Fairview, Utah

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

Quick Facts
Wikipedia

1 October 1859: Founded as North Bend during the second wave of Latter-day Saint settlement in the Sanpete Valley.

1864: Renamed Fairview when postoffice was obtained.

Biography

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

Cemeteries
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
 * 5) Cemetery records, Lower Fairview Cemetery (up to 1952), copied by Annie Carlston Bills
 * 6) A record of the lower (old) cemetary [sic] of Fairview, compiled..., (up to 1975) by Olea Day Cox...indexed by Nancy Cox MacKay

Census

 * 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
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints


 * 1) Fairview (North Sanpete Stake)


 * Genealogy record of the high priest quorum, 1895-1907
 * Record of members, 1860-1907
 * Form E (annual genealogical report), 1907-1921
 * Record of members, 1862-1906


 * 1) Fairview North


 * History of Fairview North Ward Relief Society, compiled by Hansen, Lucile M.
 * Record of members, 1921-1941
 * Form E (annual genealogical report), 1921-1948


 * 1) Fairview South


 * Record of members, 1921-1941
 * Form E (annual genealogical report), 1921-1948

History
see also: Cemeteries - Fairview Lower Cemetery


 * 1) History of Fairview, Sanpete County, Utah
 * 2) A History of Fairview: 1930-1931, by Olson and Coombs
 * 3) Fairview Museum oral history project, 1975-1994.

Maps

 * 1) USGS GNIS FID 1440983
 * 2) Google
 * 3) Hometown Locator

Societies, Libraries and Museums

 * 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.