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Show Concho Concho was inhabited for more than a decade by Ilfiexicans before t.he arrival of the Hormons---the latter coming in 1879" Bat e.nan H. 'ilil'1elm coming in Narch; and later came vim. J. Flake and Jesse J. Brady, who purchased a large part cf the valley, "Flake paying for his half interest a cows,' a mul,e , a set of her I a n::Jt Sure tat Flake remained in the ness, and a setof blacksmith tools. identified with Snowflake; end often we find vicinity, he has generaHy been h irn interested 1i.th his "CQ1..vSll in making pur-chase of lands to be oc cupi.ed by / The te saints, whether in a private s en se or for the Church I do not know, Hor-mons sett led a little farther up the valley t.han t.heo Ld Spanish village; 1 r " '. and ( by David j( t.he close of the year Pul_sipher, mmberof a 1879 there the t.formon were 30 some Bat.t.al.Lon, them, among of them An ecclesi.astical vlard was organized September 26, 1880, \'lith the name "Erastus" -in honor of Apostle Erastus Snow; cut in 1895 the ne ne was abandoned in favor of nConchoft---of Spanish derivation, perhaps used by the old t own The Locat.i.on is some 30 to 35 miles east of earlier; "conchavmes ni.ng shell. of St. Johns, and some 10 miles up a small miles westwa.rd SnovTflakF, perI1[:'pS 15 st r-eam of the Little Oo Lor-aoo River. As I remember main ·from the tributary t!1e Lower town, during my' boyhood days, there was an old Spanish [,.fission there. The r·'Iexican sett l.er-s were mostly pastoral; the Mormons first attempted ( _. r-- agricultural pursuits; but gr-adual.Ly changed to the pastoral al.so . . This little settlement is located _;.' • . just south of .t.he Little Colorado, and There had been Hexican settlement pErh2-ps some 9 miles north of Concho. perhaps much earlier in the vicinity; and an army officer named Hunt a mi.l,e so or east of the la.ter Hunt postoffice, t.i on Lower down the ri ver---it ate from him. ' not long after t he Kermon seeT:, however that the name did not co l.om.aa origi.n- T'le first Mormon family in the vicinity was probably that of Thomas L f1reer '....ho came there in 1879, establishing his cattle interests in t te vicinity. A nurncer of the femily later moved to Hplbrook;" end here we I remember t'1e old Greer ranch house, were wel.L acquai.nt.ed wi.t.h them... • . . "house by the side of the road"; am have not yet forgotten the amiable and kind1w ItGrandma" Greer who gave my dinner, w-,en I chanced to stop there one day in the Long ago, and then, when she Le arned my identity with pioneer families at St. JOSFPt:t, refused any in my f youth, fomewha.t as a - . pay terefor. 1991, Davi.d K: Udell of St. -Iohns _lay have lived at Hunt fer The location;had p€raps been known as Greer VaHey for some 2 decades; and his wi f'e , a daughter of John Hunt of Snowflake, was ppstmistress for some time. John Hunt had never resided there" t hough he ha9 some ;int.erexsts---trougl the efforts of 'ri s daughter, H seems, the ThE' few settLers of name Hunt was given te postoffice in honor of her f'at.her-, About peraps \ _ a short time. , . Hunt v.fere "The' 'I . pestoral and agr-i cul.tur-al., j:feadoHS"" 8 or 10 miles be l.ow St. Johns, also vias oc cupued by Normons Ln 1879. mong the early sett Ler-s was Ira Hatch, noted for" hi's long ser-vi.ce as an Indian mi.ss ionary in Nevada, Uta1 and Arizona,- some of the time a companion of -Jacob the "Leat.her-st.ock'lng of the Southwest", who perhaps about Hamelin, time, or a little later had residence ato;::l "For-t r.U lli'e;anll• le same near. Eagar in Round -, Valley,perhap |
