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CANNONVILLE WARD, Panguitch Stake, Garfield Co., Utah, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing on the headwaters of the Pahrea, a tributary of the Colorado River, and the ward includes the town of Cannonville in Garfield County and the villages of Clifton and Georgetown in Kane County, Utah. The town of Cannonville is about a mile north of the boundary line between Garfield and Kane counties, 35 miles southwest of Escalante and 30 miles southeast of Panguitch, the headquarters of the stake. Bryce Canyon, one of the wonderlands of Utah and a national park, is within the limits of Cannonville Ward. The altitude of Cannonville is 5,800 feet above sea level.
Canyon Creek Branch That part of Garfield County, Utah, which lies south of the Rim of the Basin, was used as a herd ground for the Kanarra Stock Company previous to 1874, when David O. Littlefield and Orley D. Bliss arrived with the intention of making their residence there, attention having been drawn to the place as a desirable location for a settlement. The following year (1875) more settlers arrived and the people named the locality Clifton, on account of the cliff formations in the district. In 1876 more settlers arrived and a branch organization was effected as a part of the Panguitch Ward, with Jonathan T. Packer as president. On Aug. 5, 1877, this branch became a ward, with Jonathan T. Packer as Bishop. That year a better location for a town having been chosen about a mile and a half up stream, another townsite was located, to which all the houses, mostly log cabins, and also the schoolhouse (used for all public purposes) were moved. The new settlement was called Cannonville, in honor of Apostle George Q. Cannon. As more settlers took up land adjacent to Cannonville, other villages came into existence and in 1888 the Cannonville Ward contained also the settlements of Henrieville and Georgetown and later Tropic. In 1889 Henrieville was detached from Cannonville and organized as a separate ward, and in 1894 Georgetown and Tropic were also separated from Cannonville and given separate ward organizations; Georgetown later became a branch of Cannonville Ward. Following are the names of the Bishops of the Cannonville Ward: Jonathan T. Packer, 1877-1880; Ira B. Elmer, 1880-1884; Wm. J. Henderson, 1884-1891; Seth Johnson, 1891-1894; Wm. W. Willis, 1894-1900; James N. Henderson, 1900-1907; Sixtus E. Johnson, 1907-1909; Wm. J. Henderson, jun., 1909-1917; O. Wilford Clark, 1918-1929, and Benjamin F. Campbell, 1929-1930. Bishop Campbell presided Dec. 31, 1930, on which date the Cannonville Ward had a membership of 222, including 52 children. The Cannonville Precinct in 1930 had a total population of 227.
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