Lucinda Hurst Cardon, the oldest of ten children of Phillip Harrison
Hurst and Ellen Adelia Wilson was born the 15th of May 1881 in Fairview, San
Pete County, Utah. Her early years were spent in Fairview where he
father worked in sawmills, in a flour mill and on the railroad. Also
during this time when Lucinda was a very small girl, he spent two years as a
missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
In December 1890 the family began the long move to Mexico where the
Mormon Church was establishing colonies. They went by train as far as
Deming and from there by team and wagon during the middle of the winter.
They settled and established a home in what became Dublan. A year or two
later her father leased and later purchased a saw mill in the nearby mountains
which he operated for many years. Lucinda spent some time at the saw
mill helping cook for the crew and later did all the cooking herself.
On October 6, 1900 she was married to Joseph Elmer Cardon by Stake
President Anthony W. Ivins at his home in Colonia Juarez. They
established their home in Dublan where five of their ten children were born.
In 1912 due to the Mexican revolution they had to leave Mexico, she
traveling with her children to El Paso, Texas by box car on a freight train.
Although, some of the colonists later returned to their homes, Elmer and
Lucinda never returned to Mexico to live. She wrote of this period,
“times were very hard after leaving our home, as we left everything we had
there. I left my parents and relatives, never to live near them
again.”
They went from El Paso to the Tucson area, living at Jaynes Station and
Binghamton. From there they went to New Mexico and Colorado where they
were engaged in farming.
They moved to Mesa in 1943 where she has since resided. She has
been very active in temple work having served eight years as an ordained
worker. Just a few weeks ago she stated she had done the temple work for
three thousand seven hundred names.
Her husband died May 8, 1965 after sixty-four years of marriage.
Also two daughter preceded her in death, Hazel, who died as a girl and Mrs.
Lois Chalk.
Surviving are five sons, Joseph of Durango, Colorado, Ernest of Turlock,
California, Eugene of Bloomfield, New Mexico, Udell of Ignacio, Colorado and
Lloyd of Winslow, Arizona; three daughters, Ella (Mrs. Howard Goodman), Gladys
(Mrs. Vernon Jack) of Mesa, and Mildred, (Mrs. Ernest Klienworth) of Winslow;
43 grandchildren, 120 great grandchildren and 4 great, great grandchildren.
Also a brother, Perry and a sister, Vera Cloward of Provo, Utah as well
as numerous other relatives and friends.
She passed away August 3, 1973, after a brief illness.