Oral history interview with Vilda Hunsaker

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Title Oral history interview with Vilda Hunsaker
Creator Hunsaker, Vilda
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2009-09-28
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-01-29
Spatial Coverage Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico https://www.geonames.org/maps/google_30.3098_-108.0785.html City of Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7173635/city-of-honeyville.html
Subject Baking; Basic training; Bilingualism; Brigham Young University; Cattle; Children; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Church services; Dances; Dating; Dual citizenship; Education; Faith; High school; Husbands; Latter Day Saint temples; Lumber; Marriage; Missionaries; Military service; Musicals; Mutual Improvement Associations; Plays; Polygamy; Remodeling (Architecture); Siblings; Testimony;Theater; Brigham City Temple (Brigham City, Utah); Colonia Juárez Chihuahua Mexico Temple (Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico); Fort Bliss (Tex.).; Mexico; Honeyville (Utah)
Description Oral history interview with Vilda Hunsaker. Topics include: A little personal background, including being given her name by older siblings, growing up in Chuichupa Mormon Colony in Mexico, Living in a polygamist family, losing her birth mother at age 7, Attending church schools, Acting in school plays, Moving to Colonia Whitus, Bilingualism, Dual citizenship, Graduating from high school in Colonial Juarez, Serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico City, Asking her future husband to dance while he was at basic training for military service at Fort Bliss, Texas, Moving to Honeyville after she was married and her husband was out of the service, Remodeling an old family home, The birth of her children, Life lessons, Loving life and people, Devotion to her faith, Serving two missions with her husband after their children were grown, Working at the Brigham City Temple, Raising her children in Honeyville, Living near the School, Feeding baked goods to many of the local school children, The confusion of living in a small town where many people were family relations with the same last name, and church service.
Collection Number and Name MSS B 1931 The Honeyville Heritage Oral Histories, 2009
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 36 leaves: 1:11:26
Language eng
Rights
Source MSS B 1931 The Honeyville Heritage Oral Histories, 2009
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6k2hfmt
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2468017
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6k2hfmt
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