Heber was born in a log cabin on Main Street (now Washington Blvd.) and 20th Street on a Monday morning at 3:40 a.m.
ORDN DATE 17 AUG 1891
ORDN PLAC Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico
ORDN NOTE Ordained a deacon by Apostle George Teasdale, Winslow Farr, Jr., Frederick G. Williams II, and Philip H. Hurst.
ORDN DATE 11 FEB 1893
ORDN PLAC Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico
ORDN NOTE Ordained a Priest under the hands of Joseph Wright, Frederick G. Williams II, and Harry M. Payne.
ORDN DATE 4 MAR 1894
ORDN PLAC Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico
ORDN NOTE Ordained an Elder under the hands of Apostle John Henry Smith and Bishop Winslow Farr, Jr.
ORDN DATE 18 DEC 1895
ORDN PLAC Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico
ORDN NOTE Ordained a Seventy of the 99th Quorum by Edward Stevenson who was ordained by Joseph Young who was ordained by Joseph Smith who was ordained by Peter, James and John. (Heber's priesthood line of authority.)
EVEN TYPE Mission
EVEN DATE BET 1897 AND 1899
EVEN PLAC Eastern States Mission (Pennsylvania)
EVEN NOTE Dates are approximate.
OCCU Cutting ice from the ice pond DATE 1887 OCCU Cutting ice from the ice pond PLAC Ogden, Weber, Utah NOTE One time Heber fell into the ice pond. When his rescuers got him out, his clothes were frozen, and so they had to stand him in the back of the truck, drove him the mile to home, where his mother had to pull off his clothes. In the summer he worked on the ice wagon delivering ice to customers.
RESI Colonia Dublan, Mexico DATE 1890
RESI Colonia Dublan, Mexico NOTE Heber moved with his father and mother and siblings from Ogden to Mexico in 1890 rather than suffer his father's imprisonment again for polygamy. They traveled by train to Deming, New Mexico, where they reassembled the covered wagons, which they had previously disassembled and took with them on the train. The family had to live the first year in Colonia Diaz because the river was too high to cross. NOTE Heber moved with his father and mother and siblings from Ogden to (Colonia Diaz was completely leveled during the Mexican Revolution of 1912. There is nothing left of it.) The next summer they moved to Colonia Dublan, about 50 miles further south. They pitched their tents on a prairie of dry grass about two miles from the river where they had to go to get water until they could dig wells. They bought two terrenos (lots or plots of land) from a Mexican. l; They moved on the land, cleared it, plowed, planted and set out an orchard. They hired some Mexicans to make adobes, and then built them a house. Heber was chosen President of the Deacons quorum, then President of the Mutual. These were his first Church positions.
Binghampton, Arizona DATE 1909 NOTE The Farrs, along with several other families, moved from Mexico to a small settlement near Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1909. By this time, Heber and Lizzy had seven children, and Heber had taken a second wife who also had several small children. Plans had been made earlier with President Joseph Robinson, President of the California Mission, to visit. On Saturday morning, May 21, 1910, Heber Farr and his uncle, Nephi Bingham, met the train from Salt Lake and California to get George Albert Smith, Joseph W. McMurrin and President Joseph E. Robinson.
The following Sunday afternoon, May 22, 1910, the first branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was organized in the shade at the east of the Bingham home. The opening prayer was given by President Joseph E. Robinson. The new branch was called "Binghampton Branch" after Uncle Nephi Bingham. There was already a little town in Arizona by the name of Bingham. Heber Farr was ordained Branch President, Fredrick Granger Williams (Lizzy's father), first counselor and Frank Webb, second counselor. The sacrament was passed, talks were given, and the closing prayer was given by Joseph A. Farr.
Church services were held that summer under the shade trees by Heber and Joseph Farr's homes. Uncle Nephi Bingham was county trustee of the Davidson School District. He received permission to have a large school house built as more Saints and relatives were moving out of Mexico. By Sept. 1910, the school house was built and by adding the little school house to the south end of the new building there was room for a stage and two class rooms more.
Uncle Nephi got permission to hold Church services in the school house. At that time the Sunday School was organized. Joseph A. Farr was ordained Superintendent of Sunday School, Elmer Cardon as 1st assistant, J. Alma Young as 2nd assistant, Ellen Bluth as secretary, and Clara Bingham as assistant secretary. Heber O. Chlarson was set apart as Ward Clerk. The next Sunday the Ladies' Relief Society was organized with Elizabeth Farr as president, May Bingham (Nephi's daughter) and Lindy Young (her sister) as her assistants and Hazel Williams (another sister) as secretary. Later the Primary and Mutual were organized. See "History of Binghampton" by Edna Bingham Sabin, in the possession of Sherrie Farr Dunford, Julie Farr Thomas, and other Farr family members.
RESI Orem, Utah DATE 1926
RESI Grandpa Bingham's place DATE 1888
RESI Grandpa Bingham's place PLAC Huntsville, Weber, Utah
Heber spent a lot of time at Grandpa Bingham's, and while his father was in Southern Utah trying to escape the U.S. Marshals who wanted him imprisoned for polygamy, and during his father's imprisonment, Heber's mother, Melvina, took her six children (and one on the way) and went to live with her parents, Susan and Erastus Bingham in Huntsville. It was here that Heber became well acquainted with future prophet and president David O. McKay, as they played and went to Primary and Sunday School.
Married by Bishop Winslow Farr, Jr., at the Frederick G. Williams II home in Colonia Dublan, Mexico. This sealing took place in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico by John Henry Smith. Sealed again in Salt Lake 4 Oct 1899 when she took out her endowments.
SLGS NOTE This sealing took place in Colonia Dublan, Chihuahua, Mexico, and CONC occured before she was endowed. Sealed by Anthony W. Ivans