Histories and Obituaries

Index of histories for Carbon county residents     Surnames A - K     Surnames L - Z     coming soon!

Histories in PDFs

The following is a collection of histories of Carbon County residents made by Frances Cunningham and other contributors. Please keep in mind if the description of the article is a newspaper article for the Carbon County News 1908 - 1915; Eastern Utah Telegraph 1891-1892 AND 1897-1915 and The News Advocate 1915-1923 and 1925-1932 then that article can be found at the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library webpage. The library is in the process of putting some of the smaller towns, "old newspapers" online.     Surnames A - I     Surnames J - Z     coming soon!

Cunningham Indexes Online

Frances Cunningham has spent many years of her life indexing Carbon County newspapers, cemeteries, stories, and books. Special thanks needs to be given to her for all the time and work she has devoted to preserving the history of Carbon County in her lifetime. She has given permission to add her indexes to the webpage thus making the information available to those who are searching for it.

Included in this index are articles that are available online by visiting the University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library. The library has a vast collection of "old newspapers" online. Included, so far, is the Carbon County News 1908 - 1915; Eastern Utah Telegraph 1891-1892 and 1897-1915 and The News Advocate 1915-1923 and 1925-1932. This is an excellent and very valuable project.

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Cunningham Indexes to Newspapers Not Online

Included in this index are newspaper articles that appear in the newspapers but aren't available online. The process to obtain copies of these articles is:     coming soon!

• Order a microfilm by interlibrary loan from the College of Eastern Utah.

• Visit the Harold B. Lee Library on the BYU campus and look it up in their newspaper microfilms archives.

• Contact the archivist at the Western Mining and Railroad Museum and ask them to make you a copy. 

Surnames A - C     Surnames D - I     Surnames J - M     Surnames N - Z

Oral Histories

The oral histories are available from the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies. The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies is an endowed organization established at Brigham Young University in January 1972. Its purpose is to promote the study of all aspects of the American West experience, with special emphases on the people who built the west.

In 1976 they visited Carbon County and conducted oral histories of some of the former residents of Castle Gate. These oral histories were transcribed and proofread by the individuals. Copies of these oral histories are available through Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 801-378-2932.