Learning about the Taylor’s

Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 10 January 2012 | Comment

I’m continuing my work on the Lund family, but now I’m focusing on the next two generations…particularly the wives and their families. Today, during naptime, I chose to research a bit more about Edith Pearl Taylor’s family (she went by Pearl). Here was all I had to go on:

Grandma Pearl was born about 1892 based on her marriage certificate. She was married on 18 Jan 1911 to Victor Erastus Lund. According to my MIL her father was William and her mother was Ada. She lived in Plain City, UT and died when my husband was a young boy. That’s it!

First, I hoped to verify the dates for Pearl’s birth/death. Since I knew that Edith died in Plain City, I searched for her gravestone on FindAGrave.com.

I think their children’s names are listed across the bottom, but it’s difficult to read. I’ll have to go see it in person sometime. What was really helpful on the FindAGrave.com website was the “family links”. There I found her parents – William and Ada Rose. Their gravestone also gave me a lot of new information.

In addition to the gravestone, another user “Burnt Almond Fudge” added the picture of William’s Death Certificate. So I tracked it down myself. With these three finds, I now have a lot more information about Pearl and her parents…in fact, I now know her paternal grandparents’ names. Score!

Source: State of Utah, Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1956, entry 18685, William Taylor, 11 April 1942; digital images, Utah State Archives and Records Service, Utah State Archives (archives.utah.gov : downloaded 10 January 2012); Series no. 81448.

Transcription:

1 Place of Death

a.)    County

b.)    City or town

c.)     Name of hopital or institution

d.)    Length of stay: In hospital or institution

In this community

Weber

Ogden

2518 Lincoln Ave.

Residence

25 Years

2 Usual Residence of Deceased:

a.)    State

b.)    County

c.)     City or Town

d.)    Street No.

e.)    If foreign born, how long in U. S. A.

Utah

Weber

Ogden

2518 Lincoln Ave.

3

a.)    Full Name

b.)    If veteran, name war

c.)     Social Security No.

William Taylor

none

4 Sex

Male

5 Color or Race

White

6

a.)    Single, Married, Widowed, or Divorced

b.)    Name of husband or wife

c.)     Age of husband or wife if alive _ years.

Widowed

Ada Rose Taylor

7 Date of Birth

September 3, 1870

8 Age

71 years, 7 months, 8 days

9 Birthplace

Plain City, Utah

10 Usual occupation

Retired Farmer and Laborer

11 Industry or Business

12 Name of Father

John A. Taylor

13 Birthplace of Father

Texas

14 Maiden Name of Mother

Hannah Poulson

15 Birthplace of Mother

Christiana, Wales

16

a.)    Informant’s own signature

b.)    Address

(signed) Earl Taylor

Carlin, Nevada

17

a.)    (Burial, Cremation Removal)

b.)    Date thereof

c.)     Place: burial or cremation

Burial

April 15, 1942

Plain City Cemetery

18

a.)    Mortuary

b.)    Signature of funeral director

c.)     Address

d.)    License no.

e.)    Was body embalmed

f.)     Embalmer’s license no.

Lindquist & Sons.

(signed) Clyde A Lindquist

Ogden

64

Yes

283

19 Date received local registrar

     Registrar’s Signature

April 15, 1942

     (signed) A. B. McQuarric

20 Date of Death

April 11, 1942

21 I hereby Certify, That I attended deceased from _____ to _____ that I last saw him alive on not seen alive, death occurred on the date stated above, at about 8 A.

Immediate cause of death cardiac dilatation  / (duration) sudden

Due to Arteriosclerotic heart disease  /  (duration) years

Due to Generalized arteriosclerosis  /  (duration) years

Other Conditions _____

Major mindings:

     Of operations: none done

     Of autopsy: none done

22 If death was due to external causes, fillin the following:

a.)    Accident, suicide, or homicide (specify)

b.)    Date of occurrence

c.)     Where di the injury occur?

d.)    Did injury occur in or about home on farm, in industrial place, in public place?

e.)    While at work?

f.)     Means of ingury

—x

Yes, Feb 24

No

(signed)E.R. Dumke

Mar 2, 1926 / Ogden, Utah

23 Signature

Date

Address

(signed) L.W. Benson M.D.

April 13, 1942

Ogden, Utah

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