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Gadfield Elm Conference
GADFIELD ELM CONFERENCE, British Mission, organized June 14, 1840, originally called the Bran Green and Gadfield Elm Conference, was the first conference organized in the British Mission and consisted of members of the Bran Green and Gadfield Elm Branch of the Froome’s Hill circuit of United Brethren who became members of the Church largely through the efforts of Apostle Wilford Woodruff. At the time of its organization the conference contained the following branches: Bran Green, Gadfield Elm, Kilcott, Twigworth, Ryton, Lime Street, Deerhurst, Apperley, Norton and Leigh in Worcestershire and Herefordshire (England) and vicinity. Gadfield Elm Conference was transferred to the Cheltenham Conference in 1842.
Galeana Branch
GALEANA BRANCH, Juarez Stake, Chihuahua, Mexico, consisted of a few Latter-day Saints who located in Galeana Valley in 1895.
Bishop Geo. W. Sevey of Juarez, being desirous of making a settlement of saints in Galeana Valley, invited Franklin Spencer and Edmund Durfee and some others in 1895 to take their families into that district of country. These prospective settlers located near the Mexican town of Hidalgo, but on account of malaria all except Elders Spencer and Durfee returned to their former homes. The two remaining brethren, with their families, moved to a higher location, known as “El Torreon” (the tower), near which were many Aztec relics. Here they erected a community house in Mexican style, each family having their portion. The place became a veritable paradise of vines and flowers and a large amount of honey was raised. A considerable amount of missionary work was done among the Mexicans while teaching them to drain their land and improve their homes. Bro. Spencer acted as presiding Elder of the little community and Bro. Durfee as superintendent of the Sunday school. Records of meetings were made and reports sent regularly to the Juarez Stake authorities. In 1905 Edmund Durfee moved his family to Dublan, and in 1912, on account of the revolution in Mexico (when the settlements of the saints in Mexico were abandoned), Elder Spencer was instructed by the stake authorities to come to Dublan. Upon his arrival there he found the place vacated, but he and his family remained in Dublan so that when, a few years later, the colonists returned, the Spencers were there to welcome them.
Previous to the revolution, Elder Spencer was in communication with Pres. Diaz of the Mexican Republic in regard to the establishment of an Agricultural College in Galeana Valley, but on account of unsettled political conditions, nothing further was done in the matter.
Gallatin
GALLATIN, Daviess. Co., Missouri, is noted in Church history as the place where the Missouri persecutions of the Latter-day Saints originated, resulting in the expulsion of the saints from the state. At an election held Aug. 6, 1838, at Callatin, the brethren, maintaining their rights as American citizens, fought desperately with the mob who tried to prevent them from voting; the brethren gained the victory. (See “Historical Record”, Vol. 8, p. 730.)