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COVE-COVEVILLE The cost of construction was $25,000. ~ site of Cove Fort was well n to the early pioneers of Utah favorite camping place for travbut no attempt was made to efimprovements there until 1860, Charles Willden and his son, El!ame to the location with a view liking homes. The following year aking les Willden brought his family , and in the month of May of that there were two houses, one dugnd a corral erected for the accom~tion of three families, including nen, who had also sown nine acres ~ain. The place was known there, as Willden's Fort, and Pres. BrigYoung and parties, as well as :~ travelers, found it a convenient ng place when traveling between Lake City and southern Utah. In the Church bought the property Ira N. Hinckley was called by . Young to erect a fort there as ection" against Indians and also in nterest of the mail route and gentravel. A telegraph station was opened there. Bro. Hinckley had ge of the fort until 1877, when he called to preside over the Millard ;e of Zion, after which his sons :e , charge, and as late as 1930 Cove ;, although privJ!.te property, was used as a house of entertainment travelers but occupied by only one ily. (}VE WARD, Union Stake, Union ()VE Oregon, consisted of the LatterSaints residing in the village of e, which is situated in a beautiful ; in the mountains in the southeast t of Grande Ronde Valley, eight lS northeast of Union, and 18 miles !s road east of 1.0. 1..0. Grande. As the 1e implies, the cove is a crescent ped nook in the mountains and conlS an area of about 15 square miles. s one of the principal fruit growsections of the northwest, particuy known for its fine cherries. 'he first permanent L. D. S. settlers ;he Cove district were· were' Josiah Rich- ardson and family. The Richardsons came from Tilden, Idaho, and others came from Canada and Nevada. All these first settlers bought land from different non-Mormons and became permanent settlers in the Grande Ronde Valley. The saints in that locality were organized as a branch of the Nibley Ward Oct. 19, 1902, with Josiah Richardson as presiding Elder.' He presided until May 24, 1903, when the Cove Branch was organized as a ward, with John A. ·Abbott Abbott as Bishop. He was succeeded in 1909 by Joseph C. Pixton, who in 1917 was succeeded by John M. Mitchell, who in 1922 was succeeded by Samuel H. Weimer, who presided until June or July, 1927, when the Cove Ward was disorganized ,a nd the remnant of the saints left in the locality were annexed to the Union Ward. Prior to to this most of the saints had moved away. COVEVILLE WARD, Benson Stake, Cache Co., Utah, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in a fertile farming district lying between Richmond, Utah, and Franklin, Idaho, its northern boundary being the line between Utah and Idaho. Eastward the ward extends to the mountains, south to Richmond, and west to Cub River. The center of the ward, where · the meeting house stands, is about three miles northeast of Richmond, four miles south of Franklin, three miles south of the state line and 16 miles north of Logan. The Coveville settlement, a farming community, dates back to 1871, when Itobert Gregory located in that locality :Robert with his family and others in the 80called Cove, about 112 13h miles northeast of the present Coveville center. Other settlers followed, and in 1877 the residents of Coveville were organized as a branch of the Church with Charles Hopkins Allen as presiding Elder. This · branch was organized into a ward Nov. 28, 1882, with John Christian Larsen as Bishop. After a successful administration covering 36 years he was succeeded in 1917 by Hyrum Lester Bair, E;.Nc...~ tt1~ r~iw&~_~c~ ef .Jc. ~ · LDS 163 ENc...~ rn~rtiw&~_~G~ cf.Jc. f<1JO~ ~'tl ~O~ ....JeN'»N ~eN'»N ~'+I who presided Dec. 31, 1930 1930.• . On that ley, in honor of Apostle Matthias F. date the ward had 230 members, in- Cowley, with Wm; WID-; C. Partridge as cluding 49 children, out of a total pop- Bishop. On the same occasion the Cowulation of 259. In 1886 about 900 ley townsite was dedicated. Bishop shade trees were planted around the Partridge presided over the Cowley meeting house, forming a beautiful Ward until 1910, when he was chosen grove. as president of the Big Horn Stake. . Coveville Ward belonged to Cache His successor, John H. Hinckley, actStake until 1901, since which year it ed as Bishop until 1923, when he was has been a part of the Benson Stake. succeeded by Ernest W. Marchant, who COWLEY WARD, Big Horn Stake, presided Dec. 31, 1930. On that date . Big Horn Co., Wyoming, consists of the ward had 821 members, including the Latter-day Saints residing in the 197 children. The total population of town of Cowley, which is situated the Cowley Precinct was 975 in 1930; about three miles north of the Sho- of these 526 resided in the town of shone River, one mile northeast of the Cowley. railroad station on the Chicago, BurCRESCENT WARD, East Jordan lington & Quincy Railroad, and the Stake, consists of a farming district same distance from the highway run- lying between the towns of Sandy on ning from Casper, Wyoming, to Bill- the north and Draper on the south, in ings, Montana. The town is seven miles Salt Lake County, Utah. The Crescent northwest of Lovell, eight miles north- meeting house is about 15 miles south . east of Byron, and about 95 miles of the Temple Block in Salt Lake City. south of Billings, Montana. It is the In the early fifties, a man .'by by the center of a prosperous agricultural and name of Bell settled on what was stock-raising community, and is the known as Dry Creek, where he built a largest ward in the Big Horn Stake. log house . which was used as an inn There is a fine stake office building in by travelers. In time, he sold his im-· imCowley, vault capable of provements to Benjamin B. Neff (who, C,owley, having a ·vault taking ~king care of the records of the stake; ., with his parents, were Utah pioneers there is also a fine school house built of 1847). Soon afterwards, Milo ·' Anof sandstone, and a commodious meet- drus located in the district and later ing house erected in in 1902. The Cowley other settlers took up land adjacent townsite is surveyed into regular five- to the farms owned by these two acre blocks, four lots in a block, and brethren. covers considerable ground. The pioThe early settlers of Crescent beneers of Cowley . anticipated quite a longed to the Draper Ward, and it was city on this location, but while the not until 1890 that the first presiding town has grown, it has scarcely come Elder, Soren Jensen, was appointed to up to the expectation of its founders. hold meetings in what was known as Nearly 90 per cent of the population Dry Creek or .P leasant View, under are Latter-day Saints. Within the lim- the direction of Bishop Isaac M. Stewits of the ward is a canning factory, art of Draper Ward. Previously (in Bjg Horn Canning 1886) Sunday school sessions had been the property of the Big Company. commenced at the home of John NewCowley was founded by Latter-day man Eddins, and these were continued Saints in 1900, and organized as a until a meeting house, a brick strucbranch of the Church Oct. 14, 1900, ture, was erected in the district in called the Shoshone Branch, with Wm. 1890. Soren Jensen acted in the capacC. Partridge as presiding Elder. Soon ity of presiding Elder until the Cresafter the organization of the Big Horn cent Ward was organized March 22, Stake in 1901, the Shoshone Branch 1896, that name being selected by Bro. was organized as a ward named Cow-. Nels A. Nelson. a