Las Colonias Magazine

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Welcome to Las Colonias magazine. Las Colonias believes that the same pioneer spirit that first settled the Mormon Colonies still lives in the descendants of the original colonists. Sadly, with each passing generation. the biographies, then stories, and the principles that they teach become lost to time.

During General Conference earlier this month, President Eyring included snippets from the history of his great-grandfather Heinrich Eyring. President Eyring even mentioned Heinrich's mission to Mexico City and being buried in Colonia Juarez.

I've included Henry Eyring's history written by his son, Edward Christian Eyring. From everything I've read Heinrich Eyring didn't go by "Heirich" while he lived in the Colonies, probably preferring the anglicized Henry.

New Chupe Book
Jess Rex Martineau is writing a book about Chuichupa. The book will contain pictures of the gravestones from the (2)Chupe cemeteries and photos of all the homes still standing in 2007. The book will also contain a map of the town blocks with each resident's name. The book is expected to be published in late 2014. Jess asks if anyone who has good Chupe stories to please send them to him. Just send the stories to editor@lascolonias.com and I'll forward them on.

He is also curious if anyone can name the original residents of the following two houses:

Upcoming Trip to the Colonies
Marti Roe is organizing a trip to Colonia Juarez and points beyond this July. The main event includes a July 24th (Pioneer Day) visit to Temple Hill in Colonia Pacheco. If you are interested in joining her trip, send your name to editor@lascolonias.org and I'll forward your request on to her for a response.

Most of the histories are taken from Stalwarts South of the Border compiled by Nelle Spilsbury Hatch and Carmon Hardy. As far as possible, in order to preserve the author's voice, all spelling and syntax have been kept as the original text. Most numbers have been changed to numerals rather than the original text.

Las Colonias tells the amazing stories of the Mormon colonists, and introduces generations new and old to the incredible history and landscapes that act as a backdrop on which the colonists lived their lives.

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Henry Eyring
1835 - 1902

Genealogists trace the name Eyring back to the time when they accepted Christianity, the meaning of the name being Pagan God of light. The Eyrings were well-to-do apothecarists.

There father, Edward Christian Eyring, invested his fortune in the factory to manufacture an oak extract for tanning leather and after much hard work and experience, it failed, losing all. His son Henry was born March 8, 1834. Family history says this loss to Henry was probably a blessing in disguise, as it was the cause of his sister Bertha and himself migrating to America where they heard and accepted the Gospel. Otherwise, he might have remained in Germany living in a season caring nothing for religion.

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Henry Eyring

Heaton Lunt of Colonia Pacheco
book review

Marian L Lunt’s book, Heaton Lunt of Colonia Pacheco, was a lot of fun to read. The biography was written from audiotapes recorded by her father-in-law, Heaton Lunt.
I don’t think that Louis L’Amour or Zane Grey could have written better stories than the life Heaton lived. It's like a Hollywood screenwriter had John Wayne or Clint Eastwood in mind as he created a script filled with banditos, hermits, army scouts, wild animals, and gunplay.

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Lupa – Great Granddughter of Geronimo
as written by Nelle Spillsbury Hatch

In the wild jagged country about 50 miles wide along the border between Sonora and Chihuahua are high rugged mountains divided by deep, narrow canyons. Here trout fill streams while deer, bear, mountain lion, wolves, and turkey range the hills.
The climate is mild, and palm trees grow in the lower valleys. There are no weather hazards. Here with food, water, and fuel in abundance, and caves in which to seek shelter, outlaw Indians from the United States and remnants of the Apache Kid band were as inaccessible as natural barriers could make them.
Occasional trappers and prospectors unwittingly furnish guns, ammunition, saddles and tools, and ranchers living in the Arres and Bonita tributaries made good picking when cattle, corn or potatoes were needed. Even the Mormon colonies in the mountains had lost cattle, horses and mules to them.

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Lupa Great Granddaughter of Geronimo

August Christian Fredrick Bluth

1842–1930

August Christian Fredrick Bluth was born on August 24, 1842, in Stockholm, Sweden, to Johannes Christian Fredrick Bluth and Wilhelmina Liding. His father died three months before August, the youngest of eight children, was born.
As most of the older children were grown and married when he was yet a small boy, August was very close to his mother, and was a great comfort to her after her husband’s death. He lived with his mother in their small island home by the sea.
At the age of six he made his own fishing net. He would put it in the in see at night and in the morning empty is catch and will bucket which he took to a small store in trade for other foods needed at home. He also fished hook and line to help support his mother.

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August Christian Fredrick Bluth

Las Colonias magazine tells the amazing stories of the Mormon colonists, and introduces generations new and old to the incredible history and landscapes that act as a backdrop on which the colonists lived their lives.
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