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Historyc Mexico Veracruz Mission

History …Corroborated…

(items submitted by returned missionaries and necessarily corroborated with some form of church historical documents)

The history of the Veracruz Mission really starts before it was called "The Veracruz Mission." On 27 March 1963 the Mexican Mission was split and one of the parts of that split was the south-eastern part of Mexico. The name for the new mission was The South-Eastern Mexican Mission. When church mission naming protocol changed on 10 June 1970, the name of the mission became The Mexico South-East Mission, the boundaries stayed the same.

The South-Eastern Mexican Mission encompassed 8 states and one territory of the Republic of Mexico, they were:

The states of Veracruz, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatán, and the territory of Quintana Roo.

When the South-Eastern Mexican Mission was created it contained 6 districts(no stakes):

Coatzacoalcos	Oaxaca	Poza Rica
Puebla	Veracruz	Yucatan

In these 6 districts were the following 44 branches:

Anona	Apizaco	Arriaga	Athxco
Campeche	Chetumal	Coatzacoalcos	Cordoba
Huixtla	Ignacia Mejia	Jalapa	Matamoros
Merida	Minatitlan	Nealtican	Oaxaca
Orizaba	Papantla	Parian	Poza Rica
Puebla North	Puebla South	Puebla	San Antonio Caclotepec
San Andres Tuxtla	San Carlos Libres	San Gabriel	San Jorge
Santiago Tenango	Santiago Xalintzintla	Tapachula	Tehuacan
Temosachic	Texmelucan	Teziutlan	Tierra Blanca
Tizimín	Tres Valles	Tuxpan	Tuxtla
Valladolid	Veracruz North	Veracruz South	Villahermosa

Approximate people count at the time of the formation of the mission was:

Place	Inhabitants	Church Members
South-East Mexican Mission	9,000,000	5,787
City of Veracruz	180,000	900

On the date of the formation of the mission (27 March 1963) seventy missionaries who had been called to the Mexican Mission were reassigned to the new South-Eastern Mexican Mission. They were:

Donald Kern McDougal	Daryl Lee Wilcox	Richard Floyd Abbott
James Stafford Haines	Robert Clifford Coons	Ralph Lorin Price
Roger Evans Bean	Fairen Bruce Keller	Richard J Rawlings
John Fritts Apgar, Jr.	Glen Andrian Whetten, Jr.	Neal Jay Devereaux
John Langdon DeLand, Jr.	Gene Howard Rosvall	Victor Ernest Decker
James Reed Luster	Michael S. Burraston	Jackson Ted Jessop
Howard Everett Vance	Dell Jay Harvey	Jaun Hípolito Flores
James Farnham Whitney	Leonard Rolla Williams	Rodney Reginald Jones
Douglas Edward Hoopes	Gilberto Alejandro Laguna Montoya	Adolfo Avalos Rico
Luís J David Pavón	Benjamín Maldonado Carbajal	Edward Lorell Clark
Federico Cortéz Alvarez	Efraín Aparicio Rincón	Martha Gabaldón
Guadalupe Ordoñez Palacios	Eleazar Soriano Aparicio	Benigno Peña Pech
Josefina Martinez Ramirez	Efraín Carrasco Guerrero	José Villarruel Rojas
Eleazar Rivera Rosales	Mario López Bisoso	Abner Benton Hunter, Jr.
Richard Earl Sellers	Thayne Steven Harris	James Joseph Holcombe
Leopoldo Garcia	Carlos Torres Quiros	Ester Mera Uribe
Josefina Lozano Herrera	Armando Villalobos Monroy	Ricardo Herrera Cerda
Robert Jay Whetten	Sara Garcia Serrano	Paul Young Thomas
David Laurance Tweten	James Dean Kinsey	Jose Luis Lara Castro
Elvia Zetina Vega	Angela Gómez Juárez	Jerry Warren Risley
Dale J Thayne	Ralph Edward Kurtz	Robert Willis Torrey
Jeanie Lynette Gifford	John Stephen Davidson	John Herron Giles
Humberto Carlos Uribe Rubalcava	Errol Rex McNeil	Esperanza Rodriguez Haro

(I know there are only 69 names on this list. The official church record states that there were70 missionaries, so I either neglected to copy one of the names or one of the names was left of that record. KDM)

The first mission office was located in the city of Veracruz at the corner of Simón Bolívar and Navegantes with the address Simón Bolívar #28. And the president's home was located only a block or so away at Navegantes #18.

In 1974 the name changed again, this time to The Mexico Veracruz Mission. And on 1 July 1975 the mission was split again. This time the area south and east of the state of Veracruz (along with the part of the state of Veracruz south of the Papaloapan River) became the new mission called The Mexico Villahermosa Mission (this mission was subsequently renamed The Mexico Merida Mission on 1 July 1978, and was later split again)

Approximate Mission Boundaries at the 1975 Split

After the Villahermosa Mission was split off, the Mexico Veracruz Mission encompassed most of the state of Veracruz (excluding the part south of the Papaloapan River), most of the state of Puebla, most of the state of Oaxaca, and the state of Tlaxcala. The cities covered with missionaries were:

Veracruz	Puebla	Oaxaca	Tlaxcala
Cardel Carlos A. Carrillo Cerro Azul Ciudad Mendoza Cordoba Cosamaloapan Gutierrez Zamora Martinez de la Torre Orizaba Papantla Poza Rica Tierra Blanca Tuxpam Veracruz Xalapa	Puebla San Carlos Libres Tehuacan Teziutlan	Huajuapan de Leon Loma Bonita Oaxaca Salina Cruz Tuxtepec	Apizaco

The Veracruz Branch of the church was formed 5 September 1956. This name was abandonded on 7 October 1962 when the branch was divided. The new branches that took the place of the Veracruz Branch were called Veracruz North and Veracruz South. On 25 October 1970 a third branch in Veracruz was organized.

The first stake in Veracruz (The Veracruz Stake) was formed 15 June 1975 and on 16 January 1977 it was split to form the Veracruz Reforma Stake

Some time later the mission split again and other missions were formed from the extra pieces…these included Tuxtla-Gutierrez, Oaxaca, and Puebla.

If anyone out there could help me with more information about the history of the Mexico Veracruz Mission, please send the information.

KDM@inficad.com

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