Daniels, Douglas

Allan Black (1907-2002) worked many jobs and eventually settled into a plumbing career.

Allan Black was born 28 October 1907 in Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, to Edwin Zemira and Chloe Allan Black. He grew up in New Mexico and moved to Arizona in 1926. There he worked as a trucker for movie productions, for the Bureau of Public Roads, Flagstaff Electric Light Plant and the Arizona Power Company. He met and married his wife, Genevieve Lewis, in Flagstaff on 2 April 1929. His eventually settled into a plumbing career and moved back to Blanding, Utah. He died there on 5 February 2002.

Genevieve Mary Lewis Black was born 25 January 1913 in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, to Joseph and Vivian Lewis, the last of six children. She lived in Prescott until she married Allan Black and had four children. They later moved to Blanding, Utah.

From the guide to the Oral history interviews with Edwin Allan and Genevieve Mary Lewis Black, 30 May 1978, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Uriah Butt (1897-1979) married 7 March 1919, in 1936 he was blinded by a dynamite accident.

Uriah Butt was born 5 August 1897 at Verdure, San Juan, Utah to Willard George William and Julia Ann Maria Nielson Butt. He had two sisters and one brother. He married Annie Marie Poole on 7 March 1919 in Manti, Utah. They lived in Bluff, Utah and had five children. In 1936 Uriah was blinded by a dynamite accident while working as a state foreman. He lived in this state until his death on 2 May 1979 in Blanding, San Juan, Utah.

Annie Marie Poole Butt was born 14 July 1896 in Revenna, Spartenburg, South Carolina to John Simpson and Mary Elizabeth Mathis Poole. Annie's family moved to Idaho when she was about three years old, and then moved back to South Carolina for five years. They then relocated to Blanding, Utah where Annie eventually met her husband, Uriah. She died 20 June 1984 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.

From the guide to the Oral history interviews with Uriah and Annie Poole Butt, 1978, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)