Beautiful Family: Ellen and Asa with their first 7 of 12 children. Grandpa Larry was the next child born after this photo. Taken about 1915.
Papago Ward, Maricopa Stake, Arizona, is composed chiefly of Indians residing in the Papago Indian Reservation in Salt River Valley, Maricopa County. These Indians belong chiefly to the Pima and Maricopa tribes which have been known to the Latter-day Saints since 1846 when the Mormon Battalion passed through Arizona en route from the Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. Later, missionaries labored among them with considerable success and many of them were baptized. Among these missionaries was George Mason Tiffany, a Utah pioneer of 1852, and his wife, Sarah Jane YORK Tiffany , who spent twenty-two years, from 1884 to 1906, teaching the Indians. On September 27, 1891, he became bishop of Papago Ward. Incarcion Valenzula was the Indian interpreter, but George soon learned to speak both the SpAnish and Indian languages.______________________________________Taken from ancestry.com on December 10, 2002 -
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