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This page includes the boundaries of wards and branches as of about 1941, a timeline history, and how to obtain the records.

Contents

Source for this page

Jenson, Andrew. Encyclopedic History of the Church. (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1941). p. 49-50

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Church Units and Boundaries, 1941

Stake Boundaries
Northeastern part of Box Elder County, Utah, in Bear River Valley, also called Bear River Flat. Headquarters at Garland, Utah.

Bear River Stake, Utah LDS Church Wards and Branches:

Beaver Ward, see Beaverdam · Bothwell · Centerdale Branch, see Howell · Deweyville · East Garland, see Garland · Elwood · Fielding · Garland · Howell · Penrose · Plymouth · Riverside (village) · Thatcher · Tremonton ·

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History Timeline to 1941

This timeline (arranged by year) includes events that affected records, record-keeping, and movements of Mormons in this area.

  • 1908, October 11. Created from north part of Box Elder Stake, Utah and the south part of Malad Stake, Idaho.

Other History Resources
Many wards or branches appointed members to compile a history. Copies may be in the ward library or in homes of members. Some contain biographical sketches of members of the ward at the time of compilation.

Beaver Ward

See Encyclopedic History..., p. 53-54.[1]

Boundaries:

Bear River Stale, Box Elder Stake, Box Elder Co., Utah, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the town called Bear River City and vicinity. Bear River City is situated on the delta formed by the junction of Bear River and Malad River, it being on the west or right bank of Bear River, and on the east, or left bank of the Malad.

Bear River City is six miles north of Corinne, and ten miles northwest of Brigham City, the county seat of Box Elder County. The town lies in the wide and spacious Bear River Valley, and extends from the Harper Ward on the east to the Promontory Mountain on the west.

History timeline

  • 1866 - Founded by a number of Latter-day Saint families from Brigham City.
  • 1867 - The saints in the new settlement were organized as a branch of the Church in May, 1867.
  • 1877 - Aug. 19, 1877, when the Bear River City Branch was organized as a bishop’s ward.


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