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Show ORGAIIZATIOi OF STAKES IN THE LITTLE COLORAD 0 DRAINAGE AREA . The Little Colorado Stake 'v This, as. the first such organization to be 1M d e in A ri zona hu-", The first the LDS Church. at. en colomes on the Little Colorado founded in March had b-een but were collecti I , vel,. known as n 11le Little Colorado Missionll0' until this Stake organ i za t·loon was e £. r eet,ed Januacy 2 8, 1878. This organization was made at SAmset, on the afternoon th second ot 200 Pl76. • . Jan. 27-28, 1878, of as. follows )red.<?l e t: -' day. er ."Meetings"· ::. .: ", ..... .: held . ... , . 'tot &u. th, wi til:' his COunselors Jacob Hatch 2nd.. ", Counc and s,take:- F. G. Nielson. Members of' High Jesse O· Ballinger; Geo.· B. Gardner, John Readhead, Ira HatCh, Andrew S. Gobbpns, W. D. Kartchner, Samuel . Ladd, James N. Walker, Hiram ,Judd, Samuti' Cia.rD.,W.F:.O. Behrmann, Moses Curtis. Bishop' ot SUnset,::- L. M. Sa_g.. ; ·lst and 2nd :.Gbunselon--, respect= ively J. Bloomfield and A. Hicken. Bishop or Brigham. C1ty,:-Geo Lake; ·Counselors J. Adams and Peter Isaacsen. Bishop of· TaylGr-:-· John Kartchner;. Counselors, Wm J .'. Flake and Hamblin' 1st, and Clerk ot High . Lorftzo' H. , . . '. CoUllsU:- . " . . . . · .. . •. A. ner17 Bishop return:- .' . "',?" . .. ." ",:' -' Jcseph for the present, to act until· o. Allenls Bushman; Counselors J. H. R1<:harda and Is.ac- furl.7. ohn ... 'r.,,.- tola1g- ,ous . t Joh:..".• ."_,.a&-'·tisAoot ,,_ ·JoMp.';. .... ·givOB above, ·waa:- t.".lfl;V.lV,sh.n. timct. --In t:"lJait.ecL"'-'k look at. >01'8.,. D7 t osph',. 1le...... .... tiM., t.•.• .-tillS.,: e4:-' to: 1818. ".bib 3,""i<1"', IuJ, "t..i7. 1j1sb.,· "At- ·tIl·.aft..1t'.eo.r..--- .•t--l."". .tak., ··,.lA IlaT 2Jr,Uhl818, :t]ctacpil ' I1':jzU .taiD 4PNI1UDl"lP.cl :.I,·I'•• , t'- . .t .,. \Ul.tleP. · -- ..I · .. . .. ' '. , of St. it -_:: ,;" brethren .. .ta IMth •. e Indian, dialects· and to act., as ·1ru1ian.: inrprotor. --and missionaries: Jacob HGbliD, I. Rltch, A. 8 •. Gibbons , C. L. Cbriatens&Il, WIl. a. (faNner, Gbaha, Readhead, .ed -10 •• B.' Vaketid •. .. • r- •. ·. - , •. / .1tfjo; -·':s,eakiJl&,t,:·th;·;oB.:"Me.t;-OZ-.J""'1 '''Three or , tIl'\i&l a&.·Wv6'A.aJl·'JL. ·Ro,be·rts, 5a16':the settlements were organized into Wards,. a Bishop was made appointed in each;' the fourth (st •. Joseph) with a . __/ ing a "Branch" Presiding Elder", H. Roberts, In the same dstatement" I Ghurch Historian Brigham 11l Colorado ·Little the Oil· 88)'8:- "the saints who bad·.8ettled. LQ\.,.fai..\tt, Il, t.hat. -; , '. Yavapai, Ceuat,: 'ud.z· leaM-nld.P, of/.x.jor _"·w. take it, ':tiae-:.(iato.,f'QU setU ...t,. ('t1tl.,tt· records be local in made is! thauth••. little distinction' was Smith really Lot tween the leaders ot the four companies, in 1876). of the tour companies the leader of tbe egration •. COnference, beld in May, first Little Colorado Stake In the as wards and the "Braneh" , 1878 in addition 'to the find we Woodruff, in the "Meeting" in January, 1878, orga:Uzed thre |