Elizabeth Pollard and John Wallace Boud had eight children. This family was struck with the loss of infant or child numerous times, which surely was a heartache for parents, siblings and grandparents. The eldest was John William, born 1880 and the youngest Wallace Pollard, born 1896. Joseph Edwin made it three sons with five sisters: Florence, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Ella, and Hazel.
John William Boud, 1 Jun 1880 - 22 Apr 1964 married Nellie Jeremy, 4 Oct 1879 - 25 Mar 1954 in Salt Lake City on 26 Jan 1905. Their children: Dorothy Agnes B. Burton, John William Boud Jr, Barbara Nelly B. Erickson. Two children also died in infancy.
John was highlighted in Utah Since Statehood published 1919 in SLC, editor Noble Warrum (FHL us/can 979.2 H2wn) in volume 4, p490. Here we are told that he graduated from Salt Lake High School and won his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Utah.
He served an LDS mission in Germany for two years and followed that with work for the International Harvester Company which took him throughout Europe. When he returned to Salt Lake he became involved in banking as a teller for Walker Brothers Bank and later for Nephi National Bank. He was a member of the American Bankers Association. From 1928 to 1940 John William Boud was vice-president of the Utah Woolen Mills. His obituary, published Friday April 24, 1964 on pB9, tells us that he was active in the LDS Church, serving in various ward and stake positions of responsibility.
John W and Nelly J Boud are buried at Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Florence Boud Butterworth, 29 Jan 1882 - 8 Aug 1953, and husband Edwin Fielding Butterworth, 15 May 1880 - 13 Jan 1962, wed in the Salt Lake Temple on 18 May 1904. Edwin grew up on Butterworth Court in the 15th Ward. He served as chorister there. They were parents of 5 children, only the youngest not surviving to adulthood. Maxine Alice Butterworth lived only four days after birth in 1918. Her siblings: Wallace Edmund, Florence, Ruth, and Edwin J. A very nice account of this family can be found in CALL BACK YESTERDAY by Edwin and Dorothy Leetham Butterworth.
Joseph Edwin Boud, 27 Mar 1884 - 12 Jan 1976 had as his bride Irene Delaney, 24 Jan 1890 - 21 May 1986. Married in 1912, they had no children.
Rebecca Boud and husband Clarence Eugene Jones were acquainted in the 15th Ward and married 21 Jun 1916. It seems they remained active in that community both with church assignments and socially. Clarence was a purchasing agent for LDS Hospital. I find no record of children. Rebecca lived 6 Mar 1887 to 2 Jun 1947 and died of cerebral hemorrhage enroute to the hospital; Clarence: 18 Jul 1888 to 26 Oct 1948, died of cancer. They are buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery, near to her siblings and parents.
Ella Boud Watson (30 Nov 1888-25 May 1977)and husband Henry Watson (10 Sep 1884-6 Oct 1974) were parents to six children including twins Kenneth Watson and Kathryn W. (Swenson) Johnson, Henry B. Watson, Maurine W. Yose, Helen W. Hart, and Elizabeth W. Yates. Kenneth died at age 12 in 1938.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
Puzey Grandchildren, continued
Albert Edward Puzey, born 2 Mar 1879, married Martha Maria Beck in 1901 at Manti. Martha passed away August 1938 at age 55 and Albert married Jean Baxter 1944 in Nephi. Edward Puzey passed away himself April 9, 1955 in Spring City.
Albert and Martha had ten children between 1903 and 1926, all marrying and raising families. As Albert passed away scarcely a week after his aunt Grace Backman I wonder if they viewed the changes during their lives the same or differently- Grace had a 15 year head start on him, would that have had an impact?
Albert and Martha's children:
Ila May P. Peterson, 1903-1964, contributor to my and others' knowledge of this Puzey clan.
Dorothy Jane P. Greenhalgh, 1906-1989
Martha Fern P. Boyce, 1907-
Ira Fay P Wilson, 1911-1978
Fanny Alberta P. Christensen, 1913-
Charles Beck Puzey, 1916-1999
Edward LeGrand Puzey 1918-1963
Willard Reid Puzey, 1921-
Alta Beth P. (Blain) Foce, 1923-
Simon Nad Puzey, 1926-
Lavina Puzey Mott, 12 Mar 1881 - 19 Feb 1955, widowed in 1928 by husband William Romanzo Mott who was born 1875 in Salina, Utah. They married in December 1902. Romanzo lies at rest in the Strawberry Cemetery in Duchesne County, Lavina in the Duchesne City Cemetery. A farmer, Romanzo passed away from an acute illness which was not identified on his death certificate. Lavina, homemaker, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which shortly resulted in her death.
This family consisted of parents and four children:
Chloe Elisabeth, 1905-1919, who died from an abscess on her spinal cord
William Ray, 1906-1973
Lela Fay 1917-
Lilly May, 1921-2002
Mary Alice Puzey Neilson, 22 Dec 1882 - 9 Apr 1950 and husband Carl Neilson, 15 Feb 1877 - 5 Dec 1957 settled in White Salmon, Washington, where they are both buried. This after moving through the US Northwest and Alberta Canada. Their children:
Velma, 1904 - 1961
Glendon LeRoy, 1905 - 2001
Ruby Rowena, 1907 - 1997
Charles Verneal, 1909 - 1992
Cora, 1911 - 1918
Edna, 1914 - 1999
Harry Swen, 1916 - 1993
Ada, 1922 - 2008
Alice, 1924 -
William H Puzey and wife Emma Margaret Robinson were parents to two children: Garland William 'Sock' Puzey and Macel Puzey Thurmond. William Henry Puzey was born 27 Jun 1885 and passed away in Magna, Utah on 7 Jan 1960; Emma R. Puzey, also of Spring City, was born 23 Sep 1888 and died 12 Oct 1974 in Tremonton, Utah where her son lived. They were grandparents to four boys.
Albert and Martha had ten children between 1903 and 1926, all marrying and raising families. As Albert passed away scarcely a week after his aunt Grace Backman I wonder if they viewed the changes during their lives the same or differently- Grace had a 15 year head start on him, would that have had an impact?
Albert and Martha's children:
Ila May P. Peterson, 1903-1964, contributor to my and others' knowledge of this Puzey clan.
Dorothy Jane P. Greenhalgh, 1906-1989
Martha Fern P. Boyce, 1907-
Ira Fay P Wilson, 1911-1978
Fanny Alberta P. Christensen, 1913-
Charles Beck Puzey, 1916-1999
Edward LeGrand Puzey 1918-1963
Willard Reid Puzey, 1921-
Alta Beth P. (Blain) Foce, 1923-
Simon Nad Puzey, 1926-
Lavina Puzey Mott, 12 Mar 1881 - 19 Feb 1955, widowed in 1928 by husband William Romanzo Mott who was born 1875 in Salina, Utah. They married in December 1902. Romanzo lies at rest in the Strawberry Cemetery in Duchesne County, Lavina in the Duchesne City Cemetery. A farmer, Romanzo passed away from an acute illness which was not identified on his death certificate. Lavina, homemaker, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage which shortly resulted in her death.
This family consisted of parents and four children:
Chloe Elisabeth, 1905-1919, who died from an abscess on her spinal cord
William Ray, 1906-1973
Lela Fay 1917-
Lilly May, 1921-2002
Mary Alice Puzey Neilson, 22 Dec 1882 - 9 Apr 1950 and husband Carl Neilson, 15 Feb 1877 - 5 Dec 1957 settled in White Salmon, Washington, where they are both buried. This after moving through the US Northwest and Alberta Canada. Their children:
Velma, 1904 - 1961
Glendon LeRoy, 1905 - 2001
Ruby Rowena, 1907 - 1997
Charles Verneal, 1909 - 1992
Cora, 1911 - 1918
Edna, 1914 - 1999
Harry Swen, 1916 - 1993
Ada, 1922 - 2008
Alice, 1924 -
William H Puzey and wife Emma Margaret Robinson were parents to two children: Garland William 'Sock' Puzey and Macel Puzey Thurmond. William Henry Puzey was born 27 Jun 1885 and passed away in Magna, Utah on 7 Jan 1960; Emma R. Puzey, also of Spring City, was born 23 Sep 1888 and died 12 Oct 1974 in Tremonton, Utah where her son lived. They were grandparents to four boys.
The Puzey Grandchildren
Believe it or not I've tried to organize my paperwork to smoothly flow into the blog. And daily I find I have forgotten a page, lost a reference, dropped a number or recalled a different family. I do not find this charming! But I know it is research and report. We will not have a definitive book on the Pollard daughters- from me, at least- and if we do, by that time a professional editor will have helped erase or minimize the human errors. But I will make my best effort to do that in this space. I am so thrilled to have a sketch, even incomplete, of this family that I admire, respect and whose impact I believe will go on for generations. I believe I am Pollard with as equal a footing as I am Backman, Kirkham, Woodhouse, Gudmundsen, Mulliner, Chugg, McCullough, Mercer, Thomas, Jones, Jacobsdottir, Bailey, Richardson, Andersdottir, Lovering, or Gibbon. And I believe the same of you (with your own pedigree names).
The above was brought about by realizing I had neglected to print a family group for Mary Alice Puzey, the family group sheet being my working file for this generation; and in whose there are so few empty boxes! This correction shifts all the birth order numbers after her up one. But, I digress!
Frederick Puzey, Sep 4, 1875 to Sep 12, 1938, was born in Spring City and my record says he died in Salt Lake City. He immigrated to Canada after his marriage to Emili Nilsson in 1910. She was born in Sweden in 1875 and died in Champion, Alberta, Canada in 1924. One son, Frederick Elmer was born in Canada 25 Aug 1911, dying there 13 Oct 1990. After being widowed a year Frederick married Anna Ohlin in Dec 1925.
The area this family settled was farm country opened up when the railroad came. Unfamiliar with the place, geographically I imagine it is much like the northern farm plains of Montana, which I have seen. Silos probably indicate a farm over the roll of the horizon; Vulcan, Champion, Carmangay are communities that are named on this family record. All were founded before 1909, grew to have over 100 residents but none have a post office. This latter requiring a town, I suppose.
Joseph Henry Puzey, 26 May 1877 - 17 Mar 1962, marrying Letitia Beckstrom Allred in 1902; Letitia being the widow of Joseph Delos Allred. Joining Stephen Terrance Allred in this family were Lydia Marie Puzey and Richard Keith Puzey. Widowed later, Joseph married Olive Ellis. Daughter Marie lived until 1996, passing away in Ogden, Utah; her obituary ran in the Standard-Examiner Sunday June 9, 1996 on page 21C. Sons Stephen and Richard both were deceased in the 1980s.
The above was brought about by realizing I had neglected to print a family group for Mary Alice Puzey, the family group sheet being my working file for this generation; and in whose there are so few empty boxes! This correction shifts all the birth order numbers after her up one. But, I digress!
Frederick Puzey, Sep 4, 1875 to Sep 12, 1938, was born in Spring City and my record says he died in Salt Lake City. He immigrated to Canada after his marriage to Emili Nilsson in 1910. She was born in Sweden in 1875 and died in Champion, Alberta, Canada in 1924. One son, Frederick Elmer was born in Canada 25 Aug 1911, dying there 13 Oct 1990. After being widowed a year Frederick married Anna Ohlin in Dec 1925.
The area this family settled was farm country opened up when the railroad came. Unfamiliar with the place, geographically I imagine it is much like the northern farm plains of Montana, which I have seen. Silos probably indicate a farm over the roll of the horizon; Vulcan, Champion, Carmangay are communities that are named on this family record. All were founded before 1909, grew to have over 100 residents but none have a post office. This latter requiring a town, I suppose.
Joseph Henry Puzey, 26 May 1877 - 17 Mar 1962, marrying Letitia Beckstrom Allred in 1902; Letitia being the widow of Joseph Delos Allred. Joining Stephen Terrance Allred in this family were Lydia Marie Puzey and Richard Keith Puzey. Widowed later, Joseph married Olive Ellis. Daughter Marie lived until 1996, passing away in Ogden, Utah; her obituary ran in the Standard-Examiner Sunday June 9, 1996 on page 21C. Sons Stephen and Richard both were deceased in the 1980s.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Evans Grandchildren
Louisa Pollard and Moses Evans raised seven children, two sons: Joseph Pollard and Robert Taylor and the five daughters: Emma Louise, Mary Alice, Louie May, Julia and Grace. In birth order among the cousins their numbers were 1, 3, 5, 11, 16, 18 and 25.
The family home was always relatively near the original home at about 200 W 400 South in Salt Lake City. The rail road industry would encroach on that area; it would eventually swallow up Pollards Court. That was the era this family grew up in. The railroad was not the only industry, certainly; but it gave much work while demanding much ground. The history of Utah- of America before and then after the coming of the railroad makes an interesting study (one can easily say the same of England, Canada, India, etc and etc).
Robert Taylor Evans, 10 October 1877 to 29 May 1926 married 22 Jun 1904 to Eleanor Valentine Sharrock, 4 Jul 1878 to 31 Aug 1951. I found Robert's obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune of Sunday May 30, 1926 on page two. I nearly missed it and may have the first time I perused the microfilm at the City Library. The heading stated: Salt Lake Man Answers Call:
Aged nearly 49 years, Robert Taylor Evans died at a local hospital. The death certificate says of influenza pneumonia. He was formerly employed by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad and the Salt Lake board of education, the obituary reports and death certificate adds that he was last a salesman for Western Furniture Co, SLC. At the time of his death he was survived by widow and son Glenn Robert Evans, just about to turn 20, his mother, brother and all sisters.
Louie May Evans, May 1881 to October 1955 married a man who for years I had names Welchefsky. Never was I able to find any record of him or of her after marriage. Only in the last year did I learn that I had either mis-transcribed someone else's record or had written the name from a spoken report: the husband was Arthur L Schefski. I believe I only found this correct spelling through the Salt Lake County Clerk Alphabetical Marriage Index.
Widowed in 1944 when Arthur died of heart attack (SL Trib obit Friday Dec 15, 1944, p21)Louie May's health over the last several years deteriorated and she died in Provo at the state hospital from the results of chronic myocarditis due to arteriosclerosis. Chronic brain syndrome developed due to these health issues. Arthur Schefski had founded the Schefski Automobile Company in Salt Lake City. They were the parents of four children, three growing to adulthood: Kenneth E, Ethel and Melba. They are buried in Mt Olivet cemetery.
Julia Evans Baysinger, 1883-1972, wife of Floyd Terrell Baysinger, 1880-1970, is buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery as well. Utah Cemetery Inventory (found on ancestry.com)lists burial as 10 January 1972. I found this information only tonight, showing how my records continue to develop even as I record our story.
Recall that it was Julia's daughter Mildred Lee Baysinger Busk's death earlier this year that stirred me to action on researching and reporting what record I had of this pioneer family. Julia's second daughter Doris Baysinger Asay passed away in 2008.
Grace Evans did marry but did not have children. The Western States Marriage Record Index reports marriage to Charles Patton (21) of Salt Lake City and Grace Evans (21) of Salt Lake City wed 5 July 1917 in Salt Lake County, marriage cert # A-027317. Charles Patton's death certificate reports his death November 7, 1923 due to chronic nephritis, He was a conductor for the Denver and Salt Lake railroad. Grace was born Mar 13 1887. I do not have a death listing for her at this time.
The family home was always relatively near the original home at about 200 W 400 South in Salt Lake City. The rail road industry would encroach on that area; it would eventually swallow up Pollards Court. That was the era this family grew up in. The railroad was not the only industry, certainly; but it gave much work while demanding much ground. The history of Utah- of America before and then after the coming of the railroad makes an interesting study (one can easily say the same of England, Canada, India, etc and etc).
Robert Taylor Evans, 10 October 1877 to 29 May 1926 married 22 Jun 1904 to Eleanor Valentine Sharrock, 4 Jul 1878 to 31 Aug 1951. I found Robert's obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune of Sunday May 30, 1926 on page two. I nearly missed it and may have the first time I perused the microfilm at the City Library. The heading stated: Salt Lake Man Answers Call:
Aged nearly 49 years, Robert Taylor Evans died at a local hospital. The death certificate says of influenza pneumonia. He was formerly employed by the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad and the Salt Lake board of education, the obituary reports and death certificate adds that he was last a salesman for Western Furniture Co, SLC. At the time of his death he was survived by widow and son Glenn Robert Evans, just about to turn 20, his mother, brother and all sisters.
Louie May Evans, May 1881 to October 1955 married a man who for years I had names Welchefsky. Never was I able to find any record of him or of her after marriage. Only in the last year did I learn that I had either mis-transcribed someone else's record or had written the name from a spoken report: the husband was Arthur L Schefski. I believe I only found this correct spelling through the Salt Lake County Clerk Alphabetical Marriage Index.
Widowed in 1944 when Arthur died of heart attack (SL Trib obit Friday Dec 15, 1944, p21)Louie May's health over the last several years deteriorated and she died in Provo at the state hospital from the results of chronic myocarditis due to arteriosclerosis. Chronic brain syndrome developed due to these health issues. Arthur Schefski had founded the Schefski Automobile Company in Salt Lake City. They were the parents of four children, three growing to adulthood: Kenneth E, Ethel and Melba. They are buried in Mt Olivet cemetery.
Julia Evans Baysinger, 1883-1972, wife of Floyd Terrell Baysinger, 1880-1970, is buried in Mt Olivet Cemetery as well. Utah Cemetery Inventory (found on ancestry.com)lists burial as 10 January 1972. I found this information only tonight, showing how my records continue to develop even as I record our story.
Recall that it was Julia's daughter Mildred Lee Baysinger Busk's death earlier this year that stirred me to action on researching and reporting what record I had of this pioneer family. Julia's second daughter Doris Baysinger Asay passed away in 2008.
Grace Evans did marry but did not have children. The Western States Marriage Record Index reports marriage to Charles Patton (21) of Salt Lake City and Grace Evans (21) of Salt Lake City wed 5 July 1917 in Salt Lake County, marriage cert # A-027317. Charles Patton's death certificate reports his death November 7, 1923 due to chronic nephritis, He was a conductor for the Denver and Salt Lake railroad. Grace was born Mar 13 1887. I do not have a death listing for her at this time.
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Allred children
Lola Jane Allred Justesen (6 Jan 1873 to 26 Jan 1950) and husband John Franklin Justesen (18 Oct 1870 to 25 Mar 1946) lived their lives anad raised their 8 children in Spring City. John was a farmer. This simple, short sentence can never say it all; at the same time says so much! Farming. While her death certificate says Lola had no usual occupation we can learn from the term- farmer- on his, that she was a partner in a 24/7 venture.
Their children: Elizabeth Cleo (1896-1961), Edith Fern (1898-1987), Sarah Maxine (1901-1965), Mary Hazel (1903-1985), Inez Ophelia (1904-1990), John Evans (1908-1938), Cora Virginia (b 1911) and Lola Wnona (1913-2005).
Joseph Delos Allred, born 1 Dec 1874 passed away aged 25 on 29 Apr 1899. He left a widow, Letitia Beckstrom, also a Spring City native and son, Stephen Terrance Allred (1898-1982).
Martha Amelia Allred (29 Jun 1877-1 Dec 1963) married Sanpete County boy James William Anderson. With their family they eventually settled in Salt Lake City where James was a teacher. James passed away with coronary thrombosis at age 70, in 1945. They were married in Manti 2 Apr 1897. Both are buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Their children: Beulah Amelia Anderson Neill (1898-1971), James Clair Anderson (1900-), Vernon Hazen Anderson (1903-1964), Alton Boyd Anderson (1905-1965), Alma Owen Anderson (1909-1987), Eva Maurine Anderson Buma (1913-), and Mary Marjorie Anderson (Snyder) Foxe (1918-).
John Arthur Allred, 1881 to 1971 married first Eva Clyde Larsen and together they were survived by one child, Elva Ramola (1913-1982) who married James Rogers Fechser. John later married Margaret Ruth Henderson.
These are short, an indication of how information is available today. Many records remain confidential for various lengths of time: Utah death certificates -50 years, US Federal Census- 75 years, etc. I feel motivated to continue to research to assemble my Pollard family story, but I do not feel I need to be the "only" worker in this. Your research, your sharing of your immediate family stories- with all of this we will leave a mark for the imergent portrait of the Bishop's daughters.
Their children: Elizabeth Cleo (1896-1961), Edith Fern (1898-1987), Sarah Maxine (1901-1965), Mary Hazel (1903-1985), Inez Ophelia (1904-1990), John Evans (1908-1938), Cora Virginia (b 1911) and Lola Wnona (1913-2005).
Joseph Delos Allred, born 1 Dec 1874 passed away aged 25 on 29 Apr 1899. He left a widow, Letitia Beckstrom, also a Spring City native and son, Stephen Terrance Allred (1898-1982).
Martha Amelia Allred (29 Jun 1877-1 Dec 1963) married Sanpete County boy James William Anderson. With their family they eventually settled in Salt Lake City where James was a teacher. James passed away with coronary thrombosis at age 70, in 1945. They were married in Manti 2 Apr 1897. Both are buried in the Salt Lake City Cemetery.
Their children: Beulah Amelia Anderson Neill (1898-1971), James Clair Anderson (1900-), Vernon Hazen Anderson (1903-1964), Alton Boyd Anderson (1905-1965), Alma Owen Anderson (1909-1987), Eva Maurine Anderson Buma (1913-), and Mary Marjorie Anderson (Snyder) Foxe (1918-).
John Arthur Allred, 1881 to 1971 married first Eva Clyde Larsen and together they were survived by one child, Elva Ramola (1913-1982) who married James Rogers Fechser. John later married Margaret Ruth Henderson.
These are short, an indication of how information is available today. Many records remain confidential for various lengths of time: Utah death certificates -50 years, US Federal Census- 75 years, etc. I feel motivated to continue to research to assemble my Pollard family story, but I do not feel I need to be the "only" worker in this. Your research, your sharing of your immediate family stories- with all of this we will leave a mark for the imergent portrait of the Bishop's daughters.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Grandchildren: The Daughters' Families
Joseph and Mary Ann Bailey Pollard had 45 grandchildren, not all survived to adulthood; Elizabeth Boud, Hazel Boud, Wallace Pollard Boud, Spencer P Holding and Melvin Hilmer Backman all died in infancy or childhood. The Bishop's daughters had families close in age. While my grandfather was my earliest source of Pollard family history, he was one of the youngest cousins. I recall his stories about his aunts more than any stories of others of that generation. Joseph Pollard Evans, the eldest, was 37 before my grandfather was born in 1904. Let me share some of what I have learned of the others.
Emma Louise Evans was born 23 November 1869. She grew up in the area of Salt Lake developing as the railroad center of the burgeoning city. I am sure that Moses and Louisa's children played and schooled with other families involved with the building and expanding railroad industry and the building of a rising city.
Her obituary tells us that Emma was LDS, and that she was associated with the Ladies of Woodcraft Organization, I believe an auxillary of the Woodmen of the World, a social and service organization. She married George Merrill Creamer 23 Jun 1898 in Salt Lake; born in Ohio, George was a machinist for the Denver Rio Grande railroad shop for 20 years and at the time of his death in 1926 as the result of diabetes had worked for the Salt Lake City Health department. Emma's death certificate reports her death was due to a hepatic coma of unknown cause. She died after being ill for about one week at age 83, on April 8, 1953.
Having no children of her own she was involved in the rearing of her nephew Clarence Ira Blanchard, son of her younger sister Mary Alice, both of whom survived her as well as did sisters Louie May, Julia and Grace.
Emma Louise and George M Creamer are buried in the Mt Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City.
James Carlos Allred was born in Spring City on September 23, 1870. Even today seeing Spring City one can imagine the ease of learning about the physical world around us. The farm, the pasture, the hills, the mountains. For sport, leisure or industry the outdoors are near at hand in Sanpete County. James married in 1899 in Manti to Ruth Anine Justesen, also of Spring City. She was the dauther of Rasmus Justesen and Anine Marie Larsen, pioneers of the community known as Dane Town. They were the parents of five children: Clarence Jay, Merrill, Genile, James Raymond and Erma. Genile passed away in 2004, the last of this family. James Carlos passed away in Spring City on 30 July 1919. If I am reading the death certificate correctly his death was attributed to locomotor attoxie, from which he suffered for over a year. He had had a carreer with the US Forest Service, his wife survived him for over 20 years, passing away in Richfield, Utah on 16 Dec 1940. They are at rest in Spring City.
Mary Alice Evans Blanchard was born in 1871 and passed away 13 February 1957, age 85. She is listed as widowed on her death certificate, which reports her death occurred at her home on West 2nd South in Salt Lake City. She had been a homemaker and mother of on child, Clarence Ira Blanchard. Her husband was Ira Blanchard, a native of Iowa. I have that marriage as 20 Apr 1896 in Salt Lake City, which I find on the Western States Marriage Records Index (http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates)
I have found no other information for Ira but believe that like his father-in-law and brothers-in-law he was involved in the life and industry of that area where they made their home. Mary Alice was survived by sisters Grace and Julia and her son Clarence and daughter-in-law Myrtle Krogh Blanchard. She is buried at Mt Olivet.
Emma Louise Evans was born 23 November 1869. She grew up in the area of Salt Lake developing as the railroad center of the burgeoning city. I am sure that Moses and Louisa's children played and schooled with other families involved with the building and expanding railroad industry and the building of a rising city.
Her obituary tells us that Emma was LDS, and that she was associated with the Ladies of Woodcraft Organization, I believe an auxillary of the Woodmen of the World, a social and service organization. She married George Merrill Creamer 23 Jun 1898 in Salt Lake; born in Ohio, George was a machinist for the Denver Rio Grande railroad shop for 20 years and at the time of his death in 1926 as the result of diabetes had worked for the Salt Lake City Health department. Emma's death certificate reports her death was due to a hepatic coma of unknown cause. She died after being ill for about one week at age 83, on April 8, 1953.
Having no children of her own she was involved in the rearing of her nephew Clarence Ira Blanchard, son of her younger sister Mary Alice, both of whom survived her as well as did sisters Louie May, Julia and Grace.
Emma Louise and George M Creamer are buried in the Mt Olivet Cemetery in Salt Lake City.
James Carlos Allred was born in Spring City on September 23, 1870. Even today seeing Spring City one can imagine the ease of learning about the physical world around us. The farm, the pasture, the hills, the mountains. For sport, leisure or industry the outdoors are near at hand in Sanpete County. James married in 1899 in Manti to Ruth Anine Justesen, also of Spring City. She was the dauther of Rasmus Justesen and Anine Marie Larsen, pioneers of the community known as Dane Town. They were the parents of five children: Clarence Jay, Merrill, Genile, James Raymond and Erma. Genile passed away in 2004, the last of this family. James Carlos passed away in Spring City on 30 July 1919. If I am reading the death certificate correctly his death was attributed to locomotor attoxie, from which he suffered for over a year. He had had a carreer with the US Forest Service, his wife survived him for over 20 years, passing away in Richfield, Utah on 16 Dec 1940. They are at rest in Spring City.
Mary Alice Evans Blanchard was born in 1871 and passed away 13 February 1957, age 85. She is listed as widowed on her death certificate, which reports her death occurred at her home on West 2nd South in Salt Lake City. She had been a homemaker and mother of on child, Clarence Ira Blanchard. Her husband was Ira Blanchard, a native of Iowa. I have that marriage as 20 Apr 1896 in Salt Lake City, which I find on the Western States Marriage Records Index (http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates)
I have found no other information for Ira but believe that like his father-in-law and brothers-in-law he was involved in the life and industry of that area where they made their home. Mary Alice was survived by sisters Grace and Julia and her son Clarence and daughter-in-law Myrtle Krogh Blanchard. She is buried at Mt Olivet.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Generation Three: The Grandchildren
I realize I have yet to let anyone know about this blog. I wanted to be sure I could accomplish my goal: to tell a story about a family in which I am one of the fifth generation; about my great-great grandfather Bishop Joseph Pollard's family.
I have data now for the third generation; does this make a story? Not really. A story needs life- a family story, family life. Memories. Pictures. Tales (tattle, tall, folk etc.) As I get more of this next generation down on paper and up on screen I think I can begin to find addresses and let others -you- in on the project.
Joseph Pollard Evans was the first grandchild, born January 1867. I have found sources that list either the 10th or the 13th of January. He was born in Salt Lake and his obituary says he lived there until 1925, but he is reported with the 1930 federal census in Salt Lake, in this record with wife, daughter and granddaughter.
Joseph married Emma Frances Olson (1869-1955), daughter of Norwegian immigrants on 10 November 1897. Two children survived to adulthood: Joseph Leon (1899-1949) and Emilie Frances (1905-1976). For one son, born 1903 in Salt Lake I have found no record after birth register and the obituaries of neither parent refer to this child.
Joseph's obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune on July 8, 1940 claiming he had been a resident in San Francisco for the past 15 years. Death was due to a heart ailment. He was survived it says by a son, Leon of San Francisco, daughter Mrs. Frances Balfour of San Francisco, five sisters and one grandchild. Funeral services and burial would be in San Francisco. Emma's death notice was also carried in the Tribune and she was survived by Mrs. Frances Balfour of Los Angeles and one granddaughter. She died in Los Angeles of causes incident to age. The California Death Index, 1940-1997 lists her as Emily Frances Olson Evans. Funeral and burial were in Los Angeles.
Second grandchild Mary Ophelia Allred was born July 4, 1868 in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah. I imagine her as slight in features, delicate. I do not know where I get this image unless it is from her death to heart disease at the young age of 25. But she married, had a child, dealt with a husband affected by service in the Spanish American War.
Mary's marriage to George Sigfried Backman is reported in the Western Marriage Record Index (http://abish.byui.edu/ [Special collections]) in two differing notes: 18 Aug 1891, Sanpete Co, vol 2 p 90 and 10 Sep 1891, Sanpete Co, vol 2 p 94. They had one daughter: Lola Juanita Backman (1892-1977).
Mary Ophelia Bachman [sic] is found in the Salt Lake City Death Record Book A, page 88 (FHL film #0026554):
death #3583, certificate #5354, age 25y 4m 26d died at Pollards Court/6th W 4th S on 30 November 1893 by heart disease of 15 month duration.
George Backman, younger brother to Gustave Hilmer Backman was born in Sweden 1866 and died 1908 in Salt Lake City. His death certificate originally stated spotted fever as cause of death, which was struck through and alcoholism then listed below. I recall seeing carved ships that he had made with much detail. A veteran of the Spanish American War, he had served in the Philippines and had become ill during that time. I believe he was a clerk for the railroad, also was involved with his father's tinworks and with the building of the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
I have data now for the third generation; does this make a story? Not really. A story needs life- a family story, family life. Memories. Pictures. Tales (tattle, tall, folk etc.) As I get more of this next generation down on paper and up on screen I think I can begin to find addresses and let others -you- in on the project.
Joseph Pollard Evans was the first grandchild, born January 1867. I have found sources that list either the 10th or the 13th of January. He was born in Salt Lake and his obituary says he lived there until 1925, but he is reported with the 1930 federal census in Salt Lake, in this record with wife, daughter and granddaughter.
Joseph married Emma Frances Olson (1869-1955), daughter of Norwegian immigrants on 10 November 1897. Two children survived to adulthood: Joseph Leon (1899-1949) and Emilie Frances (1905-1976). For one son, born 1903 in Salt Lake I have found no record after birth register and the obituaries of neither parent refer to this child.
Joseph's obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune on July 8, 1940 claiming he had been a resident in San Francisco for the past 15 years. Death was due to a heart ailment. He was survived it says by a son, Leon of San Francisco, daughter Mrs. Frances Balfour of San Francisco, five sisters and one grandchild. Funeral services and burial would be in San Francisco. Emma's death notice was also carried in the Tribune and she was survived by Mrs. Frances Balfour of Los Angeles and one granddaughter. She died in Los Angeles of causes incident to age. The California Death Index, 1940-1997 lists her as Emily Frances Olson Evans. Funeral and burial were in Los Angeles.
Second grandchild Mary Ophelia Allred was born July 4, 1868 in Spring City, Sanpete, Utah. I imagine her as slight in features, delicate. I do not know where I get this image unless it is from her death to heart disease at the young age of 25. But she married, had a child, dealt with a husband affected by service in the Spanish American War.
Mary's marriage to George Sigfried Backman is reported in the Western Marriage Record Index (http://abish.byui.edu/ [Special collections]) in two differing notes: 18 Aug 1891, Sanpete Co, vol 2 p 90 and 10 Sep 1891, Sanpete Co, vol 2 p 94. They had one daughter: Lola Juanita Backman (1892-1977).
Mary Ophelia Bachman [sic] is found in the Salt Lake City Death Record Book A, page 88 (FHL film #0026554):
death #3583, certificate #5354, age 25y 4m 26d died at Pollards Court/6th W 4th S on 30 November 1893 by heart disease of 15 month duration.
George Backman, younger brother to Gustave Hilmer Backman was born in Sweden 1866 and died 1908 in Salt Lake City. His death certificate originally stated spotted fever as cause of death, which was struck through and alcoholism then listed below. I recall seeing carved ships that he had made with much detail. A veteran of the Spanish American War, he had served in the Philippines and had become ill during that time. I believe he was a clerk for the railroad, also was involved with his father's tinworks and with the building of the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Our Grandfathers, the Remaining Two
Henry William Puzey. As with many stories of early Utah pioneers and settlers Henry's is one of trial and loss. Mormonism was not universally accepted, many families felt- or were- torn apart. Emigration always involved someone aboard a vessel and someone else on the dock. H. W. Puzey was born in South Hampton 1 June 1848 to Henry Puzey and Mary Ann Wateridge. Henry, the father had apprenticed as carriage maker and it was around the time of his marriage that he heard preaching missionaries. The family story compiled by Ila Puzey Peterson and shared by several families on ancestry.com tells that while he joined that church his family did not. Wishing to gather with the Saints he left England about 1866. His eldest son, William Henry of our story joined him approximately 3 years later, departing Liverpool, England on the steamship Minnesota in August 1869 with a group of Saints under the leadership of Marius Ensign. He also took up the carriage and wagon making trade in Salt Lake City where he met another English immigrant from Kent, Lydia Pollard. This wagoner business he took with his bride to Spring City, Utah and there they settled and began their family. William Henry became ill with pneumonia during the winter holidays of 1886 and died at home January 5, 1887. In a letter to England, this source tells, his grieving father wrote: "I traveled 120 miles through the snowy mountains to see him laid in the silent tomb in the valley of Sanpete County among the everlasting snow clad mountains...He was greatly respected among the people where he lived." Neither of these men ever saw the family remaining on the English docks again. William Henry Puzey, also called Harry, left his widow with six children 12 years and younger.
Moses Evans. I have learned least of Moses- and perhaps for that reason feel particularly earnest to account for this family; recall that it was a loss in the Evans family that finally sat me down to build and share this family story. What I do know was Moses Evans was born in the south parts of Wales in 1835. The Mormon Immigration Index in the databases at the Family History Library gives Moses, age 20, occupation of smith, immigrating with David and Ann (laborer and wife) and Sarah and John, ages 11 and 9, crossing the Atlantic aboard the ship S. Curling in 1856 and the plains with the Dan Jones company to arrive in Salt Lake 23 May 1856. After marrying Louisa Pollard the Evans home was set up on west Second South Street. Moses preceded his wife in death.
Moses Evans. I have learned least of Moses- and perhaps for that reason feel particularly earnest to account for this family; recall that it was a loss in the Evans family that finally sat me down to build and share this family story. What I do know was Moses Evans was born in the south parts of Wales in 1835. The Mormon Immigration Index in the databases at the Family History Library gives Moses, age 20, occupation of smith, immigrating with David and Ann (laborer and wife) and Sarah and John, ages 11 and 9, crossing the Atlantic aboard the ship S. Curling in 1856 and the plains with the Dan Jones company to arrive in Salt Lake 23 May 1856. After marrying Louisa Pollard the Evans home was set up on west Second South Street. Moses preceded his wife in death.
Notes on Our Grandfathers, Continued
I have located the photocopied autobiography I mentioned of Gustave H Backman, and feel some notes are pertinent to our need just now:
"Referring to Bishop Pollard I here say I first met Bishop Pollard when I was about 15. I was working at the Utah Central [railroad] shops. He had been a sailor, in fact a ship's carpenter; the ropes used in the railroad between the engine and the tender were spliced or braided at the ends, sailor fashion, and upon several occasions while doing that work he requested that I (Backman, the tinker's boy) be permitted to help him. This work taking several days gave me a good chance to get well acquainted with him. He could and would talk most of the time while at work. His stories were mostly of the sea and the scenes he had viewed and the people he had met. He could only remember the good, the beautiful, and the noble and dwelt on those. I was so impressed with his splendid character, his love for the good, his great charity and particularly his sympathy and interest in the young, that I loved him for these. I ascribe much of my happiness to the fact that my children are his descendants, inheriting many of his sturdy splendid qualities. I then first met my wife, she was a little girl about twelve who brought his lunch (dinner we called it). She was bashful and no thought occurred to us that our lives would be lived together."
Gustave Backman became Bishop Pollard's son-in-law about four months after his death February 1890 when he and Grace Bailey Pollard were married in the Logan Temple June 25, 1890.
"...I had purchased a lot on Jeremy Street, intending to build next to my brother William. Bishop Pollard however wanted me to build on his lot next to the old home on Sixth West Street. He suggested that I sell my lot and buy his... we built a beautiful little home. It first consisted of three rooms, bath and summer kitchen. We afterwards built on two more [rooms] in the rear and two in the attic placing a pretty winding stair in the front hall. We became very comfortable there and there our six eldest children were born."
John Lewis Johnson. Born 18 June 1863 in Oslo, Christiana amt, Norway to Johan Julius Johansson and Inger Kirstine Thoresdotter. Legacy of Sacrifice tells us that because his parents had joined the LDS church his birth was not recorded, the official record then being the Lutheran parish records. John immigrated to the United States with his mother and two of his sisters in May 1866. A member of the 15th Ward, he served in the bishopric for about 16 years, as president of the quorum of the Seventy and as Sunday School superintendent. He accepted a mission call to Norway 1892-1894, even while having been married to Alice Pollard in February 1888.
A blacksmith by trade he was employed in the yards of the Davis Howe company when a cable broke and he was struck by a derrick which crushed his upper body, from which injuries he died as he was delivered to the hospital.
"Referring to Bishop Pollard I here say I first met Bishop Pollard when I was about 15. I was working at the Utah Central [railroad] shops. He had been a sailor, in fact a ship's carpenter; the ropes used in the railroad between the engine and the tender were spliced or braided at the ends, sailor fashion, and upon several occasions while doing that work he requested that I (Backman, the tinker's boy) be permitted to help him. This work taking several days gave me a good chance to get well acquainted with him. He could and would talk most of the time while at work. His stories were mostly of the sea and the scenes he had viewed and the people he had met. He could only remember the good, the beautiful, and the noble and dwelt on those. I was so impressed with his splendid character, his love for the good, his great charity and particularly his sympathy and interest in the young, that I loved him for these. I ascribe much of my happiness to the fact that my children are his descendants, inheriting many of his sturdy splendid qualities. I then first met my wife, she was a little girl about twelve who brought his lunch (dinner we called it). She was bashful and no thought occurred to us that our lives would be lived together."
Gustave Backman became Bishop Pollard's son-in-law about four months after his death February 1890 when he and Grace Bailey Pollard were married in the Logan Temple June 25, 1890.
"...I had purchased a lot on Jeremy Street, intending to build next to my brother William. Bishop Pollard however wanted me to build on his lot next to the old home on Sixth West Street. He suggested that I sell my lot and buy his... we built a beautiful little home. It first consisted of three rooms, bath and summer kitchen. We afterwards built on two more [rooms] in the rear and two in the attic placing a pretty winding stair in the front hall. We became very comfortable there and there our six eldest children were born."
John Lewis Johnson. Born 18 June 1863 in Oslo, Christiana amt, Norway to Johan Julius Johansson and Inger Kirstine Thoresdotter. Legacy of Sacrifice tells us that because his parents had joined the LDS church his birth was not recorded, the official record then being the Lutheran parish records. John immigrated to the United States with his mother and two of his sisters in May 1866. A member of the 15th Ward, he served in the bishopric for about 16 years, as president of the quorum of the Seventy and as Sunday School superintendent. He accepted a mission call to Norway 1892-1894, even while having been married to Alice Pollard in February 1888.
A blacksmith by trade he was employed in the yards of the Davis Howe company when a cable broke and he was struck by a derrick which crushed his upper body, from which injuries he died as he was delivered to the hospital.
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Husbands, continued
John Wallace Boud. We learn of this man from the history of the 15th ward, LDS Biographical Encyclopedia, his grandson's account in 'Call Back Yesterday' and his obituary. John Boud was born in Keokuk, Iowa; his mother, Rebecca Bailey Boud, had been widowed about a month after the death of husband and father John William Boud, in a steamboat explosion on the Mississippi river. They were Mormon immigrants from England, like the Pollard family. John Wallace was the third child, but only his mother and older brother Edwin welcomed his birth. They would remain in Iowa, and John was baptised in the Mississippi river when 8 years old. The widow Boud married William Bacon with whom she had six children from 1858 to 1868, all in Keokuk.
Assisting in the needs of home John sold newspapers and learned the trade of iron molder at a foundry where his stepfather worked. This trade he would follow in Salt Lake City after 1878. While first settling in Spring City with his wife the need to feed, clothe and shelter his family brought them back to the city and he joined the pioneer iron manufacturer Davis Howe company. He remained there his entire career.
John Wallace Boud was ordained bishop in 1910 by Joseph F Smith for the 15th ward where he served for 16 years. Widowed in 1933, John Wallace Boud passed away at the home of his daughter Jan 7, 1942.
Thomas Clayton Holding. An account included in the posting on www.findagrave.com states that Thomas Holding was born on Jun 3, 1859, to Sarah Middleton Holding, wife of Daniel Holding. It notes that Daniel Holding had passed away about 2 years before and probably Thomas was the child of Mrs Holding and Thomas Clayton. With Mrs Holding moving between Wednesbury and Chester, England the exact birthplace is not confirmed in this source.
A history of Spanish Fork, Utah informs us that Thomas Holding was manager of the shoe manufacturer associated with ZCMI there and his obituary refers to Thomas being "in the shoe industry most of his life." Wife and mother Lovina Pollard Holding passed away in Spanish Fork in 1896. Thomas Holding married Catherine Davis, later divorcing. He died with pneumonia Dec 7, 1934.
Assisting in the needs of home John sold newspapers and learned the trade of iron molder at a foundry where his stepfather worked. This trade he would follow in Salt Lake City after 1878. While first settling in Spring City with his wife the need to feed, clothe and shelter his family brought them back to the city and he joined the pioneer iron manufacturer Davis Howe company. He remained there his entire career.
John Wallace Boud was ordained bishop in 1910 by Joseph F Smith for the 15th ward where he served for 16 years. Widowed in 1933, John Wallace Boud passed away at the home of his daughter Jan 7, 1942.
Thomas Clayton Holding. An account included in the posting on www.findagrave.com states that Thomas Holding was born on Jun 3, 1859, to Sarah Middleton Holding, wife of Daniel Holding. It notes that Daniel Holding had passed away about 2 years before and probably Thomas was the child of Mrs Holding and Thomas Clayton. With Mrs Holding moving between Wednesbury and Chester, England the exact birthplace is not confirmed in this source.
A history of Spanish Fork, Utah informs us that Thomas Holding was manager of the shoe manufacturer associated with ZCMI there and his obituary refers to Thomas being "in the shoe industry most of his life." Wife and mother Lovina Pollard Holding passed away in Spanish Fork in 1896. Thomas Holding married Catherine Davis, later divorcing. He died with pneumonia Dec 7, 1934.
The Sons-in-Law, Our Pioneer Grandfathers
Before I move to the next generation, the children of the Daughters, I thought to look again at their husbands. After all, none of us are Pollards. It is the husbands- the bishop's sons-in-law- who gave us our names: Allred, Evans, Puzey, Boud, Holding, Johnson, and Backman.
This has proven to be a task I have had difficulty completing and so may continue on through a few posts. My purpose in this blog is to provide family history. Not 'A' family history or 'THE' family history; I don't want that job! But I wanted to know more about these women, my great grandmother and her sisters, and their families. You have seen already I rely on the efforts of others (Bless Them!) and I hope always to help you access the sources so you can join me in the journey.
James Anderson Allred. First Mayor of Spring City, Utah and at the time of his death considered to be the oldest LDS Bishop serving. He was born in Bedford County, Tennessee and came to Utah territory in 1861 with a company captained by William McKissick. He practiced polygamy as a faithful man of his church and community. When he died in 1904 he left two widows: Mary Ann Pollard and Elizabeth Ann Brough. His parents were William Allred and Sarah Warren. He has lineage back into the American Revolution and thus have you, from this fore bearer. I have recently come upon the Allred Family Association website: http://www.allredfamily.org/ which has provided a fount of information- but not the history I hoped (yet!). Also I have used the book Allred Family in America by Archibald F Bennett , FHL us/can 929.273 AL 57. The obituary included in http://www.findagrave.com/ helped much.
Gustave Hilmer Backman. Born in Sweden, he immigrated with his uncle John Peter Backman at age 13 and, as was the case for so many then, worked to contribute for the ultimate immigration of his parents and other family members. His parents were Samuel Christian Backman and Anna Johanna Andersdotter. Gustave's grandmother Inger Dahlberg is buried in Centerville. He studied by correspondence and was admitted to the Utah Bar to practice law in 1899. LDS, he served a Scandinavian mission 1886 to 1888. His obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday morning, November 24, 1931 and Legacy of Sacrifice: Missionaries to Scandinavia 1872-1894, FHL us/can 948 K2b were sources full of highlights. I have read a short autobiography which I have not recently found again and have some temple record sheets he completed by hand that show a masterful penmanship.
There is a bit of variation in the sources I have found for Gustave Hilmer Backman. I imagine there will be in my own history as well, if I do not write it now. How about yours'?
This has proven to be a task I have had difficulty completing and so may continue on through a few posts. My purpose in this blog is to provide family history. Not 'A' family history or 'THE' family history; I don't want that job! But I wanted to know more about these women, my great grandmother and her sisters, and their families. You have seen already I rely on the efforts of others (Bless Them!) and I hope always to help you access the sources so you can join me in the journey.
James Anderson Allred. First Mayor of Spring City, Utah and at the time of his death considered to be the oldest LDS Bishop serving. He was born in Bedford County, Tennessee and came to Utah territory in 1861 with a company captained by William McKissick. He practiced polygamy as a faithful man of his church and community. When he died in 1904 he left two widows: Mary Ann Pollard and Elizabeth Ann Brough. His parents were William Allred and Sarah Warren. He has lineage back into the American Revolution and thus have you, from this fore bearer. I have recently come upon the Allred Family Association website: http://www.allredfamily.org/ which has provided a fount of information- but not the history I hoped (yet!). Also I have used the book Allred Family in America by Archibald F Bennett , FHL us/can 929.273 AL 57. The obituary included in http://www.findagrave.com/ helped much.
Gustave Hilmer Backman. Born in Sweden, he immigrated with his uncle John Peter Backman at age 13 and, as was the case for so many then, worked to contribute for the ultimate immigration of his parents and other family members. His parents were Samuel Christian Backman and Anna Johanna Andersdotter. Gustave's grandmother Inger Dahlberg is buried in Centerville. He studied by correspondence and was admitted to the Utah Bar to practice law in 1899. LDS, he served a Scandinavian mission 1886 to 1888. His obituary in the Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday morning, November 24, 1931 and Legacy of Sacrifice: Missionaries to Scandinavia 1872-1894, FHL us/can 948 K2b were sources full of highlights. I have read a short autobiography which I have not recently found again and have some temple record sheets he completed by hand that show a masterful penmanship.
There is a bit of variation in the sources I have found for Gustave Hilmer Backman. I imagine there will be in my own history as well, if I do not write it now. How about yours'?
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