Interview with Alvah Fenn and Carmen Forster Fenn

Summary: 
Interview with Alva Fenn and his wife Carmen Forster Fenn on the history of the Mormon settlement Colonia Morelos, Sonora, Mexico.
Description: 

Interview with Alva Fenn on the Mormon settlement Colonia Morelos, Sonora, Mexico. Topics include his father's decision to move to Mexico from Utah due to the banning of polygamy, the journey to Mexico, building their house, his wife Carmen Forster's family history, Mexican troops coming to Colonia Morelos, running a sawmill, the El Tigre mine, the school in Colonia Morelos, brickmaking, fishing, hunting, bringing a mill back from Douglas, digging an irrigation ditch, cattle rustlers, polygamy, the families of Colonia Morelos, and a flood. The last tape is not transcribed.

Location: 
Location Description: 

Pomerene, Arizona

Protocol: 
Archives Open Access
Community: 
Archives
Category: 
Lands and Ecological Knowledge, Oral History and Interviews, Religion
Keywords: 
Architecture, Agriculture, Genealogy, Mormonism
Collections: 
Doris Duke Native American Oral History Project
Original Date Description: 
Recorded on March 24 and June 30, 1973
Original Date: 
1973
Creator: 
Alvah Fenn, Carmen Forster Fenn
Contributor: 
Thomas H. Nayor, Barney T. Burns
Language: 
English
Source: 
Doris Duke Native American Oral History Project, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
Identifier: 
78-57-536_Side-1, 78-57-536_Side-2, 78-57-537_Side-1, 78-57-537_Side-2, 78-57-538_Side-1, 78-57-538_Side-2, 78-57_d2_f26
Subject: 
Mormons--Mexico--Colonia Morelos, Architecture--Mexico--Colonia Morelos, Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920
Type: 
Sound, Text
Format: 
Three 5-inch reels (294 minutes), One transcript (129 pages)