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Recording by Mrs. Iantha Harper, singing pioneer songs and reading life history of Mrs. Violet Lunt Urie (written by Mrs. Urie)

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Identifier
NFAI.O.00030192
Date
February 16 1974 (Inclusive dates)
Summary
Container: box 1
Container: folder 4
Scope and Content Note

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 the celebration of Southern Utah DUP

Oral history of Violet Lunt Urie: written when she was 89 years old and read by Mrs. Iantha Harper (niece). Mrs. Urie was the daughter of Henry and MaryAnn Wilson Lunt, 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

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