Utah

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Wilson School, Class of 1938–1947

Wilson School building, Class of 1938-1947

This is a book I received that belonged to my Great Aunt Betty Oram Donaldson. I was not sure exactly what to do with it, other than share it for family history purposes. The photos in the book were not very high quality, but I am replicating them here anyway. Hopefully this history is of value to someone else who has family in the book.

“It’s a Great Life”

It’s the time in life for all of the Wilson School Class of ’47 to stop for a moment and realize that “It is a Great Life.”

We are matured and “aged” to the point that we are willing to accept that we are what we are. We realize that all of us have talents and abilities and that no two of us are alike, but that’s what makes us successful and happy. We are happy when we use our abilities and develop our talents.

In sports and business they often refer to “a level playing field,” meaning that both sides of the competition have equal opportunities. Therefore I believe that in life competition, the only “level playing field” is when we compete with ourselves. Our goal should be to do the very best we can, because no one else has the same talents, or abilities, or past experiences that we as individuals have. It has been said that we are the sum total of our past experiences. I believe our religious freedom and our constitution give us the opportunity to pursue success and happiness.

At the reunion dinner it was noted that all of us were satisfied with our accomplishments in life and most of us were in the service of others by actively volunteering in our churches, schools, civic organizations or other needy causes. Yes! It is true that most of us are involved in golfing, traveling, or other hobbies that we have looked forward to doing while preparing for these Golden Years. The time and resources to pursue and enjoy these activities make it “a Great Life.”

I am proud and honored that I attended Wilson School and associated with all of you there. From that small class we have many success stories and important things that we have done. Each of us has his or her own success story to be proud of whether it’s related to our families, our friends, our activities in church, our civic involvement, our involvement in other special organizations, or our career successes.

It has been said that when we die if we have five close friends that we have been successful in life, If that is true, then all who were part of the Wilson School Class of ’47 are successful individuals because of the friendships that we share today.

May each and every one of us continue to be successful and happy in our daily life, and always remember that it is a Great Life.

— R. B. (Bud) Willey, Class of ’47 Student Body President

History of Wilson School Class, 1938 to 1947

Many of you attended your very first school years in another school. As each one came to Wilson we became friends and so your memories will begin where you started. For a few of us our total elementary school experience was in the old Wilson School and that is why we started this memory book with the first grade.

First Grade, 1938–39

Our first grade teacher was Miss Dorothy Poulsen. She was young and pretty and we loved her. Our first grade class room was upstairs on the southwest corner. It was large with windows on the south and had wood floors. We had tables and chairs, a playhouse, a sand table and a space for a reading circle. We read from Dick and Jane books. We carried our lunches to school and stored them in a screened cabinet in the hallway. Many of us had Snowdrift shortening buckets for lunch pails. That year the front entrance of the school faced north with steps going toward the road. There was no cafeteria. First and second grades were excused at 2:00 p.m. to go home. That year we had two age groups in our class. We met with the children a year older than us. A doctor visited our class and checked our ears and throats. There were about 29 children in our room.

First grade class photo, 1938-39

Second Grade, 1939–1940

Our teacher was Miss Viola Poulsen. Our classroom was upstairs on the southeast corner with windows on the south and east and a fire escape outside. We had desks that year and reading circle space on the east. We learned reading, math and other subjects. The school district closed the Marriott-Slaterville School that year and those children came to our school, so we had one age group of children in our classroom. About this time in the second or third grade we began getting soup for school lunches. They brought buckets of soup to the classrooms and passed enamel bowls and spoons to each student and filled them with soup. That was the forerunner of school lunches. About this time the school was remodeled so that the entrance faced the east and the office was built where the north entrance had been. The bathrooms were downstairs in the basement.

Second grade class photo, 1939-40

Third Grade, 1940–41

Mrs. Folkman was our teacher. Our classroom was the upstairs northeast corner or the southwest corner. There were 29 children in the class.

Third grade class photo, 1940-41

Fourth Grade, 1941–42

These were the war years. Our teacher was Miss Chadwick. Our classroom was the upstairs middle room on the north. These war years were very hard. School was closed in the fall so the older school boys could help harvest farm crops. We went to school on Saturdays a while to make up the time. The older boys were soldiers and were drafted to fight Japan and Germany. Many of our brothers were soldiers. No school pictures were taken during our fourth, fifth and sixth grades because all resources were concentrated on helping the war effort.

Fifth Grade, 1942–43

Our teacher was Miss Vera Shaw. She was a superb teacher. Our classroom was the upstairs northeast corner. About the time of fifth or sixth grades they began school lunches and we had tables in the basement in the hallway. I don’t remember when the cafeteria was built.

Sixth Grade, 1943–44

Our teacher was Vera Shaw again. Our classroom was on the main floor southeast corner. As an activity one day we made butter by shaking cream in a bottle then we each had a cracker with butter on it. We learned reading, math, and spelling etc. It seems like part of this year we had Mrs. McGrath for a music teacher and we made a book of all the old music composers. We bought victory stamps and gave the government the money to help fight the war. A favorite game of the boys was marbles. Each boy took great pride in his collection of marbles and his skill at shooting. The girls played jacks. We had a rubber ball and a set of 12 or so jacks and we would sit on the floor in a circle or around a table and go clear through onseys, twoseys, downseys, under the bridge or over the bridge etc. Another favorite of the girls was jump rope. If you could do “Red Hot Pepper,” or “Double Dutch” without missing you could jump quite a while. To be able to run in and out without missing was a keen skill. The boys played baseball. Another favorite game was “Pop the Whip.” Boys and girls would hold hands “tight” and run in a snake line and try to pop the end person off. We took turns being on the end to be popped off. Another favorite was “Flying Dutchman”. We were in a circle and two people ran around the circle. If your hands were touched you ran to beat the other couple to the empty space. Another favorite in winter time in the gym was four-corner kick.

Seventh Grade, 1944–45

Miss Maude Holmes was our teacher. That year for a very short while we had a Mr. Carter who was unusual. He stole some of our lunch money. Our classroom was on the southwest corner of the main floor. Around this time the school district built the cafeteria on the south of the school. We blessed the food and everyone ate together and we learned dining etiquette. The mashed potatoes and hamburger gravy and chocolate cake were favorites.

Seventh grade class photo, 1944-45

Eighth Grade, 1945–46

Mrs. Woodward was our teacher. Our classroom was on the northwest corner of the main floor. There were 27 in our class. World War II ended and the United States began it’s healing process and the rebuild.

Eighth grade class photo, 1945-46

Ninth Grade, 1946–47

Mr. Leland Reese was our teacher and our classroom was on the northeast corner of the main floor. We were becoming sophisticated adolescents. Mr. Reese taught us first aid. Mr. Wheat Taylor was our principal. Mr. Pettigrew was the orchestra teacher and some of us played instruments. We had basketball and baseball games against the other schools on Fridays.

Wilson School was a safe and healthy environment for children to grow. The teachers respected our childhood and watched over us with kindness. Every year each class in the school participated in a school program. Mr. Arthur Taylor was our principal in the early years. A Mr. Chadwick was principal for a time. Wheat Taylor was principal in our later years and helped prepare us for high school. All in all we had a memorable early school experience and look back at those fun years with fondness.

Ninth grade class photo, 1946-47

Ninth Grade Class of ’47 Reunion in 2000

Drauca Marston Holmes, Lola Taylor Sheffield, Louise Holmes, Marilyn Bowman Garner, Betty Lou Buck Schulze, Emma Ropelato Walling, Nona Flitton Forsgren, Gladys Sorensen Gibson, Lila Stone Harwood, Robert Holmes, Gordon Belnap, Betty May Oram Donaldson, Rudell Willey, Jewel Checketts Atwell.

Reunion photos, Class of 47, 2000

Where Are They Now

GORDON “DUTCH” BELNAP

Gordon Belnap

Married Faye Robins in 1951. Three sons, Rob, Tim, Mike. Eight Grand kids. US Navy: Honorable Discharge. Weber Jr. College 2 years. Utah State: Grad 1958, Masters 1965. Coach, Utah State University 13 years. Athletic Director Weber State University. Faye passed away Aug. 1996. Married Karen Smith Sept. 1997. Hobbies: woodworking, golf, travel, volunteer 2nd grade teacher.

MARILYN BOWMAN GARNER

Marilyn Bowman Garner

I’ve had a good life. I attended Weber College, married Don Butler and had 2 children, Kathy and Gary before leaving Ogden in 1956. We lived in Pocatello, Idaho before moving to Grand Jct. Colorado. During our 15 years in Colorado, I worked for a wholesale drug company and the last year as office manager, bookkeeper for an ophthalmologist. While living there Vickey and Jodi were born. Our son was killed in a car accident in 1968 and in 1971 Don and I were divorced. I moved with my girls to Salt Lake in 1973 where I spent the first 4 plus years as office manager/legal secretary for an attorney. Then I went to work for Salt Lake County. When I retired in 1999, I was fiscal manager for the SLC Public Works Department. I married Clair Garner in June of 2000. We plan to keep up the good life with travel, golf, volunteer work, genealogy and enjoying our 9 grandchildren.

BETTY BUCK SCHULZE

Betty Buck Schulze

When I left high school, I married Marler Williams. A boy, Monte B. was born of that marriage. Marler died 8 months after Monte’s birth. I went to work at HAFB to support myself and Monte. While working at Hill, I completed my schooling at Utah State University. I married Willard Smith. One son, Donald was born of that marriage. After Donald’s birth I returned to work at Hill. I worked as a supervisor for several years, then selected to study under Dr. Fredrick Herzberg, Distinguished Professor of Management from University of Utah. Under Dr. Herzberg’s guidance I completed a Masters Degree Equivalent in Industrial Psychology then taught Organizational Development, Air Force wide. I retired from HAFB with 25 years service. Willard and I traveled for 8 years prior to his death from cancer. I am now married to Hugo Schulze. We are enjoying our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. I love to golf and play every chance I get. I have played on bowling leagues in the past. I had a wonderful time golfing with my past friends, especially Dutch Belnap, at the Weber High Golf day in 2000.

JEWEL CHECKETTS ATWELL

Jewel Checketts Atwell

I was engaged my senior year, and married Daryl Hendrick on June 19, 1950. We settled in Layton and had 4 girls and 2 boys. I played on the church softball team until I tore the cartilage in my knee, then I helped coach. We moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and I started my dream of becoming a nurse. I worked 25 years in all areas of nursing, really enjoyed it, and learned a lot. Daryl passed away in June ’68. That was the year I met Gene. I married him in Nov. ’78. He is my best friend, lover and husband. He’s really been good through all the surgeries I’ve had. Gene had 4 children and our families are like one big family, all getting along well. These 21 years have been so happy! We have a total of 10 children, 26 grandchildren and 4 great grandchildren. Gene is now retired from US West [Quest] and we live in Roswell, New Mexico.

JOHN EILANDER [JACK]

John Jack Eilander

Upon my graduation from high school, I married and went into the US Army. After my release from the Army, I went to work for 3 years at the Ogden Arsenal. Subsequently, I was hired by Weber State University, where I retired in 1992 after 38 years of service. I am the father of 6 children, grandfather of 11 grandchildren and great grandfather of 10 great grandchildren.

NONA FLITTON FORSGREN

Nona Flitton Forsgren

After graduating from high school, I got a job at a 5 and dime store for a short time before the opportunity came for me to take employment at Hill Air Force Base as a sheet metal mechanic. I had met my husband, Judd, at a senoir class party. After dating for some time we were married in 1953. I quit work to have our family of 3 daughters. We lived in Ogden and Willard then back to the Ogden area of Kanesville, West Haven. About the time our girls were in school, I again had a chance to return to my old job of riveting. I worked on the F4’s and F16’s. After 22 years of enjoyable service at HAFB, I retired in 1987. I have been busy since, wondering how I had time to work. Judd and I have traveled long and short trips, taken cruises and just the summer of 2001 traveled to Sweden, my husbands long time desire. I have served as Relief Society President in our ward and am enjoying my grandchildren as well as all the family. We have much fun and enjoyment with them. They are the greatest.

ROBERT WILLIAM HOLMES — February 17, 1932

Robert Holmes, young
Robert Holmes, older

(“Where he’s at, there’s mischief” . . . “Bob” . . . likes any back seat . . . not a lone wolf . . . Windy’s always with him . . . they work together . . . that smile! . . . is the key to many locked doors . . . for Bob.)

Born and raised in Wilson, my Father passed away when I was 10, I was left to run the farm, which I did after school and during the summer months.

After graduating from High School I joined the Navy for a 4 year term. During the time I was in the Navy I was in several places in and around Formosa (Taiwan), Korea, Japan and China. It was very educational for me, seeing other countries and other cultures. In the Navy I was assigned to the aircraft carrier, USS BOXER, for eight months we cruised the seas patrolling the waters and land around the foreign countries. The rest of the time I spent in San Diego at Miramar Air Force Base and Point Mugu at Oxnard, California. I learned lots and seen lots during these eight years.

While in Point Mugu, I went a place called Jockey Meads, a resort between Oxnard and the San Fernando Valley, where I met Dorothy Lou Bates. I was invited to church in the Valley and stayed to a fireside at the Bishop’s house. My relationship with Dorothy continued and we were Married on July 17, 1953 in the Logan Temple. We have been blessed with five beautiful daughters, three son-in-laws and twelve grandchildren, six boys and six girls.

After my duty in the Navy, I enrolled in college at Utah State Agricultural College, halfway thru my years there they changed the College to a University, now called Utah State University. I graduated with a BS degree in Industrial Arts Education with a minor in Math after four years. The next summer I started my Masters Degree and a couple years later I finished my Masters in School Administration with a minor in Industrial Arts Education.

I was an Industrials Arts Teacher and taught wood shop for 35 years, retiring in June 1993. I was also a General Contractor for many years building houses and other structures.

I was the Chairman of the Wilson area planning committee for 14 years.

I was on the Weber County Board of Adjustments from 1988 until 1995, chairman of the board from 1990 until 1995. I also served on the Weber County Boundary Commission for one term.

I was the facilitator in organizing and establishing WEST HAVEN CITY – 1990. We became a city in July 1991 and I was the first Mayor serving for three years. While Mayor, I tried to get the city to agree to the sewer and secondary water but no one thought that was important and no one needed it, now, in the year 2001, it is needed and being put in the ground.

Keeping active in politics, I am currently the chairman of the WEST HAVEN SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT. Working with the city makes me feel like I have accomplished a great deal in my life and I enjoy what I am now doing. I am excited about every piece of pipe that is laid in the ground.

LOUISE HOLMES

Louise Holmes

I’m still Louise Holmes, having never changed my name. Following high school I attended Weber College and received an A.S. Degree. Then I attended USAC and received a B.S. Degree. After teaching school for 10 years I went back to what is now USU and received a Masters of Education Degree. After 33 years of teaching school I retired. I have spent part of my time volunteering as a tutor for children ages 6 through high school. I’m still recognized by many of my former students. They always stop for a visit. Traveling has always been fun for me. I’ve taken many tours and have met people who still remain my friends. For the past 23 years I’ve made my home at the Three Fountains Condominiums in North Ogden

JoANNE HOWE GEARY

JoAnne Howe Geary

Since graduation in 1950 my life has been pretty good. I got married in ’52 and had my first boy in ’53, another boy in ’55 and girls in ’59, ’60, and ’66. They are all grown now and in their own homes. We have 11 grandchildren, 6 girls and 5 boys. My husband and I took our children to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico in ’75. We’ve been to Catalina Island off California 4 times. We like to travel when we can to visit our daughter and her family. My husband and I, for the most part, live a very quiet life. Don, my husband, likes gardening and watching video movies. I like to cook, do puzzles and watch quiz shows and video movies, of which we have a large collection. My husband also likes to paint and sketch. Two years ago, after wearing glasses for 56 years, I had my eyes operated on and now I only need glasses for reading small print and driving. We’re going to California, San Bernardino to be exact, in April to see our youngest granddaughter get baptized. We like to travel when we can. We’ll be celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary before the Winter Olympics in 2002. It will be a family affair.

CARMA KLINKE POINDEXTER

Carma Klinke Poindexter

I married Hugh H. Poindexter in Deer Lodge, Montana. He was a rancher and truck driver. I have three daughters, Denise, Kathy; and Ellie, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. I have lived in Ogden, Utah; Roy, Utah; Los Angeles, California; and Bountiful, Utah. My home has been in Bountiful, Utah for the past thirty-two years. My husband and I have drove truck together and traveled every state in the U.S. except the New England States and Hawaii. God has been good to me. We are retired Snowbirds now.

DRAUCA MARSTON HOLMES

Drauca Marston Holmes

Drauca and Wayne Holmes were married in October following our graduation. Drauca worked as a secretary while Wayne attended Weber College. They moved to Logan where Wayne graduated as an electrical engineer. Drauca was an Executive Secretary for the Cache Co. Dept of Public Welfare. Wayne was commissioned into the Air Force and they lived in California and New Mexico for the next four years. Drauca was a stay-at-home Mom. They moved to Brigham City in 1959. They have four children and 14 grandchildren. Drauca worked as an Executive Secretary for Thiokol, NASA and the Air Force, performed semi-professionally for six years, graduated from Weber State University in Theater and developed the Heritage Theatre in Perry, Utah, for which she was the Executive Director for 23 years. She and Wayne retired in 1994 and have served an LDS Mission to the Family History Library in SLC.

BETTY MAY ORAM DONALDSON

Betty May Oram Donaldson

My name is Betty May Oram Donaldson. I have lived in the Honeyville and Ogden areas during my younger years. I attended the Honeyville Elementary School and the Wilson Lane School, then the Weber High and Box Elder High Schools. After school I worked as a dental assistant and then a medical assistant until retiring at 62. I married David W. Donaldson in 1953. We built a home in Plain City, Utah and have lived there for 49 years. My hobbies are cooking, working in my flower gardens, fly fishing and all other outdoor sports.

EMMA ROPELATO WALLING

Emma Ropelato Walling

After graduation I went to work for Hill Air Force Base where I met my husband Richard J. Walling. We married Aug. ’53 and I continued working until Dec. ’54 at the birth of our son Dean. Our daughter Terry arrived Jan. ’56. I was able to stay home to rear the children until ’64. Then I went to work at the I.R.S. seasonally until I retired in ’90. My husband passed away in 1972 and my son died in an auto accident in ’93. I sold my home and moved in with my aging parents to help care for them until their deaths in ’96 and ’00. I now plan to visit my family in California and will enjoy traveling to long dreamed of places and spending time with my six grandchildren.

PAUL STOKES

Paul Stokes

I married Mary Jean Miller June 1961 and we have two daughters, Julie Ann, 34 and Lisa Marie, 31. We have two grandchildren, Heather Lynn Beasley 8, and Nicholas Ryan Bronch 17 months. I graduated from Utah State University with a BS degree. I majored in education and minored in Psychology. I taught school for a total of seven years. I also was in the Air Force Reserve for seven years. We moved to Ward, Arkansas in 1965, where we owned and operated a dairy farm for 12 years, then went into the mobile home park business in Jacksonville, Arkansas, and have been renting mobile homes for the past 17 years. We are now semi-retired and have moved back to the farm in Ward. My hobbies are music, dancing and most of all watching the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball teams play.

LILA STONE HARWOOD

Lila Stone Harwood

I married Jack Harwood 52 years ago. One year later we had our only child, a son, Keith Harwood. He gave us 4 wonderful granddaughters. Our 3 older girls blessed us with 6 great grandchildren, 3 more girls and 2 boys. My husband retired a few years ago, but still works part time, which is nice for both of us.

GLADYS SORENSEN GIBSON

Gladys Sorensen Gibson

After graduating from Weber College with an Assoc., I married Gary Gibson in the Logan Temple. Our 4 children were born in ’54, ’56, ’58, and ’59, two girls and two boys. Our oldest daughter passed away in June, 1995. Gary traveled for HAFB fixing missile test equipment and I stayed at home with our children. In 1966 I was hired at Pioneer Elementary as librarian, so I went to school with our children. I cataloged the books and set up the library. It was on the job training. I read stories to the school children and taught library science. I worked there 15 years. I love children’s literature. In 1977 I enrolled at Weber State once again and in 1982 graduated with a BS in Elementary Education with a Library Endorsement. I was hired as a teacher at Kanesville Elementary in 1982 and taught second grade 13 years and retired in 1995. I have worked in many chruch positions the most recent being an ordinance worker in the Ogden Temple. I’ve been a member of 3 musical groups and performed as soloist and alto. Gary passed away in Oct., 2001. Now I enjoy making quilts, reading and my family. We have 3 living children, 13 grandchildren, and 2 great grandchildren. I’m trying to keep busy and enjoy life..

LOLA TAYLOR SHEFFIELD

Lola Taylor Sheffield

What Have I been doing the last 50 years? After I graduated from Ogden High School, I took the Cosmetology Course at Weber College and finished after a year. Then I worked at a salon in downtown Ogden. The money was sporadic so when another job offer came at McKesson-Robbins Wholesale Drug House, I took it.

My brother was on a mission in New York and he suggested I come back to Palmyra to see the pageant, which I did. Among the many missionaries involved in the production was one Grant Sheffield from Kaysville, who I met while at the pageant. When he returned from his mission in December he called and came to visit to ask me for a date for New Year’s Eve. We continued to date through the next few months and we were married in June. Shortly after our marriage, Grant was inducted into Uncle Sam’s Service at Fort Ord, California. Our first daughter of three, Vickie, was born while we were at Fort Ord, followed by two more girls, Debbie, and a year later, Sherrie. (Three years after Debbie.)

After Grant graduated from the School of Architecture at the University of Utah, he was hired at Thiokol in the design section. We bought a newly constructed home in Salt Lake- that was another story- commuting back and forth from Salt Lake to Brigham City. Everything went great for five or six years, then Thiokol went down the tube. We were the first wave of the unemployed.

Our neighbor had recently left Utah and went to Tempe, Arizona, and already had set up an interview for himself. So we packed up and went job hunting, hoping to have similar luck. But our trip continued on to California. Another friend we had been close to left a job in California and took a leave of absence when he went to Thiokol in Utah. He took his old job back, with Metropolitan Water District in California, as an engineer. He told us they were hiring and Grant was hired. He retired after 32 years. We bought a home in Brea, California, (Tar Town). Brea means tar in Spanish. (La Brea tar pits in Hollywood or Los Angeles County, not the same.) We lived in an old oil-producing town. Our son Jared was born ten years after our youngest daughter. It took all of us to raise him; he was one busy boy.

We have 8 grandchildren, 5 boys and 3 girls, one little great granddaughter. Most of the children and grandchildren live in Utah. The oldest and the youngest, with 6 of the grandchildren and the great grandchild, live in Utah. Our daughter Sherrie lives in Texas and we have one in California.

We have done a lot of traveling with our children. We have enjoyed traveling with our children to see aunts, uncles, cousins, who were living in Canada, and my sister and their children living in New York. We could travel the country and do lots of visiting and also Mexico was close by and fun to visit too. We continued our traveling after our children flew the nest. Also retiring gave us more time to travel the globe. We have enjoyed spending our vacations in many countries.

We have had a great 50 years and look forward to many more.

RUDELL WILLEY

Rudell Willey

Rudell married Barbara Hadley a few months after graduation on November 1, 1950. They have three children, one boy and two girls. They also have twelve grandchildren.

Rudell worked 35 years for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a brakeman-conductor traveling between Ogden and Carlin, Nevada. During those years Rudell was active in electrical contracting with a Master Electrician License. He was also involved in real estate development with a Real Estate Brokers License and a Commercial Property Managers License.

Rudell has enjoyed hunting in Alaska, Yukon Territories, Canada and the Western United States. fishing in Alaska and Mexico, flying his private airplane the past 34 years in Alaska (four times north of the Artic Circle) Mexico, Guatamala, Jamaica and the Caribbean Islands. Vern Smith accompanied him on many of these trips. Rudell is currently involved in activities in the L.D.S. Church, civic activities, The Quiet Birdmen (an international pilot organization) and Enable Industries, a handicapped facility. Rudell and Barbara now spend a lot of time traveling in their private plane and their motorhome.

In Memory of Our School Friends Who Are Gone But Not Forgotten

DOLORES HIPWELL CHARLTON

Dolores Hipwell Charlton

Dolores was married June 9, 1950 to Wayne Charlton from West Weber. They moved into a small home in West Weber. It caught fire and burned everything, wedding gifts, furniture and all. They then moved up to Wilson into a small home by her mother and dad on 2100. Later they built a nice brick home by her mother and dad. Wayne and Dolores had two children, Brent born in 1952 and LaRee born in 1954. Wayne worked at American Can and also became involved in race horses. He raised a very nice quarter horse from a colt and named her LaRee Bar and took her to Las Alemedas, California and won many races and made good money from her. A Dr. Allred helped Wayne get started in horse racing. They built another brick home on 2550 in Wilson with nice horse barns and then moved to California and raced horses. They did very well. Dolores loved Utah Noodle chow mein and ate a lot of it when they were in Ogden. They bought a ranch in California then sold it and moved to Oklahoma on a ranch. Their son Brent helped Wayne train race horses. Wayne is an expert on knowing the legs of race horses. Dolores was the bookkeeper. Late in 1992 the doctors discovered she had a cancer in her liver. Wayne had expert doctors attend to her but the cancer was too far advanced. They moved back to the house on 2550 and she died June 1, 1993 and was buried in West Weber Cemetery on June 5, 1993. Dolores and Wayne have five grandchildren.

LYNN JENSEN, 1932–1998

Lynn Jensen, military
Lynn Jensen, as a boy

Lynn Jensen served in the U.S. Army for three years. Fifteen months of which he spent in Korea, where he saw combat and was awarded the Bronze Star with V device for valor. He also was awarded the Occ. Medal, a Korean Service Medal with five bronze stars, the Presidential Unit Citation, and the Meritorious Unit Commendation. Following his military service, Lynn spent time in California and Utah. He married Betty Jo and has a stepson, Butch. He divorced and moved to Alaska, where he lived in Chugiak and Eagle River. He had been through engineer and demolition school in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He was a self-employed mechanic and machinist until he retired in 1996. He died December 2, 1998 from a stroke and was buried in Alaska. He was a very quiet man who would help anyone in need.

ROBERT WAYNE KIRBY

Robert Wayne Kirby

Robert Wayne Kirby was born in Brunswick, Missouri in 1932. In 1941 the family moved to West Ogden. He attended Wilson Elementary and Junior High School for 9 years. He graduated from Weber High School in May of 1950. Bob worked for the Union Pacific Railroad as a fireman/engineer for a period of time. He also worked as a cabinet maker before becoming involved in the drywall trade. In about 1970 he moved with his wife to Elko, Nevada to work in the construction trades. This was a period of increased construction in the Elko, Nevada area due to the newly found gold mines in the surrounding area that brought an influx of workers. Later on Bob worked at the Commercial Hotel in Elko maintaining the gaming machines in the casino there. Bob died in an accident in 1974 in the Elko area and is buried by his parents in the Centerville, Utah Cemetery. He left behind three daughters and one son. Bob will always be remembered for his infectious smile that was always on his face and will be noted among his family, classmates and co-workers for his happy-go-lucky attitude and good-natured personality.

ARTHUR KRANENDONK

Arthur Kranendonk

Art died a very tragic death when his truck caught fire in an accident and burned. Art was married for a very short time and has one daughter. He worked for George Stratford and at the Sugar Factory. He was a very hard, steady worker.

FRANKLIN F. STANGER

Franklin F. Stanger

Served lds mission to Uruguay. Married Mada Lurae Waldron from Malad, Idaho. Father of 7 children, 3 girls and 4 boys. Employed as a salesman. Loved to fly an airplane. Passed away May 8, 1990. Lived in Weber County area all his life.

RUSSELL PACKARD

Russell Packard

When Russell was young, his dad owned the Oil Refinery in West Ogden. He was at the Ogden Rodeo when the announcer said his business was on fire. Everything was destroyed. The family moved to Astoria, Oregon. Russell went in the army and was assigned to guard duty on base in North Africa. His buddy was on guard duty. For a prank Russell kicked the guard shack. The buddy shot Russell dead without checking on who was kicking the shack.

JIM POULOS

Jim Poulos

Married a Greek girl, had one son and one daughter. He was office manager of Texaco Oil Co. in Salt Lake City until the company went out of business. He was stand offish and wanted nothing to do with his family. He was a bartender in Salt Lake City. He died about 15 years ago during open heart surgery, after having heart problems for several years.

SHELDON STAUFFER

Sheldon Stauffer

Sheldon married Colleen Bradshaw sometime between 1952 and 1953. His oldest daughter, Beverly, was born in 1954. His son Gary was born in 1957 and a daughter Shelley was born about 1960. He worked at Hill Field. He died sometime between 1975 and 1985.

MAURICE CHENEY

Maurice Cheney

No information is availabe for Maurice.

We could not find any information or the whereabouts of Vincent McEnerny or Rose Mary Ellsworth or Bill Saunders.

Vincent McEnerny
Rose Mary Ellsworth
Bill Saunders

VERN H. SMITH, August 24, 1932 – February 28, 1981

Vern Smith, young
Vern H. Smith portrait
Vern and Kay Smith

Born in Wilson Lane on August 24, 1932, grew up in Wilson on a farm, attended Wilson School for 9 years, Weber High School for 3 years, attended Weber College from 1950 to 1954, bought first farm in the spring of 1953 in Warden, Washington, served a 2 years L.D.S. Mission in the southern states, starting January 6, 1954.

Vern started farming in the spring of 1956 in Warden, Washington. Met his wife Kay Pratt in Moses Lake, Washington (14 miles from Warden) in 1956. They were married August 15, 1957 in the Salt Lake Temple.

Vern served in the L.D.S. Church as a Bishop, on the High Council, and in the Stake Presidency.

Vern and Kay had 7 children. They had two boys and five girls.

In 1968–1969 Vern was chosen “The Outstanding Young Farmer” in the state of Washington. At the time of his death he was raising beef cattle and farming approximately 1,300 acres of land.

Vern loved to travel, especially in his private plane (Piper Cherokee six) to Mexico.

On February 28, 1981, on the return trip from Mexico, his plane crashed, on Parker Mountain, just north of Escalante, Utah. All aboard, six adults, were tragically killed.

It has been said that, “The common people of the earth are the great people of the earth.” If that is true, then Vern Smith was among the greatest.

Wilson School Faculty

Wilson School Faculty

Row 1—Mrs. Stanford, Miss Shaw, Mrs. Barton, Mrs. Bouwhuis. Row 2—Mrs. Secrist, Mrs. Woodward, Mrs. Sorensen, Miss Holmes. Row 3—Principal, Wheat Taylor, Mr. Pettigrew, Mr. Rhees.

Wilson School 9th Grade Class of ’47 Directory

Directory page
NameAddressPhone
Jewel Checketts Atwell502 N. Mexico Drive, Roswell, New Mexico 88501(505) 624-1751
Gordon Belnap2338 Combe Road, Ogden, Utah 84403(801) 479-7793
Betty Mae Orem Donaldson2558 N. 4100 W., Plain City, Utah 84404(801) 731-3168
Jack Eilander1111 N. 2000 W., Ogden, Utah 84404(801) 731-2916
Nona Flitton Forsgren3703 S. 2700 W., West Haven, Utah 84067(801) 731-0123
Joanne Howe Geary2166 Polk Ave., Ogden, Utah 84401(801) 621-4152
Gladys Sorensen Gibson2294 S. 2300 N., West Haven, Utah 84401(801) 731-0590
Lila Stone Harwood2486 C. Ave., Ogden, Utah 84401—
Robert Holmes2297 W. 2550 S., West Haven, Utah 84401(801) 731-0564
Louise Holmes325 E. 2550 N., North Ogden, Utah 84414(801) 782-7753
Drauca Marsten Holmes75 N. 600 E., Brigham City, Utah 84302(435) 723-6459
Marilyn Bowman Garner7025 Sunburst Circle, Salt Lake City, Utah 84121(801) 943-8912
Carma Klinke PoindexterP.O. Box 373, Clearfield, Utah 84015—
Betty Lou Buck Schulze1111 E. 1150 S., Clearfield, Utah 84015(801) 825-8354
Lola Taylor Sheffield587 East Aspen, Brea, California 62621(714) 671-0335
Paul Stokes2205 Green Acres Road, Jacksonville, Arkansas 72076(501) 982-2232
Emma Ropelato Walling1013 E. 5285 S., Ogden, Utah 84403(801) 479-2743
Rudell Willey1028 E. Brookhaven Dr., Kaysville, Utah 84037(801) 546-8880

(Note: addresses/phone numbers as printed in the original memory book — likely out of date by now, but preserved as a record of where the class was circa 2001–2002.)

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Bailey – Goodlad Wedding

James Bailey, blacksmith of Sheffield, and Sarah Goodlad, also of Sheffield, were married after banns on 11 December 1826 at the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul in Sheffield, Yorkshire (now Sheffield Cathedral). James was the son of James Bailey and Mary, of Askham, Nottinghamshire. Sarah was the daughter of John Goodlad and Elizabeth Hammond, of Sheffield.

Bailey – Goodlad marriage record

The couple will make their home in Mattersey, Nottinghamshire.

That is the substance of what the register records. Entry No. 869, page 290, Sheffield Archives & Local Studies, reference PR-138-3-22. The officiating minister was William H Vale, Assistant Minister. Both parties signed their own names, neither made a mark. The witnesses were Nathan Hampson and a second name only partially legible. Both James and Sarah were listed as of “this Parish,” meaning both had established Sheffield residence by the time they married. James was twenty-nine. Sarah was twenty-six.

James Bailey was born in Askham, Nottinghamshire, and baptized there at the parish church on 5 February 1797, the second child of James Bailey and Mary. Some list her last name as White, but no sources verify this information. His father’s trade was blacksmith, and James followed him into it. By the time he appears in Sheffield he is an established tradesman, already old enough to have made his own way in the world. His origins in Askham, a small Nottinghamshire village, and his presence in Sheffield’s industrial economy by his late twenties suggest a young man who went where the work was.

Sarah Goodlad’s story begins further back. She was born on 6 September 1800 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, the second child of John Goodlad and Elizabeth Hammond. She was baptized at the Parish Church of St Mary, Rotherham, on 30 November 1800.

Sarah Goodlad birth record
Another record of Sarah Goodlad’s birth
Third record for Sarah Goodlad’s birth

John Goodlad had been baptized on 28 February 1775 at the Parish Church of St Peter, Conisbrough, the son of William Goodlad and his wife Elizabeth. He was a cabinet maker by trade, and he and Elizabeth Hammond were married on 29 July 1798 at the Parish Church of St Mary, Rotherham. Their witnesses were Thomas Hammond and Sarah Hammond, almost certainly Elizabeth’s family. Elizabeth Hammond was a Yorkshire woman, born about 1776, whose origins beyond her marriage we have not been able to trace.

John Goodlad and Elizabeth Hammond marriage record
John Goodlad and Elizabeth Hammond marriage record – note, they could both sign their names

The Goodlads had five children. Ann, their eldest, was born in 1798. Sarah followed in 1800, baptized at the Parish Church of St Mary, Rotherham. By 1803, the family had moved to Sheffield, and Mary Ann was baptized there on 22 July 1803 at the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield (now Sheffield Cathedral). Elizabeth was baptized at the same church on 21 November 1806, and John — the youngest — on 2 July 1809, also there.

Elizabeth Goodlad birth record in 1806
John Goodlad birth record in 1809

John Goodlad was a cabinet maker working in Sheffield by at least 1803, when both Mary Ann’s and Elizabeth’s baptism records note his occupation.

Tragedy struck in 1809. John Goodlad was buried on 26 September 1809 at St Peter’s Church, Conisbrough, the parish of his birth, where his parents William and Elizabeth still lived. He was thirty-five years old. The Conisbrough register describes him as “John Goodlad of Sheffield, Son of William & Elizabeth Goodlad of this parish, aged 35 years.” He left five children under the age of eleven, the youngest barely four months old.

John Goodlad burial record

His daughter Elizabeth, three years old, was buried at St Peter’s Church, Conisbrough on 31 December 1809. His infant son John, described in the register as son of “the late John,” was buried at St Peter’s Church, Conisbrough on 28 January 1810, aged four months. Three deaths in four months: a husband, a daughter, an infant son.

Elizabeth Hammond was widowed at approximately thirty-three with three surviving children, Ann, Sarah, and Mary Ann. She remarried on 1 April 1811 at the parish church in Tankersley, Yorkshire, to Enoch Lumb, a Sheffield blacksmith baptized on 28 February 1774 at the Parish Church of St Peter, Woodkirk (now West Ardsley). Together they had three children: William Hammond Lumb, born 1 May 1812, his middle name preserving his mother’s maiden name; Grace, baptized 12 January 1817 at the Parish Church of St Peter, Woodkirk; and Noah, born 1822. William died in Sheffield in 1818 at age six. Noah died there in 1826 at age four. Grace survived, married Robert Frisby at the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield (now Sheffield Cathedral) on 20 December 1836, and raised seven children in Sheffield through at least 1881. The Frisby descendants share a half-blood line with Mary Ann Bailey Sharp’s descendants through their common mother Elizabeth Hammond, and any researcher who finds their way to the Frisby or Lumb families in Sheffield will find this the connecting thread. Enoch Lumb was buried in Sheffield on 1 January 1835. Elizabeth Hammond survived him as well, living in Sheffield until she was buried at St George’s Church, Sheffield, on 5 September 1849, aged 73. She had outlived two husbands and three of her five Goodlad children. She did not live to see her granddaughter Mary Ann Bailey leave England for America two years later.

Elizabeth Hammond Goodlad Lumb death record

Sarah Goodlad grew up in the household of a widowed and then remarried mother in Sheffield. When she and James Bailey married in 1826 at the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield, both were described as parishioners of that church, the same building where her younger siblings had been baptized, where her half-sister Grace would marry a decade later. It was the church of the Goodlad family’s Sheffield years, and Sarah married there in the presence of whatever witnesses attended that December day.

After the marriage the Baileys settled in Mattersey, a small village in the Bassetlaw district of Nottinghamshire, roughly thirty miles from Sheffield. James worked as a blacksmith. Their children were baptized at the parish church in Mattersey, their names recorded in the bishop’s transcripts now held at Nottinghamshire Archives:

Mary Ann, born 28 November 1828, baptized 8 December 1828 at Mattersey parish church. She is the thread that connects this family to Sagacity. You can read more about her at the Sharp-Bailey Wedding post.

George, baptized 20 February 1831 at Mattersey parish church, buried 21 October 1834, aged three.

John, baptized 10 February 1833 at Mattersey parish church. He disappears from the record after the christening, absent from the 1841 census, no death recorded, his fate unknown.

George James, baptized 10 December 1834 at Mattersey parish church, seven weeks after his brother George died, buried 14 January 1835, aged five weeks.

Sarah Elizabeth, baptized 11 December 1835 at Mattersey parish church, born less than a year after George James was buried. She appears in the 1841 census at Mattersey, aged five, and then vanishes from the record like her brother John.

Jane, born 19 April 1839, baptized at Mattersey parish church. She also appears in the 1841 census, aged two, and was buried 1 November 1841.

Jane Bailey birth record

Emma Jane, baptized 27 January 1843 at Mattersey parish church.

The 1841 census found the Bailey household at Mattersey: James, age 40; Sarah, age 40; Mary Ann, age 12; Sarah Elizabeth, age 5; Jane, age 2. Two teenage boys, Joseph Baker and George Swinden, both 15, rounded out the household, almost certainly apprentices to James’s smithy. Three children had died by then. Two more, John and Sarah Elizabeth, slipped from the record without explanation.

Sarah Goodlad Bailey died on 7 September 1843 at Mattersey, aged 43. The death was registered in the sub-district of Gringley, East Retford, entry No. 413. The cause given on the certificate was “Visitation of God,” the Victorian designation for sudden or unexplained death. The informant was P R Falkner, Coroner for the County of Nottingham, not James Bailey, which suggests Sarah’s death was sudden enough, or sufficiently uncertain in its cause, to require a coroner’s involvement. Emma Jane had been baptized on 27 January 1843; Sarah died seven and a half months later. The record does not say whether the two events were connected.

Sarah Goodlad Bailey death record

James remarried, to a woman named Harriet, born about 1804 in Green, Yorkshire, whose surname does not appear in any document found so far. By the 1851 census the household at Mattersey consisted of James, age 53, Blacksmith, born Askham, Nottinghamshire; Harriet, age 47, wife, born Yorkshire Green; Emma Jane, age 8, scholar, born Mattersey; and Thomas Parkinson, age 16, apprentice blacksmith, born Clayworth, Nottinghamshire. James had kept a young male apprentice in the house across every census, Joseph Baker and George Swinden in 1841, Thomas Parkinson in 1851, Charles Watkin in 1861. The smithy continued.

1851 British Census

Harriet died between 1851 and 1861. The 1861 census found James, now 63 and widowed, still at Mattersey, still listed as a blacksmith. Emma Jane, 18, kept house for him. Charles Watkin, 18, served as apprentice. It was the same household pattern, grown smaller.

1861 British Census

After 1861 James Bailey disappears from the record. No death certificate has been found. Mary Ann’s Utah death certificate, completed in Plain City in 1913, identifies her father only as “Bailey.” Her children in Plain City knew their grandfather’s trade and his surname but apparently not his given name.

Mary Ann Bailey left Mattersey as a young woman and eventually left England altogether. Her story after Mattersey is told on this site at the Sharp-Bailey Wedding, the Sharp Family History Outreach, and the Sharp-Stoker Wedding.

Sources

England, Nottinghamshire, Church Records, 1578–1937 (Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives) — baptisms of James Bailey (5 February 1797, Askham), George Bailey (20 February 1831, Mattersey), John Bailey (10 February 1833, Mattersey), George James Bailey (10 December 1834, Mattersey), Sarah Elizabeth Bailey (11 December 1835, Mattersey), Emma Jane Bailey (27 January 1843, Mattersey)

England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538–2016 (Sheffield Archives & Local Studies) — marriage of James Bailey and Sarah Goodlad, 11 December 1826, Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul Sheffield, PR-138-3-22, page 290; baptisms of Mary Ann Goodlad (22 July 1803), Elizabeth Goodlad (21 November 1806), John Goodlad (2 July 1809), all at Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheffield; marriage of John Goodlad and Elizabeth Hammond, 29 July 1798, Parish Church of St Mary, Rotherham

England, Yorkshire, Bishop’s Transcripts, 1547–1957 (Borthwick Institute for Archives) — baptism of Sarah Goodlad, 30 November 1800, Parish Church of St Mary, Rotherham; baptism of John Goodlad, 28 February 1775, Parish Church of St Peter, Conisbrough; burial of John Goodlad, 26 September 1809, St Peter’s Church, Conisbrough, aged 35; burial of Elizabeth Goodlad, 31 December 1809, St Peter’s Church, Conisbrough; burial of John Goodlad junior, 28 January 1810, St Peter’s Church, Conisbrough

England, Yorkshire, Parish Registers, 1538–2016 (Doncaster Archives) — baptism of John Goodlad, 28 February 1775, Parish Church of St Peter, Conisbrough, page 8, reference P7

General Register Office, London — death certificate of Sarah Bailey, 7 September 1843, Gringley sub-district, East Retford, No. 413, DA 651580; birth certificate of Jane Bailey, 19 April 1839, Gringley sub-district, East Retford, No. 5, BC 917598

England and Wales, Census, 1841 (HO107/851/6) — James Bailey household, Mattersey

England and Wales, Census, 1851 (HO107/2121/86) — James Bailey household, Mattersey; Elizabeth Lumb household, Arundel Street, Sheffield

England and Wales, Census, 1861 (RG09/2412/62) — James Bailey household, Mattersey; Grace Frisby household, Sheffield

England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837–2007 (FamilySearch) — death of Elizabeth Lumb, 1849, Sheffield, volume 22, page 686

Burials at St George’s Church, Sheffield, September 1849 (Sheffield Archives) — burial of Elizabeth Lumb, 5 September 1849, No. 3630, aged 73

Utah Death Certificate — Mary Ann Sharp, 30 October 1913, Plain City, Weber County, Utah, No. 390

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Sharp – Cartwright Wedding

Mary Ann (Bailey) and William Sharp — son of Thomas Sharp and Elizabeth Cartwright

George and Ann (Matthews) Cartwright of Misson, Nottinghamshire, and Thomas and Anne (Stennett) Sharp of Misson, Nottinghamshire, announce the marriage of their daughter Elizabeth Cartwright to Thomas Sharp on 29 December 1823 at the parish church of St John the Baptist, Misson. The witnesses were Sarah Hunt and John Parkin.

The Cartwrights and the Sharps were both Misson families. The Cartwrights had been there for generations, Elizabeth’s grandfather John Cartwright (1730–1814) and grandmother Mary Amcoats (1742–1790) had married in Misson in 1761. Her father George Cartwright was baptized there on 3 February 1774. Her mother Ann Matthews was christened 14 September 1783 in Everton, Nottinghamshire, a village approximately eight miles southeast of Misson. Ann was the daughter of Edmund Matthews of Everton and his wife Hannah Broads, a widow who had previously been married to William Wilson of Everton. Edmund and Hannah had married in Everton on 21 May 1782. George Cartwright was nine years older than Ann Matthews. Their marriage banns were published on 23 January 1803 and they married on 1 February 1803, Elizabeth was born and baptized ten months later, on 20 December 1803. Ann Matthews Cartwright does not appear in subsequent census or other records. Her death date and burial place remain unknown.

The ties between the Sharp and Cartwright families ran deep in Misson. On the same day Thomas married Elizabeth, his brother William Sharp married Mary Cartwright, Elizabeth’s first cousin. A week earlier, on 22 December 1823, their brother John Sharp had married Ann Rather. Three Sharp brothers married in the same month of December 1823, two of them to first cousins from the same Cartwright family, all in the village of Misson.

Edmund Matthews’s will, made 27 November 1810 and proved 25 February 1820, names “Ann the wife of George Cartwright of Misson” as one of his two daughters and heirs. The estate included two tenements and dwellinghouses at Everton and a close called the Clay Field Close of approximately three acres. The will also left twenty pounds and a chest of drawers to Mary Brougham, Hannah’s daughter from her first marriage to William Wilson and Ann Matthews’s half-sister, just two years her senior. Mary Wilson had been a witness at Ann’s marriage to George Cartwright on 1 February 1803, and had married John Brougham in the years between that wedding and the writing of Edmund’s will in 1810. Under the will, Hannah received the life interest in the property. Only after Hannah’s death in September 1835 would Ann and her sister Elizabeth Matthews inherit their shares. Elizabeth Matthews had married William Brown in 1814. When William Brown died in 1846, Elizabeth returned to Everton, and her children maintained connections between Misson and Everton across the following generations. Annie Thompson records that George Beighton, whom Ann married in June 1823, gambled away her money at the Doncaster races. The timing is suggestive: Ann’s inheritance from the Matthews Everton estate would have arrived in 1835, twelve years after the Beighton marriage. If Beighton dissipated that inheritance at Doncaster, Elizabeth Cartwright Sharp, then 31 years old, would have witnessed it directly. The will is the source of the “wealth and refinement” tradition in Annie Thompson’s account, the Matthews family owned real property in Everton, modest but substantial for a labouring community.

Will of Edmund Matthews of Everton, Nottinghamshire, made 27 November 1810, proved 25 February 1820. Names “Ann the wife of George Cartwright of Misson” as heir.

The Sharps had traveled a longer road to Misson. Thomas Sharp’s father, Thomas Sharp Sr., was born on 18 September 1768 in Armthorpe, Yorkshire, a village three miles east of Doncaster. Thomas Sr was the son of John Edward Sharp (1730–1806) and Frances Fretwell (1733–1809). He married Anne Stennett on 3 November 1788 at Ewerby, Lincolnshire, approximately thirty-five miles southeast of Armthorpe. Anne had been born there on 30 July 1769, the daughter of John Barber Stennett and Lettice Housley. The family’s first children were born in Lincolnshire: Elizabeth at Ewerby on 9 July 1790, and Ann at Ewerby on 13 May 1792. The family then moved northward toward Yorkshire at some point in the 1790s, with the next confirmed records placing them in Cantley, Yorkshire by 1799.

Some researchers have linked a Thomas Sharp christened 1 November 1794 and an Elizabeth Sharp christened 5 December 1795, both in Stamford, Lincolnshire, to this family. However the connection is uncertain and unlikely. Stamford is approximately 30 miles from Ewerby and 65 miles from Cantley, a significant distance for a labouring family to travel. The Stamford Thomas was buried just seven days after his christening, on 8 November 1794, and the Stamford Elizabeth died in Stamford on 23 October 1799, age 4. Multiple Sharp families lived in Stamford at this period, making misidentification likely. Researcher Leanne Maynes, who has examined these records carefully, has noted the timeline does not fit comfortably with the family’s confirmed movements and has not incorporated these children into the family line. The records are noted here but not included in the family line pending further research.

How Thomas Sharp Sr. came to be in Ewerby, Lincolnshire, fifty-four miles from Armthorpe, is an open question. Agricultural labourers typically found work through hiring fairs held at Martinmas in local market towns, where employers hired workers for the coming season. Movement of two to three miles between hirings was typical for a day labourer. A farm servant who lived in with his employer could travel further, up to thirty miles from his home parish, but fifty-four miles was exceptional. Whether Thomas traveled by foot, by water along the River Don and Trent, or through some family or employer connection to Lincolnshire is not known. One possibility worth noting is that Elizabeth Sharp, who married William Duffin in Ewerby in June 1788, just months before Thomas married Ann Stennett there in November 1788, was also described as of that parish. Whether Elizabeth was a relative of Thomas who had preceded him to Ewerby, and whether a family connection brought Thomas there, remains an open question that further research into Lincolnshire records may eventually resolve.

The Misson parish register notes local agricultural disasters that give context to labour movement in the region. In the 1740s the cattle herds in the area suffered severely from the cattle distemper, a murrain that ravaged England between 1745 and 1757 and killed at least half a million cattle nationally. Parliament passed multiple acts attempting to contain the outbreak, and preachers of the period described it as a national judgment. Repeated outbreaks followed in later decades, and in 1866 a cattle plague destroyed over 200 head of cattle in the Misson area alone. Whether this pattern of agricultural disruption influenced the Sharp family’s movement between Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire is not documented, but the regional context is worth noting.

By approximately 1797 the family had returned northward toward Yorkshire. The Cantley parish register, held at Doncaster Archives, reference P12-1-A3, confirms Thomas Sharp Sr. and Anne in Cantley, Yorkshire by October 1799, when their daughter Mary was baptized there on 20 October 1799. Cantley lies five miles east of Doncaster, neighboring Armthorpe where Thomas Sharp Sr. had been born. George Sharp was born in Cantley on 9 May 1804 and baptized there on 22 July 1804. A Cantley christening of 5 March 1797 is almost certainly this Thomas. The family was in Cantley throughout this period, and the dates and geography align. By 1810 the family had settled in Misson, approximately ten miles south of Cantley, where Ann Sharp was baptized on 11 March 1810 and James Sharp on 7 March 1813.

Thomas Sharp Sr. died in Misson on 23 August 1847, age 78, found lying in the street by a neighbor named Elizabeth Orton. She thought he was having a fit, obtained the assistance of William Mason and John Hobson, but he died immediately. The inquest verdict was visitation of God. The inquest notice appeared in the Lincoln Rutland and Stamford Mercury on 3 September 1847.

Inquest notice for Thomas Sharpe, Lincoln Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 3 September 1847, p. 3
Death certificate for Thomas Sharp Sr., died 23 August 1847, Misson. GRO DYB565322.

His wife Anne died in Misson on 10 December 1849, age approximately 79, from a fall, and was buried three days later. Their death notices appeared in the same Lincolnshire newspaper, the family had maintained connections across sixty years and three counties.

Death certificate for Ann Sharp (née Stennett), widow of Thomas Sharp Sr., died 10 December 1849, Misson. GRO DYB565321.

Thomas Sharp’s younger brother James had died of Consumption on 5 June 1839, with Elizabeth as the informant at his death. Six months later, on 7 January 1840, Thomas and Elizabeth named their newborn son James. Whether the name was chosen in memory of the brother lost that summer is not known, but the timing is suggestive. Consumption, known colloquially as the white death, is the historical name for tuberculosis, a contagious airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 1815, one in four deaths in England was due to Consumption. In a labouring family’s small home in Misson, the disease would have moved freely through the household. Thomas Sharp, born approximately 1797, probably in Cantley, was a Labourer, as recorded on his children’s birth certificates and his own death certificate. The death certificate gives his age at death as 43 years, the burial record as 45. This two-year spread likely reflects the imprecision natural to a family where neither parent could write and where exact ages were not always known. Thomas died of the same Consumption that had killed his brother just two years before, on 13 July 1841 at Misson, just weeks after the June 1841 Census recorded him in the household. His sister Ann Thickett, wife of Thomas Thickett of Blyth, Yorkshire, four miles north of Misson, was present at his death and registered it. He was buried at Misson on 15 July 1841.

The disease continued through the family. Ann Thickett, who had been present at Thomas’s death in 1841, died of Consumption on 6 April 1846, age 36, just five years after registering her brother’s death from the same disease. George Sharp, another brother, died of Consumption on 8 August 1846, age 47, four months after Ann. Between 1839 and 1846, four of Thomas Sharp Sr. and Anne Stennett’s children died of tuberculosis. Thomas Sharp Sr. survived all four, dying in August 1847. Anne survived until December 1849. They outlived four of their children to the same disease.

Death certificate for Thomas Sharp, died 13 July 1841, Misson, of Consumption. GRO DYB541596.

Annie Thompson, writing from family tradition in 1957, describes Elizabeth as having grown up “a tall young lady, reared in an atmosphere of wealth and refinement.” Her father George Cartwright was buried at Misson on 27 February 1820, age 46, when Elizabeth was sixteen years old. Three years later, on 4 June 1823, her mother Ann remarried a widower named George Beighton at the Misson parish church, by banns, witnessed by John Robinson and John Cartwright, confirmed in the Bishop’s Transcripts in the Nottinghamshire Archives. Six months after her mother’s remarriage, Elizabeth married Thomas Sharp.

Elizabeth could not write. On both her daughter Ann’s birth certificate in 1838 and her son James’s birth certificate in 1840, she signed with an X mark.

Thomas and Elizabeth had eight children, all baptized in the Misson parish church and recorded in the Bishop’s Transcripts at the Nottinghamshire Archives. The dates below give the christening date from the Bishop’s Transcripts, the birth dates held in family tradition are noted separately where they differ, representing the difference between the event remembered by the family and the event recorded by the church.

George Sharp, christened 11 November 1824, died 15 November 1824, four days old.

Mary Sharp, baptized 27 November 1825, died in infancy and was buried approximately two days after her christening, as noted in the Misson Parish Register.

William Sharp, christened 7 January 1827, family tradition gives his birth as 10 December 1826. He would go on to help found Plain City, Utah. See Sharp-Bailey Wedding and the William Sharp Personal History.

George Sharp, baptized 13 May 1829, died 23 December 1833, age four years and seven months, buried at Misson. The Misson Parish Register notes his cause of death as burns. Burns were tragically common among small children in this period, when open hearths were the only source of heat and cooking in labouring family homes. Whether his clothing caught fire near an open flame or the death resulted from a structure fire is not known, and no newspaper account of the event has been located.

Isabella Sharp, christened 15 January 1832, family tradition gives her birth as 22 December 1831. She would emigrate with William to Utah and settle in Mill Creek, Salt Lake County. See Sons of Joseph and Isabella Carlisle.

Elizabeth Sharp, baptized 11 June 1834, she remained in St. Louis and married John Quayle. See John and Elizabeth Quayle.

Ann Sharp, born 8 July 1838, baptized 29 July 1838, died 2 September 1838, eight weeks old, of convulsions. Convulsions in infants of this period were typically caused by uncontrolled fever from bacterial or viral infections, untreatable before the development of antibiotics and fever-reducing medications. Elizabeth registered her birth with an X mark on 10 July 1838. A neighbor, Mary Laister, registered her death, Elizabeth was not the informant.

Birth certificate for Ann Sharpe, born 8 July 1838, Misson. Elizabeth signed with her X mark.
Death record for Ann Sharpe, died 2 September 1838, Misson, age 8 weeks, of Convulsions.

James Sharp, born 7 January 1840, confirmed by GRO birth certificate (BXCC548222), with Elizabeth signing as informant with her X mark on 22 January 1840. See James Sharp.

Birth certificate for James Sharp, born 7 January 1840, Misson. GRO BXCC548222. Elizabeth signed with her X mark.

By the time Thomas died in July 1841, the family had buried four children. George at four days, Mary in infancy, the second George at four and a half years, and Ann at eight weeks. The 1841 Census, taken just weeks before Thomas’s death, records the household: Thomas (40), Elizabeth (37), William (14), Isabella (9), Elizabeth (5), and James (1). Thomas Sharp Sr. was living just a few households away in the same village.

Milo Riley Sharp, grandson of Thomas Sharp and Elizabeth Cartwright

Conversion and Emigration

William Sharp was the first family member baptized into the LDS Church, or formally The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, on 20 June 1848. His mother Elizabeth followed on 11 August 1849, and Isabella on 16 September 1849. The Misson History Hub records that “In 1848 LDS Missionaries visited the village and several conversions apparently took place” and notes that the converted “travelled to the USA, crossed the continent and made new lives and families there.” Among the elders who lodged at Elizabeth’s home was Elder George Emery.

Elizabeth decided to emigrate with her family to Utah. Annie Thompson records the family’s resistance: “her folks tried hard to discourage her from taking the hazardous trip; they told her if you leave for the West, ‘A red Indian will eat ye.’” The ticket cost twenty-five pounds sterling. On 2 October 1850 Elizabeth (age 45), William (age 24), Isabella (age 19), Elizabeth (age 26), and James (age 10) sailed from Liverpool on the ship James Pennell, under the direction of Church leader Christopher Layton. There were 254 Latter-day Saint emigrants on board, the Fiftieth Company.

The voyage nearly ended in disaster. As the James Pennell approached the mouth of the Mississippi River, a terrible storm drove the ship back into the Gulf of Mexico, breaking the main and mizzen masts and washing part of the rigging overboard. The crippled vessel drifted for several days with provisions nearly exhausted before a pilot boat found it and guided it to the river mouth on 20 November. The Millennial Star reported simply that the James Pennell “had lost her main and mizen masts, which is all the information given of her.” The ship arrived in New Orleans on 22 November 1850, towed alongside the Joseph Badger, which had sailed from Liverpool two weeks after the Pennell. The full dramatic account is preserved in the William Sharp Personal History. The voyage is documented at Saints by Sea (BYU), where the Sharp family passengers are listed.

From New Orleans the family traveled by river to St. Louis, Missouri. Shortly after arriving, Elizabeth fell ill. She died on 17 February 1851 in St. Louis, never reaching Utah. She was 47 years old. Her burial place in St. Louis has not been located. Annie Thompson gives her death as “probably late in the year 1850.” The 17 February 1851 date comes from other sources and is consistent with a November 1850 arrival and a short illness through that winter. Her children were left on their own in an unfamiliar city. Elizabeth Sharp married John Quayle and remained in St. Louis. James, aged eleven, tried to arrange passage west but the company he was to travel with turned back; he stayed in St. Louis and eventually became a partner in a meat packing business. William married the widowed Mary Ann Bailey Padley in St. Louis, and in 1853 he and Isabella, now married to Joseph Carlisle, traveled west in the Moses Clawson Company, arriving in Salt Lake Valley between 15 and 20 September 1853.

Temple Work

In December 1881 Isabella Sharp Carlisle traveled from Mill Creek, Salt Lake County, to the St. George Utah Temple, at that time the only operating temple in the world, to perform proxy ordinances for her deceased daughter Elizabeth Ann Carlisle. While there, between 20 and 23 December 1881, ordinances were completed for her father Thomas Sharp and her paternal grandfather Thomas Sharp Sr., and the sealings of both men to their wives. Ordinances were also completed for her maternal grandmother Ann Matthews Cartwright, baptism, confirmation, and sealing to George Cartwright, with the St. George Temple record identifying Ann Matthews Cartwright by name and marriage details, confirming the family connection across three generations. Ordinances were completed for six people across four generations in four days.

Thomas Sharp’s sealing to Elizabeth Cartwright was completed 30 April 1920.

Of the children of Thomas Sharp Sr. and Anne Stennett who survived to adulthood, John Sharp died on 29 July 1866 in Misson of Bronchitis and Emphysema, the last of the siblings to remain in the village. William Sharp died on 27 October 1867 in Canada, having emigrated there with his family around the same time Elizabeth Cartwright Sharp, Thomas Jr.’s widow, left England for America in 1850. The emigrations of brother and sister in law, in the same decade, from the same small village, to different continents, closes the Misson chapter of the Sharp family story.

Sources

Primary documents: Thomas Sharp death certificate (GRO DYB541596, 13 July 1841); Thomas Sharp burial, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives (15 July 1841); Elizabeth Cartwright baptism, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives, FHL film #503793 (20 December 1803); Thomas Sharp and Elizabeth Cartwright marriage, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives, page 14 (29 December 1823); Ann Sharp birth certificate (GRO, 8 July 1838); Ann Sharp death record (GRO, 2 September 1838); James Sharp birth certificate (GRO BXCC548222, 7 January 1840); 1841 Census of England and Wales, Misson, household 1612123; children’s christenings confirmed in Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives, pages 34 (George 1824), 37 (Mary 1825), 42 (William 1827), 50 (second George 1829), 60 (Isabella 1832), 69 (Elizabeth 1834); second George Sharp burial, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives, page 32 (23 December 1833); Thomas Sharp Sr. christening, Bishop’s Transcripts, Borthwick Institute for Archives (18 September 1768, Armthorpe); Thomas Sharp Sr. death certificate (GRO DYB565322, 23 August 1847); Ann Sharp Sr. death certificate (GRO DYB565321, 10 December 1849); George Cartwright baptism and burial, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives; Ann Matthews christening, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives (14 September 1783); Will of Edmund Matthews of Everton, proved 25 February 1820; Death Duty Register IR27/174, The National Archives; Ann Matthews and George Cartwright marriage, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives (1 February 1803); Ann Matthews and George Beighton marriage, Bishop’s Transcripts, Nottinghamshire Archives, page 13 (4 June 1823); Thomas Sharp Sr. christening (Armthorpe) and Thomas Sharp Sr. and Anne Stennett marriage (Ewerby, Lincolnshire), Lincolnshire Parish Registers; James Sharp (brother) death record, Misson Parish Register (5 June 1839); Mary Sharp burial, Misson Parish Register (approximately 29 November 1825); George Sharp (1829) cause of death, Misson Parish Register (burns, 23 December 1833); Ann Thickett death record, Misson area (6 April 1846); George Sharp death record (8 August 1846); John Sharp death record, Misson (29 July 1866).

Secondary sources: Annie Thompson, Life History of Elizabeth Cartwright Sharp, 27 August 1957; William Sharp Personal History; Kent Nielsen (1931–2020), a great grandson of Joseph and Isabella Sharp Carlisle and thus of Thomas Sharp and Elizabeth Cartwright, contributed extensive primary source research to the FamilySearch Collaborate record for this family between 2011 and 2014. His careful documentation of the Cantley, Yorkshire connection, the GRO certificates, and the census evidence forms the foundation of the genealogical record presented here. FamilySearch Collaborate notes on Thomas Sharp (KWJ5-679) and Thomas Sharp Sr. (KP7V-4HL), 2011–2014; Leanne Maynes, a great great granddaughter of Joseph and Isabella Sharp Carlisle and thus of Thomas Sharp and Elizabeth Cartwright, whose ongoing research into the Sharp and related families has contributed additional primary source analysis, including the Misson Parish Register details on infant burials and causes of death, the identification of the Stamford records as a likely misattribution, and the TB deaths among Thomas Sharp Sr.’s children in the 1840s; Saints by Sea, BYU, James Pennell voyage 2 October–23 November 1850; Misson History Hub, Written History.

For more on the Sharp family and Plain City’s founding generation, see:

Sharp-Bailey Wedding — William Sharp and Mary Ann Bailey
Sons of Joseph and Isabella Carlisle — Isabella Sharp and Joseph Carlisle
John and Elizabeth Quayle — Elizabeth Sharp and John Quayle
James Sharp — James Sharp in St. Louis
Early Settlers in Lehi, Utah, before Plain City, Utah — William Sharp (no. 68) on the Lehi consecration list
History of Plain City — the community William Sharp helped found
Sharp Family History Outreach — broader Sharp family connections

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William Fredrick Andra Autobiography

Andra Boys: William, Donald, Larry, Bill, Golden, Dale, Ross
Andra Boys: William, Donald, Larry, Bill, Golden, Dale, Ross

A copy of this autobiography of my Great Grandfather was given to me years ago.  I wanted to make it more widely available.  I will insert clarification or other information in brackets []. I have attached the handwritten copy so you can see his handwriting.

The Life Story of William Fredrick Andra Sr
I was born on February 11, 1898 in Meissen, Saxony, Germany to Wilhimina [Wilhelmina Christiana Knauke] and Theodor F. [Fredrick] Andra.  My father died when I was about four years old [23 November 1902].

I was baptized in the Elbe River in [16] April 1909; came to the United States in the following month of May.  I left at the age of eleven, one year ahead of the rest of the family.

The following year they were ready to come to the U.S. on the same boat but were, for some reason, delayed a month.  The boat that they had intended on traveling on sank in the mid ocean.  “The Lord moves in mysterious ways, his wonders to perform!”

Upon arriving here, I went to Fairview, Utah to work out my board and room from John R. Anderson, who was a former missionary in Germany.

After being in Fairview one year, I went back to Salt Lake to meet the rest of the family when they arrived.

We had quit a struggle at first, but we made out when the rest had learned the language.

I used to deliver papers, work at the slaughter house to obtain different kinds of meats to help support the family, and did all other types of odd jobs.

At the age of fourteen, my Mother took me to Preston, Idaho to the home of a former missionary [George Wanner] that helped convert my mother in Germany.

I thinned, hoed and topped beets; worked in the potatoes; and did many other things around the farm.  There were about 24 head of cows to be milked.  For my work, I got $18.00 a month.  The next summer I got $25.00 and then $30.00 per month.

In the winter I went back to Salt Lake City because there wasn’t any work left on the farm.

I worked in the Apex Mine in Bingham at the same time that Jack Dempsey was a diamond drill sharpener.

The next winter I worked in the coal mine at Wattis in Carbon County during the flu epidemic in 1918.  My future father-in-law [George Wanner] took the flu and was in the hospital in Salt Lake City.  Shortly after his boy, Golden, also caught the flu and died.  I took the body home to Whitney, Idaho on the train.

I did the chores for the family because they all had the flu.  After working for George Wanner, 7 year on and off, I married at the age of 22 to his daughter, Mary Louise Wanner, in the Salt Lake Temple on March 10, 1920.

At a time when things were tough, I worked on the farm for James R. Bodily and in the winter I did janitor work at the Whitney School and meeting house for $30.00 a month.  Then our son, William Junior was born.  During this time I helped build the sugar factory in Whitney.

In 1922 we moved to Salt Lake City and I worked for the Royal Bakery for one year, then we moved back to Preston and went into the café business with my brother, Walter.  We stayed in the café business until the end of 1925, then we bought the Wanner farm in Preston during the depression times.

I used to dig basements, haul gravel and sand, haul sugar beets from the beet piles to the sugar factory for $4.00 a ton.  It was hard making this $1000.00 principle and $500.00 interest but with the Lord’s help and a good wife and children, we paid for the farm.  In 1937 we bought 9 more acres on the east side of our farm, making 44 acres.

In 1937, I was made a High Priest.  I have been a ward teacher for 36 years, ward teaching supervisor for 7 years, and a group leader for the High Priests Quorum for 12 years.

I am, at present, a director of the Mink Creek-Riverdale Canal Company.

Our main crops on this farm have been sugar beets and potatoes.  We have raised peas and corn for many years.

Our present family consists of 12 children, 8 boys and 4 girls (of which 2 of the boys have passed on).

In 1947, I had a back fusion operation.  It was very successful.

Seven of our children are married from which we have received 28 grand children and 2 great grand children.  One of our boys is in the Western States Mission now.  We have had 2 on missions previously.

I would like to pass this biography on to my son.

Prepared and arranged November 28, 1961
by William F. Andra, Sr. (Age 63)
— AUTOBIOGRAPHY —

Continued details: See life story of Mary Louise Wanner Andra

The principle factors that determined the success of William F. Andra and his wife, Mary Louise Wanner Andra, were ambition and religion.  Always fight for the good!

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In re McGuire, Part II

Decision: In re Richard Michael McGuire and Dolores Sue McGuire, Case No. 12-41681-JDP (Bankr. D. Idaho, 8 Sep. 2014)
Judge: Honorable Jim D. Pappas, United States Bankruptcy Judge
Counsel for Debtors: Paul Ross, Idaho Bankruptcy Law, Paul, Idaho
Trustee: Gary L. Rainsdon, Twin Falls, Idaho
Trustee’s Counsel: Daniel C. Green and Brett R. Cahoon, Racine, Olson, Nye, Budge & Bailey, Chartered, Pocatello, Idaho

Background

Richard and Dolores McGuire filed a Chapter 7 petition on 12 December 2012. The Trustee thereafter liquidated certain non-exempt assets, generating approximately $13,950. With funds on hand, the Trustee filed a notice of assets on 22 January 2013, advising creditors they had 90 days to file proofs of claim or receive nothing. No creditors filed timely claims.

On 3 June 2013 — 132 days after the Trustee’s notice — Utah Central Credit Union (“UCCU”) filed a tardy proof of claim. On 18 June 2013, the Debtors objected to the claim on several grounds, including that it was untimely. Although UCCU failed to respond to the Debtors’ objection at all, the Trustee filed a response on 25 June 2013 defending the claim and arguing that the Debtors’ own schedules established prima facie that the debt was owed. That same day the Trustee sought to employ Racine Olson as counsel.

Debtors’ counsel promptly raised a standing concern by email, questioning whether the Trustee had legal authority to defend a single creditor’s proof of claim. Trustee’s counsel had already begun researching the standing question before that email arrived — a fact reflected in the billing records — but pressed forward regardless.

The Debtors also discovered that UCCU had sold their collateral postpetition, on 27 December 2012, in apparent violation of the automatic stay. Rather than pursue a contempt action against UCCU for the stay violation, the Trustee entered into a stipulation with UCCU under which UCCU would pay the Trustee $10,100 (the proceeds of the postpetition sale) in exchange for an allowed unsecured claim of $44,265.32. The Trustee filed a motion to approve the compromise under Rule 9019.

At an August 2013 hearing, the Court questioned Trustee’s standing and ordered briefing. Before filing that brief, however, Trustee’s counsel entered into the stipulation with UCCU. At an October 2013 hearing, the Court ruled that the Trustee lacked standing to oppose the Debtors’ objection to UCCU’s claim, struck the Trustee’s response, sustained the Debtors’ objection, and disallowed UCCU’s claim. The Court also denied the Trustee’s motion for a Rule 2004 examination of the Debtors, finding no valid grounds for it. The Court indicated the proposed compromise appeared to be a frivolous endeavor in light of the disallowance but invited further briefing if additional grounds existed.

Trustee’s counsel filed a memorandum in support of the compromise that contained no reference to the law governing approval of compromises and did not provide the additional factual or legal basis the Court had requested. The Court denied the compromise. A second creditor, Bank of America, filed a claim in October 2013; the Debtors objected; Bank of America never responded; and the Court disallowed that claim as well. With no allowed creditor claims remaining, Trustee’s counsel filed an Application for Compensation seeking $5,430.00 from the estate funds generated by liquidation of the Debtors’ assets.

The Debtors objected to the Application and simultaneously requested an award of attorneys’ fees and costs against the Trustee and Trustee’s counsel. A hearing was held on 12 May 2014. On 23 May 2014, Trustee’s counsel withdrew the Application. The Court then ordered briefing on the Debtors’ fee request and, after receiving the parties’ submissions, issued its Memorandum of Decision on 8 September 2014.

The Debtors’ Request for Fees

The Debtors sought attorneys’ fees and costs they incurred in: (1) supplementing their objection to UCCU’s proof of claim; (2) opposing the Trustee’s motion for a Rule 2004 examination; (3) objecting to the Trustee’s motion to approve the stipulation; (4) responding to the Trustee’s memorandum in support of the stipulation; and (5) objecting to the Application for Compensation. They grounded their request in § 105(a) of the Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9011.

Their core argument was that the Trustee and Trustee’s counsel had acted without statutory authority throughout the case, defending a single creditor’s claim to the detriment of the estate and the Debtors, filing a motion for a 2004 examination for the improper purpose of harassing the Debtors and rehabilitating UCCU’s deficient claim, and pursuing a stipulation that had been characterized by the Court itself as likely frivolous — all without any supporting law. Debtors argued that seeking remuneration for those activities constituted bad faith, and that the Application for Compensation was itself filed in bad faith.

The Trustee’s Response

Trustee’s counsel argued that the standing issue was a genuine, complex question of first impression on which no controlling authority existed, that the Court had itself requested briefing on it, and that the work performed in that connection was done in good faith. Counsel further contended that the stipulation with UCCU was a reasonable settlement at the time it was entered into, before the unforeseen circumstances — UCCU’s claim being disallowed, and the Debtors objecting to Bank of America’s subsequently filed claim — rendered it of no value to the estate. Counsel also noted that the U.S. Trustee’s Office had reviewed the Application and raised no objection to it. Finally, counsel argued that the Debtors’ fee request did not comply with Rule 9011’s procedural requirements and offered no legal basis for the award sought.

The Court’s Ruling

Judge Pappas denied the Debtors’ request for attorneys’ fees and costs in full.

Section 105(a). The Court acknowledged its inherent authority under § 105(a) to sanction parties and attorneys for misconduct in bankruptcy proceedings, but emphasized that this power must be exercised with restraint and may be invoked only upon an explicit finding of bad faith or willful misconduct — something more egregious than mere negligence or recklessness. While the Court found the Trustee’s conduct at times overzealous and displaying a lack of prudence and good judgment — particularly the decision to liquidate non-exempt assets and solicit creditor claims when no timely claims had been filed, and the continued pursuit of the UCCU stipulation after the claim was disallowed — it declined to conclude that those actions rose to the level of bad faith or willful misconduct. A trustee’s primary statutory duty under § 704(1) is to collect and reduce estate property to money, and the Court was not prepared to penalize the Trustee after the fact for zeal in performing that duty. The § 105(a) request was denied.

Rule 9011. Rule 9011 requires that a motion for sanctions be made separately from other motions and that the moving party provide a 21-day safe harbor notice before filing the motion with the Court. The Debtors had done neither — their fee request appeared within their objection to the Application for Compensation, not in a separate motion, and no safe harbor notice was given. Because those requirements are mandatory rather than discretionary, the Court declined to award sanctions under Rule 9011.

Why This Matters

  1. A Chapter 7 trustee’s decision to liquidate non-exempt assets is committed to the trustee’s discretion. The Court expressly declined to penalize the Trustee for liquidating assets before knowing whether any creditors would file allowed claims. Courts will generally not second-guess a trustee’s administration decisions after the fact, even when the economic reality later makes those decisions look unwise.

  2. Overzealous conduct is not the same as bad faith. Section 105(a) sanctions require an explicit finding of bad faith or willful misconduct — something more than negligence or recklessness. A trustee and counsel who press losing arguments in good faith, even arguments the court finds lacking in prudence and judgment, are unlikely to face § 105(a) sanctions.

  3. Rule 9011 procedures are mandatory, not discretionary. A party seeking sanctions under Rule 9011 must file a separate motion and provide a 21-day safe harbor notice before bringing that motion to the Court. Embedding a sanctions request inside another filing will not suffice, and courts will not overlook the procedural deficiency even when the underlying conduct is arguably sanctionable.

  4. A trustee who lacks standing to defend a creditor’s claim may still not face fee-shifting. Despite the Court having found that the Trustee lacked standing to oppose the Debtors’ objection to UCCU’s proof of claim, the Court declined to treat that lack of standing as evidence of bad faith. Counsel had genuinely researched the question, found no controlling authority, and presented it to the Court as an issue of first impression — which is precisely the kind of good-faith conduct that defeats a sanctions claim.

  5. The § 9011 safe harbor is essential to any sanctions strategy. Practitioners who believe opposing counsel is acting improperly must issue a written safe harbor notice, wait 21 days, and then — if the conduct is not corrected — file a standalone motion. The requirement is not a formality to work around by framing the request as part of a larger objection.


Full Decision: Available on PACER, Case No. 12-41681-JDP, Doc. 85 (Bankr. D. Idaho 8 Sep. 2014)

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Contact, Nevada

The old mining town of Contact, Nevada

“The now defunct mining town of Contact, Nevada, is seen in this early Clarence Bisbee photo. The town once had a hotel, a church, restaurants, and a service station that burned in a 1942 fire. Remnants of the town remain about 20 miles south of the Idaho-Nevada border.

This photo caught my attention because I have some limited memories when I was very young of going to Contact, Nevada. In fact, it might be one of my earliest memories of traveling. My Dad has much more experience with Contact. Here is a quote from his history related to Contact.

“July 17, 1975, Larry called me at home and sent me to Twin Falls, to move Dale Aslett mining and milling from Garrison Utah to Tuscarora Nevada. It was my first time in the office, a little white house east of the shop. Nothing like the nice big office they built on the Northeast corner of their property later. The man in the office was called JR; his real name was Francis Cammack. He was a hunch back, heavy smoker, and bike rider. That was not a very good description, but true, I learned a lot about him over time, we would become good friends. He was excellent office help, and a good bookkeeper and accountant. I had learned years ago when going out of town for a company to take clothing, toothbrush, shaving things and lots of cash, I didn’t have credit cards at that time. A little bag of tools was also a good thing. JR gave me instructions on what I would be doing and where, that I needed to keep track of every dime spent, miles, and hours Dale Aslett would be paying the bill for the truck and me. When I went out to get the truck in the yard, I was met by the driver, of (his) truck #39 that I was to use. He told me he didn’t want me driving (his) truck that they should have waited till he had time to do the job and not put a driver in (his) truck. He was a Mechanic and driver for Circle A. he was mad giving me a lot of instructions, he gave me the keys, telling me not to hurt (his) truck and a flatbed trailer. I had temporary Nevada permits for 72 hours. I was off south on Highway 93 to Jackpot, Wells, Ely Nevada then East on 8 & 50 to Baker, Nevada then on 487 to Garrison, Utah. Off the paved road, on a dirt road 15 miles into the mountain, where mine was. The mine was a strip mine; they had cleared the pine trees and brush putting them in a big pile. Then I used a cat to push up the ore. It was Fluoride rock that had to be crushed, screened, and washed to remove impurities. Dale Aslett had a big pile of ore that he had crushed and more to crush. The product could not be cleaned to speck he tried everything he could think of. He had used a shaker screen table with water like used in gold mines but could not make it work. He was broken and needed to move on the next thing for him to try. This was silver mine at Tuscarora, Nevada. The man and his wife were living in a trailer house on the sight, with a diesel generator for power for mine equipment and their trailer. The other miners had moved on with no money to pay them. George and Rose Steel were all that was left. Years later I would work with them south of Contact, Nevada where Dale was trying his hand at barite ore mining, it would be a money maker for some years. George and I, with the help of a loader, loaded the trailer with conveyer belts and hoppers as much as we could put on and still stay legal. They invited me to eat with them, it was a big meal with deer steak, baked potatoes, boiled carrots with onions and homemade bread. Then I was on my way to Tuscarora about 250 miles, when I got their Dale had dug a long trench, the width of the cat’s blade, as deep as my trailer.  I backed into the trench and Dale with a piece of 4 inch drill steel chained to the dozer lift arm, with a hook chained on the end of the pipe, would lift each piece up and dragged it out in the sage brush, then the next till I was unloaded. This I learned through time this was the normal thing for Dale. Later at Contact Nevada, and at Monsanto in Soda Springs Idaho. The nick name of chain and cable construction was really a fact. I traveled back and forth till everything was in Tuscarora, one night in Tuscarora I had to buy Dale supper he was out of money. I got to eat with George and Rose many times; George even took me out to the big pile of pine trees and dirt that had been stripped off the mine. There he had a secret door of pine boughs that led into like a big teepee. There inside hung deer, which he would cut off some meat for each meal, along with bags of potatoes, onions, and carrots. He would miss this at the mine in Tuscarora, only miles of sage brush. When I finished the last load my permits had run out, Dale told me not to worry. If I went north on highway 226 through Mountain City, Nevada and Owyhee, Nevada through the Duck Valley Indian reservation to Bruneau, Idaho in the dark no one would bother me, the Idaho border was only 50 miles that way, this was the long slow drive narrow two lain road with lots of bends and curves. That was an interesting time seeing the way Dale did things. When I got back to Twin on July 20th, the driver of (his) truck came out for a full inspection. Counting chains and binders are used to secure the loads and straps, checking the oil in the truck, looking at all the tires. Well, I passed, next was JR turning in all the paperwork, reporting what I had done, I drove 26 hours went 1075 miles on 185 gals fuel. JR told me Dale would pay me later, I didn’t know that would be months later, but I did get paid and very good.”

Francis Percival Cammack Jr (1931-1999)

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78 Letter to Frieda

I previously shared a 1968 letter written from Mary Andra to Frieda Horrocks. This letter was given to me with it by Deanne Driscoll. I am including her note with it as well.

“Sun Aug 27 / 78

“Dear Frieda + Susan

“Just a few lines to let you know we are just fine but not as busy now that the Raspberries beans + peas are up.

“I also put 33 plk of corn in our freezer.

“You know Susan that Walter said that Frieda wouldn’t let our Dale Come in her home last winter, but Dale said it isn’t so that Frieda was happy to see him + that she hated to see Dale leave.

“I sure don’t like to have Walter tell big lies, the only thing I don’t like about this trial Coming up is because the Judge Robert is a pal to Minnis Son or is it Walters Son, I think he will favor Walters + Ada’s side, you might talk to your lawyer about it, those boys went to school to gether,

“Otto said he wasn’t coming back up on the 26th of left, but I wouldn’t worry about that, I am going to have a knee operation Sept 20th so maybe Will won’t be able to come either, unless Dale

“can get away + bring his dad. I’ll be in the Logan hospital 15 days.

“Just thought I would tell you the News.

“I would love to hear from you Susan after you tell your lawyer about the Judge, because I didn’t know if you knew about them being so friendly, so talk to your lawyer + see what he says, I sure would like to Know.

“All our love

“Uncle Bill & Mary

“Frieda died 18 Oct 1978

“My Grandmother had Alzhemers

“Susan lived next to her. I don’t think they went to Court.

“Grandma gave Susan Greaves Bencomo the house.

“The will gave the house to Susan, Mike Greaves, Ada and myself.

“Mike gave his share to

“Susan and so did I and that gave he 3/4 of the house so that must have settled the problem if that is the “problem”

“Deanne

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Early History of the Settlement of Lewiston

My grandfather, Wilburn Norwood Jonas, was born in Lewiston, Cache County, Utah on 15 May 1924. His great grandparents, Stephen and Hannah Coley are buried in Lewiston. When I stumbled on this short history, I thought I would share it. This history was compiled by M. R. Hovey for the Logan Chamber of Commerce in 1923, a year before Grandpa was born.

James and Aliza Ross at the grave of Hannah and Stephen Coley – 14 August 2026 – their fourth great grandparents

“After Richmond was settled in 1859, Franklin in 1860, and Clarkston in 1864, “All the most desirable locations on the streams in Richmond and in the other settlements of the Valley, had been taken. Naturally (the new settlers) were forced to take lands in the center of the Valley and get their irrigation water wherever they could. This was difficult to do.”

“In July 1870, a scouting party went out to locate some new lands for settlers. They searched the north end of Cache Valley from Oxford to Mink Creek. (When) “the scouting party returned (it was) decided that the ‘Flat’ where Lewiston is located, was the best place to locate..”

“Used by early Richmond settlers as a herding ground, “It was covered with buffalo and bluegrass. It had also been used in the past by the Indians as a place for their pow-wows, where they had horse races and other games. As there were no trees or vegetation the sand drifted considerably.”

“Houses were built of logs and lumber. Some made dugouts. The community grew. Among the first group of settlers were the families of P. N. Van Orden, Sr., Everett Van Orden, Robert Wall and John M. Bernhisel, Jr.” (When) “the townsite was staked out, it was decided to (make the blocks) a mile square. At first the settlement was called Cub Hill.”

“In 1872, William H. Lewis was sustained as the (LDS Branch’s) presiding elder and later, the bishop. The settlement was named “Lewiston” after Bishop William H. Lewis.

Bio of William H. Lewis

“William H. Lewis married Martha Petty in November of 1856. In 1858 his wagons left Fort Harrison, Utah, to settle in Cache Valley. The Lewises arrived in Richmond October 31, 1859, building a small cabin in an area known as “Poverty Flats.” In 1873 Brother Lewis was called as Presiding Elder of the fledgling Lewiston Branch at Poverty Flat. “After serving for a year, Lewis approached the Richmond Bishop, M.W. Merrill, asking to be released from the calling. He stated ‘he would not trade his small farm in Richmond for the whole of Lewiston.'”

“”Bishop Merrill informed him that it was the Lord that had called him to that position and he would not be a partner in releasing him. The bishop advised William to go back to Lewiston and the Lord would bless him on this land that looked so barren. He also told Brother Lewis that Brigham Young had said that Lewiston would be the granary of the valley and that the potential possibilities of that wasteland were many and great.” Staying in Lewiston, Lewis eventually became one of the wealthiest farmers in the area.

“After serving as Presiding Elder over the branch for five years, Lewis was named the Lewiston Ward’s first bishop. After serving for seven years, he was named Stake President of Benson Stake. The town was eventually named ‘Lewiston,’ after William H. Lewis.

“”In the beginning the little settlement had some serious handicaps. They had no irrigation water, no trees and very little vegetation. The sand drifted badly in places. The winters were severe and bad frosts were common. The drought brought many crickets, grasshoppers and other pests. The winter of 1871-1872 was very cold and severe. In November 1871, two feet of snow fell and it did not leave until April of the next year. At certain times during the winters the fences were covered with snow and the settlers traveled over the tops of the fences with their sleighs. During the summer time there were hot, dry winds, and killing frosts. For three successive years the grain was frozen in July. The settlement was referred to as ‘Poverty Flat,’ ‘Starvation Corner’ and ‘The Last Chance.'”

“When Church President Brigham Young visited Richmond, “the discouraged settlers reported these unfavorable conditions… the settlers (were advised) to return to their homes promising them that Lewiston should yet become one of the garden spots of Cache Valley & the Territory.”

“If the settlers were to remain they had to have irrigation water. “(Since) Bear River to the west was too low to take out a canal and bring it upon the flat…In 1873 a small irrigation ditch northeast of Lewiston was built from Worm Creek…In 1874 a site for a canal was located on Cub River in the Cub River Basin.” Though a tremendous undertaking… it saved the settlement. For drinking water, wells were used.” In later years, “a large irrigation company was formed and a pumping plant and its diversions was established on the Bear River.”

“Lewiston has continued to grow and is considered one of the best farming communities in the state. The promise made years ago by President Brigham Young, ‘that someday Lewiston would become one of the garden spots of the Valley and the Territory, has verily been fulfilled. In 1904, the town was incorporated by Brigham Pond, Lewiston’s first mayor.

Compiled by M. R. Hovey, Secretary, Logan Chamber of Commerce. January 1, 1923 to January 1, 1925. Also as printed in the Logan Journal, beginning August 4, 1923.

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