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Haapai Conference

HAAPAI CONFERENCE, or District, of the Tongan Mission, comprises the Latter-day Saints in the Haapai Archipelago. The Church membership on Dec. 31, 1930, was 207, including 27 children. The headquarters of the district were on the Island of Haapai, situated in the South Pacific Ocean about 50 miles north of Tongatabu, the mission headquarters.

Hachita Branch

HACHITA BRANCH, St. Joseph Stake, Grant Co., New Mexico, consisted of the Latter-day Saints, mostly colonists from Mexico, who sought refuge from the Mexican revolution. Hachita is a station on the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad, about eight miles from “the corner” of New Mexico and about 40 miles in a straight line north of the most southern boundary between New Mexico and Old Mexico. Hachita Branch first came into existence in 1912 when the saints were compelled to vacate their holdings in Mexico. Many of these exiles crossed the boundary line at Dog Springs, and made their way to Hachita where they established temporary habitations, hoping soon to have the opportunity of returning to their former homes in the Mexican colonies. In this, however, they were disappointed, and at different times they left Hachita to establish themselves in the United States, many of them going to Utah and Idaho. While residing at Hachita they showed every trait of a God-fearing people; they lived their religion, attended to their prayers, held their meetings and Sunday school sessions and otherwise performed their duties as Latter-day Saints. They were also the recipients of many acts of hospitality and kindness on the part of non-Mormons and they particularly became obligated to the U. S. Government which furnished them government tents to live in and gave them transportation to almost any part of the United States where they could have hope of making future homes. While at Hachita they were organized into a regular branch of the Church, July 29, 1919, by the St. Joseph Stake presidency with Orson O. Richins as presiding Elder. In 1922, the remnant of the saints at Hachita were transferred to the California Mission.

Hagerman Branch

HAGERMAN BRANCH, Blaine Stake, Gooding Co., Idaho, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in a farming district of that name, situated in a narrow canyon located about 85 miles southwest of Carey, the headquarters of the Blaine Stake. Meetings and Sunday school sessions are held in a rented building.

The saints in Hagerman and immediate vicinity were organized as the Hagerman Branch of the Gooding Ward Dec. 19, 1920, with James H. Allen as presiding Elder. On Jan. 2, 1921, the branch was organized as an independent branch (reporting directly to the stake presidency), James H. Allen being continued as president. He acted until June, 1929, when he was succeeded by Clarence Aston, who was succeeded in November of the same year by Walter A. Porter, who acted Dec. 31, 1930. The membership of the Hagerman Branch on that date was 136, including 35 children, out of a total population in the precinct of 1,183.