Interview with Clarence Langford

Summary: 
Interview with Clarence Langford on the history and families of the Mormon settlements in Colonia Morelos, Oaxaca, and San Jose in Sonora, Mexico.
Description: 

Interview with Clarence Langford on the history and families of the Mormon settlements in Colonia Morelos and Oaxaca in Sonora, Mexico. Topics include the Langford, Scott, Wilson, Hainy, Naegle, and Becroft families in Colonia Morelos, the flood of 1905 in Oaxaca, making bricks, the church and school in Oaxaca, diverting water from Pulpit Canyon, polygamy, the Mexican Revoloution, and when the Mormon families moved to Arizona.

Location: 
Location Description: 

San Miguel, Sonora, Mexico

Protocol: 
Archives Open Access
Community: 
Archives
Category: 
Lands and Ecological Knowledge, Oral History and Interviews, Religion
Keywords: 
Agriculture, Genealogy, Migration, Mormonism
Collections: 
Doris Duke Native American Oral History Project
Original Date Description: 
Recorded on March 5 and October 22, 1972
Original Date: 
1972
Creator: 
Clarence Langford
Contributor: 
Thomas H. Naylor, Barney T. Burns
Language: 
English
Source: 
Doris Duke Native American Oral History Project, Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona
Identifier: 
78-57-443_Side-1, 78-57-443_Side-2, 78-57-444_Side-1, 78-57-444_Side-2, 78-57-445_Side-1, 78-57-445_Side-2, 78-57_d2_f28
Subject: 
Mormons--Mexico--Oaxaca, Mormons--Mexico--Colonia Morelos, Mexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920
Type: 
Sound, Text
Format: 
Three 5-inch reels (196 minutes), One transcript (91 pages)