are descendants of the Huish, Redd, Taylor, and Naegle families, whose connection with the colonies continued into our mother's childhood days. Our mother, and many of her siblings, are graduates of Juarez Stake Academy. We were fortunate to grow up with the multicultural gifts of this inheritance. To this day, "comfort food," to us, means Mexican food, and Christmas and New Year's Eve wouldn't be the same without chile con queso. We have been working on collecting family history and quite fortunately stumbled on this site. We look forward to sharing our family history, and learning more from all of the other members, maybe even getting some help with some mysteries. |
 G Steve Dockstader (aka GoldnSteve) My most direct connection to the Mormon Mexican Colonies is my great-grandmother Vivian Lemmon Johnson Shields. We called her grandma Viv. She lived and married in Colonia Diaz. She wrote that her parents were "called" by then LDS Church President Wilford Woodruff to go to "Old Mexico" (as grandma referred to it). She moved there with her dad and mom, Peter Lemmon and Sarah Buchanan of Glenwood, Utah, by wagon with the rest the family. Later she married Abia E. Johnson (my great-grandfather), son of William Derby Johnson (Sr.) who died at Colonia Diaz. Grandma Viv had a sister-wife, Violet Bevans Johnson. Both Violet and Vivian had a lot of children with Abia. My grandmother says she remembers her uncle Peter K. Lemmon (Vivian's brother). He was the one who supposedly chased after a few of Pancho Villas men and took their horses (and possibly killed the thieves), for stealing from his store in Hatchita New Mexico. Grandma Viv's "Book of Memories" is still intact and is full of original photos and family stories, many are of Colonia Diaz. She even kept an old hymn book from the meeting house there in Colonia Diaz, and it has a beautiful inscription on the inside cover stating it was dedicated by George Teasdale in the 1890s (go to the photo gallery section of this site to see it). Grandma Viv's daughter (my grandmother) gave me that hymn book for my birthday this past April, 2008. I consider it a treasure. Grandma Viv must have lived an amazing life, full of history and hardships, as well as great times. I posted a story written by her sister in teh Colonia Stories section of this site. It is very insightful of their day to day life in Mexico. Vivian's grandfather on her mother's side was Archibald Buchanan (my 3rd grt-grandfather). Supposedly he was being hounded by government agents somewhat up in Utah just prior to statehood, so he made his way down to Colonia Dublan. They had lost so much leaeving Utah that they were quite destitute from what I have read. I have purchased a copy of the documentary "Land of Refuge" and I enjoyed watching it very much. |  Marci ZwygartI am Marci Zwygart. My mother's father is Emmanuel Leroy Trejo known as Emuel. He was born in Chuichupa the second to last child of Melitone Gonzalez Trejo and Emily Jones. He was quite an interesting Grandfather. Grandpa would definitely tell you exactly what he thought of things. Grandpa loved to hunt for arrowheads. I remember many times as a young girl going with him to look for the shiny bits of obsidian in San Jose, Arizona, near Thatcher. My great grandfather Melitone Gonzalez Trejo came to Salt Lake City by way of Spain and the Philipines arriving in San Francisco, July 4, 1874. In the timing of the lord, only a month before, Henry Brizee and Daniel W. Jones had been called by Brigham Young to prepare themselves for a mission in Mexico. President Young said that he would like to have some extracts of the Book of Mormon translated to send to the people of Mexico and suggested that the two elders "study up their Spanish." Both Brother Jones and Brother Brizee had lived in Mexico and were well acquainted with conversational Spanish. They lacked the scholastic abilities to translate the publication and wished that a native Spaniard were available to complete the task. Melitone arrived just in time to be of real service to the church. He set about doing just that. When the saints began to colonize Mexico, Melitone was set apart as a missionary to that land. Taking his wife and four children with him, he settled in Chuichupa for the next 11 years. He loved his family and four more children were born to them while they lived in Chuichupa including my grandfather Emuel. He loved the country, farming, cattle and especially his missionary trips to neighboring states of Sonora and Durango. I have a great desire to learn more about this time that was so important in my family's life. This is only the tip of the iceburg as they say. The rest is LDS history. I am so grateful to be who I am. I have such wonderful pioneering ancestors. They through struggles and sacrifices made my life possible for me. I have a wonderful husband and together we have 12 children and quite a few grandchildren with two new ones on the way. I am grateful to have stumbled upon this site. It has brought me great joy and personal fulfullment thanks everyone. |
| Dale Clawson My connection with the colonies is from my mother. Her father and mother grew up in Conlonia Diaz. Ivan Clare Johnson and Anna Elesa Fredericksen met and started their family there, his father is William Derby Johnson Jr. William Derby Johnson Sr. and his wife Charlesette Cram Johnson are both buried in the cemetery at Colonia Diaz. Carl Anton Fredericksen, my Great Grandfather is also buried there. My mother was born, two weeks after they were driven out of Mexico, in El Paso Texas. They moved to Columbus New Mexico and then on to Arizona and settled in Phoenix. There my mother met my father whose family had moved from Toquerville Utah to Thatcher Arizona and then to Phoenix. | Laralee Nelson I'm a descendant of Abraham Done, a great-grandfather who lived in the Colonies. My grandfather, Heber Done, Abraham's son, was born in Payson, but with his family moved to Colonia Dublan in 1899 when he was 3 years old. The family left the colonies in 1912 when he was 16 years old. I'm just starting the detective hunt to see what might be found. I have names for a possible 5 wives, but lack any definitive confirmation for two of them. I wish I'd been more on the ball as a youngster and could have heard stories about his early life, but I don't recall him ever talking about it to his grandchildren. |
 Johnson Family My name is Randolph Holladay. My colony connections are from the Redd, Jameson and Haws families. Arthur Ewell Jameson, my maternal grandfather is the son of Alexander Jameson and Millicent C. Jameson. they lived in Colonia Morelos and Colonia Dublan. William Wallace Haws is the grandfather of my paternal Grandfather Lawrence Eugene Holladay. Effie Redd who married Arthur Jameson in Douglas in 1914 is the daughter of Lemuel Hardison Redd and Sarah Louisa Chamberlain Redd. In my childhood in Tucson several members of the Johnson family were prominent in the Tucson Branch of the California Mission. Viva Johnson VanWyke was not only my sunday school teacher but she also taught my father in the late 1920s. Ivy Johnson Lemmon was the mother and grandmother of numerous members of that family in our branch and the Lemmon boys: Bob, LeRoy and a third brother whose name I can't remember were dear friends of my father and his siblings. Other Johnsons who part of my growing up years w were Charlesetta Johnson Collier and Anona Johnson Duncan. My people are the Redd, Jameson and Haws families of Juarez, Morelos, Dublan and Pacheco. My name is Randolph Holladay and I reside in Salt Lake City.. |  Haws, Rowley, Carlton, HuishMy name is Sally Haws. My grandfather Charles James Haws Jr was born at Colonia Pacheco. His mother, Julia Rowley went to Mexico as a 4 year old when her father, John Rowley, moved his families down there from Nephi, Utah to get away from the harrassment because he lived the law of plural marriage. John Rowley is also buried in the Pacheco cemetery. He was only 52 when he died and left four families in Mexico until the revolution when they left and most of them either didn't return or only returned for a while and left in the 1920's. They settled in Arizona, Utah and Idaho. My great great grandfather, William Wallace Haws, also moved from Utah, to Arizona and then to Mexico for the same reasons. My great grandfather Charles James Haws Sr was born in Arizona and grew up in Pacheco. He died young, age 25, and is buried at Pacheco next to an infant daughter who was born and died after he died. His father William Wallace Haws also died at Pacheco and is one of the few buried there that has a headstone in the Pacheco cemetery. My great grandmother, Julia Rowley Haws, married again after Charles Sr died. She married Lehi Carlton, who had grown up in Mexico also. His grandfather is Joseph Ellis Johnson - William Derby Johnson's brother. Lehi and Julia raised Charlie (my grandfather) and had nine other children also, all of whom were born in Mexico except two who were born in Arizona when they left during the Revolution. They went back to Pacheco afterwards and stayed until about 1925 when they moved to Utah. My great great grandfather on my mother's side, Edward Alexander Huish,and his brother Lorenzo Snow Huish also went to Mexico. They settled at Morelos and then left in 1912 and eventually settled in Arizona. My great great grandmother Susannah Matilda Huish never went to Mexico, she stayed in Utah. Only a couple of the children went to Mexico, most of them stayed in Utah. |
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George Lake, son of James Lake Jr and Philomela Smith, was born 15 Sep 1838, near Pittsfield, Pike, Illinois. George had three wives. He married Louisa Ann Garner in 1860, Sarah Jane Hill in 1862 and Mary Edda Foster in 1868. Mary Edda is my Great Grandmother. George fathered 32 children with his three wives
I am great-granddaughter of George Lake and his third wife, Mary Edda Foster. Through his son Samuel George Lake and Samuel's daughter, Janet Morgan Lake Myers..
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