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The records of the LDS branch at Alunite, Utah are of particular interest for the light they shed on the functioning of an LDSc congregation in a mining town. This is especially true since Alunite, just south of Marysvale, is a ghost town today. Alunite flourished during the First World War only to be subsequently abandoned. The branch records cover the period 1917-1920, the heyday of the town.
The congregation was a branch of the Marysvale Ward, four-and-a-half miles away. Hial B. Hales was the presiding elder. Alunite was a company town, and the lives of the Saints, like the lives of everyone else, depended on the vagaries of the company and the volatile mining industry. The branch met in the town's schoolhouse by permission of the mining company, Mineral Products Corporation. When the mill temporarily shut down for much of 1919, the branch stopped meeting.
The collection consists mainly of minutes of sacrament meetings, listing songs, prayers, talks, etc. Widespread problems of the day like smallpox and influenza epidemics are reflected in the collection as well as the unique problems faced by a small, out-of-the-way congregation. There is a list of branch members by family, births, baptisms and confirmations, and the priesthood status of adult men.
This collection is arranged in chronological order.
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