MISSOURI MORMON FRONTIER FOUNDATION

MMFFNW

P.O. Box 3186, Independence, Missouri 64055
Phone: (660) 354-2624

Diane Forsythe

Diane Forsythe, MMFF Northwest Chapter Chair

Attendance has been growing at monthly Chapter meetings held at the Caldwell County Courthouse at Kingston.

Chapter Meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

All interested persons are invited to participate. Recent meetings have been devoted to planning the logistics for upcoming Chapter activities for this season. Future plans call for a commemorative marker at the Far West Cemetery.

Your help is needed to accomplish MMFF projects. To find out how you can be involved contact Diane Forsythe, P.O. Box 255, Polo, MO 64671-0225

All are invited to the MMFFNW Chapter Annual/Dinner Meeting, January 2004 at the Red Rooster Inn, Polo, Missouri. Call Diane Forsythe for more information
MMFFNW CHAPTER HISTORY AND RECENT ACTIVITES
The MMFF NW Chapter was organized in 1997. The purpose of the chapter is to assist local MMFF members in sharing the story of the local experience of the early church and its members in northwest Missouri as it deserves to be told. This is being accomplished through projects of mutual interest to local MMFF members and area residents.
A number of exciting local projects have been successfully conducted by the MMFF NW Chapter, including local archaeological digs conducted between 1996 and 2002.

10 July 1997
MMFFNW -- MMFF Northwest Chapter Kick­off Meeting

The Missouri Mormon Frontier Foundation (MMFF), a non­sectarian, not-for-profit, local history group dedicated to research, preservation and the marking of significant 1830's Mormon history sites throughout Missouri, is pleased to announce the formation of a chapter for those living in the Caldwell, Daviess and surrounding northwest Missouri counties. MMFF was originally organized in 1992 in Independence, Missouri by individuals belonging to many different churches including non­Mormons. "This is a shared experience for many people of various backgrounds and the movement's history is, therefore, best preserved when all those voices are included," says Ronald E. Romig current Vice President and co­founder of the group. According to MMFF board member Michael S. Riggs, "This model of diversity has worked exceptionally well in Independence and it is what we plan to transplant to the new northern chapter."

A chapter kick­off meeting was held 10 July 1997, at the Far West RLDS Church, Caldwell County, Missouri. Special thanks to the Marlatt's and Presiding Elder Ed Davis for opening the church and making it available for the meeting. Activities included a lecture by Paul DeBarthe and teenaged Shawnee Mission East High School archaeology students. They reported on the findings of their archaeological reconnaissance around the Rich/Wallace/Gardner log house in Caldwell, County, possibly that of the family of early LDS Apostle C.C. Rich, near Mirable, Missouri.


Charles C. Rich

The President and two officers of the "Rich Family Association" from Utah were in attendance. Following the lecture a short business meeting was held. MMFF Board Member Mike Riggs organized the MMFF northwest chapter. Riggs agreed to serve as Chapter Chair and MMFF liasion until local leaders are identified and elected. Several new memberships were received and the first meeting date and location were selected. The date of Thurdsay, 14 August 1997, was selected for the first regular MMFFNW Chapter meeting, 7:00 pm, at the Kidder Institute, Kidder, Missouri. And, a schedule for this summer's continuing archaelogical activities in association with the log house was announced. Contact Mike Riggs, farwest@cameron.net, for further information.

Report of 1998 Week-Long Dig Results
Far West Burial Ground Project

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