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#[http://usgenwebsites.org/UTGenWeb/Sanpete/fairviewpioneercem.html Sanpete County UTGenWeb Project]  
#[http://usgenwebsites.org/UTGenWeb/Sanpete/fairviewpioneercem.html Sanpete County UTGenWeb Project]  
#[http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~headstones/genealogy/sanpeteco/fairview/index.html Vickie's Homepage of Utah Headstone Photos]
#Utah State History - Cemetery Database - not available as stand alone. Please refer to above cemetery for the combined database.<br>  
#Utah State History - Cemetery Database - not available as stand alone. Please refer to above cemetery for the combined database.<br>  
#'''Histories of those buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery''', Fairview, Utah,&nbsp;compiled by the North Bend DUP <ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79804438 WorldCat]</ref> <ref>{{FHL|988488|title-id|disp="FamilySearch Catalog US/Can Book 979.2563/F2 V3n"}}</ref>  
#'''Histories of those buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery''', Fairview, Utah,&nbsp;compiled by the North Bend DUP <ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79804438 WorldCat]</ref> <ref>{{FHL|988488|title-id|disp="FamilySearch Catalog US/Can Book 979.2563/F2 V3n"}}</ref>  

Revision as of 21:37, 11 February 2019

City Hall[edit | edit source]

http://fairviewcity.com/
Fairview City Hall
165 North State Street
Fairview, UT 84629
Phone: (435) 427-3858
Fax: (435) 427-3275

Quick Facts[edit | edit source]

Wikipedia

1 October 1859: Founded as North Bend during the second wave of Mormon settlement in the Sanpete Valley.

1864: Renamed Fairview when postoffice was obtained.

Resources[edit | edit source]

Biography[edit | edit source]

  1. Mother's memories, 1982, Estella Harmon [1]
  2. Sheepherding in the Fairview, Utah area, A. J. Anderson [2]
  3. Henry Weeks Sanderson : from Blandford, Massachusetts to Fairview, Utah : an autobiography [3]

Cemeteries[edit | edit source]

There are two cemeteries in Fairview; an upper cemetery and a lower cemetery. The lower cemetery is also known as the pioneer cemetery. It was used in the early years of the settlement. The first interments were in 1859. The transcription includes all interments from 1859 to 1900.

Fairview Cemetery

  1. Vickie's Homepage of Utah Headstone Photos
  2. USGS GNIS FID 1440984
  3. Hometown Locator
  4. Findagrave.com
  5. Utah State History - click on "Search for a Person", then select "Fairview Upper and Lower Cemetery" for more complete listing.
  6. BillionGraves page for this cemetery, searchable database, Google map, headstone photos.

Fairview Pioneer Cemetery (aka Lower Cemetery)

  1. Sanpete County UTGenWeb Project
  2. Vickie's Homepage of Utah Headstone Photos
  3. Utah State History - Cemetery Database - not available as stand alone. Please refer to above cemetery for the combined database.
  4. Histories of those buried in the Old Pioneer Cemetery, Fairview, Utah, compiled by the North Bend DUP [4] [5]
  5. Cemetery records, Lower Fairview Cemetery (up to 1952), copied by Annie Carlston Bills [6]
  6. A record of the lower (old) cemetary [sic] of Fairview, compiled..., (up to 1975) by Olea Day Cox...indexed by Nancy Cox MacKay [7]

Census[edit | edit source]

  • 1860 - as North Bend
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
United States Census 1860
  • 1870
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
United States Census 1870
  • 1880
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
United States Census 1880 - no images
  • 1890
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
  • 1900
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
United States Census 1900
  • 1910
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
United States Census 1910
  • 1920
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com (LAR)
United States Census 1920
  • 1930
Ancestry.com (FI$)
heritagequestonline.com, no index, browse available (LAR)
United States Census 1930
FamilySearch

Church History and Records[edit | edit source]

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  1. Fairview (North Sanpete Stake)
  1. Genealogy record of the high priest quorum, 1895-1907 [8]
  2. Record of members, 1860-1907 [9]
  3. Form E (annual genealogical report), 1907-1921 [10]
  4. Record of members, 1862-1906 [11]
  1. Fairview North
  1. History of Fairview North Ward Relief Society, compiled by Hansen, Lucile M. [12]
  2. Record of members, 1921-1941 [13]
  3. Form E (annual genealogical report), 1921-1948 [14]
  1. Fairview South
  1. Record of members, 1921-1941 [15]
  2. Form E (annual genealogical report), 1921-1948 [16]

Gazetteers[edit | edit source]

History[edit | edit source]

see also: Cemeteries - Fairview Lower Cemetery

  1. History of Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah [17]
  2. A History of Fairview: 1930-1931, by Olson and Coombs [18]
  3. Fairview Museum oral history project, 1975-1994. [19]

Maps[edit | edit source]

  1. USGS GNIS FID 1440983
  2. Google
  3. Hometown Locator

Military History and Records[edit | edit source]

Newspapers[edit | edit source]

Societies, Libraries and Museums[edit | edit source]

  1. Fairview Museum of History and Art
    85 North 100 East, Fairview
    Phone: 435-427-9216
    PO Box 157, Fairview, UT 84629
    The museum is full of historical data, artifacts pictures and artwork, including full scale replica of a nearly fully intact Columbian mammoth. The mammoth was unearthed on the nearby Wasatch Plateau in 1988 while excavating the Huntington Reservoir.

Websites[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]