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Branch at Piedras Negras, Mexico
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Heber J. Grant and B.H. Roberts, on the Pioneer Trail for a
Fathers’ and Sons’ Outing
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Missionaries in Hawaii:
(standing:) Lloyd D. Davis, Lester Williams
(sitting:) Elmer C. Jenkins, E. Wesley Smith
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Beehive Girls
Beaver East Ward
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James Gunn McKay and Anna Olsen McKay
President and Clerk of London Conference
(Picture taken shortly after their “unique trip in an aeroplane …
from Portsmouth Harbor, around the beautiful Isle of Wight.
The day was clear, bright and balmy, and the view around the Isle of Wight most lovely.”)
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Ricks College
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Nurses’ Home, Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital
(operated by the Church)
Ogden, Utah
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Magna, Utah
Sunday School
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Elders at Eagle Pass, Texas
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Northwestern States Missionaries
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Smith Farm at Palmyra, New York
View of Sacred Grove, and
Creek Where Early Baptisms Were Done
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Victoria Conference, Australia
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Beehive Girls
Grantsville, Utah
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Tintic Stake
Excursion to Manti Temple
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Veterans of World War I Honoring War Dead
June (MIA) Conference, Salt Lake City
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Missionaries of Northern Indiana
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Elders of Columbus, South Carolina
W.L. Powell, W.M. Funk, D.N. Hansen, B.L. Willis
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Missionaries of the Mexican Mission
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An early Christmas present. Thanks, Ardis.
So many stories hidden behind those short captions!
the b.l. willis in the picture of missionaries in charleston south carolina is byron lerory willis from snowflake arizona.born 1898 died 1944. He was my grandfather’s cousin. check him out on family search and the early l.d.s missionary data base.
Wow, a stake in Tintic!
E. Wesley Smith was the Mission President in Hawaii, son of Pres. Joseph F. Smith
My great-grandparents were baptized in Piedras Negras in 1920! I’m almost positive the Mexican man standing next to the Elder in the back row is my great-grandfather Eduardo Alba. I’ll have to get my mother and aunts to verify for me.
There were two main families baptized at this time in Pedras Negras- the Albas (or Alvas in some missionary journals) and the De Hoyos. Elder Benjamin de Hoyos of the Seventy comes from that family line.
Do you know where you got the picture from Ardis?
That’s so exciting, Montserrat! This is one of the few images that I have a real photo (well, a scan of a real photo) rather than a picture in a magazine. It was enclosed in a letter written by one of the elders in the photos. It’s been in my file for several years, though, so will take some work for me to unearth the letter and remember the elder’s name.
I love it when you post these pictures. Thanks.
This is great, although the pictures don’t seem to be loading very well right now. From what I’ve been able to find out, the man in the back in the shade is probably Benjamin de Hoyos. Also in the picture appear to be Benjamin’s children—young Alfredo (Elder de Hoyos’s father) and Maria—and Tomas (Benjamin’s half brother and the first branch president). We think the woman sitting in front, holding the child (Julia?), is Benjamin’s wife, Francisca.
Members of the Alba family have identified several of those on the right of the picture (the viewer’s right) as members of their family, and believe that the baby could be their Samuel, although I suppose with such a very young child viewed in profile there could be some uncertainty. I am reassured that those you are identifying as de Hoyos family members, Adam, are on the left side of the picture. It makes sense to me that family members would stand or sit near each other in a photo like this.
Please don’t ever stop posting these pictures. It is so fun to see them and sometimes even know some of the people in the pictures.