FOLK COLLECTION 37

Fife Folklore Archives Oral History Collection

Introduction

Date of Items:	1975 to present
Processed by:	Randy Williams
Register by:	Randy Williams
Date Last Updated:	May 2006
Linear Feet:	.25
Restrictions:	Patrons must sign and comply with the USU Special Collections and Archives Use Agreement and Reproduction Order form as well as any restrictions placed by the collector or informant(s).

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Historical Note/Scope and Content

The Fife Folklore Archives Oral History Collection consists of oral histories donated to the Archives by patrons. Each donation (collection) is named for the donor and all items in that collection are housed in a separate archival box. The collection is organized by date and continues to grow.

Folder 1:   Letter and envelope addressed to Mrs. Audrey M. Godfrey from Zella Matheson (Mrs. Alva Matheson), Cedar City, UT,

19 February 1975, regarding "round" Mrs. Godfrey was searching for from Iantha Harper. Included poem

"By-Gone Days," (see folder 2).

Folder 2:   Copy of poem: By-Gone Days," by Violet L. Urie, (aunt of Mrs. Iantha Harper).

Folder 3:   Letter and envelope from Iantha M. Harper to Mrs. Audrey M. Godfrey, 1 March 1975. Lunt family (Cedar City, Utah) history:

(grandparents) Henry Lunt and Maryann Wilson Lunt, who owned the first hotel in Cedar City and ran the telegraph;

(mother) Maude Lunt, who ran the telegram in Cedar City until the Western Union took it over in about 1910; (aunt) Violet

Lunt Urie (see folder 4).

Folder 4:   Tape Recording by Mrs. Iantha Harper, singing pioneer songs and reading life history of Mrs. Violet Lunt Urie

(written by Mrs. Urie), recorded 16 February 1975.

Songs:

(1) "Ring, Ring the Bell, Ring Ring the Bell, Let's have Dinner . . .";

(2) "Since Fifty Years Ago," (Grandma Maryann Lunt used to sing this song);

(3) "Homemade Soap," written by a DUP member in St. George, about 1938 for teh celebration of Southern Utah DUP.

Oral History of Violet Lunt Urie:

written when she was 89 years old and read by Mrs. Iantha Harper (neice). Mrs. Urie was the daughter of Henry and MaryAnn Wilson Lund, from Cedar City, UT. Mr. & Mrs. Lunt operated the first hotel in Cedar City and that housed the Deseret Telegraph, which they also ran. Also includes information on family history, first Primary in Cedar City (which Violet Lunt attended),silk growing, weather, cooking, mother teaching school for $3 a term, and married life to John Urie, m. 14 June 1892. 90 minute cassette tape

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