Mt. Pleasant South Ward Sunday School 1923

On December 9, 1900, Mt. Pleasant was divided into two wards, the North and the South. The original Southward chapel was built and dedicated in 1908. Lars P. Madsen was made Bishop, with Thomas West and Joseph Seeley as counselors of the Northward, and James Larsen, Bishop, with Christian Johansen and James Monsen as counselors of the Southward.


February 23, 1937, the South Ward L. D. S. Chapel was destroyed by fire, and on Sunday, March 27th, the corner stone for the new chapel laid. Although the new building was not complete, the opening social was held there May 12, 1939. In excavating for the new building, it was found that all that had been placed in the corner stone of the former building had decayed and the cement box had filled with moisture.
Rocks from the old building were used in constructing the west wall at the cemetery, a W. P. A. project.

MT. PLEASANT SOUTH WARD
1877, W. S. Seely, Bishop; Counselors, Jacob Christensen, Wm. F.
Reynolds, C. N. Lund, Peter Mogensen (Monsen).


MT. PLEASANT SOUTH WARD
December 1900, James Larsen, Bishop; Christian Johansen and
James Monsen, Counselors.
1923, A. Merz, Bishop; A. E. Mcintosh and J. W. Anderson, Coun­selors.
1914, A. E. Mcintosh, Bishop; Clarence Stewart, Kimbal Johan­sen, Mads Anderson and Louis A. Peterson, Counselors.
1926, Andrew L. Peterson, Bishop; Clarence Stewart and Joseph Johansen, Counselors.

The South Ward as seen today (or Mt. Pleasant Stake House)

photo by David R. Gunderson

(Excerpts taken from the Mt. Pleasant book by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf)
Photos available at the Mt. Pleasant Relic Home