A few months ago, on one of my trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake I discovered the Plain City Ward Records from 1859-1948 (US/CAN Film #26388), which included a record of members. Since the Lund’s had settled there this was a goldmine!
Now that I’m turning my attention to the Taylor line, I’m starting at the end. Remember, in genealogy we start with the most recent information and work our way back. That means starting with the Victor Erastus Lund and Edith Pearl Taylor family.
I did find a great resource online, the Taylor Family Association which has done a lot of research on this line of Taylors. However, I already found a few errors when reviewing their database, which I already submitted to the moderator. Basically, this means that I will need to go through all the information I found there and verify it with some kind of source. At least it gives me a general direction to work in.
For now, let’s take a look at these LDS Church Records for the Victor Lund family, from the late 1930’s.
Source: Plain City Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Plain City, Utah), Plain City Ward record of members, 1859-1948, no. 337, Victor E. Lund; FHL microfilm 26388.
No. 337
Name in Full – Victor E. Lund
Sex –
Father’s Name – Mathias C. Lund
Mother’s Maiden Name – Pauline Swensen
Born at Plain City, Weber, Ut – 13 Dec 1888
Baptized by Jos. Rawson – 11 Jul 1897
Confirmed by Mathias C. Lund – 11 Jul 1897
Priest – ordained by Wm. G. Rhead – 1 Jun 1908
Elder – ordained by Wm. G. Rhead – 21 Dec 1908
Seventy – ordained by Brigham H. Roberts – 20 Nov 1910
Married to Pearl Taylor – Temple – 18 Jan 1911
Source: Plain City Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Plain City, Utah), Plain City Ward record of members, 1859-1948, no. 338, Pearl Lund; FHL microfilm 26388.
No. 338
Name in Full – Pearl Lund
Sex – Female
Father’s Name – William Taylor
Mother’s Maiden Name – Ada Taylor
Born at Plain City, Weber, Ut – 28 Jun 1891
Baptized by S.C. Praney – 3 Jul 1890
Confirmed by —– – 3 Jul 1890
Married to Victor E. Lund – Temple – 18 Jan 1911
Source: Plain City Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Plain City, Utah), Plain City Ward record of members, 1859-1948, no. 339, Ada May Lund; FHL microfilm 26388.
No. 339
Cancellation {X}
Name in Full – Ada May Lund
Sex – Female
Father’s Name – Victor E. Lund
Mother’s Maiden Name – Pearl E. Taylor
Born at Plain City, Weber Co., Ut – 11 Sep 1914
Blessed by Mathias C. Lund – 1 Nov 1914
Baptized by Edwin R. Wooley – 3 Jun 1923
Confirmed by Hyrum E. Lund – 3 Jun 1923
Married to Howard M. Frasier – Temple – 24 Oct 19[34?]
Removed to – Clinton.
Source: Plain City Ward, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Plain City, Utah), Plain City Ward record of members, 1859-1948, no. 340, Eugene Victor Lund; FHL microfilm 26388.
No. 340
Name in Full – Eugene Victor Lund
Sex – M
Father’s Name – Victor E. Lund
Mother’s Maiden Name – Pearl Taylor
Born at Plain City, Weber Co., Ut – 3 Dec 1918
Blessed by Mathias C. Lund – 2 Feb 1919
Baptized by Elmer P. Carver – 3 Apr 1927
Confirmed by Thomas Jenkins – 3 Apr 1927
Deacon – ordained by George A. Palmer – 21 Jun 1931
Teacher – ordained by Thomas Jenkins – 4 Feb 1934
Priest – ordained by Geo A. Palmer – 19 Jan 1936
Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 22 March 2012 | Posted in Church Records, Lund, Taylor |
I’ve posted about Ada before but today after showing Troy some of what I’ve been doing, I ended up finding a newspaper notice for her death.
Source: University of Utah, “Random References,” death notice, Ogden Standard Examiner, 10 September 1909, Ada Rose Taylor death announcement; online images, Utah Digital Newspapers (digitalnewspapers.org : downloaded 15 March 2012).
Mrs. Taylor Passes Away — Mrs. Ada Rose Taylor, wife of William Taylor of Plain City and daughter of Joseph Taylor of Harrisville, died yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock. Her bebe died a few minutes after. Mrs. Taylor had many friends by whom she was held in high esteem. She was but thirty-seven years old and leaves a husband and seven children.
Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 15 March 2012 | Posted in Death Notice, Newspaper, Taylor |
I’m excited to work further back on the Taylor side of the family, but before I can do that I need to make sure I know all I can about each generation. Starting with Victor Lund and his wife Edith Pearl Taylor.
Source: Utah, Utah Marriages, 1887-1966, batch no. M74786-4, source film no. 1324681, nef. no. 5428 p467 #F (833), Victor Erastus Lund, 18 January 1911; digital images, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Family Search (www.familysearch.org : accessed 7 May 2011); Family History Library.
Last year I found the record of Victor and Pearl’s marriage on Family Search, but it was only the index and no image. On one of my trips to the Family History Library, I pulled up the film and copied it.
Transcription:
Mr. Victor Erastus Lund of Plain City in the County of Weber and the State of Utah of the age of 22 years and Miss Edith Pearl Taylor of Plain City in the County of Weber and the State of Utah of the age of 19 years the ___ of said ___ having given ___ assent to said Marriage.
In Witness Wherof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at my office in Ogden City, Weber County, State of Utah, this the
17th day of
Jany AD 19
11.
(signed) P.G. Dye, County Clerk
By (signed) Jno. V. Bluth, Deputy.
State of Utah
I hereby certify that on the ___ day of
JAN 18 1911 in the year of our Lord one thousand nien hundred and ___ at
Salt Lake City in said County, I the undersigned
an Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints did join in the Holy Bonds of Matrimony according to the laws of this State
Victor E. Lund of the County of
Weber,
State of
Utah and
Edith P. Taylor of the County of
Weber, State of
Utah.
Signed – Victor E. Lund (groom)
Signed – Edith P. Taylor (bride)
(signed) Alfred Solomon (witness)
(signed) B Morris Young (witness)
(signed) Anthon H. Lund
An Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
It’s so interesting to see that they were married in the same place as Troy and I were, the Salt Lake Temple. They were young, 19 and 22, which is only one year younger than Troy and I when we married almost 100 years later.
I love that this document also has their signatures:
I also love looking at photographs of our ancestors. It’s interesting how much Troy and our son James look like Victor –
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| Victor Erastus Lund |
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| Edith Pearl Lund |
Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 4 March 2012 | Posted in Lund, Marriage License, Photograph, Taylor |
A few weeks ago I went to the local Family History Center to download some records from Ancestry.com. While doing that I ran across some user uploaded photographs of John Ammon Taylor.
Source: John Ammon Taylor photograph, ; digital image, uploaded to Ancestry.com 3 Apr 2011; privately held by Alisonpure [address for private use].
Source: John Ammon Taylor photograph, ; digital image, uploaded to Ancestry.com 27 Apr 2010; privately held by rburgesslinn, [address for private use].
I would love to know if the that is in fact John’s signature or if someone just wrote his name under the picture. I’ll need to go back to the FHC and try to contact these users.
Posted by jullianalund@gmail.com on 21 February 2012 | Posted in Photograph, Taylor |
