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?
The Lund Family book is complete…thus the quiet blog. I’ve focused all my energy on getting that done, and then took a few weeks off. Well now I’m back and decided that the next book will continue where the first left off. Since The Lund Family focused on the Lund’s immigration to America and concluded with Mathias and Pauline, the next will continue with the Victor-Edith and Eugene-Alene generations.
Alene Anderson, Troy’s paternal grandmother, was married three times. All I know about her first husband is – Name: James Kenny Harvey Married: 1 June 1939 to Alene Anderson This comes from Alene’s own “Book of Rememberance”
According to Brent, Alene’s son, she divorced James a few years before she married his father Eugene in 1946. So, my search begins for James Harvey. Unfortunately, since he was born after 1911 his death certificate is not available online. I did a general search on FamilySearch.org just to see what was out there. I found one hit that looks promising:
Source: “Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966,” digital image, Utah State Historical Society, Family Search (familysearch.org : downloaded 5 January 2012), entry for James Kenneth Harvey, died 26 February 1966; citing Veteran Records, FHL microfilm 485,503; Family History Library Salt Lake City, Utah.
Transcription: Harvey, James Kenneth Serial Number: 6552063 Rank: Pvt Organization: Inf Branch: Army Period of Service: Peacetime Date of Enlistment: 16 January 1934; Place: Fort Douglas, Utah Date of Discharge: 3 August 1935; Place: Fort Douglas, Utah Date of Birth: 30 March 1917; Place: Ogden, Utah Place of Death: 26 February 1966; Place: Ogden, Utah Place of Burial: City: Ogden; County: Weber; Cemetery: City; Plot Location: P1 R B1 10 L 3 Remarks: {blank} Marker: Govt Ogden City Cem Fwded 4/25/66 HARVEY, JAMES KENNETH WEBER CO OGDEN CITY PL R BL 10 L 3
I believe this to be the correct James Harvey and this gives me a bit more information about him including his birth and death dates and next of kin. I’m not sure if Marietta Harvey is his wife or mother. I also need to find a marriage record for James and Alene.
I love the Family History Library! Yesterday was my graduation from the Master’s program and the gift I asked for was a few hours at the FHL in Salt Lake. I was able to get a few church records and ship records I wanted to finish up the Lund Family Book for Christmas. Then, I thought I should see what they had about Plain City, Utah, the town all the Lund’s lived in when they moved to Utah.
I did a place-name search in the catalog and found a book with Cemetary records which also listed relationships when they were known (like who was married to who and child of who, etc.). I found another book with some LDS church records, and then another with Plain City History. Most of it was the same history I’d already found online from the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, but the book also had pictures!
So I looked through all the pictures to see if any included the Lund family. Here’s one of the good ones –
Source: Cook Lyman and Dorothy, editors, History of Plain City: March 17th 1859 to 1977 (N.p.: n.p., 1977), p. 110, photograph.
Here’s Edith Pearl Taylor (Lund) in 1907. She later married Victor Erastus Lund, son of Mathias Christian Lund, and Troy’s Great-grandfather.
Earlier today my mother-in-law came by with some photographs of the family so I could scan them in. This is a photograph of Mathias and Pauline Lund and their children, taken I believe about 1910-12.
Back Row: Heber, Sadie, Victor, Zella Middle Row: Francis, Clyde, Etta Front Row: Elvra, Mathias, Pauline, Emma
I’ll post more pictures soon, but first, I thought I’d post an interesting Personal History written by Mathias Funk Lund’s son, Heber C. Lund. I already shared one written by another brother, Francis. Below is the transcription of the pages I scanned.
My father, Mathias Lund, bought 100 acres of land on the North Range about two miles north of Plain City. He bought it from the railroad company paying $1.50 an acre. It was covered with a very good crop of sage brush. The brush had to be cleared off in order to till the land. It seemed that this land would have to be a dry land farm as there was no prospect of getting water there for irrigation. Father decided he wouldn’t need so much land so he turned all but fourteen acres back to the railroad company. I remember my brother Francis telling of working hard with father to clear the land of sagebrush and get it ready for planning, alfalfa and grain at first, later they were able to get water for the farms out there and our farm, being a rich sandy loam, we raised all kinds of garden stuff. We also got sagebrush form the Little Mountain, this brush was like small trees and very hard to cut down. I remember father telling us of giving an acre of his land out North to a man for a sack of wheat to help keep them through the winter. All of the children in Plain City were baptized in the canal when they were eight years old. When I was about five years old Father took Francis, Victor and myself with him up Center Street near the Plain City Canal to get a load of willows to put on top of our stack of hay, we put willows on top of the hay stack to keep the wind from blowing the hay off as we didn’t have a hay shed. The boys were cutting the willows and father was loading them on the wagon, the wind was blowing quite hard and blew off the wagon on the one side. The horses were frightened and they ran away. I was sitting on the spring seat on the wagon. In trying to stop the horses father fell and the wagon wheel ran over his head. I fell from the seat falling on the end of the bridge unconscious, father ran to me picking me up fast as I was about to fall in the canal. He took me in his arms not knowing if I were dead or alive, blood was running from his wounded head on my face. He held me tightly in his arms, as he knelt on the ground and prayed to his father in heaven to spare his boy. Then he arose and walked several blocks to the nearest house, Peter Peterson. (Where George Palmer’s home now is.) A neighbor boy saw them and seeing the blood on father and me, he ran to our home and told Mother that I was dead, the neighbors were there with mother when father arrived. I soon came to and was soon all right. The horses hit a post and were separated and were soon brought home. Sometime later were all out on the farm working, it was so warm, it seemed as though we never could get enough water to drink. Francis got on one of the horses to go for water. He had a small bucket, the bucket rattled and frightened the horse and he ran away again. Francis dropped the bucket but stayed on the horse until it got home. We boys didn’t get much schooling as from early spring until late fall we helped father on the farm. He had 15 acres of land, 10 good land and 5 pasture, out in Poplar, east of Jim Robsons place, besides the place out North. We went to school when we could and studied hard during the winter months. We had lots of snow and no boots to wear then, it seemed our feet were wet and cold most of the time. There were three acres of land where our home was. Father had a nice fruit orchard and grapes. At times we had terrible electric storms. Mother was so afraid of lightening and I think we were all a little afraid too. One day Sadie and Rosella, my sisters younger than I, were out in the lot hoeing weeds when a bad storm came up. Rosella was afraid, so I told her to go to the house, she was so afraid she just fell on the ground and wouldn’t get up. I picked her up and carried her in the house. I met a nice young lady whose name was Alta Martin. She lived in Farr West, we kept company for some time. When we decided to get married I told father that I would have to get a job where I could earn some money, and he told me if I would stay with him he would let me have two acres of beets for my help. On December 17, 1913, Alta and I were married in Salt Lake temple. We were blessed with two children; Ethel Lucile, born July 26, 1915 and Carl Albert, born October 5, 1918. Although Alta’s health hasn’t been the best at times, she has been cheerful and has been cheerful and has done all she could to make a happy home for the family. We are truly grateful for all the blessings we have. After Francis, Victor and I were married we often helped dad with the hay. One time we had just finished hauling hay and had a beautiful large stack finished off. Father wanted Victor and me to go with him to get a load of willows to put on top of the stack because it looked like a wind was coming up. We were so tired and didn’t want to go, it was late and getting dark, so father let us have our way and we had supper and went to bed. During the night a fierce east wind blew and tore the stack in half. Father was very much upset, he was so particular and proud of the perfect hay stacks he made. Sometimes mother would stack the hay, she could make a perfect stack too. When father saw what a mess the wind had made of his stack he decided it was time to build a hay shed. Sometime later he built his hay shed. When dad and mother died the farms and home were divided up. Francis, Etta and Emma got the farm out North. Sadie and Clide got the house and ¾ acres. Vira got one acre north of the house. Zella received one acre south of the house. Victor and I got the land by Robsons in Poplar Lane. (out east, we used to say). Victor and I gave Zella and Vira money equal to the land that had been divided among the others. Francis bought Etta’s and Emma’s land because they didn’t want to farm and he wanted it all in one piece as dad had had it.
Why, its the study of the Lund's, of course! I am jumping in to researching our family history and seeing where it takes me. We are the Lund's. We come from Lund's, Ranson's, DeMacedo's, Lima's, Anderson's, Warner's, Ferreira's, Da Silva's and beyond! Since my own side of the family is from Brazil, it is quite difficult to track things down. Troy's side, on the other hand, has proven to be much easier. So, I'll be jumping back and forth and all around to learn about where we come from.
Are you related to us? I'd love to learn more about you and share what I know about our common ancestors!
