My Parents-Story of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes

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The Story of George Lorenzo Olds and Marie Noakes
1889-1981
Butte, Montana
Creede, Colorado
Springville, Utah
Knightville, Utah
Clear Creek, Utah
Eureka, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Park City, Utah
Pocatello, Idaho
Denver, Colorado
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In a vine-covered shack in the mountains,
Bravely fighting the battle of time
Is a dear one who’s weathered life’s sorrows,
‘Tis that silver-haired daddy of mine.
If I could recall all the heartaches,
Dear old Daddy, I’ve caused you to bear,
If I could erase those lines from your face
And bring back the gold to your hair.
If God would but grant me the power
Just to turn back the pages of time,
I’d give all I own if I could but atone
To that silver-haired daddy of mine.
Jimmy Long, Gene Autry
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My Parents
1889-1981
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My Parents
1889-1981
Butte, Montana
Creede, Colorado
Springville, Utah
Knightville, Utah
Clear Creek, Utah
Eureka, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Park City, Utah
Pocatello, Idaho
Denver, Colorado
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Leonard E. Olds
Sandy, Utah
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Copyright 2005 by Leonard E.Olds
First issued in 2001
Completely revised in 2005
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Preface
My Parents! Thoughts about a person’s parents depend upon your personal age:
As children, we expect our parents to be responsive to our wishes and/or demands.
As teen-agers, we begin looking for the level of perfection to which we have expected our
parents should have attained.
As adult parents of our own children, we begin to better appreciate the difficulties and challenges that our parents had in their personal lives.
As retired seniors, we finally feel a personal need to thank our parents for being having been
willing to extend their selves in our behalf.
What a perspective old age gives us. Frailities and imperfections in our parents, which seemed so large to us as
teen agers, become minor in light of our own experiences and our own challenges as parents of our own children.
And the ever present problem given to us by that improved perspective is how can we now find a way to better
thank our parents for their love, thoughts, and sacrifices in our behalf.
And so this history. There is a need in every one of us not to feel that we have been forgotten just because
Heavenly Father has called us home. As one undertakes to seriously study the life of his parents, and is able to
view their life from beginning to the end, faults miraculously begin to disappear. Challenges are better understood, and their spirit seems to become closer to yours.
Viewing each parents’ life from its beginning to its end allows us to perhaps see each individual as Heavenly
Father may see them. The challenge of their formative years; the romance and love that brought my parents
together; the problems of two world wars and the great depression; strains, stresses, and heartaches; but the love
each had for me and for my brother.
Thank you my parents.
Leonard Olds
July 2005
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OurAncestors Who Gave Us Our Heritage
G eorge
Marie
Great Grandparents
Luther Olds Sr. and Dorcas Young
Isham Parsons and Mathilda Evens
Henry Pascoe and Eliza Polkinghorn
Thomas Husbands and Margaret Maria Weight
Great Grandparents
Thomas Noakes and Emma Inkpen
Moses Childs and Polly Patten
Solomon Barnett and Eliza Lister
William Brown and Mary Coon
Grandparents
Luther Olds Jr. and Mary Melvina Parsons
Francis James Polkinghorn Pascoe and
Margaret Maria Husbands
Grandparents
John Hubbard Noakes and Susan Amelia Childs
Lewis Scott Barnett and Lavina Janett Brown
Parents
Isaac Olds and Leah Sibella Pascoe
Parents
Moses Adelbert Noakes and Maggie Annie Barnett
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Contents
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Eureka, Utah, Early Spring, 1919
George’s Story
Marie’s Story
George Lorenzo Olds and Marie Noakes Begin their Life and
Travels Together
5. The Post-Divorce Years–Marie’s Story
6. The Post-Divorce Years–George’s Story
7. Epilogue:
Appendix A:
Appendix B:
Appendix C:
Appendix D:
Appendix E:
Appendix F:
Index
Additional Family Pictures
Histories Written Personally by George and by Marie
Letters and Notes
Descendants of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
Ancestors of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
Family Group Sheets
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The Noakes-Barnett Families in 1900
The Noakes-Barnett Families in 1916
Descendants of George L. Olds and Olive Mason
Descendants of Wilford Ward and Marie Noakes
Picture Pedigree Chart of George and Marie
Pedigree Chart for George Lorenzo Olds
Pedigree Chart for Marie Noakes
Family Group Record for George L. Olds & Marie Noakes
Family Group Record for George L. Olds & Olive Mason
Family Group Record for Marie Noakes & Wilford Ward
Family Group Sheet for m. Adelbert Noakes & Maggie A. Barnett
Family Group Sheet for J. Hubbard Noakes & Susan A. Childs
Family Group Sheet for Lewis S. Barnett & Lavina J. Brown
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Private George L. Olds, 1918
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John McCulland and George Olds, Spring 1919
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George and Marie’s Wedding Picture
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Carson Valley, Nevada
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The Pascoe Mansion in Salt Lake City, 1870
6-14 George’s Parents and Grandparents
15 Walkerville, Butte, Montana, abt 1900
16 Downtown Butte about 1900
17 George’s Home, Butte, Montana.
18 Leah Olds and Daughters in Butte
19 Downtown Creede, Colorado in 1892
20 Wagon Wheel Gap at Edge of Creede
21 George’s Creede Home, 1905-12
22 Marie Noakes, 2; Dora Noakes, 6; 1902
23-34 Marie’s Parents and Grandparents
35 Maggie Barnett’s Lincoln School,
36 Map Showing the Relationship of Utah Towns
37 Topographic Map of Springville Area
38 The 1905 Clear Creek Baseball Team
39 Ida Higgenson, 14.
40 The Noakes’ Family Restaraunt in Springville
41-44 Del Noakes, Dora, Della & Bill of Fare
45 Towns that Marie and George Lived In
46 George Eugene Olds, 6 mos, 1924
47 Leonard Elmo Olds, 9 mos, 1926
48 Father George Olds and kids, 1925
49 Mother Marie Olds and kids, 1926
50 Fellow D&RG Workers of George Olds, 1935
51 Leonard, Gene, & Goat, 1931
52 Leonard, Gene, & Pony, 1934
53 Gene & Leonard at Mariposa Street House
54 Map of West Denver: George and Marie’s Homes
55 George’s Aaronic Priesthood Certificate
56-81 George and Marie Olds’ Family Pictures
82 Marie, 39, in 1939 while living in Salt Lake City
83 Wilford Jessie Ward, 35, 1938
84 Telegram Announcing Gene’s Death
85-86 Gene’s Grave and Tombstone 1942
87-88 Eugene 18 and Leonard 16
89-92 Ted Ward at 6 mo, 4 yrs, 15 yrs, 51 yrs
93 Wilford’s Sons at Don Ward’s Burial, 1970
94 Marie’s Burial in Farmington Cemetery
95 Wilford and Marie’s Tombstone
96 George and His Son Leonard in 1944
97-114 Isaac and Leah Olds’ Family
115-135 Del and Maggie Noakes’ Family
136 Marie With LDS Barnum Club, 1940
137 Marie andRoyal Neighbors of American Lodge
138 The Barnett Family, 1907
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Leonard E. Olds
1. Eureka, Utah, Early Spring, 1919
He looked impressive in his soldier’s uniform as he walked the streets of Eureka, Utah
looking for a certain address. The little mining town of Eureka had been drained of
marriageable age men because of the war and was just now starting to see one or two
returning soldiers coming back to work in the silver and lead mines of this small mining
community which in turn consisted of both Mormons and “Gentiles”.
Private George Olds had recently been discharged from Camp Cody in New Mexico
and had returned to his former home in Creede, Colorado only to find that his widowed
mother had recently remarried and had moved with her new husband to the boom town
of Eureka. As he knocked on the door of the little frame house, a tall, slender woman
in her late ‘50s came to the door, gazed at the young man standing there before uttering
a cry of joy and embraced him tightly.
“George, is it really you?”
“Yeah, Mom, I’m out of the army.”
Fig 1: Private George L. Olds,
1918
Leah C. Olds McCulland led her son into the house and called out, “John, George is here.”
And a new chapter in the life of 30 year old George Lorenzo Olds began as he met his step father John
McCulland.
World War I had changed the lives of many people as it did for George. When the war began for the United States
in 1917, George wanted to enlist in the navy to help forget the heart aches associated with his recent 1915 divorce
from Olive Mason and the son who was not to be any part of his future life, little Charlie Olds. However he was
turned down and was caught in the army draft of May 1918 sending him to Camp Cody as a 29 year old private.
But the war was on its way to being over before George finished his training. So in December of 1918 he was
discharged in San Acacia, Colorado and began touring the country.
George enjoyed traveling the inexpensive way, on freight trains. So he made
his way back to his old stomping grounds of Creede, Colorado to see old
friends before deciding to visit his mother in Eureka, Utah. Thus it was that
after relaxing for a few weeks, the spring of 1919 found George looking for
work in this little mining town of Utah. His stepfather, John McCulland
helped him land a job first as a butcher in the local store and later as a laborer
with the Consolidated Chief Mine in Eureka.
Fig 2: John McCulland and George Olds (right), 30 yrs,
Eureka, Utah, Spring 1919
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The Story of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
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Fig 3: George L. Olds, 30 yrs and Marie Noakes, 19 years
on their Wedding Day, October 1919
2. George’s Story
What would you think of being born in Butte, Montana in the year 1889 on a street called Toboggan Avenue?
Well for one thing, the late 19th Century Butte was what the real Western mining towns of movie fame were made
of. Stark, seemingly barren, and cold in the winter, warm in the summer, but rip-roaring throughout the entire
year. While it was generally an ethnically mixed town, the Butte Irish were the host society. Smoke and smelter
smells permeated the valley.
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So as nature would have it, George called upon Marie one day in early September 1919, bringing her flowers
and inviting her to a dance at the local LDS Church. Marie was impressed and was duly swept off her feet by
George’s attentions. And so when he asked her to marry him, the answer was, “Yes.”
Mom and Dad Noakes
readily agreed, and the wedding party left for Springville, Utah on Thursday October 2, 1919, and a new family
unit was created the next day at the Provo Town Hall by Bishop L. T. Epperson, Del and Maggie Noakes’ family
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other eyes were on him including that of lovely 18-year old Marie Noakes, who was just recovering from
the massive 1919 flu tragedy which had taken her younger brother and sister and her older sister all within the
same week in May 1919. Marie’s father, Del Noakes, was a part owner in the Consolidated Chief mine and
became impressed with the hard working George Olds and mentioned him to his wife, Maggie. As it turned out
Marie’s mother, Maggie Noakes, and George’s mother, Leah Olds McCulland, were close friends since both
were active members of the local lodge. It just seemed natural for them to encourage a relationship between the
handsome George and the gracious Marie.
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George’s Mom and Dad came from two widely different backgrounds. His father Ike was raised as a cowboy on r a c k e r- s o ft w a r
Ike’s father’s ranch in Carson Valley, Nevada as shown in Figure 4. His mother Leah was raised as a cultivated
daughter of a wealthy industrialist in Salt Lake City living in the mansion shown in Figure 5.
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Fig 4: Carson Valley, Nevada Looking South Towards
Luther Olds’ 1870 Ranch
Fig 5: The Pascoe Mansion in Salt Lake City, 1870
Pictures of George’s grandparents, his parents, and his sisters are shown in Figures 6 through 14.
Figs 6-9:
41 yrs 1869
Not Available
55 yrs 1884
Luther Olds Mary M. Parsons Francis J. P. Pascoe
32 yrs 1891
Figs 10-11: Isaac Olds
40 yrs 1923
Figs 12-14: True E. Olds
55 yrs 1885
Maria Husbands
33 yrs 1903
Leah S. Pascoe
26 yrs 1911
Birdie M. Olds
30 yrs 1919
George L. Olds
The histories of George’s parents and paternal grandparents have been published and give a great introduction
and background for George’s family. These histories are:
The Story of Isaac Olds and Leah Sibella Pascoe, a Cowboy Romance of the Roaring ‘80s
by Leonard E. Olds, 2004. Stored in the Family History Library, Salt Lake City as 929.2730OL1oLe.
The Olds Brothers and Their Carson Valley, Nevada Story; Luther Olds and his brothers John and David
Olds from Battle Creek, Michigan, 1849-1882, by Leonard E. Olds, 2003. Stored in the Family History
Library, Salt Lake City as 929.273OL1oL and available on microfilm 1573515 item 6
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Butte, Montana p 20
Fig 15: Walkerville, Butte, Montana, abt 1900
Greater Butte, p 27
Fig 16: Downtown Butte abt 1900
When they moved to Butte, Ike and Leah had two daughters, 5-yr old Truie and 3-yr old Birdie. One year later
the midwife came to their house in June of 1889 and helped usher little George into the world. George’s Dad,
Isaac (known all over Butte as Ike), was 31 years old and ran Butte’s main livery stable.
George’s early years were happy ones as is normal in the life of youngsters two to three year old. Food was
plentiful and readily available, enough fuel was always on hand to keep their small home warm, and, with two
older sisters, cuddling was his on a moments notice.. Their home had one of the few pianos in Butte, and the
family would play songs and sing together, particularly at Christmas time.
However, tragedy seldom gives a warning, so when George’s father died suddenly, 3-days after George’s 4th
birthday, while on a horse trading trip to Salt Lake City, there became an urgent need for him to grow up quickly.
In 1893, how does a newly-made widow with three small children (10, 8, and 4) learn of her husband’s death some
800 miles away and travel to take part in his funeral three days later? The answer is that she probably doesn’t
unless Father Pascoe helped out with the traveling arrangements. And with the loss of steady income, life-style
changes needed to be made immediately. George tells stories about how he became a paperboy at a very young
age and, when older, of becoming a Western Union messenger boy. Tales also were told of sleeping under the
wooden sidewalks in Butte and the need to rustle coal from the railway sidings to help keep the home warm in
the winter. He tells of his mother taking in borders into her house on 235 Toboggan Avenue, along of course with
the standard washing and ironing.
And Toboggan Avenue was aptly named since in winter time, George and his friends would go sledding down
a very slick hill with no chance of stopping. At the bottom of the hill was a busy street full of horses and buggies.
As George often told his family, the skill was in being able to direct the sled either between the horses’ feet or
between the wheels of the buggies without being crushed. He told also of his mother marrying trying to keep a
roof over her children’s head, but having to cope with the burial of her three subsequent husbands within only six
months of each marriage.
In the 1900 US Census for Butte there is the following entry for the Toboggan Street house:
James Brown, 50 years old, head of house
Leah Brown, 33 years old, wife (Leah C. Pascoe Olds Brown)
Birdie Olds, 14 years old, step daughter
George Olds, 11 years old, step son
Ethel Brown, 11 years old, daughter
So, when George was 11 his sister Truie was no longer living at home having married Clarence Officer, a
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George’s parents had moved to Butte around 1888, a town with all the desirable Western ambience as shown in
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surveyor on the Butte Reservoir. This again brought dramatic changes into George’s life, since his 14-year oldtr a c k e r- s o ft w a r e
sister Birdie was not nearly as tolerant of George’s escapades and would bang his head on the wooden floor to
get him to obey her. Unfortunately, George’s step father, James Brown died only a few months after the 1900
census was taken, and Leah likely intended to raise Ethel as her own daughter until she probably went back to
Colorado to live with James’ parents. However, for the time being, George and Ethel developed a friendship that
lasted throughout his life. But once again, George, at the age of 11 was fatherless.
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Figures 17 and 18 show George’s Mother, Sisters, and Cousins at their 235 Toboggan Street Bungalow.
Fig 17: George’s Home at
235 Toboggan Street,
Butte, Montana.
Probably taken aroung 1903.
Fig 18: Birdie Olds, 18; Leah Olds, 42; Herbert Officer, 2; Eugene Officer, 3; True Officer, 20
Shortly after this picture was taken in 1903, Eugene passed away.
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In any event, somewhere between the ages of 10 and 12 George was out of school associating with the men of
the community delivering mail to the bars and running various errands. Living was relatively easy and
particularly enjoyable when he worked for a doctor with the privilege of riding his beautiful white horse all over
town
But again important changes were to come into George’s life, this time probably when George was 16 years old.
At that time his sister Truie invited mother Leah to move to Creede, Colorado where her husband’s brother had
an old fashioned country store. And so about 1904 Leah moved to Creede to help True with her children in the
aftermath of what had become particularly difficult because of the death of little Eugene in 1903. George stayed
in Butte, for a short time with 19 year old Birdie who was being courted by her future husband, Edward Cassity.
Birdie, however, felt that when George turned 16 in 1905 that he would be better off in Creede so she bought him
a railroad ticket and sent him on his new adventure. Figure 19 is a picture of downtown Creede in 1892 some 13
years before George and his mother moved there. Figure 20 is a picture of the famous Wagon Wheel Gap in the
hills just at the edge of Creede.
Fig 19: Downtown Creede, Colorado in 1892
Fig 20: Wagon Wheel Gap at Edge of Creede
In 1905 when George arrived in Creede, the old mining town of Creede (Jimtown), Colorado was only a shadow
of its boom town days of 1885-90. However, the new fangled automobile was about to change things forever,
as tourists began to discover both Mineral and Lake Counties of Colorado.
As reported in the local newspaper, the Creede Candle, George soon became known as the Candy-kid of Creede
with an active social life among the youth of the town. Listen to George’s own personal description of Creede
and its exciting times for a young man his age:
“Creede is a beautiful place. The town is between the high mountains and is pretty in the summer, and has eight feet
of snow in the winter. At sixteen I would unload coal from the rail road cars for twenty cents a ton. Then I went to
work in the Ameasthes wood mill. I would ride a burro up and down. Then my brother-in-law gave me a job taking
groceries to the houses. Some old dame would want a 5 cent yeast cake, so I would take it on a Sunday. I had 200 girls
up there, and I would fight with them. Mr. Rice got the first car to come to Creede, so I paid him $5 to ride it to wagon
wheel gap and back. I took my girl and did we have lots of fun. We came back to Creede like big shots. ....May Patton
and I were put off the dance floor for dancing the Rag. They thought it was awful.”
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Both George and his mother told of the time that she received a letter telling her that her branch of the Olds family
had $200,000 awaiting her in the banks of Connecticut and for her to come and claim it. Ten-year old George
immediately began making plans on how he would spend his share including the quitting of fourth grade in school
so he could do his part in helping his mother claim the inheritance. And of course the best laid plans almost always
go awry; and so it was in this case when George’s home burnt down along with the papers telling how to go about
claiming this immense fortune. Not an impossible problem in our present day of easy communication, but an
insurmountable tragedy in 1898. (Note: The timing of this family legend is probably not accurate since the Toboggan
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And then one spring in 1913, George took a job painting the barn for
Charlie Mason in Lake County. His boss, Charles C. Mason, had
brought his family from Mancos, Colorado to the Hermit Lakes in 1899.
He brought his wife, Anna, and five daughters. In 1913 the daughters Fig 21: George’s Creede Home, 1905-12
were: Alice, 27; Deborah, 25; Marion, 23; Olive, 21; and Luella, 18. At the time George began painting the
Mason barn, Alice and Deborah had married and moved away. And who should be interested in watching
George paint but Charlie’s 21-year old daughter, Olive Mason. A romance blossomed and George and Olive
were married in Creede that summer. The following year, their son was born and named Charlie after George’s
father-in-law.
However as often happens, marital problems led to a divorce in 1915. Olive remarried in 1917 in Creede to John
Lilley. In 1917 the Lilley family moved to Olympia, Washington where Charlie Mason had earlier moved
because of health problems. ( Charles Mason had chosen the Olympia area because it reminded him of the Hermit
Lakes back home in Colorado.) Little 3-year old Charles Olds went with the family and was raised to adulthood
in company with 10 future half brothers and sisters. 1917 was also to bring another sorrow to George as his sister
Birdie Cassity passed away at the age of 32 in Denver.
And so it was that with his renewed single status, George once again became a man of the road. With World War
I going full blast in Europe, the year of 1917 also found George in Denver trying without success to enlist in
the navy. However about sometime in May of 1918 George was drafted into the army at the age of 29. He went
to basic training at Camp Cody, New Mexico but was discharged after only six months when the armistice was
signed on November 11, 1918.
By this time Mother Leah had remarried for the third and last time since George’s father had passed away. She
and her new husband, John McCulland, had moved to Eureka, Utah. George responded to their invitation to
come live with them for a while leading as noted above eventually to his marriage to beautiful Marie Noakes.
3. Marie’s Story
In 1900 Mom and Dad Noakes were living a busy life in Springville, Utah
helping on the farms with either his Uncle Moses Childs or Grandad
Barnett. Spring plowing and planting had been done several months ago,
and Del Noakes was busy tending his turn at irrigating the fields on a
beautiful June day when he was urgently summoned from the field by his 4year old daughter Dora. His 23 year old wife, Maggie Annie, was due. Del
quickly brought the midwife home and little Marie Noakes was brought
into the world in the adobe house on the Childs’ farm right in the very center
of Springville.
Fig 22: Marie Noakes, 2; Dora Noakes, 6; 1902
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Figure 21 shows the house George lived in from the time he was a 16
year old teenager and until he became a 24 year old young adult. Mother
Leah kept house doing the cooking for both George and her various
borders. Eventually in 1912 Leah married one of these borders, Herman
Schultz who again was to pass away six months later.
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It would be important to pause for a moment to record that Marie came from important families that pioneered
the settlement of Springville, Utah. Figures 23-34 are pictures of Marie’s grandparents, her parents, and her
brothers and sisters.
70 yrs 1901
66 yrs 1905
Figs 23-26: J. Hubbard Noakes and Susan A.Childs
32 yrs 1904
Figs 27-28: Moses Adelbert Noakes
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53 yrs 1907
Lewis S. Barnett Lavina J. Brown
30 yrs 1907
Maggie Annie Barnett
18 yrs 1914
2mo 1899
19 yrs 1919
7yrs 1912
Figs 29-34: Dora Noakes Kenneth Noakes Marie Noakes Della Noakes
20 yrs 1932
Reed Noakes
4 yrs 1918
George Noakes
Her grandfather Hubbard Noakes came to Utah with the 1848 Pioneers as a 17 year old young man. Hubbard was
assigned to return to Winter Quarters to help with the 1852 emigrant train during which time he became
acquainted with the Childs family. The Noakes and Childs families were then called by Brigham Young to help
settle the Springville, Utah wilderness area, putting up a fort wall as protection from the Indians. Three years later
Hubbard and Susan Childs were married eventually raising a family of 12 children. Because of the necessity to
protect the new settlement from Indian raids, Hubbard joined the Utah militia becoming a Lieutenant. Two years
after he was married, he was called to defend Salt Lake from Johnston’s army while the little town of Springville
welcomed in the refugees fleeing the upcoming war in Salt Lake City. He then fought in the 1966 Black Hawk
Indian war.
When Marie’s grandmother Susan Childs was 7 she told her grandchildren about the time that her family left
Nauvoo, Illinois. She said that her father’s wagon was the last one to cross the Mississippi River before the ice
broke up. She recalled how the ice would crack under her feet as she hurried over it. Susan of course was only
an infant when her family were driven out of Missouri by the anti-Mormon State Militia. Hubbard was eight years
old at that time. Hubbard however was five years old when the Saints experienced the Pentecostal season of
angelic visitors at the Kirklin Temple in 1836.
Marie’s other grandparents, Lewis Barnett and Lavina Brown Barnett came to Springville, Utah in 1877 to join
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take his place so she would not be an only child. So as Marie grew through the toddler stage she had the
love and attention of her older sister Dora Noakes.
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When Marie was born in 1900, the extended Noakes and Barnett Families provided numerous uncles, aunts, and
cousins for Marie as noted in Table 1. With the exception of the Day family all of Marie’s relatives were living
in Springville when she was born giving her a total of 54 of her extended family to love her including 4
grandparents, 16 Uncles and Aunts, and 31 cousins. And when the Day family came to town from Orangeville,
her total extended family swelled to 65.
Table 1: The Noakes-Barnett Families in 1900 When Marie Was Born
Grandfather John Hubbard Noakes, 69
Grandmother Susan Amelia Childs, 61
Uncle William Inkpen Noakes, 22
Grandfather Lewis Scott Barnett, 49
Grandmother Lavina Janett Brown, 46
Aunt Maud Laurine Barnett, 16
Aunt Delores Carmille Barnett, 14
Aunt Clara Candice Barnett, 12
Aunt Beulah Myrtle Barnett, 8
Aunt Verona Amelia Noakes Clegg, 44
Uncle Israel Eastham Clegg, 51
Cousin Alice Clegg, 20
Cousin Israel Eastham Clegg, 17
Cousin Mary Ellen Clegg, 16
Cousin Elsie Clegg, 13
Cousin Mable Clegg, 8
Cousin Henry Lewis Clegg, 5
Cousin Ida Clegg. 3 mos.
Aunt Emma Arthusa Noakes Bryan, 42
Uncle John Bryan, 46
Cousin James Aaron Bryan, 23
Olive Arthusia Bryan, 21
Cousin Mary Amelia Bryan, 19
Cousin Minerva Bryan, 17
Cousin Emma Bryan, 8
Cousin Beama Bryan, 2 mos.
Uncle George Hubbard Noakes, 25
Aunt Martha Ann Harrison, 42
Living in Emery County
Aunt Polly Ann Noakes Day, 39
Uncle Ira Alfred Day, 45
Cousin Ira Nelson Day, 22
Cousin Amelia Day, 20,
Cousin Polly (Neva) Day, 17
Cousin Abraham E. Day, 15
Cousin Elmira Day, 13
Cousin Gay Hubbard Day, 10
Cousin Doratha Ardilla Day, 6
Cousin Irene Day, 1
Uncle John Thomas Noakes, 35
Aunt Amelia Ann Guyman, 35
Cousin Pearl Noakes, 13
Cousin Emma Noakes, 11
Cousin Leo Milton Noakes, 10
Cousin Kate Noakes, 7
Cousin Winnifred Noakes, 5
Cousin Clarence John Noakes, 2
Robert Vel Noakes, Bn
Aunt Eunice Alberta Noakes Weight, 33
Uncle Alfred William Weight, 34
Cousin William Frederick Weight, 11
Cousin Nellie Elizabeth Weight, 10
Cousin Willis Alfred Weight, 5
Cousin Ernest Gilbert Weight, 3
Cousin Nolan Weight, 1
Cousin Archie Reed Weight, 4 mos
Uncle David Patten Noakes, 30
Aunt: Lillie Ann Oakley, 25
Cousin Hilda Noakes, 5
Cousin Bessie Noakes, 4
Cousin Fannie Noakes, 2
Emma Noakes, Bn
Father Moses Adelbert Noakes, 28
Mother Margaret Anna Barnett, 23
Sister Dora Noakes, 4
Marie Noakes, 0
Aunt Mary Aleapha Barnett Clark, 24
Uncle James Henry Clark, 35
Cousin Blanch Clark, 6
Cousin Scott James Cla rk, 3
Cousin Cassie Clark, 2
Aunt Bertha Alice Barnett Payne, 19
Uncle Frederick John Payne, 26
Cousin Edditha Payne, 1
Cousin Lydia I. Payne, Bn
Cousin Verona Amelia Clegg, 23
Wallace Bird, abt 27
W. Othell Bird, Bn
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And so on the week before Christmas of 1894 Del asked his brother George while Maggie asked her father to come
to the court house to witness their marriage. Their marriage license was made out in Utah Territory. Two years
later, Maggie and Del were able to participate in the celebration of Utah becoming a State of the Union.
Del and his Uncle Moses Childs got along pretty well, and Moses hired him to work his farm to help him get
settled into married life. Moses’ farm was right in the center of town
close to Grandad Barnett’s house. The Lincoln School which Maggie
and her sisters had attended was just across the street. (See Figure 35)
Fig 35: Maggie Barnett’s Lincoln School,
Springville, Utah
Del worked hard and the new little family began multiplying with Dora
being born the following August right at harvest time. When Dora was
2 1/2 years old, little Kenneth Noakes was born. But unfortunately he
passed away the following month. With the death of their little son, farming lost its glamour for both Maggie and
Del, and they then began to go with Maggie’s family “out on the railroad” for the summer.
Figure 36 will better help visualize the town of Springville in relation with Salt Lake. Future homes of Marie’s
parents will be Clear Creek and Eureka which are also circled on this map. Figure 37 is a modified modern day
map to show the topographic around Springville. As may be seen, Springville was located on the famous Hobble
Creek which flowed from the nearby canyon. Several important springs flowed into Hobble Creek giving
Springville its historic name.
Springville was also located on the main Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad which wound its way up
Spanish Fork Canyon to Thistle then up Soldier’s Creek to Soldier’s Summit and then down hill to Helper.
(Helper had been named as the spot when the heavy freight trains were given a helper engine to help push them
up over Soldier’s Summit.) And it became a continuous job upgrading the D&RG line and the Noakes-Barnett
families enjoyed continuous summer employment for many years
So it was on these summer outings that Del, in company with Maggie’s father Lewis Barnett and Del’s two
brothers-in-law, James Clark and Fred Payne, worked on railroad construction and repair while Maggie and her
mother Lavina and sisters Aleapha Clark and Bertha Payne cooked and washed for the work crew. Mostly this
was either on the mountains of Soldiers Summit or on the flat lands of Eastern Utah.
What were these” railroad picnics” like? Living quarters consisted of box cars converted into traveling homes
with the family overflow put into tents besides the tracks. With the railroad right of way being generally located
in the canyons beside flowing canyon streams, fishing was good, and the weather was cool. Track work for the
men was hard, but not as hard as summer farming. However early summer of 1900, Maggie came back into
Springville for the birth of her second daughter, Marie. But as soon as she could, she rejoined Del and the railroad
crew.
For the next few summers the railroad picnic was a part of Marie’s growing up experience. Marie remembers
the children who accompanied their parents out on the railroad were Cousins Blanch, Cassie, Sadie, and Edditha
and Marie’s sister Dora.
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Marie’s father was the 7th child out of a family of 9 living children. He had 4 older sisters, 2 older brothers, and
2 younger brothers. Del was a very active adventuresome young man who, among other things, disliked going
to Church with his family. But he was a hard working young man who needed a companion to share his vision
of the challenge of exploring Utah in the 1890’s. As might be expected, this turned out to be “the girl next door”,
exciting Maggie Annie Barnett.
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Fig 36: Map Showing the Relationship of
Springville, Clear Creek, and Eureka with
Salt Lake City
Fig 37: Topographic of Springville Area
In 1904 when Marie was 4 yrs old, her father decided to join his brother John Thomas Noakes mining coal at
Clear Creek, Utah. A few years earlier an exceptionally good vein of coal had been found there, and the mine was
now short of help.
Living at Clear Creek was an especially fun time for Marie since her Uncle John and Aunt Millie had a large
family of eight children ranging in ages from 17 year old Pearl down to 3 year old Elmo. Her cousin Robert Vel
Noakes was exactly Marie’s age and they palled around together. One day the two four year olds decided to go
exploring up the canyon just east of the little Clear Creek camp. After reaching the top of the ridge however, it
was easy to follow the North Fork of Gordon Creek where they hit the trail leading eventually into Castle Gate
near Helper some two and a half miles away from their home in Clear Creek. Some family friends recognized
them and helped them to get home. Marie said they would have gone home except they couldn’t find the way.
One year later in 1905, Marie’s future “bosom-buddy” Della was born, and she was able to transfer her 5-yr old
love from 9-yr old Dora to newly born baby Della. So in Clear Creek in the summer of 1905 Marie had the
following relatives:
Father Del Noakes, 33
Aunt Amila Guymon, 40
Mother Maggie Noakes, 28
Pearl Noakes, 18
Dora Noakes, 9
Emma
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Marie Noakes, 5
Leo Milton Noakes, 15
Della Noakes, Baby
Kate Noakes, 12
Winnifred Noakes, 10
Clarence Noakes, 7
Robert Vel Noakes, 5
Elmo Noakes, 2
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However coal mining was not appealing to Del, and after one year of mining the family moved back to the
farms in Springville. And so 1906 found Marie attending the first grade in Springville, Utah. But she was
considered a “nervous” child and was kept over for a second year in what was called the “Beginner’s class.”
Somewhere along this time, Marie developed a serious illness, possibly some slight form of meningitis from
which she fully recovered. However, it is believed that this illness lead to her nervousness and to what in later
years what might be termed timidness.
In 1908 the opportunities of the hard rock mines of Eureka and Knightville became attractive to Del, so the family
packed up once more and moved first to Eureka and then Knightville. (Knightville had been named after Jesse
Knight, the important LDS mining man that pioneered the copper and lead mines in the Eureka-Knightville areas.)
At this time Eureka had become the 9th largest city in Utah with a population of 3500. It had become the top
mineral producing area of the state with the Chief Consolidated Mine being the largest. Del was eventually to be
able to lease the major mine.
Today Eureka is a semi-ghost town. But when Del and Maggie moved their family into the area, Eureka was
booming. It had the Eureka City Hall, the Juab County Courthouse, churches of all denominations and was the
meeting place for numerous labor, social, and fraternal organizations.
In Eureka, Marie finally finished the first grade, and shortly thereafter, in 1908, the family briefly moved back
to Springville, where Marie was baptized at 8 years of age in Hobble Creek by Bishop Huntington.
When the family moved back to Knightville the next year, Mother Noakes started a boarding house while Del was
busy in the mines. And so in 1909, the family consisted of:
Del Noakes, 37
Maggie Noakes, 32
Dora Noakes, 13
Marie Noakes, 9
Della Noakes, 4
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As Marie later put it, “No one seemed to care where we went, or when we came home, so we just drifted around,
and were given absolute freedom. We always went to Church though, but sometimes we
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In Knightville, Marie developed her life-long “bosom buddy”, Ida Higgenson, shown
in Figure 39. Marie and her sister Della practically lived at the Higgenson house who
“did for them as they did for their own.” It was at this time that Marie learned that there
were other religions besides the LDS. While the girls played with the Catholic and
Methodist children, they would never dare enter their churches because of the feared
wrath of Ida’s father, Brother Higgenson.
Fig 39: Ida Higgenson at the age of 14.
Marie’s Closest Friend in Eureka in 1914
Marie’s grandparents, were now getting old. When Marie was 9, Grandma Lavina Barnett passed away in 1909
leaving Grandad Lewis Barnett a widower for the next 16 years. Meanwhile Grandad Hubbard and Grandma
Susan Noakes had separated with Hubbard living with various ones of Marie’s Aunts and Uncles. According
to Marie’s memory, they had been having differences for many years particularly over the problem of polygamy.
And with Hubbard’s frequent absence from home as required by an officer in the various Utah Militias as well
as a stint as a pony express rider, family strains were inevitable.
So it was that in the next year after Grandma Lavina passed away, Hubbard also took ill and died. Grandma Susan
then lived in the family home by herself for the next four years passing away in 1914 when Marie was 14 years
old. Marie’s only grandparent then was Grandad Lewis Barnett who was in good health in 1914 and would live
to be 74 years old passing away in 1925 after Marie had been married for six years.
Father Del was a hard worker, but also a hard drinker and would come home after being out and Marie remembers
the quarrels her Mom and Dad used to have. She said that her father would come home late at night from the
saloons and wake the family up and preach to them from the Bible and Book of Mormon. However, Del and
Maggie did see that their children went to Church even though they themselves generally stayed home.
It was at this time, 1912, that Brother Reed was born in Knightville. But shortly the opportunity came for Del and
Maggie to move back to Springville once again and to open a family restaurant right in the heart of town. Figures
40-43 shows Del and Dora in the restaurant with Della looking on. Note the 1912 prices in the Bill of Fare in
Figure 44.
Three years after opening the Springville restaurant, Mother Noakes gave birth to her 6th and last baby, little
George Noakes who was born in 1915. Dora was now approaching 19 and began to want her independence.
And in the 16 years since Marie was born, her Noakes-Barnett relatives have been multiplying giving Marie a
total of 134 relatives to keep track of. Table 2 summarizes her known relatives as of 1916.
And it was at this time that a customer comes into the restaurant named John McCulland. John had boarded with
the Noakes when they were running a boarding house in Eureka and was an old family friend. He had recently
bought a lease in the Chief Consolidated Silver Mine in Eureka, and was looking for a partner to help finance
operations. Del and Maggie talked it over and felt that this was too good an opportunity to pass up. So in about
1916, they sell their Springville restaurant and with the profits become part owners of their own silver mine.
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Grandfather, Uncles and Aunts Living in Springville in 1916
Grandfather Lewis Scott Barnett, 65
Aunt Beulah Myrtle Barnett, 24
Aunt Verona Amelia Noakes Clegg, 60
Uncle Israel Eastham Clegg, 67
Cousin Henry Lewis Clegg, 21
Cousin Ida Clegg, 16
Aunt Emma Arathusa Noakes Bryan, 58
Uncle John Bryan, 62
Cousin Beama Bryan, 15
Aunt Eunice Alberta Noakes Weight, 48
Uncle Alfred William Weight, 49
Cousin Nellie Elizabeth Weight, 26
Cousin Willis Alfred Weight, 21
Cousin Ernest Gilbert Weight, 19
Cousin Nolan Weight, 17
Cousin Archie Reed Weight, 16
Uncle David Patten Noakes, 45
Aunt: Julia Pierce Winn, abt 46
Cousin Hilda Noakes, 21
Cousin Bessie Noakes, 20
Cousin Fannie Noakes, 18
Cousin Emma Noakes, 16
Cousin David Oakley Noakes, 14
Uncle William Inkpen Noakes, 38
Aunt Catherine Boyack, 33
Cousin William Wallace Noakes, 10
Cousin Ralph Noakes, 8
Cousin Thelma Noakes, 6
Cousin Sterling George Noakes, 3
Aunt Mary Aleapha Barnett Clark, 40
Uncle James Henry Clark, 35
Cousin Cassie Clark, 18
Cousin Sarah Lavina Clark, 15
Cousin Louis Enoch Clark, 13
Cousin Lena Clark, 11
Cousin Florence Clark, 9
Cousin Wanda Clark, 5
Cousin Alice Clark, 1
Aunt Maude Laurine Barnett Thorn, 32
Uncle Adelbert G. Thorn, 33
Cousin Howard Adelbert Thorn, 10
Cousin LeNore Thorn, 4
Aunt Delores Camile Barnett Johnson, 30
Uncle ChesterAdelbert Johnson, 35
Cousin Mont Adelbert Johnson, 9
Cousin Glen Barnett Johnson, 4
Uncle George Hubbard Noakes, 41
Aunt Martha Ann Harrison, abt 58
Aunt Clara Candace Barnett Payne, 28
Uncle Daniel Edward Payne, 34
Cousin Edward Lavon Payne, 10
Cousin Arthur Solomon Payne, 8
Living in Orangeville, Emery, Utah
Aunt Polly Ann Noakes Day, 55
Uncle Ira Alfred Day, 61
Cousin Doratha Ardley Day, 22
Cousin Irene Day, 17
Cousin David Lawrence Day, 16
Cousin Joseph Merrill Day, 12
Living inThistle, Utah
Aunt Amelia Ann Guyman, 51
Cousin Winnifred Noakes, 21
Cousin Clarence John Noakes, 18
Cousin Robert Vel Noakes, 16
Cousin Elmo James Noakes, 13
Living in Eureka, Utah
Father Moses Adelbert Noakes, 44
Mother Margaret Anna Barnett, 39
Marie Noakes, 16
Della Noakes, 11
Reed Noakes, 4
George Noakes, 2
Living in Provo
Aunt Bertha Alice Barnett Payne, 35
Uncle Frederick John Payne, 42
Cousin Edditha Alice Payne, 17
Cousin Maud Camille Payne, 12
Cousin Raymond Lee Payne 10
Cousin Jesse Barnett Payne, 8
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Cousin Verona Amelia Clegg Bird, 39 (Verona Noakes)
Wallace Bird, abt 43
W. Othell Bird, 16
J. Arvil Bird, 13
Maurice Bird, 9
Kenneth Leon Bird, 4
George Ray Bird, Bn
Cousin Israel Eastham Clegg, 33 (Verona Noakes)
Laura Elizabeth Larsen Clegg, abt 29
Hilda Clegg, 9
Cousin Mary Ellen Clegg Whiting, 32 (Verona Noakes)
John Hall Whiting abt 36
Cousin Elsie Clegg Condie, 29 (Verona Noakes)
Earl Condie, abt 33
Cousin Mable Clegg Law, 24 (Verona Noakes)
Mark Arthur Law, abt 28
Cousin Olive Arathusia Bryan Thorn, 37 (Emma Noakes)
Othel Thorn, abt 41
Lavanda Thorn, abt 13
Melba Thorn, abt 11
Wallace Thorn, abt 9
Vera Thorn, abt 7
Son Thorn, abt 5
Cousin Mary Amelia Bryan Bird, 35 (Emma Noakes)
William Arthur Bird, 40
Manilla Bird, 18
William Bryan Bird, 17
James Arvil Bird, 14
Walter Loyd Bird, 12
Thelma Bird, 9
John Lewis Bird, 4
Russen Valton Bird, 1
Cousin Minerva Bryan Weight, 33 (Emma Noakes)
Ralph Brough Weight, 34
Cousin Emma Bryan Kennedy, 24 (Emma Noakes)
Glenn D Kennedy, abt 28
G. Don Kennedy, abt 6
Reno Gail Kennedy, abt 4
Glenna Kennedy, abt 2
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Cousin Amelia Day Anderson, 36 (Polly Noakes)
John Edward Anderson, abt 40
Cousin Polly (Neva) Day Wilson, 33 (Polly Noakes)
John Edward Wilson, abt 37
Cousin Abraham E. Day, 31 (Polly Noakes)
Cook, abt 27
Cousin Elmira Day McArthur, 29 (Polly Noakes)
Cyrus Greg McArthur, 33
Cousin Pearl Noakes Pierce, 29 (John Thomas Noakes)
Hugh Pierce, 37
Junis Milton Pierce, 9
Russel Howard Piere, 7
Cal Winifred Pierce, 5
Enid Pierce, 2
Winnifred Pierce, 2mo
Cousin Emma Noakes Huff, 27 (John Thomas Noakes)
John William Huff, 30
John Louis Huff, 8
Emma Louise Huff, 7
Delores Bernice Huff, 5
Cousin Leo Milton Noakes Luthy, 26 (John Tho. Noakes)
Alice Elizabeth Luthy, 24
Irvin Lewis Noakes, 3
Ruby Alice Noakes, 1
Cousin Kate Noakes Gibbey, 23 (John Thomas Noakes)
Jonathan Chapman Gibby, 31
William Fredrick Weight, 28 (Eunice Noakes)
Sarah Elizabeth Nielsen, 27
Madeline Weight, abt 2
Sister Dora Noakes Reeves, 20 (Adelbert Noakes)
Edward Albert Reeves, abt 27
Blanche Clark Wiscombe, 22 (M. Aleapha Barnett)
Arthur Newland Wiscombe, 22
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Marie’s 1916 Relatives
Cousin Ira Nelson Day, 38 (Polly Noakes)
Leona May Staker, abt 34
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So back to the Knightville-Eureka area, the Noakes family move once again with Maggie again starting her
boarding house. John McClelland and John Abe Jenkins of future race car fame were her star boarders.
Fig 40: The Noakes’ Family Restaraunt in Springville, 1912
Fig 41-44: Del Noakes, 40
Dora Noakes, 16
Della Noakes, 7
The Bill of Fare
Note: Reed an infant in the baby buggy. Maggie, 35 and Marie, 12 were in the kitchen.
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Twenty year old Dora is now being courted by by good looking Edward Albert Reeves. And so it was that in thetr a c k e r- s o ft w a r e
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Several things are now happening in the country that will impact the family. First of all was the World War now
raging in full tilt in Europe, and young men throughout the country were being drafted to serve in the army. Of
Marie’s many cousins only Eunice and Alf Weight’s sons, Ernest age 20 and Nolan age 18 would have been of
draft age.
Del and John McCulland’s mine in Eureka was prospering because of the war effort. Del is need of more help
and invites his son-in-law Ed Reeves to move back to Eureka and come to work for him. This became a profitable
venture for both Del and Ed and both made a lot of money.
Peace finally came, and things settled down for the Noakes family until the 1919 flu epidemic hit Marie’s family
with disastrous results. Here’s Marie’s Aunt Maud gives a first hand account of what happened.
I had my turn (with the flu in 1918) and got better. The year following (in 1919) it hit them up there (in
Eureka). I had twins 4 months old. Didn’t think I would ever make it; eight days unconscious. But the
Lord wasn’t ready for me, so when they got it no help could be got. They were all down with it, Del,
Maggie, George, Della, Dora, and Marie. Dora was married to Ed Reeves, but came over came over to
Maggie’s when she took sick. George was the baby and died on Maggie’s arm in the same bed. We
brought him home to Springville and buried him. It kept me and my husband busy going from Eureka to
Springville every day. Aleapha stayed up there to help and had one trained nurse which was no good.
Then Dora died. We kept her and in two or three days Della died making three in one week. Brought them
home and buried them also. Marie got better and in due time Maggie and Del also. When they were able
to move, I brought them home with me and they stayed here for three months. The flu left Del unable to
work.
Excerpt from 9 Jan 1967 letter of Maud Thorn to Leonard Olds
It’s interesting that even with the family quarrels the strong bond of love in the family that motivated Dora to come
help her mother when she desperately needed help. And so it was with the tragedies of the time, that Marie’s
younger brother George died on May 10 and Dora died two days later on May 12, 1919. Again, after returning
from burying Dora in Springville, Della died the next day on May 13. Marie and her brother Reed as well as both
of their parents were ill with the flu but recovered.
George’s mother Leah Olds McCulland was living in Eureka at the time of the flu epidemic. It would have been
interesting to have her version of the events at that time.
So at the age of 19 Marie had lost all but her 7-yr old younger brother Reed. However color gradually came back
into her cheeks and in a few months she was able to return to her active social life, and to the important date with
George Olds which lead to his romantic proposal. The upcoming wedding was an exciting social event for both
Maggie Noakes and Leah Olds McCulland. As mothers, they had been active participants in encouraging George
and Marie, and were happy to drive them to the Provo City and County Building. There they served as nuptial
witnesses on the beautiful fall day October 3, 1919.
As for Mother and Father Noakes, after the flu, Del was never able to really go back to work in his mine. The flu
managed to aggravate his miner’s consumption. So the next year after Marie had married, Del sold his interest
in the mine and used the proceeds to buy some cottagesx on 1st West in Salt Lake City and line up a new set of
boarders. Maggie did all the cooking for the boarders. Dora’s husband, Ed Reeves, was one of the boarders, and
helped Maggie with the maintenance work that Del was able to do. Del passed away the next year also from
miners consumption, and Maggie moved her boaring house to 26 1/2 W 2nd South. Ed passed away three years
later also from miner’s consumption
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Reed was never to marry, and would stay in Salt Lake with his step father until he passed away. He would then
live as a bachelor until it was necessary to go into a nursing home where he was to stay for several years until he
passed away in 1991 at the age of 79.
For her part, George’s mother and her husband John McCulland sold their shares of the mine and also moved up
to Salt Lake City and were living in the Wilson hotel when John passed away. Leah will eventually move back
to Colorado to be with her oldest daughter True Officer.
But all of that was to be in the future. Let’s now follow Marie as she and George begin their life together in the
fall of 1919.
4. George Lorenzo Olds and Marie Noakes Begin their Life and Travels Together
Married life began in Eureka with George continuing to work in Father Del’s mine enjoying their little four room
rented home. However, Marie had heard her husband and her mother-in-law, Leah Olds, talk about the famous
mining and other towns they had lived in, and she was anxious to see other sights. As George later related: “She
told me, ‘You have seen the world. I want you to show me the world..’ So I showed her the world. I took her to
Salt Lake City.”
Thus after a year in Eureka, the new family moved to Salt Lake in 1920 to stay in the Wilson Hotel with George’s
mother for one month. At that time Marie worked in Sweet’s candy factory. George then found work with the
Diamond Drilling Company in Park City where George worked in the gold mines. However, George soon tired
of working in the mines and after six months they relocated to Pocatello, Idaho where George began working
for the Union Pacific Railroad. Marie however felt a need to finish her schooling and decided to enroll in
Pocatello’s high school using the name of Miss Olds. George was surprised one day when a friend of his asked
if he could go on a date with his daughter.
One day George had an accident when a bar of steel fell on his toe. He used the settlement money to buy Marie
a new dress and to relocate back to Salt Lake when a railroad strike began. The Denver and Rio Grande Westen
Railroad was hiring and George found work.
George’s sister Birdie Olds Cassity had died five years earlier leaving her husband Ed with three children. Ed had
relocated to Salt Lake City and had married Lurline Foote. In 1922 Ed and Lurline now had a total of five children
and thinking of moving back to Denver, Colorado. They invited George and Marie to stay at their house and
watch the children while they went to Denver to make arrangements. It was at this time that 13 year old Edna
Cassity told Marie about George’s previous marriage and his son Charles Olds. Unfortunately George had
unwisely not told Marie about his marriage to Olive, and she was upset. Mother Noakes’ boarding home was just
around the corner, and Marie went home and stayed there until George promised to take her to Denver.
When Ed and Lurline came back, George and Marie found it convient to relocate to Denver with George now
working at the 8th and Osage shops of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad in West Denver.
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After keeping her boarding house going for the next 20 years with the help of her unmarried son Reed, Maggie
eventually married one of her boarders, Joseph Thome. At this time in 1942, Maggie was 65 years old and Joseph
was 55. The next 15 years were happy years for them. Maggie died from a heart problem in 1957 at the age of
80. Joseph would live for another 15 years dying in 1972 at the age of 87.
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Shortly after the move to Denver around 1922, Marie gave George the good news that she was expecting. And
on the 20th of December 1923 little George Eugene came into the world at the Denver General Hospital. Mother
Leah came down from Boulder to help Marie convalesce. Marie was happy with her little son and showered him
with a young mother’s affection. Gene responded by growing happy with the attention given him. His first name
was given him after his father, and his middle name after True’s oldest son that died in
1904.
Fig 46: George Eugene Olds, 6 mos, 1924
And it was shortly after Christmas time of 1924 that Marie told George that Gene would have a brother or a sister.
George wanted a red headed freckle faced boy. Marie didn’t tell anyone, but she would probably have wanted a
little girl in memory of her special sister Della. So arrangements were made for 18-month old Gene to stay with
a colored friend named Annie while Marie went back to Denver General Hospital. It was there she presented
George with Gene’s brother Leonard. Leonard was named after Marie’s cousins, Leo
Milton Noakes and Elmo Noakes.
Fig 47: Leonard Elmo Olds, 9 mos, 1926
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As 1925 drew to a close the family now consisted of:
Father George, 37
Mother Marie, 25
George Eugene, 2
Leonard Elmo, 4 mo
At this time, George and Marie were renting a house on 4th Avenue on Denver’s West side. And as Marie
regained her strength happy times were ahead. The economy of the country was prospering, George was working
regularly and bills were being paid. Marie and George took turns photographing each other with their two
children as shown in Figures 48 and 49.
Fig 48: Father George Olds and kids, 1925
Leonard, 6 mos; George, 36; Eugene, 2 yrs
Fig 49: Mother Marie Olds and kids, 1926
Eugene, 2 1/2 yrs; Marie, 26 yrs; Leonard, 9 mos
However as with all good things the economic boom of the 1920’s came to an end with the stock market crash
of 1929. Things began to change, probably more gradually than anyone was aware of. Perhaps, George’s work
began to slow down, and it became more difficult to pay bills. At this time the family was living in the row of
terraces between Mariposa and Navajo Street on 8th avenue. These terraces were decidedly not modern. And
when Grandma Leah Olds would come visiting from Chicago, she wouldn’t go to sleep without first inspecting
the mattress with her coal-oil lamp.
George early on recognized that something needed to be done to help those friends of his who were out of work.
He found the opportunity to organize what was called the unemployment gang. George contacted local farmers
and offered to have members of the unemployment gang work on the farms in exchange for produce. Gene and
Leonard remember going to meetings of the unemployment gang at the old Ivy Theater between 8th and 9th
avenue on Santa Fe.
The 8th Avenue terraces were only one block from the D&RGWRR Burnham shop along with its main tracks and
switch yard. Freight trains would often pause for a moment to let train loads of hobos get off and they would file
up 8th Avenue right past the Olds’ home. One day a farmer dumped a big truck load of celery on the doorstep of
their home. He had brought the load to market but wasn’t able to sell it. Gene and Leonard stood at the pile of
celery and handed it out to the passing hobos, one stalk to a man. The boys vividly remember how glad the men
were to get the free handout.
Another advantage Gene and Leonard had in this flow of traffic by their home on 8th Avenue was the fact that
the D&RG railroad workers would also stream past their house at quitting time. So when the 4PM quitting whistle
blew, Gene and Leonard would be on hand to smile at the workers, and every so often one would give each of them
a penny. Now it is important to realize that a penny in 1932 would buy what a dollar in 2005 would buy. So Gene
and Leonard would hurry to the “Penny Candy Store” right across the street, and put their orders in.
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The other advantage of living next to the Burnham shops was the privilege of watching what seemed to them totr a c k e r- s o ft w a r e
be a continuous stream of trains steaming by. These were what were soon to become the outmoded steam engines
of railroad lore. Large plums of smoke from the chimneys, steam hissing along the rails, and the whistles blowing
loud and clear. Pure fascination for six and eight year old boys.
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And when Christmas time came, George took his sons to the shop one night where they watched with fascination
as Santa Claus came riding down the shop aisle in the overhead crane. He saw us, waved at us, and descended on
the crane hook with his big bag of goodies just for us.
George worked as a blacksmith’s helper, firing up the forging furnaces and helping with the forge. And his black
face would magically change to white by the use of the famous bar of Lava soap.
This would be a good time to show in Figure 50 the 1935 picture of George and his fellow shop workers.
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Fig 50: Fellow Workers of George Olds at the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Burnham Shop, 1935
As the economy gradually improved it was possibly for George and Marie to move their family into a more
modern home, one with a sanitary toilet. However, even though this was a flush toilet, it was located where toilets
were felt to belong, way outside in the back yard. The house also boasted of a 40 watt light bulb. When Leonard
first saw this bulb lit, he was amazed at the brilliant light that was now available to read by.
This new home was next door to the 8th Avenue social club that George had organized for his unemployed
friends. Week end dances were often held there, and when the club couldn’t pay it’s light bill, George ran the
electricity to it from his next door house. One Saturday night when the dance was well under way, Gene and
Leonard looked at the extension cord plugged into their home outlet, and wondered what would happen if they
pulled it out.
So with natural curiosity, they pulled the plug, plunging the club into darkness. They managed to get out of the
house before their father came in to find out what was wrong. But forgiveness came readily particularly when the
child photography salesman came by with either his goat or pony. Pictures of Eugene and Leonard with both the
goat and pony are shown in Figures 51 and 52.
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Fig 51: Leonard, Gene, & Goat, 1931
Leonard, 6; Gene, 8; Goat, ?
Fig 52: Leonard, Gene &Pony, 1934
Leonard, 9; Gene, 11; Pony, ?
One of the family homes was at 949 Mariposa where the boys are shown out in
front in Figure 53. Of interest in this picture is the diamond shaped ice card in
the window of the next door neighbor. Almost all of the 1930 homes in West Denver had ice boxes to keep the
food cool. When a housewife saw that her ice was low she would put the card in the window with the corner of
the card showing how much ice she wanted. The ice man would see the card,
chip off the required amount, sling the block of ice over his shoulder, go to the
back door, open it, yell “Ice Man”, and walk in and put the ice into the ice box.
Doors of course were never locked in the 1930’s. And the boys were always
at the ice truck to get some of the pieces of ice chipped off the block.
Fig 53: Gene, 9 and Leonard 7 in 1932 at 949 Mariposa Street, Denver
It was at this home that the boys remember several things. There was a single double bed in the bedroom, and
George and Marie slept at the head of the bed and Gene and Leonard slept at the foot of the same bed. They also
remember coming home from school with no one at home. So one time they made a slide from the ironing board
and were sliding down it until the fun was stopped by their parents. Another time, they decided to bake some bread
just like their mother had done. They knew they needed flour and water, but missed the rest of the ingredients.
As might be expected, when their parents got home, the room, the sink and the utensils were covered with sticky
flour paste.
George and Marie moved their residences frequently while in Denver. The Denver City directories count at least
12 moves up until 1933. Moving day of course was much simpler than it is today. Since the new homes were
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always close to each other and only a few blocks away, George would pile the family’s’s belongings on the boy’str a c k e r- s o ft w a r e
wagon for the move. A map of the West Denver area where George and Marie lived is given in Figure 54. The
new residences of course were always within walking distance to the D&RG shops where George worked.
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The blue circles are the family homes before George and Marie separated, and the red circles are the ones
afterwards. As may be seen 8th Avenue was the main road across the D&RG tracks. Home No. 2 at 758 Navajo
in particular was impressive to the young boys since they could stand at its large picture window and watch the
steam engines go roaring by.
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Residences
1. 1923 808 W. 4th Ave
2. 1926 758 Navajo
3. 1927 525 Kalamath
4. 1929 1230 W. 8th Ave
5. 1930 713 Galapago
6. 1931 724 Elati
7. 1931 622 Kalamath
8. 1932 949 Mariposa
9. 1933 1234 W. 8th Ave
10. 1933 1123 W. 9th Ave
11. 1933 810 Mariposa
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1933 1310 Kalamath (Boys with Mother)
1933 1017 W 13th Ave (Boys with Mother)
1934 750 Santa Fe Dr. (Boys with Father)
1934 440 Santa Fe Dr.
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The difference also in religious habits between George and Marie were obviously one source of problems. While
George’s mother was of old time Mormon stock, George had never been become a member himself. One
problem of course was the drinking habit coming from association with his mining background. Marie however
had always felt close to the Church and had hoped that sooner or later her beloved would join. As arguments began
to increase over money and drinking, one solution seemed to be that of becoming united religiously. Accordingly,
George took the missionary discussions and was baptized in 1931 and shortly thereafter was ordained a Priest.
For the rest of his life, George was always pleased to be known as
holding the priesthood and kept his ordination certificate readily
available for all to see as shown now in Figure 55.
Fig 55: George’s Ordination Certificate to the
Aaronic Priesthood
Unfortunately the arguments and misunderstandings still increased
to the point where in 1931 Marie felt it necessary to take her two
sons and live with her very close friend, Lucy Runyan. Efforts were made to patch things up and George and
Marie got back together staying in several different additional rental houses on the West side of Denver.
However the disagreements continued particularly over George’s drinking habits, and finally in 1933 Marie took
the boys to stay in a room sponsored by the Salvation Army while she sought legal help. The Juvenile Court
decided that Gene and Leonard should be put into a children’s home while custody decisions were being made.
In this home there were boys and girls ranging from small babies up to about 17 years of age. Bath time for all
was on Saturday night at which time, a wash tub of hot water was placed on the floor, and the girls were bathed
first starting with the little ones right up to the older girls. More hot water was added, and the boys were then
bathed again starting with the little ones right up to the older boys, all in the same water.
When the divorce proceedings were completed, the boys were to stay with their mother during the school year and
with their father during the summer times. This was done the first school year with the boys living with their
mother at residence 12 at 1017 W. 13th Avenue. This is where they were living when Leonard turned 8 and was
baptized at Denver First Ward.
During the summer of 1934, George had set up housekeeping with his mother and Gene and Leonard stayed with
them even after school started in the fall.
This would be a good time to pause and look at a composite of family pictures of George and Marie up until
the separation was finalized in 1939 . (See Figures 56 through 73.) Pictures are included both before and after
the 1934 divorce.
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Unfortunately, strains began to appear in the family centering around different attitudes about both alcohol and
money expenditures. At home No. 6 at 724 Elati, 6 -yr old Leonard remembers watching his mother standing in
her pantry with a pencil and paper figuring for what seemed to him to be hours at a time. With maturity of age
he now realizes that she was trying to figure out how to make their limited budget last to the next payday.
Unfortunately personal habits are always slow to change.
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5. The Post-Divorce Years–Marie’s Story
Divorce of course is never easy for any of those involved in it, but it was particularly hard for Marie. One time
things looked so blue for her as she tried to maintain her separate household that she felt that life was not worth
living. And things were pretty tough for her. She worked as a maid in hotels and in private homes and wherever
she could. She was the happiest, however, when her two sons visited her, and she would take them to shows, and
give them as many gifts as she could. She never missed a birthday or Christmas, and as usual, her children showed
little appreciation for the effort she made giving them presents. However as her children approached the maturity
of their older teenage years, such appreciation for her hard work and sacrifice began to dawn on them, and they
quit calling her “Marie”, and finally began to refer to her as “Mother.”
One example was her dedication to work with the inconveniences of the time. At one time, she moved to Salt
Lake to keep house for a Mr. Wing. Mr. Wing’s home was not modern, and it was necessary for her to make a
wooden fire on a hot summer day in order to cook supper. Modern day mothers would
likely wilt. Figure 82 is a picture of Marie when she was 39 and was working for Mr.
Wing.
Fortunately, things became better as the nation pulled out of the depression. And
then in 1941 she met Wilford Ward while visiting her mother in Salt Lake City.
Wilford had recently been divorced and it is likely that
he was staying in one of Marie’s Mother’s boarding
rooms. Fig 83 shows Wilford in 1938.
Like Marie, Wilford came from pioneer LDS ancestors
particularly in the Farmington, Utah area. Wilford had
four living children: Lela, 13; Walter, 11; and Donald,
10, and Wilford Jr., 8.
Fig 82: Marie, 39, 1939
Fig 83: Wilford Jessie Ward, 35, 1938
It is likely that Marie and Wilford met when attending the same Ward in Salt Lake
City. In any event, they related to each other, filling both an emotional and social need for the two of them. They
were married in Downey, Idaho in 1941 and set up housekeeping initially in to Salt Lake City before moving
permanently to Denver.
And so it was that she was in Salt Lake City in
the spring of 1942 when Gene and Leonard
made their fateful train trip to see her.
Unfortunately, shortly before the train arrived
in Salt Lake City, Gene went into the lavatory
where he had an epileptic attack in which he hit
his nose hard on the wash basin dying shortly
before the train arrived in Salt Lake. In our
modern communication age, it’s difficult to
realize that death communications used to come
via a Western Union telegram. (See Figure 84)
Fig 84: Telegram Announcing Gene’s Death
Wilford and Marie arranged a beautiful funeral service; George made a quick emergency trip to Salt Lake with
a wooden grave marker he had prepared; and Gene was buried in the Ward cemetery plots in Farmington, Utah.
Gene’s grave is shown in Figure 85 and his tombstone in Figure 86.
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Figs 85-86: Gene’s Grave and Tombstone in Farmington, Utah, 1942
Leonard Olds, 17
Figures 87-88 are Gene and Leonard’s High School Senior Pictures
Fig 87-88: Eugene 18, 1941; Leonard, 16, 1941
Shortly after Gene’s death, Wilford and Marie moved to Denver with Wilford hiring Leonard to work for him
from time to time helping to finish cement sidewalks.
Marie’s third child, Theodore Lee Ward, was born in 1943 when she was 43 and just shortly before Leonard went
into the service. And it was there in their little home on 141 So. Grove St in Denver that Teddy brought a
happiness and fulfillment into Marie and Wilford’s life with his ready smile and laugh. Pictures of Ted at 6
months and 4, 15, and 51 are shown in Figures 89-92.
Figs 89-92: Ted Ward
6mo 1944; 4 yrs 1947; 15 yrs 1958;
51 yrs 1994
With World War II now in full swing, Wilford found himself working at a number of war related jobs and finally
working full time as a cement product supervisor and contractor. Things went particularly well for the small
family during the prosperous postwar years. From 1942 to 1945 Marie served very diligently as an LDS
missionary and was honorably released
Her son Leonard joined the Army Air Corps serving for 3 years and eventually writing a brief history of his service
in the following report: Leonard E. Olds, 1st Lieutenant, 41st Squadron, 501st Bomb Group, 315 Bomb Wing,
20th Army Air Corps, World War II. The war ended in 1945 and Leonard was discharged in 1946.
As Ted approached 5-years old in 1948, Marie felt it necessary to associate with an apostate LDS group,
specifically the Aaronic Order, largely because of the persuasion of her close friend Lucy Runyan. She also was
likely influenced by her cousin Ernest Gilbert Weight who had become a prominent member of the Order in
Colorado Springs. Her son Leonard, home from the service, visited with her trying to convince her otherwise;
however LDS membership was withdrawn shortly thereafter in 1948.
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Wilford was always generous with his time and money and willing to help anyone in need. He helped make
an apartment in an unattached building so that Leonard’s aged grandmother, Leah Olds, could be taken care
of after Leonard married. She only stayed a short while, after which the apartment was used to help others in
need.
The year before Wilford passed away, Marie’s mother had died in 1957, around 1974. After Wilford’s passing
Marie then lived as a widow in Denver for many years and eventually associating with the Faith Fellowship
Church on Evans St.
In 1970 Wilford’s son Donald passed away and his brothers
buried him in the family plot in Farmington as shown in Figure
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Fig 93: Wilford’s Sons at Don Ward’s Burial, 1970
Ted, 27; Walter, 40, Wilfred Jr., 37
Sometime around 1975, Marie moved to Salt Lake to keep
house for her step father, Joseph Thome, and her brother, Reed
Noakes. After Joe Thome died a few years later, she continued keeping house for her brother Reed until it was
necessary for him to move into a nursing home. She then unfortunately broke her hip in a fall in a grocery store,
and, after recovering, lived in a Senior’s Housing apartment on South 21st Street, living independently and very
happly with many friends.
Unfortunately her health eventually began to decrease, initially because of a closed esophagus requiring her to
live basically on juices. Leonard invited her to move into his home in Denver, but she didn’t want to give up her
long-sought independence. And so it was that when cancer developed in all her vital organs, she was alone in the
hospital in Salt Lake. Leonard visited her and again tried to get her to move to Denver, but her main concern was
to try to get back to her apartment, trying unsuccessfully with Leonard calling “the cousins department” for help.
One acquaintance did try to help her get back into her apartment, but gave up after only a few days because of the
intense care she required.
And so it was that after a few weeks later in 1981, Leonard and his wife Earlene came back to Salt Lake to close
out Marie’s beloved apartment. They were able to spend the last few hours of Marie’s life with her. Leonard
gave his mother a son’s blessing at her request. After the blessing, she smiled at him. Leonard told her: “Mother,
you’re smiling.” This pleased her and she began resting peacefully.
However, it wasn’t until Leonard was able to get in touch with Ted and to tell her that Teddy was on his way, that
she smiled again and was finally peaceful. She passed away a few hours later. She hung on until she knew that
Ted was coming. She was 81, and her death closed an historic era for her children and grandchildren.
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Wilford died in 1958 when Marie was 58 and Ted was 15. Wilford was an expert cement finisher and had been
working around concrete for many years, supervising the Lock Joint Pipe Company work and finishing cement
sidewalks and driveways. He worked for a number of years in a meat packing plant in Denver. He worked hard
trying to keep Marie from joining the Aaronic Order. However, he remained active and faithful throughout his
years in the LDS Church even though religious differences at home made things difficult.
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over the next 17 years. Marie now took up a new role as a very loving grandmother faithfully remembering
birthdays and Christmases. Several of her letters to Leonard are given in Appendix C.
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Her funeral was conducted by the Faith Fellowship Church, and Ted , Leonard, and her brother Reed buried herr a c k e r- s o ft w a r
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Leonard Olds, 56; Reed Noakes, 69; Ted Ward, 38
Fig 95: Wilford and Marie’s Tombstone, Farmington
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6. The Post-Divorce Years–George’s Story
George and Marie’s divorce must have been considerably easier for George. His mother moved in with him,
traveling from Chicago, and kept house for him and Gene and Leonard. Work for George steadily improved
as the depression eased.
George’s nephew, Walter Officer, also moved in with them when they rented a bigger home on 746 Kalamath
Street again on Denver’s West Side near where George worked. Gene and Leonard grew older and the
family often played four-handed pinochle around the dinner table after dinner many nights. During these
games, George and his mother would recount their various life stories for the children’s benefit. The game
generally ended with quarreling over card mistakes, but then all would be forgiven and another game started
the next night.
George’s mother, Leah Olds, had been crippled many years earlier, and required a steadying belt buckle to hold
onto when she walked to the store or to the movies, or to Church. While George continued to drink, he never
missed a day’s work, and was never cross with his sons. However, he would argue with his mother particularly
when he felt that she should loan him some of her old age pension. In general paydays were never really happy
days at home, and the boys seldom looked forward to them although they did enjoy going down to the shops to
get Dad’s paycheck, cash it for him, and go down town and pay off his bills, giving him whatever money was left.
Unfortunately with all the loan sharks’ fees, there was generally very little left over.
The main entertainment at home was the radio with programs such as Amos and Andy for George and the boys
and Ma Perkins for Grandma Olds. The Saturday afternoon show cost 10 cents for a double feature, a cartoon,
a serial, and a newsreel along with a drawing for groceries. At one of the drawings, the boys won a live turkey,
and brought it home. George kept it in the basement fattening it up for Thanksgiving. After the show, George
would buy his sons a double dipped ice cream cone at the Purity Creamery for 10 cents. War time inflation had
increased the ice cream cone price from a previous 5 cents. George also had an excellent bass voice and enjoyed
loudly singing spiritual songs such as “The Old Rugged Cross.”
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Three months before Gene’s death, the Japanese had attacked the American navy at Pearl Harbor on December
7, 1941. With the United States in the war, things began to change fast in George’s home. Walter had married
in May of 1941 and had left for the army. Leonard graduated from West High School and enrolled in the Colorado
School of Mines as he waited to become 18 years old.
In September 1943 when George was 55 Leonard joined the Army
Air Corps eventually becoming a navigator on B-29’s in the Pacific.
Figure 96 is a picture of George with his son Leonard on Leonard’s
first furlough home.
Fig 96: George and His Son Leonard in 1944
Leonard, 19; George, 55
So during the war years of 1943, 1944, and 1945, George and his
mother lived by themselves in their rented home on Kalamath Street.
When Leonard returned from the service in April 1946, a regular schedule was restored again. However, efforts
to get George to quit drinking were not successful, and when Leonard’s marriage was in the offing in 1949, it
seemed necessary to provide a better home for the one who had taken care of Leonard for so long, Granny Leah
Pascoe Olds. Leah was now 88 years old. Accordingly, Leonard arranged for an apartment to be created in the
back of Wilford and Marie’s home on Grove St. where she could more suitably looked after. And in October of
1949, the old family home on Kalamath Street was broken up with George going to live in a nearby apartment.
However, Granny was unhappy being away from her son, and soon they were back together again. Unfortunately
without suitable care she eventually caught pneumonia and went to the hospital with the doctors not expecting her
to live. At her request Leonard gave her a priesthood blessing and she miraculously recovered and was moved
into a nursing home. Several months later, she passed away from old age in 1952 at the age of 91.
George finally retired from work in 1950 after he was hit by a big Pierce-Arrow car as he was crossing a street.
When he got out of the hospital, he lived by himself in downtown Denver associating with his many friends. At
the age of 71, in 1960, he fell over a balcony rail and was killed in the fall.
Leonard wrote obituaries for both his father and mother as follows:
1960: George L. Olds, son of Isaac Olds and Leah Sibella Pascoe Olds, was born in Butte, Montana on March 15,
1900. He passed away in Denver, Colorado on February 8, 1960.
After reaching the fourth grade in school, he became a messenger for Western Union. As a young man he traveled
extensively in the Western States. He was a butcher, a miner, a soldier, and finally a railroad worker. In 1923 he moved
to Denver as an employee of the Rio Grande Railroad. During the depression, he was an active organizer of the West Side
Unemployment Gang. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, holding the office of Priest. In
1950 he was seriously injured in an auto accident and retired after 37 years of railroad service.
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Gene’s death in Salt Lake took both George and Grandmother Olds by surprise. Gene had been receiving medical
treatment for epilepsy for several months. But in 1942 there was no satisfactory treatment for it. George made
a wooden grave marker, and took it to Salt Lake for the funeral.
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His first wife was Mrs. Olive Mason Lily Robinson, Olympia, Washington and his second, Mrs. Marie Noakestr a c k e r - s o f t w a r e
Ward of Denver. His eldest son by his first marriage is Charles W. Olds, Olympia, Washington. Two other sons were born
of his second marriage, George Eugene Olds, deceased, and Leonard E. Olds, Niagara Falls, NY. Other surviving relations
are nephews, Walter M. Officer, Denver, Herbert O. Officer, Chicago, and a niece, Genevieve Anderson of Chicago. He has
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He was a common man, yet all of Denver was his home. He was a friend to all.
1981: Marie Noakes Olds Ward daughter of Moses Adelbert Noakes and Margaret Anna Barnett was born in
Springville, Utah on June 16, 1900. She passed away in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 2, 1981.
As a girl she was raised in various small towns in rural Utah including Springville, Clear Creek, Knightville,
and Eureka. She had several serious illness when young including the 1919 flu which took the lives of three of her
brothers and sisters in the same week in 1919. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
served as a local missionary in the Denver area for several years. She later joined the Aaronic Order and later the
Unity Church. She was also an active member of the Royal Neighbors of America Lodge in Denver.
Her first husband was Mr. George Lorenzo Olds, deceased and her second, Mr. Wilford Jesse Ward also
deceased. She had two sons by her first marriage, George Eugene Olds, deceased, and Leonard E. Olds, Castle Rock,
Colorado. She had one son by her second marriage, Theodore Lee Ward, Half Moon Bay, California. She is survived
by her brother Reed Noakes of Salt Lake City. She has twelve grandchildren.
She was known for her love and compassion, but most of all for her deep loyalty to family and friends as well
as for her love and generosity to her children and beloved grandchildren.
7. Epilogue:
While none of us reach perfection in this life, there is no question that George and Marie tried hard. Life was not easy as
they built a heritage that their children and grandchildren could enjoy. We give them respect and honor for this heritage
given to us so freely with all their love.
What advice would they want to leave their posterity. Perhaps the following:
From George:
Be honest, work hard, keep smiling, and you’ll have friends wherever you go.
From Marie:
I would have my grandchildren love one another. No fighting, no quarreling.
Make, keep, and cherish your close friends.
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Appendices
Appendix A:
Appendix B:
Appendix C:
Appendix D:
Appendix E:
Appendix F:
Additional Pictures
Letters and Notes
Ancestors of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
Family Group Records
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Appendix A: Family Pictures
Isaac and Leah Olds’ Family
Figs 97-98: Isaac Olds and
Leah Sibella Pascoe
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True Estella
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Birdie Mae Olds
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George, 56; Leah, 84
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Del and Maggie Noakes’ Family
Figs 115-116: Moses Adelbert Noakes
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Fig 136: Marie With LDS Barnum
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Marie, 40, 2nd from left
Fig 137: Marie With Royal Neighbors of
American Lodge, 1960
Marie, 60, Back row, 3rd from right
Fig 138:
The Barnett Family,
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Back row left to right:
Clara Candace Payne, 19
Maud Laurine Thorn, 23
Delores Camille Johnson, 21
Bertha Alice Payne, 26
Mary Aleapha Clark, 31
Middle row left to right:
Maggie Annie Noakes, 30
Lewis Scott Barnett, 56
Lavina Janett Brown, 53
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Appendix B:
Personal History of George Lorenzo Olds
Personal History of Marie Noakies Olds Ward
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I, George L. Olds was born in Butte, Montana, March 15, 1890 and lived at 235 Toboggan Avenue. There I went
to a little blue school house to school and later to a big, red, brick building. My best sport was to have a dog and
make him pull me where I wanted to go. Also skating, playing baseball, and football, fishing, and playing hookey
from school, or getting a pain in my leg so mother would let me stay home from school. I liked sleigh riding when
it snowed. Mother would send us to bed but I would go out the window and ride until eleven PM and next morning
my shoes would be wet. I would have a time putting them on. I was a great rustler in the pantry for cakes, cookies,
and raisins. I ate so much that I got sick. All the family felt sorry for me. And when they asked me if I had been
in the pantry eating raisins, I said no. But in five minutes, up came the raisins.
My sister Truie could get me to do anything she would ask me to do, but when it came to my sister Birdie, I would
not mind, so she would bump my head on the floor. I had dirty hands and would not wash them and so one of
mother’s boarders took a towel and applied it to my bottom. My brother-in-law was a surveyor at the reservoir.
I would go down for beer for the men and they would give me money. I had money all the time.
We had a piano and mother and the girls would sing and we would all have a good time at Christmas. We would
put our stockings up by the fire and get it full of good things and presents. Mother had to work hard to keep us.
I used to have a wheel barrel with which I would haul wood and coal from the mines and railroad coal cars. I would
go with my dog and when we saw the watch man, I said go old boy and he would take the coal home and I would
go some other way. Hence we got the coal home.
(Note: Dad told me they would make faces and call the men names; so that they would throw coal at them. They
would then pick it up and take it home; calling it “rustling coal”.)
I had a girl at the age of seven, and we would talk about getting married but we never did. I moved down with my
brother-in-law at the Big Butte Reservoir where they hold water. They had finished building the street car which
was to run in front of my house. I went out the night before and put soap on the tracks. The next morning when
the car came, it would come to the soap and slide back. So they got out and put dirt on the tracks and said if they
could find the one who done it, they would send him to the reform school. I had a girl there and was chasing her
and she fell down the stairs and her teeth went through her lip. Frank Borman bet me 25 cents I could not kiss two
girls. So I chased them for a mile, and got the kiss and the quarter. It was worth it don’t you think?
Now we get to the dear old school days. Well I went to the 4th grade and was lazy. Some of the time I didn’t want
to get my lessons and I would tear out the pages and then the teacher would call my sister to take me home, all of
which made my sister mad. One time I put a white rat in the teacher’s desk and she fell over against the wall. I
had to stand up to the wall with a big wad of gum on my nose, and holdout my hand for the ruler, and we would
lay a hair on our hand to break the impact of the ruler. So I got out of school at the age of twelve and started selling
papers even when it was 45 below. So one night I went home and had a fight with my sister so I thought I would
not go home. It was in the summer, and I didn’t have shoes on. So me and the Doney boys would sleep under
the side walk. When we woke up there was a foot of snow on the ground and I had no shoes on. Mother’s border
found me and put me in a hack with two horses and took me home. How good it was in the warm house again,
so I didn’t try that anymore. So I went to work on the messenger force at 13 years of age and made $25 a week
for wages and $25 or $30 on tips. So I learned to spend money so we would go to the dances with the girls. I had
nice good looking clothes and was very neat all the time. Then I went to work for a doctor to run his candy store
and take care of his horse and be his valet. His horse was white so when he rode him I had to take him to him so
I thought I was a big shot, and in reality I am.
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My sister Birdie didn’t think that it was the right place for me so she got my money and put me in a hack; and tooktr a c k e r- s o ft w a r e
me to the depot. She got me a ticket to Creede, Colorado so on we go to Creede. At Creede, I stepped off and all
the people looking at me thought I was a king for I had on white shoes, pants, and coat , and cane, and a big red
tie. Then I got out with the boys. They would frame up a fight for me to fight Fred Keltz. Mother heard of it so
she stopped the fight. Next day I got a bicycle to ride and tried to be smart and ride on a plank across a ditch. The
plank tipped and kerplunk into the water I went. Two girls pulled me out. Then we went mountain climbing on
jackasses. We would ride them out sometimes take two and a wagon and a line and pole. Then up the river.
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Creede is a beautiful place. The town is between the high mountains and is pretty in the summer, and has eight
feet of snow in the winter. At sixteen I would unload coal from the rail road cars for twenty cents a ton, then I went
to work in the Ameasthes mill wood. I would ride a burro up and down then my brother-in-law gave me a job
taking groceries to the houses. Some old dame would want a 5 cent yeast cake so I would take it on a Sunday. I
had 200 girls up there and I would fight with them. Mr. Rice got the first car to come to Creede, so I paid him $5
to ride it to wagon wheel gap and back. I took my girl and did we have lots of fun. We came back to Creede like
big shots.
Then Dr. McGibbon had the first motor cycle. I had one ride in it, then I was made a butcher and was sent to the
slaughter house to kill a pig. I got the water too hot and had to skin him. I killed cows, sheep, and lambs. I made
sausage, hamburgers, and lard. May Palton and I were put off of the dance floor for dancing the Rag. They
thought it was awful.
Mrs. Hennessy’s sister and I ran chambers together. She was related to Tom Walsh and the McClans and their
twenty five thousand in the bank. We were going to get married, so Mr. Hennessey, his wife and baby, and myself,
Miss Chambers, my mother, and Hattie Halton who works at the D&RGWRR who was only 8 years old then, so
we got in the wagon, started up the canyon road. We met a man coming down so we thought we would let him
pass our wagon. Our wagon tipped over on Miss chambers and myself, and it went down into the river. So we
went camping and returned to Creede. We had a fight so we didn’t get married.
So I got a new girl named Effie Snidman in Welch. I lost my head, brought her books, watches, bracelets, and all
I could. So her father moved out, and she married some one else. Back came all that I gave her. So in Creede the
Creede Candle put a big piece in the paper about G. L. Olds, the Broken Hearted Boy, and because of what she
sent back they called me the Candy Kid in Creede, Colorado. So I went up to Mason to put up hay. Mr. McMaster
said, I’ll make you a bet that you can’t make love to one of these Mason girls. So I said, I will show you. So I
got one of them in my arms. Her mother came out and caught me. She said, “You kids are going to Creede and
get married.” So we did. She was 21 years old and I was 17 years old. My mother and sister was mad then. We
move to Creede and lived in one of my mother’s houses. There is where Charlie Olds was born. There was no
work in Creede so we went to Alamosa where I got a job as a painter. I told her I was coming back for her, and
I went up. I was met at the train by them hillbillies, and she said she wanted to stay with her mother. So I said,
“You’re my wife.” So back I went to Alamosa and quit my job.
Mr. Officer moved to San Accacia, Colorado and had a store there. So I went over there and worked for a ditch
Co. in the spring of the year. The tumble weeds would be as big as a house and the wind would blow all the time.
So I went out to see the world. I rode on the tops of the trains; I worked as dishwasher, cement gangs, grading
gangs, hasher, and lots of other things; on farms picking spuds. When I went to Butte City, the war started, so I
came back to Colorado. In Denver at 17 Market, I tried to get in the navy and was turned down. Went to San
Accacia and got caught in the first draft. Went to Camp Cody, New Mexico for six months and came back to
Colorado. I then went to Salt Lake where I worked in the Sweet Candy Co. plant. I met a miner from Eureka, Utah
who asked me and my mother up, so we went. He gave me a job with him. My father in law was his partner so
he took me over and I got to know Marie Noakes. She was a pretty girl so I fell in love and we were married in
Provo, Utah by an elder of the LDS Church. We had a four room house in Eureka. She said, “You have seen the
world, why don’t you take me to see the world?” So I did. I took her to Salt Lake City. I got a job at the D&RGRR
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What will we do when the good Lord takes her away. But we will still love her. I had one sister die here in Denver.
Her name was Birdie Olds Cassity. My other sister was Truie Olds Officer. She died in Chicago. Birdie Olds
had three children. True had six boys and one girl, while living all the time at 3842 Washington Blvd.
Dad G. L. Olds
746 Kalamath
Denver, Colorado
Age 57, March 15, 1947
Note made about 1967: I showed this history to Mom and she said this was not true. She took care of her children
and didn’t move his things out. LEO
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shops. She got a job in Sweet Candy Co. Then we went up to Park City where I worked in the mines. I went to
Pocatello to work for a pig man for two days. Then for the gas company firing furnaces. I got a job in the shops
there. We were happy, and we would pay our bills with checks. Until a boy asked me if I had a daughter going
to high school. I said no. He said there was a girl named Olds going to school with him. I asked Marie, “Are you
going to school?” She said , “Yes”, so I stopped that. Then the strike came in 1922 and we went back to Eureka
and worked for a year. Went to Pocatello, No work. Came to Salt Lake and got a job in the Blacksmith shop.
Worked for one year and mother got hurt in Boulder, Colorado. So we came to Denver living at 1436 Mariposa.
There I had Big Boy Eugene Olds. Marie took a time leave. Came back eight month later. Moved to 1026 W 13
Ave. There is where our beautiful baby boy, L. E. Olds had his home. And I wanted a red headed, freckled faced
boy. And I said, “He will make a great man some day”, and I know he will. Had a fight. Left again. Mother came
and we moved again. Eugene got sick so I went down and got Marie. So we move again. We have moved thirty
to thirty five times here in Denver. Moved to 943 Mariposa. Asked Marie to go to Chicago. She would not go,
so I took the boys and had a good trip. Come back. Mrs. Runyan and Marie had moved all my things out to her
house. So I made her bring them back. L. C. Olds has been their mother more than Marie. Mother kept them clean
and nice clothes all the time. They went to school.
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Personal History of Marie Noakes Olds Ward
(Written by her hand on June 1, 1953, edited and typed by Leonard Olds
from June 1, 1953 to January 7, 1994)
I was born June 16, 1900 on the Weight farm in Springville, Utah. I don’t have a record of my blessing, but I think
I was blessed in the First Ward Chapel. We moved around a great deal during my early childhood. Both of my
maternal and paternal grandparents lived in the same town, and our families were very closely associated.
I remember going with my grandmother and grandfather Barnett, my mother’s parents and their family many
times on what they called, out on the railroad. That is, we would travel in a boxcar way out into some desert
country and live in tents out there where my father and grandfather would work for the D&RG railroad company,
and my mother, grandmother, and some of my aunts (my mother’s sisters) would cook for a very large group of
men. I guess this must have been in the summertime for we would return to Springville again for the winter. Then
we would live for a while with either grandparents.
When I was three or four years of age, we moved to Clear Creek, Utah where my dad worked in the coal mines.
It was here that I wandered away from home once and walked to Castle Gate, Utah before I was finally found and
brought back home. Was I ever glad to get back, but I just didn’t know my way back by myself. I must have been
very young.
I remember trying to go to school once when I was 5 years old. I was told I would have to be six. It seemed that
I would never get to be six. My older sister Dora went to school but she was 4 years older than I.
On June 21, 1905 right after my 5th birthday, my little sister Della was born at Clear Creek, Utah. From the time
she could toddle, she followed me around like a little puppy dog. A great love grew between us which nothing
seemed to sever. Where one went the other was sure to follow. Together we would attend all meetings of the LDS
Ward where we lived, even Priesthood meetings.
When I finally did arrive at the age of 6, we moved back to Springville where I attended Jefferson grade school.
I didn’t like being separated from my little sister however, nor she from me. I was extremely nervous and was two
years in what was then called the beginning class because of that nervousness.
Before I had finished the first grade at 8 yrs of age, we moved to Eureka, Utah and from there to Knightville where
my mother ran a boarding house and my Daddy worked in the copper and lead mines. My sister, that is my older
sister, helped in the boarding house but my little sister and I were just seen and not heard from. No one seemed
to care where we went or when we came home, so we just drifted around as we were given absolute freedom. We
always went to church though, but sometimes we went as we were, very dirty. And sometimes we wouldn’t take
the trouble to go home from our many escapades of wandering around town.
The same building that served as the church was used during the week as the school house. The benches were
moved out and the school desks and seats moved in. We had what is known as a little country school house. One
teacher taught all of the grades. When the new school house was built, the grades were divided into two rooms,
and we got another teacher for the older group.
Miss Camp, our original teacher, still taught the “little ones,” as she always called her group. She was the only
person in the little town of Knightville who did not belong to the Church. In our little old country school house,
we sat two in a seat and carved our initials in the desks.
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I had one girl friend who all through the years remained very true to me. Her name was Ida Higgenson, and we
were together constantly. Her father took a very big interest in my sister and I. She had two older sisters who
palled with my older sister and Ida, Della, my little sister, and I were great pals.
When I was eight years old, we moved back to Springville where I was baptized a member of the Church in
Hobble Creek on Aug 2, 1908 by Bishop Huntington of the First Ward. I was confirmed by Bro. Johnnie
Manwaring. Then we moved back to Knightville and the boarding house.
Della and I practically lived at the Higginson’s. They did for us the same as their own including spankings.
We had to walk 2 1/2 miles to Eureka when our new school became inadequate to house all of us; and so we
graduated from the 8th grade at Eureka. It was here that I learned there were other religions besides my own. We
played with Catholics and Methodists but I never dared go inside their churches. In fact we were sternly
reprimanded if we ever ventured to ask about them. We were told they were nothing, and ours was the only true
church. But I remember I had a very strong desire to investigate, but very greatly feared the wrath of Bro.
Higginson, Ida’s father, who was a very religious man. As I said before, he gave to me the same as his own
including punishments. We were allowed to play with these children but not to go to their churches which we
would have loved to have done.
When I was 12 years old, my brother Reed was born on Jan 14, 1912 at Knightville. We moved from the boarding
house to our own home, a modest little cottage which I greatly loved, mainly because we led a more normal family
life. However, my mother kept two star boarders who refused to go elsewhere. One was a very religious Mormon,
Brother Abe Jenkins, and the other, Mr. John McCulland, who later introduced me to my first husband, George
L. Olds.
Both of these men were closer to me than my own father who I greatly feared because he would always come home
drunk and quarrel with my mother long into the night. Many nights, when he was out, I would pray that he would
come home sober. My parents both belonged to the church but never went only to have a baby blessed or a child
baptized.
(LEO Note: Harold Evans (15) was fond of my mother (14); however, this friendship was discouraged by her
mother.)
When we moved back to Springville, my mother went into the restaurant business and then again I was and felt
neglected. My sister raised my little brother Reed until he went to school. Then when she went out in the world
to work she became rather wild and defied my parents to control her. She stayed out till all hours of the night and
my dad would blame my mother for her conduct.
(LEO Notes: The family moved to Knightville in 1917 with McCulland and Jenkins as boarders. Her brother,
George, was 2 years old. They moved to Eureka in 1918. Dora married in 1916 in Eureka and moved to
Longmont, Colorado where her in laws, the Reeves were. But they had no children because her husband Ed didn’t
want any. Dora and Ed came to Eureka then Knightville where Dora died of the flu. At that time Del (Mother’s
father) moved from Knightville to Eureka. He took a lease of part of Chief Consolidated Mining Co. in Eureka
and made a lot of money around 1918. Ed Reeves worked for him and also made money. Right after Dora died,
Ed asked my mother to marry him, and he would join the Church and raise up children for Dora. Mother didn’t
say why she never married Ed.)
(LEO Notes, cont’d: Granny and Grandma Noakes got together and planned the marriage for Mom and Dad.
They got married in Provo, City and County Building. They had a separate home in Eureka. Dad was working
at the Chief Consolidated Mine. After one year, Dad wanted to go with Diamond Drilling Co. in Park City.
Granny and McCulland had gone to SLC to the Wilson Hotel. Mom and Dad stayed there for 1 month with Mom
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Our life at home became very unhappy. We moved back to Eureka about 1918 after little brother George was born
in Springville. Here we remained until Sept 1915?. I married George Olds Oct 3, 1919, the same year the great
flu epidemic struck us and took my two sisters and little brother George.
(LEO’s Note: Mother said that when the family came down with the flu, her sister Dora came to help nurse them.
Mom’s brother George died on May 10, her older sister died on May 12, and her younger sister on May 14. Mom
remembers her father making a trip taking the first body to the Springville Cemetery, only to have to make another
trip the next day. Since none of her brothers or sister had any children, our family is the only descendants of Del
and Maggie Noakes, Mother’s parents.)
I married George L. Olds and went to live at Salt Lake, Park City, and Pocatello, Idaho where I attended High
School. From Pocatello, we moved to Denver, and moved so many times I never kept track.
I used to get up at 4 o’clock in the morning to start my work when my two little boys were very small and going
to Kindergarten. When Grandma Olds came to live with us again and again, I wanted my home to myself even
though George wasn’t as good when she was away. While she gave me the only happiness I had with him, for she
was and tried to help me be happy, she always furnished money when we never knew sometimes where our next
meal was coming from. I worked out only because I had to. I didn’t enjoy being away from my children, but if
I didn’t work, I wouldn’t have anything. George made good money, but he also spent lavishly. He was free with
his money while it lasted, but it didn’t last long. He once spent a compensation check on a dress for me which cost
$37.50, all the money we had.
(LEO Note: Because of the UP rail strike, Dad and Mom moved back to Salt Lake and lived with Birdie’s family,
the Cassity’s. They took care of their children while they went to Denver, about 1922. Mom then left Dad because
Edna Cassity told her about Dad’s first marriage. She went to stay with her mother who had by that time moved
to Salt Lake City. The flu had knocked Del Noakes up and he had to quit drinking probably around 1920-21 so
he could get treated. Dad and Mom had rented a cottage room on 1st West. However, she went back to Dad right
away and they moved to Denver because of the Salt Lake City Railroad Strike.)
We neither one knew how to manage and Grandma Olds was a big help, but she spoiled us both. I never worried
as long as she cared for my children. I knew she loved them and would care for them as I would. Many times I
longed to be with them when I couldn’t because I had to work. At first I enjoyed working out, and then it became
very tiresome. Grandma Olds first suggested that I work, and my first job was at Sweets Candy Co. in Salt Lake.
My first job in Denver was at the Denver Dry Goods Co. before Leonard was born. Then I worked in restaurants,
washing dishes, waiting tables. A short time before Leonard was born, I took care of a woman with tuberculosis.
The depression was on and George only worked at the D&RG shops part time. He was only getting $80 a month
and we had to pay $20 or $25 rent. We always ran a store bill, and he always borrowed money. Shortly after
Leonard was born, our family troubles became worse. He didn’t want me to work, yet he couldn’t give me the
amount I could make if I worked. Grandma wanted me to work and we got along better when I worked. He
quarreled with her more than he did with me. I wouldn’t argue with him. I just walked out.
To make a long story short, I left him many times but the last time was when we went to court and it was decided
I should have the children during the winter and he during the summer. I had them one winter, and when he took
them the following summer, they were turned against me when I came to see them. Then my heart really was
broken for I wanted my children but they didn’t want me.
I really don’t know what turned them back again toward me, but I do know it took a long time before I felt welcome
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Then, I move to Salt Lake City and met and married my present husband, Wilford Jesse Ward. We were married
18 October 1941 at Downy, Idaho, and lived for a short while in Salt Lake City. After the death of Eugene, we
moved to Denver and have remained here since. I filled a four year home mission of the Church since. My present
husband and I were sealed in the LDS temple 3 Oct 1944. We had Lela and Wilford Jesse Jr. and also Theodore
Lee Ward and Eugene Olds sealed to us by consent of their other parent.
I was excommunicated from the LDS Church after investigating the Aaronic Order. Since the people of the
Church haven’t investigated the Aaronic Order, they do not know anything about it, hence I do not feel they were
in any position to judge something they know nothing about. I have since entered the Unity School of Christianity
which gives a person their free agency to choose what they want to do. That is, there is no one sitting at the head
and dictating what its members should or should not do. I can belong to as many organizations as I like and still
belong to Unity.
God bless you. I hope what I have told you will help.
Love,
Mother
Notes by LEO:
Dora was baptized the same day as Mom; Mom was 8 yrs and Dora was 12
Del Noakes died from Miner’s consumption, 50 yrs, sick off and on for several. Eddie Reeves also. Worked in
metal mines. She (Mom?) coaxed George (Dad?) up to her and gave him the flu (1919?) In 1930 she (Mom?) had
an operation and had a difficult recovery. I found out some time ago that when my mother was young she had
spinal menigitis but recovered. I forgot who told me this.
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Letters and Notes
Letter from Marie Noakes Ward in Denver, Colorado to Leonard Olds in Columbus, Ohio, 24 Aug 1952
Letter from Marie Noakes Ward (Denver) to Leonard Olds (Columbus, Ohio) 1 Jun 1953
Letter from Marie Noakes Ward (Salt Lake) to Leonard Olds (Arvada) 2 Dec 1974
Letter from Maud Thorn (Springville) to Leonard Olds (Niagara Falls) 9 Jan 1967
Letter from Genevieve Anderson in Chicago to Leonard Olds in Niagara Falls, dated 1 April 1960
Letter from Louise Miller, Butte, Montana to Genevieve Anderson, Chicago, dated 14 Mar 1960
Interview of Marie Ward by her son Leonard Olds about June 1953
Notes Sent to Leonard Olds from Oakley Noakes
Misc. Research Notes of Leonard Olds
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From the above date, it sounds very much like it has been almost a month since I received your letter. Since we have another
family a man, wife and baby living with us now, it is very hard to concentrate on letter writing. However, all is now quiet
around 10:30, with the help of the Lord, I shall try to answer the questions you asked me one at a time.
1. Mr. David Patten Noakes c/o Mrs. Frank Price 142 E 8th So Rt 2, Orem, Utah. This is where I received much of my
information on my father’s side, if he is still living. He is my father’s brother. His dates however do not correspond with
those of the Temple Index Bureau.
2. Any of the Childs family at Springville, Utah. Aunt Maude Thorn could give you the names and addresses of any of them.
3. William Weight, Springville, Utah (my cousin) Just write to him and address it, Springville, Utah and it will get to him.
I think Uncle Dave Noakes can give you the address of Mrs. Kate Gibby, who was working on my father’s line.
My cousin Oakley Noakes, David’s son may have some information. He lives at Centerville, Utah.
The Index bureau was where I received my first information on my father’s line. You may write in and have an index survey
made for you along the Noakes line. The Noakes family were very prominent church people in the early days of the Church.
David W. Patten, who my Uncle David was named after, was an apostle. He was a brother to my 2nd great grandfather,
Archibald Patten., Benoni Patton, and his wife Edith Cole. It also tells of John and David W. Patten.
You may have your Pedigree Chart analyzed at the Temple Index Bureau. I don’t know what they charge now, but it used
to be $2.50. They have at the Temple Index Bureau family group records of Archibald Patten and his wife, Abigale
Salisbury, Benoni Patten and wife Edith Cole and also the two family groups of Parker Childs, father to Moses Childs.
Udimore, Laughton and Ringmer where Thomas Noakes, Emma Inkpen and George Noakes were born, were each one a
Parish in South East Sussex, England. To have the registers of these Parishes searched, they used to charge from 10 to 15
dollars for each parish. This has been over 20 years ago. They may have a wealth of information concerning the Noakes
and Inkpen ancestors by now. Let me know what you uncover, will you? Please?
You write to the Genealogical Society of Utah Research Department. The address used to be 80 No. Main St., Salt Lake City.
All four of my paternal great grandparents were members of the LDS church and received their endowments during life.
Thomas Noakes, son of William Noakes and Elizabeth Wilcoks was ordained a member of the 15th Quorum of Seventy. He
receive a patriarchal blessing 25 Dec 1844 at Nauvoo by John Smith. This states that he belonged to the tribe of Benjamin.
He was ordained a high priest in 1852 at Salt Lake City. He was baptized in Feb 1842 by John Hughes. George Noakes,
brother of John Hubbard was born 4 Sep 1811 at Rengmer, Sussex, England He was ordained a member of the 31st quorum
of Seventy 9 Nov 1852.
Emma Inkpen Noakes was sealed by proxy to her husband Thomas Noakes. When this sealing was indexed, her maiden
name was interpreted, “Terkpin” rather than Inkpen.
On the 18 Nov 1860 Moses Childs was ordained a High Priest at Springville, Utah. He was the son of Parker Childs and
Elizabeth Boutwell. He was baptized 5 Dec 1835 by Thomas Ducker.
Polly Patten, wife of Moses Childs received her endowments during life 26 Jul 1862. Both of her parents Archibald Patten
and Abigale were members of the LDS Church in Nauvoo where they received their endowments during life.
Aunt Maude Thorn’s address is Springville, Utah. In those small towns everybody knows everyone else, and it will get there
with just their name and town. They have a street address but I do not know it.
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It is very interesting to know how close you are to the birthplace of my grandfather. Maybe you can get acquainted with sometr a c k e r - s o f t w a r e
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1. I do not have the date of my mother’s baptism, but I believe she was. Aunt Maude didn’t have the record of it when I asked
her for it 20 years ago. Maybe she has it now.
2. I was 10 year old when Grandpa Noakes died.
3. He died and was buried at Springville, Utah. Dora died 12 may 1919. Della died 14 may 1919 and George 10 May 1919.
They all passed away in the same week during the epidemic of influenza in the year 1919.
My sister Dora died before you were born. The Reeves we used to visit in Denver were her husband’s people.
As for my life’s history, I will not have time to go into that this morning. I will also save that for next time. Your dear mother
has passed through some wonderful and some trying experiences and it will take time to recall and write it all. However I
will endeavor to do the best I can, when I have more time.
The weather is hot here too, but most everyday it rains and cools things off by evening.
George Runyan is getting married. This Wed evening they are having his reception. Elda Mae and Albert went to the Temple
with them.
(Comments on the family living with them were not typed.)
Well, I’ve told about all the scandal for now. Hope you like the presents I sent you, Leonard, and I hope little Kimmie enjoys
the little red wagon. I’m sorry I was so late in getting his to him, but I do hope you all enjoy them.
Kiss the babies for me.
With love to you all,
Grandma Ward.
2. Letter from Marie Noakes Ward (Denver) to Leonard Olds (Columbus, Ohio) 1 Jun 1953
My dear Son: I’m sorry I took so long in answering your first letter telling me about the birth of our dear little girl. Then when
I received the last one telling me I would have the grand privilege of seeing her, I just couldn’t realize it had been so long
since I received your letter.
I won’t make any excuses but time seems so short to me these days of hustle and hurry here and get there etc. sometimes
I miss the boat and fail to get many places I would like to go, all because I haven’t yet learned to use my precious time to good
advantage.
I have now had the wonderful privilege of seeing those dear children of yours. You must be very proud of them for they are
all very special. I only wish I could help you more with them. The work they cause is only a labor of love and each one is
just as precious as the other was. Only three babies that close together in age can present some real problems if there is not
complete cooperation with God and others whose mission it is to assist you. There is much that grandparents can do, if they
know what is need most. If we lived closer to you we could gladly help out as baby sitters at various different times. You
could get out more together and it would give us a chance to get closer to our grandchildren. Of course I realize it is not good
policy to live too close to either grandparents for then we might be tempted to tell you too much about how to raise a family
and believe me that is everyone’s own business. Every couple has the God given right to raise their families according to
their own God-given inspiration and no parent has the right to interfere, unless parental advise is asked for and needed and
really wanted. Then and then only is it a help.
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However I agree with Earlene’s mother that you should let her rest from having any more for a while. It isn’t wisdom to have
them too close together or too far apart either. Two or three years is not too far apart. If you want to keep your wife loving
you, she should be the one to say when she wants another baby, after all, she is the one who is to go through all the pain and
suffering.
I told Earlene that if all the others are like these she could have one or two for me. However it would be quite an awful thing
to have to give up any one of them.
Well you don’t want me to spend the time giving you advise. You asked for the History of my life. I will give you just the
events.
(The history written by my Mother, followed. I typed it up and put it into her history).
God bless you. I hope what I have told you will help. Your family is fine.
With love, Mother.
3. Letter from Marie Noakes Ward (Salt Lake) to Leonard Olds (Arvada) 2 Dec 1974
Dear Leonard, Earlene, and family:
I started this letter ages ago, so the first part of it became obsolete while it was waiting for the balance of it to get written.
So I had to write over the whole first part of it, in order to bring it all up to date. I’ve no logical excuses to offer, just
exceptionally slower than I used to be in writing. When I said it might be Christmas before I got the children’s answers to
their last Christmas letters, I thought it was a joke, but it turned out to be no joke.
I sure do miss some of my good elderly neighbors who moved out. The place don’t seem quite the same. Some of the new
ones, I’m not acquainted with yet. The neighbor who was Joe’s age used to bring me his newspaper every morning, regular
as clock work. He got us all fresh eggs from the country. Even when he went to the hospital somehow, I knew he would
always be back. He used to have such terrific nose bleeds and had to go to the hospital to get them stopped, but he always
came back home.
The weather here has been cold. We haven’t had any snow yet though. I see by the paper that you have.
Yesterday, I walked over to our little neighborhood grocery store. I thought I’d freeze before I got back. It wasn’t as easy
walking back either, as it was going out. The driveway out of here is slanting, downhill going out, but uphill coming back,
and full of ruts and chuckholes. I didn’t notice the ruts and chuckholes going out, but it seemed like I hit every one of them
coming back. I don’t venture out alone very often, as I don’t like crossing the street alone. However, God got me back home
safely. It was the first time I crossed any street without some one with me and the first time I have ever set foot in a grocery
store since I fell in a grocery store over a year ago. I thought it was about time I proved to myself that I could.
Now the rest of the letter consists of information concerning the Noakes family and with my somewhat clouded memory I
do hope it proves interesting to read about. Have a Happy Christmas and Hhappy New Year if I don’t write any sooner.
Relatives of Susan Childs and Tom Noakes (mistaken for Hubbard)
1. Unice Noakes Weight married Alf Weight, children:
1. Ralph Weight married Minerva Weight
2. William, I don’t know his wife’s name
3. Nellie Weight Condie. This the cousin who married into the notorious Condie family. She married Earl
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Condie. She taught school and my class. I was very close to her in my childhood. We corresponded every Christmas. Untiltr a c k e r - s o f t w a r e
last Christmas, I didn’t hear from her. Ella Condie, Earl’s sister was a great singer. I know that Richard, the great choir leader
of Salt Lake Tabernacle Choir, belongs to that family some where. I might know him, but I don’t think he’d remember me.
He is only a few years older than me. His dad or his uncle was also a great singer too. I sure enjoyed hearing them sing in
Church. My cousin Nellie was a very wonderful person too. She looked a lot like Kate Smith and she also sang a lot like
her.
4. Willis Weight–Don’t know who he married.
5. Earnest, married Belva. Earnest and Belva joined the Order of Aaron and they were quite prominent
in the order. They had quite a few children who are taking leading parts in the Order of Aaron. I can’t think of even one of
their names now. One of them is the head of the branch in Colo. Springs.
6. Arch Weight. He was exactly my age. I played with him. I met his wife but I can’t remember her name.
I know my Aunt Unice didn’t like her. She thought the world of Belva, Earnest’s wife.
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2. Verona Noakes Clegg married Israel Clegg:
1. Eastrum Clegg, married Laura
2. Mable Clegg Law, married a man by the name of law.
3. Ida Clegg, married into the Bird family.
4. Lewis Clegg. Don’t know who he married.
3. Emma Noakes Brian, married Jim Brian:
1. Olive Brian Thorn married Othel Thorn
1. Lavada Thorn Harrison married Walter Harrison.
2. Melba Thorn
3. Wallace Thorn
4. Vera Thorn. It was Vera who was electrocuted.
5. I knew the last son’s name but have forgotten it.
I still correspond with Lavada Harrison. She will tell me more about her family. She and Walter live in Heber City, Utah.
Lavada’s dad, Thell Thorn was the brother of Uncle Dell Thorn. They played and sang together in church. Uncle Dell played
the mandolin and Uncle Thell the banjo.
2. May Brian Bird. Don’t know his first name.
3. Emma Brian Kennedy married Glen Kenndy. Maybe Lavanda can tell me more about this family. If
so I’ll send it on to you. I’ve already taken too long waiting to hear from her.
4. Beama Brian. Don’t know who she married. Have been waiting to hear from Lavada. She usually
writes to me around Christmas. Maybe she’ll answer some of my questions.
Grandma Susan Childs Noakes and Grandpa, who was Thomas Noakes (Marie mistook Hubbard at this point for Thomas)
had 11 children. I’ve given you the families of Unice Noakes , Varoni Noakes Clegg, and Emma Noakes Brian as near as
I can remember them. Aunt Polly come in there somewhere. The 4th child of Susan and Tom Noakes I think was Aunt Polly.
All I know about her was that she married Uncle Ira Day. They didn’t live in Springville so I never knew any of them. They
had quite a few children too.
5. David Patten Noakes. Can’t remember his first wife’s name but they had
1. Hilda
2. Bessie married Lee Putnam
3. Fannie
4. Emma
5. Oakley Noakes
Bessie married Lee Putnam. I didn’t know her children but Oakley could tell us all about his family., but I’ve lost touch with
him since he moved from Denver. I corresponded with Bessie several years before she passed on about two years ago and
Fannie preceeded her by one year. I don’t know who Fannie or Emma married and I don’t even know Oakley’s wife’s name
or any of his children. Years ago he tried to get together a Noakes family reunion, but couldn’t get them all together more
than once or twice. Bessie and Fannie helped him but they are both gone now.
Uncle Dave had a second wife name Julie but they had no children. She had several of her own but I don’t think you’d be
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6. Moses Adelbert Noakes was no 6 in line and you know our family.
1. Dora, who married Edward Reeves, then
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3. Della who passed on with influenza when she was just 14
4. Reed who never married and George who passed on with flu at the age of 4 years.
Then there was Kenneth who died shortly after birth. He was before Dora.
7. Uncle George. He married Aunt Mattie. They never had any children. He worked on the
railroad and made big money for those days. They never came to see us unless they gave us all money. I remember them
for their great generosity.
8. Uncle John who lived in Eureka, Utah. He married Aunt Millie who had a terrible temper. She
was always nice to me though but with her own children, mother told me, she was mean. Their children as near as I can
remember them were:
1. Kate,
2. Winnie
3. Robert
4. Elmo
Kate married a man named Snow. I don’t know if they had children or how many. Winnie had children but I don’t know
how many. I don’t know who she married. Robert’s first wife was Ruby Diamond. They only lived together a short time
and separated. I think he married again, but I don’t know who or how many children he had. I know Elmo had a least two
children because a great story came out in the newspapers about how he and his wife took the two little children and put them
to sleep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. They were found all wrapped up in blankets and looked as though they
were just sleeping. The story was called the “Babes in the Woods” story. I never did know if the law ever caught up with
Elmo, but I think that he and his wife entered into a suicide pact and were found dead. Elmo was in my class in school, and
I just couldn’t believe he would wind up doing such a thing, but it was sure a great tragedy for Aunt Millie and Uncle John
in their latter days as I knew them. I could have believed it on Robert but not Elmo. Elmo was always the quiet one, and
the very best church member. Robert was somewhat wild and left home a lot of times. He turned out to be too wild for my
school friend Ruby Diamond. Robert only went to church as a child when Aunt Millie made him go.
9. Uncle William Inkpen Noakes. He married Aunt Kathryn from Spanish Fork. They had
1. William Wallace
2. Ralph
3. Thelma
4. Sterling.
I don’t know who any of them married but they all went to the temple regularly. Uncle Will owned a grocery store and we
lived out of it when we were in Springville
Aunt Unice and Uncle Alf Weight died within a year of each other and so did Uncle Will and Aunt Kate.
I must correct a mistake I made about Grandpa Noakes’ name. I don’t have my Book of Remembrance here, and I’ve thought
his name was Thomas Noakes. Now I know it was Hubbard Noakes. It could have been Thomas Hubbard. Anyway, all
of their children were married in the Temple except Mother and Dad. Dad was known to be the only black sheep of the family
and with mother, she was the only one of her Barnett sisters who never married in the Temple. She always saw that we were
blessed and baptized at the age of 8 years. So, she was brought up to be a good Mormon and so was Dad; but Dad drank
and smoked cigars. It was when he was the drunkest that he could preach Mormonism better than any sober person. He knew
the Book of Mormon from cover to cover. He would come home late at night, wake us all up, and preach from the Bible and
Book of Mormon. His favorite book was the Book of Mormon. I should know it, but because he taught me when he was
drunk, I didn’t believe it then. Now I know he was much better all around than I believed him to be. If I’d have listened to
his fatherly council, I might not have made the mistake of marrying George Olds. I was happy though, the first part of our
lives, before I learned that he drank all the time I wasn’t looking. Our trouble really began when I learned that I wasn’t the
only woman in his life, and that he had another child that he didn’t care to tell me about. I might have learned to love Charley
had I been allowed to get acquainted with him.
It was my Dad who revealed to me that George drank, when he pulled a flask of whiskey out from the toilet tank where
George had it hid. At that time I wasn’t too sure that Dad hadn’t planted it there to turn me against George. He never did
like him and always pointed out his faults and failings to me every chance he got. He always assured me that when things
too rough for me, I could come home and I’d be forgiven for making a mistake. He never was that kind to my sister, Dora.
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Grandma and Grandpa Noakes had two more children but I don’t believe they were living, or I would have known of them.
If you ever do get in touch with Oakley, he can tell you more. His sister Emma used to live across the street from Aunt Maude,
but it seems like Bessie told me that she was in a nursing home somewhere, but Aunt Maude might know.
You can get further information from the First and Second Wards in Springville. Aunt Unice, Aunt Varona, Aunt Emma,
and Uncle Will all attended the first Ward and lived their all their lives. So some of their children’s children should know
all about the Noakes and Childs families. Uncle Dave lived in the Second Ward. If Aunt Julia is still living, she might be
found some where living with one of her daughters, either Mattie or Myrtle, who live on Provo Bench or Orem, as it might
be called now.
At this point you called me on the phone. It was sure nice talking to you. I stopped long enough to get my evening meal ready
and to eat the last meal of the day. My meals are very simple. My diet is mostly liquid, but I chew solid food and do not
swallow any more pulp than possible. Dr. Beldon claims that nervous tension causes the esophagus to tighten up, such as
excitement of any kind, or not drinking enough water between meals. I’ve found that if I run the chlorinated water for a long
time and refrigerate it, I can get most, if not all, of the awful taste out of it. The first thing you notice after you leave Denver,
is the awful tasting water almost anywhere else you go. You are exceptionally blessed with good tasting water. Enjoy it
while you can. “One never misses the water ‘Till the well runs dry,” is an old true saying.
To come back to my situation. Whenever I get so cold, I can’t seem to get warm, I guess the right word for it is chilled, I
get nervous. This place is so full of cracks, that the cold air comes through. When Reed was here, he stuffed up all those
cracks around the doors and windows every winter, and their heat bill didn’t go up as high as mine does because I love fresh
air. Sometimes when the temperature gets down below freezing, that air seems a little too fresh and I get cold even with the
heater going and the jets all on in the kitchen.
A new landlord took over this place last winter and he fixed all the roofs. Every apartment had at least one roof that leaked
like a sieve. He got rid of the cockroaches that were about to carry the place away. He charged $2 a month more rent and
gave us all notice, that we’d be expected to pay for any inside repairs, but that he would keep the outside repaired. About
half of the old tenants moved out last winter. They didn’t want to pay for inside repairs. They all left dirty inside repairs to
be done by Dorothy. She cleaned and painted them and he got $20 more out of each apartment. She said that he gave her
a bigger and better apartment for the same money she was paying for the small tucked up one she was living in. She says
she doesn’t get wages, just her apartment a little cheaper. He also gets her to clean and paint cheaper than any man would
charge. So this winter, she got drunk and drove out almost all the balance of the old tenants. They were all people who drank
too. So I don’t know if the landlord told her to do it so they could raise the rent on the next tenants, or whether she just did
it to get more work and money for that hard labor. Anyway, he didn’t get angry at her for driving out his tenants. So I suspect
that he must have been in on the whole deal, and she got a nicer apartment for $40 a month but she had to clean it up and paint
it before she could move into it.
My neighbor, Mr. Streeter, who lives in the upstairs apartment over me, and I are the only old tenants left. The rest have all
moved out. I pay $52 a month and I don’t know what Mr. Streeter pays, but they’d have to pay me to get me to live up there.
It has an outside entrance with a long old rickety stairway, that gets all iced and slippery when it snows. He has lived there
about 10 years, so he must be getting it cheap. Dorothy shops and washes and irons for any old people she rents to. So I’m
no exception. She still does all my shopping and paying of my bills. Here, I have a light, gas, and phone bill that I don’t have
to pay in Denver, and I now have a private bath, until and if Reed ever gets well enough to get out of that nursing home. His
doctors says he has one chance in a million of getting through this winter, but that is what his other doctor said last winter.
The winters are hard on all old people. I can stand much more heat than I can the cold now. I used to be able to take a lot
of cold before I would catch cold, but not any more. I didn’t suffer with the summer heat here this last summer like I did the
summer before that. That following winter was the one I enjoyed. I promised Ted I’d go home the next Spring after
Decoration Day, as that was always the time Joe wanted me with him, to help him with mother’s grave. However right after
decoration day, Reed took bronchial pneumonia and had to go to the hospital. I could not go home till I knew how he came
out. They put him in the nursing home in June, and Joe begged me not to leave him alone. That was the summer I suffered
with the intense heat. I thought I’d never live through that summer, but I did only to slip and fall in September.
Joe passed on in October just before his 86th birthday. He wanted so much to see Reed, but Reed was so bad at that time,
he was unable to attend the funeral. We thought, at any moment that he might go too. I believe that me being here has helped
to encourage Reed to live because he was very despondent after we lost Joe. So now you know just why I’m still here. I’m
all Reed has left in the world!
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I’ll send you all I know of the Barnett family sometime after Christmas, and in the meantime maybe I’ll get some answers
to my questions. There’s one more child in the Weight family I just remembered. His name is Nolan, but like a lot others
I don’t know who he married.
I’ll close with a prayer poem I wrote, that fits my case pretty well.
Perfect Trust in God
Oh for the peace of a perfect trust, My Father God to Thee,
Unwavering faith that never doubts, you choose the best for me.
Best though my plans be all upset, Best, though my way be rough,
Best, though my earthly store be scant, In Thee I have enough!
Best, though my health and strength be gone, Though weary ways be mine,
Shut out from much that others have, “Not my will, oh God, but Thine!”
And even though disappointments come, They too are best for me,
To wean me from this changing world, And lead me nearer Thee!
Oh for that Peace of a Perfect Trust, That looks away from all;
That sees His Hand in everything, In great events or small!
That hears “His Voice,” “The Father’s Voice,” Directing for the best,
Oh for that Peace of His Perfect Trust, “Our God, in Thee we rest!”
Since Christmas is so close at hand, and I’m going to be busy writing more cards and letters, I’m sending you your check
again that you didn’t cash for the birthdays, along with a few dollars more to spend on your house for Christmas. I’ll feel
better, since I cannot get out to shop, or be with you as I’d like, so please, for my sake, cash it and get something, even more
tree decorations, or candy. If you want me to be happy Christmas, please use my check. The children’s letters and cards will
follow soon as possible. May God forever bless you all,
With love from Grandma Ward
God’s Little Patch of Blue
When the rain keeps falling, And the road seems rough,
And you can’t help thinking, That life is very tough,
Just smile and keep looking, ‘Cause what I say is true,
Somewhere through those clouds, There’s a little patch of blue.
It’s no use to keep fretting, Filled with shadows and doubt;
For each path that leads to trouble, There’s another leading out.
Sure, you’ve had problems, And I’ve had problems too,
But we’ll find when we smile, God’s own little patch of blue!
Thanksgiving
We thank you God for goodness, Yes we thank you everyday,
My prayer I always say to you Is, “I am yours to stay!”
We love you God with all our hearts, You make our lives worth living,
And as you listen to our prayers, We offer our Thanksgiving!
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Dear Leonard:
Your grandmother’s name was Maggie Annie Barnett. She was baptized in the LDS church and always went to church until
she married Dell or Adelbert Noakes. Then neither of them went only to take each baby to be blessed. I don’t think she knew
much about the Church as she never studied anything about it and just drifted along working to help earn a living the best
she knew how, a restaurant boarding house, rooming house until her death.
Dell Noakes was quit a drinker and that was where a lot of the income went. But she never complained. Took it and made
the best of the situation. They were living in Eureka when the first epidemic of flu came. I had my turn and got better. The
year following it hit them up there. I had twins 4 months old. Didn’t think I would ever make it, 8 days unconscious but the
Lord wasn’t ready for me so when they got it no help could be got. They were all down with it, Dell, Maggie, George, Della,
Dora and Marie. Dora was married to Ed Reeves but came over to Maggie’s when she took sick. George was the baby and
died on Maggie’s arm in the same bed. We brought him home to Springville and buried him. It kept me and my husband
busy “choeing” from Eureka to Springville every day.
Aleapha stayed up there to help and had one trained nurse which was no good. Then Dora died. We kept her and in 2 or
3 days Della died making 3 in one week. Brought them home and buried them also. Marie got better and in due time Maggie
and Dell also. When they were able to move, I brought them home with me and they stayed here for 3 months. Then Dell
got a rooming house in Salt lake and moved them up there where she cooked for roomers and boarder. The flu left Dell not
able to work and after some time, I don’t know how long, he passed on and we buried him here by the side of Della and
George. Ed Reeves stayed with Maggie and helped her a lot till he passed away with miner’s consumption and we layed him
to rest by the side of Dora here in Springville.
Maggie still kept the rooming house; after a number of years one of her roomers, Joseph Thome and she got married and she
joined the Catholic Church. where she got all the rituals they have to learn before they will let them join. I told her if you
had studied your own religion as much as this you never could of joined the Catholic. But Joe was a good husband to her,
more so than Dell ever was, and that was what they wanted so when she passed away they buried her in salt Lake in a Catholic
Cemetery away from her family. So let’s let a higher power than we pass sentence. She was a wonderful mother, and sister
and I loved her, but hope I am big enough to let every one believe as they want and let the Lord be the judge.
If Marie had spinal meningitis I have forgotten or didn’t know about it. Where were they living when this happened? You
will have to do some work with your mother and get her baptized back into the church again for I think she still believes we
have the true Church of Jesus Christ and not that Aaron bunch. Many are led away and Marie is easily led, but I don’t think
she is happy feeling and acting like she does. So get busy explaining to her where she has gone wrong. At one time in her
life she was an ardent worker in the church. Show her where she slipped and went off the right trail, and will have to be
baptized to get back in. I know she will be happier.
How long are you going to stay where you are. When are you going back to Denver. 11 o’clock so guess I better say good
night and hit the hay and finish the family group sheets in the morning. Got to get to the Dr. With these legs at 2 tomorrow.
Good night, God’s blessings on you all.
Lovingly, Aunt Maud
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Dear Leonard:
I am enclosing a letter from Louise Miller. I should have sent it sooner, but like the rest of my family I like to get letters but
I don’t like to write them.
Louis is the girl that your Dad and my mother knew when they were kids. I suppose you have heard your Dad speak of her.
Her name was Burnell before she married. I sure enjoyed your visit and hope you can stop by again sometimes.
We haven’t done anything exciting since you were here. Barbara signed up to go to summer school. By doing this she will
be able to get in some of the things that she wouldn’t be able to do otherwise. I just hope it doesn’t get too hot.
Well she had her tooth pulled by the same dentist that pulled yours.
Well the snow has melted so I am glad I can g et out a little more. Well I don’t know anything else. Say hello to your wife
and the rest of the family.
Closing with love, Gen
6. Letter from Louise Miller, Butte, Montana to Genevieve Anderson, Chicago, dated 14 Mar 1960
Dearest Gen:
It grieved me greatly to hear of the passing of your Uncle George and my dear friend. He was a grand person and a true friend.
We all loved him and admired him. And will have many pleasant memories of him and your dear Mother and Dad. We had
so many good times together. Your grandmother was a wonder. Why don’t you come to Butte for a visit. Would love to
have you come. I hope in the near future to come out that way. Our lodge, the Degree of Honor, are holding their convention
in St. Paul June 1961. If I am well and able to go, I’ll be seeing a lot of my friends from Butte in Wisconsin, Chicago and
Iowa. Maybe as far as NY. One can’t plan ahead. We don’t know what will happen.
Sorry it took me so long to write you. Was so nice of you to let me know about George.
Love, Louise Miller.
7. Interview of Marie Ward by her son Leonard Olds about June 1953
Harold Evans (15 yrs) liked Mother (14 yrs) but was discouraged by Grandma Noakes. She accepted a watch that her mother
didn’t want her to.
Moved to Knightville in 1917 with McCulland and John A. Jenkins as boarders. (This may have been Abe Jenkins the car
racer.) George was 2 years old, and to Eureka in 1918. Dora married in 1916 probably in Eureka and moved to Longmont,
Colorado where Reeves folks were at. But they had no children because Ed didn’t want to. Dora and Ed came to Eureka
and then Knightville where Dora died of flu. At that time Del moved from Knightville to Eureka. He took a lease of part
of Chief Consolidated Mining Company in Eureka and made a lot of money around 1918. Ed Reeves worked for him and
also made money. Right after Dora died Ed asked Mom to marry him and he would join her Church and raise up children
for Dora. Dora had had no children.
Granny (L. C. Olds) and Grandma Noakes got together and planned a marriage for Mom and Dad. They got married in Provo
City and County Building. After 1 year, Dad wanted to go with Diamond Drilling Co. In Park City. Granny and McCulland
had gone to SLC living in Wilson Hotel. Mom and Dad stayed there for one month. Sweets Candy shop and then to Park
City for 6 months. Then to Pocatello to work for UP railroad.
Because of a strike they moved back to Salt Lake City and lived at Cassity’s and took care of their children while they went
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to Denver about 1922. (Note: Birdie had died in 1917 and Ed had come back to SLC and married Lurline. Ed and Lurlinetr a c k e r - s o f t w a r e
apparently were moving back to Colorado in 1922) Mom left Dad because Edna Cassity (13 yrs old) told her about Dad’s
other marriage. She went to stay with her mother in Salt Lake City. The flu had knocked her father and he had to quit
drinking, probably in 1920-1921 so he could get doctored. They rented cottage rooms on 1st West. (Mom) went back right
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Lewis Barnett was not interested in the Church but Grandma was. Lewis chewed tobacco and wouldn’t bathe often. He
didn’t have false teeth because he chewed tobacco. His farm was across the road from the Lincoln school 2-3 blocks from
Main street near the center of Springville.
Aleapha Clark (Husband was a farmer on a farm east to the mountains. ) Blanch, Cassie, Sadie, and Lewis were Mom’s
playmates.
Bertha Payne md Fred Payne. He was very successful and was the first one with a car. They lived on the South end of
Springville. Mom used to play with Jesse Payne.
Maud Thorn md Del Thorn. Del became a mayor of Springville. He was a musician and was in Business with Clara’s
husband Ed Payne.
Aunt Doll Johnson. The Johnsons were wealthy people in Springville. He was a farmer and bought a farm in Richfield,
Idaho.
Clara md Ed Payne who went into business with Del Thorn. Beulah Beard moved to SLC and then to California.
Railroad children: Blanch, Cassie, Sadie, Dora, Marie, Editha
8. Notes Sent to Leonard Olds from Oakley Noakes
Del and Oakley used to live together at J. Hubbard’s ranch and Del used to like to play solitare, and Oakely used to tie his
shoelaces to the chair and when he would get up, he nearly broke his neck and mine too.
John Thomas, Eunice, Polly, Emma, Verona went to the temple a few days after George’s death to be sealed to their parents
so the date must be Aug 1925.
John Hubbard Noakes was a successful farmer. He went to California to speculate but never sold his property in Utah.
Indian Depredations in Utah by Peter Gottfriesen: Has article about John Hubbard Noakes when he was a pony express rider
and Indian fighter. (From Oakley Noakes)
9. Misc. Research Notes of Leonard Olds
There were four Wards in Springville:
1st Ward 1892-1941
2nd Ward1941
3rd Ward 1892-1945
1892-1908
4th Ward 1892-1943
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Eureka Cemetery:
Father: John T. Noakes
Mother: Millie A. Noakes
1865-1926
1865-1932
L. Milton Noakes
1890-1925
Clarence J. Noakes son of JT Noakes and M. A. Guymon,
2/9/1898-6/9/1918
George Olds Army Service:
Enlisted: May 27, 1918 in San Luis, Colorado
Discharged: Dec 11, 1918 from Camp Cody, New Mexico
Private, Co 5, Camp Cody
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Appendix D: Descendants
Table 3: Descendants of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
Table 4: Descendants of George L. Olds and Olive Mason
Table 5: Descendadnts of Wilford Ward and Marie Noakes
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George Lorenzo OLDS b. 1889
d. 1960
+ Marie NOAKES b. 1900
m. 1919
Div.
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1 George Eugene OLDS b. 1923
d. 1942
2 Leonard Elmo OLDS b. 1925
+ Grace Earlene HOAGLAND b. 1927
m. 1949
d. 1997
1 Kim Ross Kimball OLDS b. 1950
+ Nancy Ellen NELSON b. 1951
m. 1971
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1 Derek Alan OLDS b. 1971
+ Jamie Christine KELLY m. 1998
1 Victoria OLDS b. 1999
+ Jane Lillian WARE b. 1953
m. 1975
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1 Leonard Douglas OLDS b. 1980
2 Theresa Jane OLDS b. 1982
3 David James OLDS b. 1984
4 Samuel John OLDS b. 1987
+ Debbie Angela DAVENPORT b. 1960
m. 1988
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+ Linda Jane FISHER b. 1951
m. 2004
2 Roger Alan OLDS b. 1951
+ Debra Carmella ROMERO b. 1953
m. 1981
Div.
1 Rachel Ruth OLDS b. 1984
2 Lisa Kristine OLDS b. 1987
3 Matthew Jude PEREZ b. 1971
+ Jennie L. TAYLOR m. 1997
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3 Kathleen Louise OLDS b. 1953
+ Gerald Clayton RISNER b. 1942
m. 1976
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1 Henry Cecil RISNER b. 1977
d. 2004
+ Emily PATTIE b. 1977
m. 2004
2 Jesse Forrest RISNER b. 1978
3 Ellen Louise RISNER b. 1979
+ David STAUFFER m. .
1 Corri Elizabeth STAUFFER
+ Andrew DAVIDSON b. 1973
m. 2005
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2 Leonard Elmo OLDS
3 Kathleen Louise OLDS
Raymond Lee RISNER b. 1981
Michael Charles RISNER b. 1982
6 Amanda Leith RISNER b. 1984
+ Melvin Ralph CONLEY Jr. b. 1948
m. 1986
Michael Charles OLDS b. 1954
+ Ann Marie SCHROEDER b. 1954
m. 1983
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+ Lynn Louise Ockert LEABO b. 1963
m. 1997
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Rebecca Lynne OLDS b. 1956
+ Thomas Ervin BIRDSONG b. 1955
m. 1973
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1 Melinda Jane BIRDSONG b. 1973
+ . (---)
1 Jasmyne BIRDSONG b. 199
2 Eric Thomas Birdsong OLDS b. 1975
3 Anthony Neal BIRDSONG b. 1977
+ Richard Lee BEETHE b. 1956
m. 1983
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1 Karlee Paige BEETHE b. 1984
+ Rick CASTRO b. 1967
m. 2002
2 Sara Abigail BEETHE b. 1986
Thomas Bradley OLDS b. 1957
+ Kathy Mariea STALEY b. 1952
m. abt 1991
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Susan Jeanne OLDS b. 1958
+ (---) .
1 Kendra OLDS b. 1983
+ Richard David BAKER Jr. b. 1953
m. 1989
Brian Matthew OLDS b. 1960
+ Mary Ann MCHUGH b. 1955
m. 1995
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+ Nina Viktoria ENGBERG b. 1972
m. 1999
1 John Robin Matthew OLDS b. 1992
2 Jennifer Viktoria Kaitlin OLDS b. 1994
3 Nathan Alexander OLDS b. 2000
4 Jakob Jordan OLDS b. 2002
5 Jonah Daniel OLDS b. 2004
Randolph Clark OLDS b. 1961
+ Joyce ROBERTS b. 1969
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2 Leonard Elmo OLDS
9 Randolph Clark OLDS
Megan Earlene OLDS b. 1998
Garrett Dalton OLDS b. 2000
3 Jameson Ryan OLDS b. 2003
10 Janet Lisa OLDS b. 1963
+ (---) .
1 Elizabeth Hanna CAMPBELL b. 1997
11 Allyson Rae OLDS b. 1965
+ Scott Allen LOWE b. 1957
m. 1986
1 Victoria Renae LOWE b. 1989
2 Teagan Olivia LOWE b. 1991
3 Tehmi Noelle LOWE b. 1995
4 Tristyn Collette LOWE b. 1997
12 William Henry OLDS b. 1966
d. 1998
+ Traci Lynne SAUER b. 1967
m. 1986
1 Camden Blake OLDS b. 1986
2 Brenna Anne OLDS b. 1991
3 Corbin Taylor OLDS b. 1994
4 Braiden Talbot OLDS b. 1995
+ Leona Beth (Hales) BROWER b. 1928
m. 1997
Leonard & EUGENE b. 1925 & 1923
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George Lorenzo OLDS b. 1889
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1 Charles William OLDS b. 1914
d. 1962
+ Anna L. BENT b. abt 1916
m. 1932
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1 Darrel Charles OLDS b. abt 1934
+ Minnie (---) m. abt 1942
+ Shirley (---) m. abt 1962
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Table 5: Descendants of Wilford Jesse Ward and Marie Noakes
Wilford Jesse WARD b. 1903
d. 1958
+ Jessie Lavern GROVES b. 1907
m. 1927
d. 1978
1 Lela May WARD b. 1928
d. 1945
2 Glen J. WARD b. 1929
d. 1933
3 Walter Eugene WARD b. 1930
d. 1974
+ Mavis (---)
4 Donald Dean WARD b. 1931
d. 1970
5 Wilford Jessie WARD Jr. b. 1933
+ Marie NOAKES b. 1900
m. 1941
d. 1981
1 Theodore Lee WARD b. 1943
+ Cathy (---) m. abt 1966
+ Baby (Ethel) RUPITA b. 1952
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E-1: George Lorenzo Olds’ Ancestors
E-2: Marie Noakes’ Ancestors
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Table 7: Pedigree Chart for George Lorenzo Olds
Table 8: Pedigree Chart for Marie Noakes
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George’s fourth generation family names include:
Olds
Young
Parsons
Evens
Pascoe
Polkinghorne
Husbands
Waight
All of these ancestors are English in descent although the family homes in England of only the last four have
been identified thus far.
The Olds ancestors are believed to have come from Robert Ould who settled in Windsor, Connecticut about 1660
and afterwards moved to Suffield, Connecticut in 1671. According to the book “The Olds Family in England and
America” by Edson B. Olds, Robert Ould is the ancestor of most of the Olds in America. As described in the
book, the Olds family in a general way seems to have immigrated from Connecticut to Massachusetts, Vermont,
and New York.
The Young family have not yet been connected, although this line undoubtedly would run from the New York
area back to England.
The Parsons and Evens family were from Virginia. Again the connection to England has not yet been identified,
but the names are both English names.
The Pascoe and Polkinhorne lines have been well identified and both came from Cornwall, England.
It is uncertain whether George’s husband line connects back to Bedforshire or Heredforshire, althought it is
likely that the Bedforshire location is probably more correct.
The Waights were from the London area.
George’s grandfather, Luther Olds Jr.’s history has been published: The Olds Brothers and Their Carson Valley,
Nevada Story, 1849-1882, April 2003. Family History Library 929.273OL1oL, Film 1573515 item 6.
His parents’ history has also been published: The Story of Isaac Olds and Leah Sibella Pascoe. A copy is in the
Family History Library 929.2730OL1oLe. It is expected that this historywill be microfilmed shortly.
George’s complete ancestry has been submitted tothe Family History Library and should eventually be available
on an PRF disc.
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Noakes
Inkpen
Childs
Patten
Barnett
Lister
Brown
Coon
All but two of their 6th generation ancestors are English in descent making her children 94% English.
The Noakes ancestors were from Sussex, England moving 13 miles from Ticehurst Parish to Udimore near
Rye. Our records date back to 1668. Arthur Coleman has written a history of Thomas Noakes and Emma
Inkpen: Noakes Pioneers of Utah, 929.273N663c Film 1697858 item 5. Pedigree Resource File Discs for
Noakes are: 2, 22, 25, 80, and 82.
There is little village in England named Inkpen in Berkshire County near Hungerford some 97 miles away
from Udimore. It’s of interest to know that Inkpen is of Norwegian derivative. When Norway ruled England,
a Norse man named Ingger kept pigs penned up. This became know as Ingger’s pen which was eventually
shortened to Inkpen. The Inkpens of Marie’s ancestry however had moved by 1706 to Chiddingly, Sussex
only 20 miles West of Udimore.
The Childs family in1711 were in Orange County, Vermont. Film 897268 item 1 gives a genealogy of the
Child, Childs, and Childe families which may include Marie’s Childs. PRF Discs for the Childs include: 6, 8,
22, 25, 40, 44, 47, 49, 51, 56, 58, 80, 82, 89, 95, 99, and 102.
The Patten family record goes back to around 1580 in Somerset County, England. PRF Discs include; 6, 8,
22, 23, 25, 28, 40, 51, 54, 70, 80, 82, 95
The Barnett family records go backto 1774 in Virginia. Erold Wiscombe has extensively researched the
Barnett families and has written the following book: Descendants of James Otis Barnett and Elizabeth Betsy
Keller, 929.273B264w Film 817852 item 4. PRF Discs for Barnett are 57 and 64.
The Lister family goes back to 1780 in Guilford, North Carolina.
The Brown family records go to 1720 in Ayr, Scotland. Erold Wiscomb has compiled an extensive book on
the descendants of Daniel Brown: The Brown Book, 929.273 B812 Film 1307628 item 10.
Pedigree Resource File Discs for the Coon family are: 43, 57, 64, and 75.
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Appendix F: Family Group Sheets
Family Group Records for George and Marie:
Table 9: George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
Table 10: George L. Olds and Olive Mason
Table 11: Marie Noakes and Wilford J.Ward
Page 72
Page 75
Page 77
Family Group Records for George’s Grandparents are in the history of his parents: “The Story of Isaac Olds
and Leah S. Pascoe” FHL 929.2730OL1oLe
Family Group Record for Isaac Olds and Leah S. Pascoe (see Page 42 in the above history)
Family Group Record for Luther Olds and Mary M. Parsons (see Page 64 “
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Family Group Record for Francis J. P. Pascoe and M. Maria Husbands (see Page 68
“ )
Family Group Records for Marie’s Grandparents:
Table 12: Family Group Sheet for M. Adelbert Noakes and Maggie A. Barnett Page 79
Table 13: Family Group Sheet for J. Hubbard Noakes and Susan A. Childs
Page 82
Table 14: Family Group Sheet for Lewis S. Barnett and Lavina J. Brown
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Table 9: Family Group Sheet for George L. Olds and Marie Noakes
Family Group Record for George Lorenzo OLDS
Husband:
1
George Lorenzo OLDS
Birth
15 Mar 1889
Butte, Silverbow, Montana
Death
8 Feb 1960
Denver, Denver, Colorado
Burial
12 Feb 1960
Crown Hill Cem., Denver, Colorado
Marie NOAKES
Wife:
Birth
16 Jun 1900
Springville, Utah, Utah
Marr.
3 Oct 1919
Provo, Utah, Utah
George Lorenzo OLDS
Div.
George Lorenzo OLDS
1.
Death
2 Sep 1981
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Burial
4 Sep 1981
Farmington, Farmington, Utah
George Eugene OLDS
Birth
23 Dec 1923
Death
29 Mar 1942
Burial
2.
Farmington, Davis, Utah
Leonard Elmo OLDS
Birth
23 Aug 1925
Marr.
5 Oct 1949
Marr.
8 Nov 1997
Littleton, Arapahoe, Colorado
Grace Earlene HOAGLAND
Leona Beth (Hales) BROWER
3.
Leonard & EUGENE
Birth
1925 & 1923
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Notes for George Lorenzo OLDS:
BIRTH: 1900 US Soundex Census, Butte, Silverbow, Montana, James Brown, Step Father Head of family. Living on Toboggan Avenue.
Birth year previously reported as1890 from memory of George L. Olds.
MARRIAGES: (1) Marriage Certificate Vital Records, Mineral County, No.13318, State of Colorado dated 15 July 1913, pg 52;
(2) Marriage Certificate, State of Utah, Utah County, License issued 3 Oct1919.
DIVORCES: (1) Pre 1905 Mineral County Divorces, 8 Aug 1916, pg 23.
(2) Around 1934 from memory of Leonard E. Olds
DEATH: Funeral program, Moore Mortuary, Denver. Buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Lakewood, Colorado, Sec A, Lot 178, Block 69.
BIOGRAPHY: George's father died when George was 4 years old. In Butte, his widowed mother took in borders and washing while
George helped rustle wood and coal from the mines. Around 1907, when he was18, he moved to Creede, Colorado where his mother had
earlier moved. Eight years later he married Olive Mason who divorced him around 1915. He enlisted in the army on 27 May 1918 and was
discharged on 11 Dec 1918 at Camp Cody, New Mexico, Private Co 5, Camp Cody, Serial No. 1414267. He then joined his mother in
Eureka, Utah where he married Marie Noakes in 1919. Because of a railroad strike they moved to Denver in 1922 where their two children
were born. He became a blacksmith helper at the D&RGRR Co in Denver living on the West Side of town in many different homes.
Ordained a Priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints 31 July 1932. His second wife, Marie, left first on 3 Dec 1932 and
finally on 8 Dec 1933, and divorced him in 1934. He then lived with his mother who kept house for him and later also for his two children.
During the depression, he helped organize an unemployment gang helping out-of-work men get farm supplies for labor. After his mother
died, he lived alone in downtown Denver. He was killed at the age of 71 after a fall over a balcony railing.
His funeral notice lists Bertha Jennings as a daughter. Possibly a daughter of Charles and Shirley Olds? His obituary noted that he was a
common man, yet all of Denver was his home. He was a friend to all.
See: The Story of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes--Fiche 6004268; 921.73OL1.
Notes for Marie NOAKES:
BIRTH: Utah Stake, Springville Ward Record of Members (026460pt2) taken as birth record for mother. Baptismal record, Springville 1st
Ward, 1908 pg 636 #294.
MARRIAGE (1): Utah County License issued 3 Oct 1919. Divorced from George L. Olds about 1934.
(2): Marriage Certificate issued 18 October, 1941, Franklin County, Idaho, No 63462.
DEATH: Certificate of Death, 18-3016, Salt Lake County, Salt Lake,Utah.
BIOGRAPHY: Marie was born on the Weight farm in Springville, Utah. A note said that this was the old Child's farm which John Hubbard
was farming and was in the very center of the town. She was born in the adobe home on this farm.
Her family moved around a lot while she was young, going out in the summer time to live in railroad cars while her father and Grandfather
Barnett worked on the railroad. The family refered to the cousins as railroad children: Blanch, Cassie, Sadie, Dora, Marie, and Editha.
When she was 4 yrs old, her family moved to Clear Creek, Utah where her father worked in the coal mines and played on the local
baseball team. It was here that she walked all the way to Castle Gate before she was found and taken home. When she was six, her
family moved back to Springville where her parents opened a restaurant. While she was young she came down with spinal menigitis which
perhaps affected some decisiveness on her part throughout her life. When she was seven her family moved to Eureka and from there to
Knightville where her mother ran a boarding house and her father worked in the copper and lead mines. In Knightville, the same building
that was used as a Church was used as a school house with the benches moved out and the desks moved in.
When she was eight the family moved back to Springville where she was baptized in Hobble Creek in Springville 1st Ward. There were
only 4 Wards in Springville at that time. Shortly thereafter they moved back to Knightville and the boarding house. At that time they had to
walk the 2 1/2 miles to Eureka because the school rooms had become too small for them. Thus she graduated from the eighth grade in
Eureka. It was here that she learned that there were other religions besides the LDS. She was allowed to play with the Catholics and
Methodists but was not allowed to go into their churches.
When she was around 12, the family moved to Eureka into their own modest little cottage and gave up the boarding house. However her
mother kept two star boarders: a Brother Abe Jenkins and a Mr. John McCulland. When she was 15 the family moved back to Springville
to start a restaurant.
When she was 18 her family moved back to Eureka, Utah. A year later tragedy struck her family in the 1919 flu epidemic when two of her
sisters and one of her brothers died in one week during the great flu epidemic of that year. Several months later in that same year she met
her future husband George Olds. They were married after a brief courtship and lived at various times in Salt Lake, Park City, Pocatello, and
finally Denver. Her two children by George were born in Denver. However, after 14 years of marriage, she divorced him eventually
remarrying Wilford Ward some 8 years later. Her third son Ted Ward was born two years later in Denver. She joined the Aaronic Order
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and was removed from the LDS Church on 26 Aug 1947, Barnum Ward, Denver Stake. On 22 Nov 1983 all blessing were restored in Salt
Lake Temple. After her husband died in Denver and her mother in Salt Lake, she moved back to Salt Lake to take care of her brother
Reed.
While there in 1973 she fell in a grocery store at the age of 73 and broke her hip. After recuperating she was able to get an Senior Center
Apartment which she greatly enjoyed and didn't want to move back to live in Denver with her son Leonard even though her health was badly
deteriorating. She developed cancer in all her vital organs and died at the age of 81yrs.
Notes for George Eugene OLDS:
BIRTH, DEATH: Family records Also sealed to Wilfred Jesse WARD and Marie NOAKES on 3 Oct 1944, Baptism and endowment dates
from Church Historian's Office, Deceased membership records. Endowment date of 30 Dec 1942 recorded elsewhere. He has also been
sealed to his biological parents.
BIOGRAPHY: Gene and his brother Leonard were inseparable companions.However Gene had developed epilepsy for which no
medication had been developed in the 1940's. During a train trip on a spring break to see their mother in Salt Lake City, Gene went into the
restroom and while he was there had a seizure causing him to hit his nose on the wash basin, the force of which apparently caused his
death. Funeral services were held in Salt Lake City and his step father, Wilford Ward provided the grave at the Ward family plot in
Famington, Utah.
Notes for Leonard Elmo OLDS:
BIRTH: City and County of Denver Department of Health Certificate of Birth; No 20384; Affidavit dated 6 Aug 1943 corrected name from
Leonard Elmer Olds to Leonard Elmo Olds.
MARRIAGE (1): Marriage Certificate State of Utah, County of Salt Lake, No. 118861.
(2): LDS Church Time Marriage Certificate, Denver Temple
CHILDREN: See notes under each individual
BIOGRAPHY: Leonard was born in Denver a few years before the Great Depression. He and his brother Gene were inseparable
companions until Gene died from epilipsy at 18 years of age. Leonard won a 4-yr scholarship and went to the Colorado School of Mines
for one year before joining the Army Air Corps in 1943 as an Aviation Cadet. He graduated as a navigator and flew 15 bombing missions
over Japan. Upon returning home, he became Ward Clerk of the Barnum Ward while finishing his remaining 3-years of college graduating
in 1949 as a Metallurgist.
He and Earlene were married in the Salt Lake Temple in October of 1949 and they lived their first year together while Leonard finished
graduate school in physical metallurgy. As their 12 children were being born, they moved as follows:
Denver
2 years
Albuquerque
1/2 year
Columbus
3 years
Denver
3 years
Niagara Falls 10 years
Rapid City
3 years
Arvada
3 years
Castle Rock 22 years
Leonard eventually became an expert electric furnace research metallurgist working until he was 73 before going on a full time combined
Family History and proselyting mission for his Church in London, England.
Earlene died after an unsuccessful operation for a congential brain aneurism. Leonard and Earlene had been married for almost 49 years.
Leonard then married Leona Hales who had been instrumental in introducing Earlene to him 50 years before. Leonard and Leona then
combined their large posterity so as to become effective parents of 18 children and grandparents (as of 1998) of 61grandchildren.
Leonard and Leona were set apart as full time missionaries in the England London Mission on 12 Feb 1999.
MILITARY SERVICE: Ordered to active duty 9 Sep 1943, as Private, Pre-aviation cadet then Aviation Cadet, 17147251. Attended 2530th
AAFBase Unit, Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, Louisiana graduating as 2nd Lt. on 23 Dec 1944, O-2079451. Assigned to
41stSquadron, 501st Bomb Group, 315 Air Wing, 2nd Air Force. Promoted to 1st Lt. 7 Sep 1945. Flew approximately 12 missions over
Japan flying singly and at night to bomb oil targets with new precision radar. Discharged 20 May 1946, Ft. Douglas, Utah. See 1st
Lieutenant Leonard E, Olds submitted to the Family History Library.
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Husband:
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George Lorenzo OLDS
Birth
15 Mar 1889
Butte, Silverbow, Montana
Death
8 Feb 1960
Burial
12 Feb 1960
Crown Hill Cem., Denver, Colorado
Olive Isabelle MASON
Wife:
Birth
5 May 1892
Marr.
17 Jun 1913
Mancos, Montezuma, Colorado
Creede, Mineral, Colorado
George Lorenzo OLDS
Div.
George Lorenzo OLDS
Death
1.
22 Feb 1972
Olympia, Thurston, Washington
Charles William OLDS
Birth
4 Apr 1914
Marr.
18 Feb 1932
of Olympia, Thurston, Washington
Anna L. BENT
Marr.
abt 1942
Minnie (---)
Marr.
abt 1962
Creede, Mineral, Colorado
Div.
Death
Shirley (---)
Anna L. BENT
13 Sep 1962
Notes for George Lorenzo OLDS:
BIRTH: 1900 US Soundex Census, Butte, Silverbow, Montana, James Brown, Step Father Head of family. Living on Toboggan Avenue.
Birth year previously reported as1890 from memory of George L. Olds.
MARRIAGES: (1) Marriage Certificate Vital Records, Mineral County, No.13318, State of Colorado dated 15 July 1913, pg 52;
(2) Marriage Certificate, State of Utah, Utah County, License issued 3 Oct1919.
DIVORCES: (1) Pre 1905 Mineral County Divorces, 8 Aug 1916, pg 23.
(2) Around 1934 from memory of Leonard E. Olds
DEATH: Funeral program, Moore Mortuary, Denver. Buried Crown Hill Cemetery, Lakewood, Colorado, Sec A, Lot 178, Block 69.
Notes for Olive Isabelle MASON:
BIRTH, MARRIAGES (1), (2), and (3), and DEATH: Book in Denver Public Library on Charles Christopher Mason, pp86-87.
MARRIAGE (1): Certificate of Marriage issued 17 June 1913, Mineral County, State of Colorado.
BIOGRAPHY: Olive was born near Mancos, Colorado and lived with her family at the Alamo Ranch until 1899 when they moved to Hermit
Lakes, Hinsdale County, Colorado which was the first of the innovative trout farms for supplying trout to Chicago. She met her first
husband, George Olds when he came to work at her father's farm. They were married in 1913 making their home in Creede where they had
one son known affectionatly as Charlie Billy. They were divorced in 1916. Olive then married John Lilley in 1917 in Creede moving in a few
years to Olympia, Washington taking Charley and another with them. This move was made because John was suffering from miner's
consumption (silicosis) and needed to live in a lower altitude. Olive's parents later joined them in Olympia. Olive and John had a total of 9
children, 5 girls and 4 boys. After John's death Olive married Ross Robinson about 1955. She lived in Olympia until her death in 1972.
One address for Olive from George Olds' notes was Rt 11, Box 352,Olympia.
Notes for Charles William OLDS:
BIRTH: Certificate of Birth, Mineral County, State of Colorado, Reg.Dist. No 153, File No. 3, Reg. No.103. IGI Main File Batch T901830.
DEATH: IGI.
BIOGRAPHY: While Charles was born in Creede, Colorado, he moved to Olympia, Washington when he was 3-years old where he lived
until he died in abt 1965. His grandparents Charles and Anna Mason were also living in this area althougth they had significant interests in
their Hermit Lake Trout farming operation in Hinsdale County, Colorado. Undoubtedly they vacationed there often. Apparently Charles ran
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an uphostery shop at Gilbert Mattress and Upholstery Co. Two separate names are referenced for wives in the Olympia City Directory. His
later wife, Shirley, was a seamstress. They had a family of several daughters possibly born before he married Shirley. Or perhaps, Shirley
was known earlier as Minnie? On Charles' father George Olds' funeral program a Bertha Jennings was listed as one of George's
daughter's. This may have been one of Charles' own daughters instead. Charles' Step Father, John Edward Lilley married his mother Olive
Isabelle Mason on 10 Aug 1916 in Creede, Colorado.
Olympia Directories:
1943: Charlie Olds, Rt 3, box 548
1947-48 and 1949: No reference
1951-52 and 1954: Charles W. Olds with wife Minnie; upholsterer, Rt 8, box 245
1955: Charles W. Olds, with wife Shirley; upholsterer, Rt 4, box 51
1960-64 address: Rt 4, box 229, Olympia,Washington.
1964: Shirley is also listed at this address.
1966: Charles missing, Shirley still there.
1968: Mrs. Shirley Olds, seamstress at 2213 Alpha Dr.
Pedigree Referal Disks: #32 PIN 816372 submitted by Gertrude May Knowldin Eley, 7868 Rifle Road, Park City, Utah 84098-5622. AF
submitter: Bertha L. Gilbert, 715 Hansen St., Olympia, WA 98501.
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Marie NOAKES
Wife:
Birth
16 Jun 1900
Death
2 Sep 1981
Burial
4 Sep 1981
Husband:
Wilford Jesse WARD
Birth
18 Jun 1903
Enterprise, Morgan, Utah
Marr.
18 Jun 1927
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
Marr.
19 Oct 1941
Downey, Bannock, Idaho
Death
29 Oct 1958
Jessie Lavern GROVES
Marie NOAKES
Burial
1.
Farmington Cem., Farmington, Utah
Theodore Lee WARD
Birth
30 Aug 1943
Marr.
abt 1966
Marr.
4 Nov 1994
Cathy (---)
Baby (Ethel) RUPITA
Ward, 1908 pg 636 #294.
BIOGRAPHY: Marie was born on the Weight farm in Springville, Utah. A note said that this was the old Child's farm which John Hubbard
was farming and was in the very center of the town. She was born in the adobe home on this farm.
Her family moved around a lot while she was young, going out in the summer time to live in railroad cars while her father and Grandfather
Barnett worked on the railroad. The family refered to the cousins as railroad children: Blanch, Cassie, Sadie, Dora, Marie, and Editha.
When she was 4 yrs old, her family moved to Clear Creek, Utah where her father worked in the coal mines and played on the local
baseball team. It was here that she walked all the way to Castle Gate before she was found and taken home. When she was six, her
family moved back to Springville where her parents opened a restaurant. While she was young she came down with spinal menigitis which
perhaps affected some decisiveness on her part throughout her life. When she was seven her family moved to Eureka and from there to
Knightville where her mother ran a boarding house and her father worked in the copper and lead mines. In Knightville, the same building
that was used as a Church was used as a school house with the benches moved out and the desks moved in.
When she was eight the family moved back to Springville where she was baptized in Hobble Creek in Springville 1st Ward. There were
only 4 Wards in Springville at that time. Shortly thereafter they moved back to Knightville and the boarding house. At that time they had to
walk the 2 1/2 miles to Eureka because the school rooms had become too small for them. Thus she graduated from the eighth grade in
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Eureka. It was here that she learned that there were other religions besides the LDS.
Methodists but was not allowed to go into their churches.
She was allowed to play with the Catholics and
When she was around 12, the family moved to Eureka into their own modest little cottage and gave up the boarding house. However her
mother kept two star boarders: a Brother Abe Jenkins and a Mr. John McCulland. When she was 15 the family moved back to Springville
to start a restaurant.
When she was 18 her family moved back to Eureka, Utah. A year later tragedy struck her family in the 1919 flu epidemic when two of her
sisters and one of her brothers died in one week during the great flu epidemic of that year. Several months later in that same year she met
her future husband George Olds. They were married after a brief courtship and lived at various times in Salt Lake, Park City, Pocatello, and
finally Denver. Her two children by George were born in Denver. However, after 14 years of marriage, she divorced him eventually
remarrying Wilford Ward some 8 years later. Her third son Ted Ward was born two years later in Denver. She joined the Aaronic Order
and was removed from the LDS Church on 26 Aug 1947, Barnum Ward, Denver Stake. On 22 Nov 1983 all blessing were restored in Salt
Lake Temple. After her husband died in Denver and her mother in Salt Lake, she moved back to Salt Lake to take care of her brother
Reed.
While there in 1973 she fell in a grocery store at the age of 73 and broke her hip. After recuperating she was able to get an Senior Center
Apartment which she greatly enjoyed and didn't want to move back to live in Denver with her son Leonard even though her health was badly
deteriorating. She developed cancer in all her vital organs and died at the age of 81yrs.
Notes for Wilford Jesse WARD:
DATA: All Dates and Places copied from old genealogy sheets. Dates on these sheets were taken from a Ward Family Bible record.
Family Bible records birthplace as Farmington, Utah, but all of the genealogy sheets apparently inW ilford's handwriting give Enterprise.
DIVORCE (1): Divorce from Jessie La Vern Ward. Decree issued 19 April 1941, 3rd Judical District Court, Salt Lake County, Utah.
MARRIAGE (2): Marriage Certificate for State of Idaho, County of Franklin, at Downey.
BIOGRAPHY: Wilford was an expert cement finisher working around concrete for many years, supervising the Lock Joint Pipe Company
work and in finishing cement sidewalks and driveways. He worked for a number of years in a meat packing plant in Denver. He worked
hard to keep his wife from joining the Aaronic Order. He remained active and faithful throughout his years even though religious differences
made thing difficult. Wilford was always generous with his time and money and willing to help anyone in need. He helped make an
apartment in an unattached building so that Leonard's aged grandmother, Leah Olds, could be taken care of after Leonard married. She
only stayed a short while after which the apartment was used to help others in need.
Notes for Theodore Lee WARD:
BIRTH: Family Bible records.
MARRIAGE 1: Cathy
2: To Baby Rupita: Also known as Ethel. Ethel has 5 children by a previous marriage, 12 to 23; born on Cebu Island,
Phillipines
BIOGRAPHY: Studied radio technology and electronics. Moved to California and worked as maintenance supervisor for United Airlines.
Ted speaks, reads, and writes in German, French, Spanish and Russian. He can converse in Tagolig, Cantonese and Mandrin, with some
knowledge of Hebrew, Arabic, and Cebuano. He is quite musical, playing the piano, saxaphone, french horn, and trumpet.
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Table 12: Family Group Sheet for M. Adelbert Noakes and Maggie A. Barnett
Family Group Record for Moses Adelbert NOAKES
Husband:
1
Moses Adelbert NOAKES
Birth
15 Dec 1872
Death
2 Nov 1923
Burial
Evergreen Cemtry, Springville, Utah
Father:
John Hubbard NOAKES
Mother:
Susan Amelia CHILDS
Wife:
Maggie Annie BARNETT
Birth
7 Nov 1877
Marr.
17 Dec 1895
Marr.
25 Jan 1942
Death
30 Oct 1957
Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah
Burial
2 Nov 1957
Mt. Calvary Cem., Salt Lake City, Utah
Joseph THOME
Father:
1.
Mother:
Lewis Scott BARNETT
Dora NOAKES
Birth
27 Aug 1896
Marr.
abt 1916
Eureka, Juab, Utah
Death
12 May 1919
Edward Albert REEVES
Burial
2.
3.
Eureka, Utah, Utah
Evergreen Cem., Springville, Utah
Kenneth NOAKES
Birth
6 Dec 1898
Death
10 Jan 1899
Marie NOAKES
Birth
16 Jun 1900
Marr.
3 Oct 1919
Provo, Utah, Utah
Marr.
19 Oct 1941
Downey, Bannock, Idaho
George Lorenzo OLDS
Wilford Jesse WARD
Div.
George Lorenzo OLDS
Death
2 Sep 1981
Burial
4 Sep 1981
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Della NOAKES
Birth
21 Jun 1905
Clear Creek, Carbon, Utah
Death
13 May 1919
Eureka, Utah, Utah
Reed NOAKES
Birth
14 Jan 1912
Knightville, Juab, Utah
Death
1 Feb 1991
George NOAKES
Birth
21 Oct 1914
Death
10 May 1919
Eureka, Utah, Utah
Notes for Moses Adelbert NOAKES:
BIRTH: Original handwritten Family Record of John Hubbard Noakes' family in possession of Leonard E. Olds listed birth as 15 Dec 1872
with a penciled correction of a 3 above the 2. Birth record from Springville Ward Record of Blessings, 026458, listing birth as 16 Dec 1872.
MARRIAGE: Utah County Marriage License and Certificate, recorded 18 Dec1895. The marriage entry in the Hubbard Noakes family
record appears to be erroneously made for Dec 30, 1895.
DEATH and BURIAL: Funeral notice. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery,Springville, Utah. Also Family Records of John Hubbard Noakes.
BIOGRAPHY: Moses was known as Del. He was the grandson of Thomas Noakes one of Joseph Smith's bodyguards. In 1848 Thomas
was called by BrighamYoung to farm in Springville. Del was named for his other grandfather, Moses Childs who also crossed the plains in
1847-48. Del's father, John Hubbard Noakes fought in the Ute Indian War. Hubbard couldn't get Del to go to Church even though he was
very strict. Consequently Del got into all kinds of trouble. Del's parents had a farm in the very center of Springfield, the old Childs' farm. Del
met and married Maggie Annie Barnett in Springfield. He then took his family to work on the railroad line camping out in the summers while
his children were little. In 1903 at the age of 31 Del began to work in the coal mines in Clear Creek, Utah. He played on the local Clear
Creek baseball team. He then worked for a while in the gold mines in Knightville before moving back to Springville and opening a
restaurant. He then became interested in gold mining and moved to Eureka when he was about 45. Del leased part of the Chief
Consolidated MiningCompany and made a lot of money around 1918. In Eureka, Maggie ran a boarding house for the miners. In the big
1919 flu epidemic, Del buried three of his children in one week. He no sooner got back from the graveyared in Springville when he would
have to return to bury another child. Del was said to drink heavily and would quarrel with Maggie when he camehome. He died in 1923 at
the age of 50 from miner's consumption.
Notes for Maggie Annie BARNETT:
BIRTH: Listed as two years old in the 1880 Utah Census, page 5, Springville City and Precinct, Dwelling 34, Family 37. Listed as being
born in Nov 1877 in 1900 Census, Springville District, 2nd Ward. She was legally named Maggie Annie but she unofficially changed it to
Margaret Anna (9 Jan 1967 letter from Maud Thorn.)
MARRIAGE (1): Utah County Marriage Certificate recorded 18 Dec1895.
(2): Salt Lake County Marriage Certificate No.90551.
DEATH AND BURIAL: Funeral program of Neil O'Donnell Mortuary.
BIOGRAPHY:
She was a friendly young girl with six sisters and no brothers. She married Del in 1896 at the age of 19. She had six
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children with one dying one month after birth. Three of her other children died in one week during the flu epidemic of 1919. In this flu
epidemic, the entire family became sick at the same time. Dora came home to help out along with Maggie's sister Aleapha and a trained
nurse. However Dora died only a few days after getting there along with Della and George in the same week. Her sister Maud and her
husband were kept busy going from Springville to Eureka (some 40 miles) every day. When Maggie and her family were able to move,
Maud brought them to her home in Springville where they stayed for 3 months while recovering. They returned to Eureka in order for Del to
close out his mining business after which they bought a boarding house on 2nd South in Salt Lake City where Maggie cooked for roomers
and boarders. She was an excellent cook , traveling with her family in the summer on railroad construction jobs living in railcar homes. She
ran a boarding house in Eureka and a restaurant in Springville. After Del died, she managed an rooming apartment facility at 26 1/2 W. 2nd
South. In 1942, she married JoeThome, a catholic, in Salt Lake City. She died in Salt Lake in 1957 at the age of 80 from diabetes.
Notes for Dora NOAKES:
BIRTH: Listed as 4 years old, in the 1900 Utah Census. Blessed Aug 1895 2nd Ward, Springville, Dist. 273 and 168, Sheet 3. The 1896
birth date is from family records and also from Springville Evergreen Cemetery 979.224/S2v3s.
DEATH: Copied from Family GroupSheet and also from Springville Evergreen Cemetery 979.224/S2v3s.
BIOGRAPHY: Dora married Eddie Reeves at 20 years of age. They were married in 1916 in Eureka and moved to Longmont, Colorado
where Eddie's family lived. Eddie was reported as not desiring to have children.Three years after being married, Dora came back to Eureka
to help her mother nurse her brothers and sisters in the big 1919 flu epidemic. While there she came down with the flu and died at the age
of 23.
Notes for Kenneth NOAKES:
BIRTH, DEATH: Copied from an old family record chart and from Maud Thorn's family records.
BIOGRAPHY: Kenneth died one month after birth when Dora was 2 1/2 years old.
Ward, 1908 pg 636 #294.
Notes for Della NOAKES:
BIRTH, DEATH: Copied from an old family record chart.
BIOGRAPHY: Della and her 5 year older sister Marie were constant companions and a great love grew between them. At the ages of 8
and 3 the two sisters wandered all over Eureka with little supervision. They always went to Church although sometimes in a very dirty
condition. Della was the last of the three Noakes children to die in the same week in the 1919 flu epidemic.
Notes for Reed NOAKES:
BIRTH: Copied from an old family record chart. Also from tombstone in Farmington Cemetery.
DEATH: 3 Feb 1991journal entry of Leonard Olds. Also Farmington Cemetery tombstone.
BIOGRAPHY: After Reed's birth the family moved from the boarding house to their own home, a modest little cottage in Knightville. As
the two surviving children of Del and Maggie, Reed and his sister Marie grew very close over the yeas. When Marie was widowed, she
came to Salt Lake to help take care of both Reed and her step father, Joseph Thome. Reed never married and died in a nursing home in
Salt Lake City. He is buried in the Ward family plot in Farmington.
Notes for George NOAKES:
CHRISTENING: Blessing Certificate 192, Springville 2nd Ward, UtahStake.
DEATH: Copied from old family groupsheet.
BIOGRAPHY: George was the first of the three Noakes children to die, at the age of 5, in the same week during the 1919 flu epidemic.
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Table 13: Family Group Sheet for J. Hubbard Noakes and Susan A. Childs
Family Group Record for John Hubbard NOAKES
Husband:
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John Hubbard NOAKES
Birth
7 Aug 1831
Litchfield, Medina, Ohio
Death
3 Oct 1910
Burial
Oct 1910
Evergreen Cem., Springville, Utah
Father:
Thomas NOAKES
Mother:
Emma INKPEN
Wife:
Susan Amelia CHILDS
Birth
5 Mar 1839
Mexico City, Oswego, New York
Marr.
25 Feb 1855
Death
3 Aug 1914
Burial
Aug 1914
John Hubbard NOAKES
Father:
Moses CHILDS
Mother:
Polly PATTEN
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2.
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4.
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Verona Amelia NOAKES
Birth
30 Jun 1856
Marr.
1 Feb 1873
Death
4 Mar 1926
Burial
7 Mar 1926
City Cem, Springville, Utah, Utah
Iserael Eastham CLEGG
Emma Arathusa NOAKES
Birth
16 Oct 1858
Marr.
9 Oct 1876
Death
17 Dec 1934
Burial
20 Dec 1934
City Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah
John BRYAN
Polly Ann NOAKES
Birth
2 Mar 1861
San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California
Marr.
29 Dec 1877
Death
26 Nov 1939
Elmo, Emery, Utah
Burial
3 Dec 1939
Cleveland, Emery, Utah
Ira Alfred DAY
Susan Agnes NOAKES
Birth
17 Oct 1863
Death
17 Oct 1863
Arney Amanda NOAKES
Birth
17 Oct 1863
Death
18 Dec 1863
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John Thomas NOAKES
Birth
16 Feb 1865
Marr.
17 Mar 1886
Death
22 May 1926
Burial
21 May 1926
Eureka, Juab, Utah
Amilla Ann GUYMON
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Eunice Alberta NOAKES
Birth
13 Nov 1867
Marr.
10 Aug 1887
Alfred William WEIGHT
Death
16 Aug 1942
Burial
18 Aug 1942
Evergreem Cem., Springville, Utah
8.
David Patten NOAKES
Birth
26 Aug 1870
Marr.
10 Oct 1894
Lillie Ann OAKLEY
Marr.
abt 1905
Death
22 Feb 1956
Fairfield, Solano, California
Burial
27 Feb 1956
Evergreen Cem., Springville, Utah, Utah
Julia WINN
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Birth
15 Dec 1872
Marr.
17 Dec 1895
Death
2 Nov 1923
Burial
10.
George Hubbard NOAKES
Birth
20 Feb 1875
Marr.
20 Dec 1897
Death
18 Aug 1925
Martha Ann HARRISON
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William Inkpen NOAKES
Birth
5 Nov 1878
Marr.
27 Jan 1904
, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah
Catherine BOYACK
Death
12.
26 Feb 1939
, Springville, Utah, Utah
Ann Amanda NOAKES
Birth
10 Apr 1885
Death
10 Apr 1885
Burial
Springville Cem., Springville, Utah
Notes for John Hubbard NOAKES:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: From an original handwritten family record in the possession of Leonard E. Olds. Many of the events in this
record appear to have been recorded when they occurred. Listed as born Aug 1831 in the Utah 1900 Census, Springville 2nd Ward. Listed
as living with Mrs. Marge Van Leuvam(?) several doors from his sons David Patten and Del.
BURIAL: Sec B Lot 113 Ps 1 as per freepages-genealogy.rootsweb.com/-geigley/pafg165.htm copied from web page on 4 May 2005.
BIOGRAPHY: Hubbard was the first of Thomas and Emma's children to be born in the United States. Hubbard was baptized in the East
when 8 years old. His father, Thomas Noakes, was a bodyguard for Joseph Smith. Hubbard crossed the plains with his family in 1848
when he was 17, but is thought to have gone back with his father in 1852 to help in bringing his widowed father's two subsequent wives to
Utah. During the return trip he met his future wife, Susan Childs whom he married several years later when he was 24. After arriving in Salt
Lake, Hubbard's wagon train was probably all called by Brigham Young to go to Springville and become farmers. Moses Childs' record says
that his family lived in tents in Springville until a cabin was raised, and that they worked hard to keep the Church going.
When he was 26 he went with two companies to head off Johnson's Army, and served at Ft. Supply, Echo Canyon. Indian troubles began
and the indians burned the fort around Springville. Hubbard then fought in the Ute Black Hawk War serving as a Lieutenant in the Utah
Militia. He escaped from an ambush of 14 indians with Nel Stewart and Elisha Curtis who was on a slow mustang. Mustangs had short
legs and couldn't run as fast as the bigger horses. Hubbard and Steward saved Curtis by stopping and fiiring at the indians and then
catching up with Curtis and repeating this. Hubbard noticed that one of the indians was riding a horse that had been stolen from him.
Stewart shot the horse and Hubbard shot the indian. (Probably with single shot rifles.) (Noakes Pioneers of Utah, 929.273, N 663c., pp
154-182.)
Hubbard then worked for a short while as a pony express rider. He then became a successful farmer. When called by Brigham Young in
about 1862, Hubbard moved his small family of two children to Sanowasa, SanBernadino, California where they stayed for almost five years
before returning to Springville. He had retained his original farming property, the old Childs' farm right in the center of town. They had three
children born to them in California making a family of five children when they returned in 1865.
Hubbard had light blue eyes. He later wanted to take a plural wife but Susan wouldn't give her permission. According to his grandaughter
Marie Noakes, Susan stayed with Hubbard until all 12 of their children were raised, and she then sent him away. He lived with various ones
of his children until he died at the age of 79.
Notes for Susan Amelia CHILDS:
record appear to have been recorded when they occurred.
DEATH: 28 May 1953 letter from David Oakley Noakes.
BIOGRAPHY: Notes from Pioneers & Prominent Men of Utah by Frank Esshom: Moses Childs crossed the plains in 1852 withthe John
D. Parker Company`. At the age of 18, Susan walked barefooted with ox teams and flirted with the indian boys. She also milked cows and
probably met her future husband in her wagon train. Her father, Moses Childs was called by Brigham Yound to go to Springville and farm.
Susan had very dark eyes and hair. Accoringing to Marie Noakes, Susan's Hubbard, wanted to take a second wife but she wouldn't give
her permission. She stayed with Hubbard until all the children were raised and then sent him away. In the 1900 Census, Susan is listed as
Susan Childs, Head living with her sons George and William Noakes in Thistle, Utah. In the 1910 Census she had moved back to
Springville and is listed as Susan Noakes living alone.
Notes for Verona Amelia NOAKES:
MARRIAGE: Marriage date was entered originally as 9 Oct 1876 but was crossed out and 1 Feb 1873 entered in bold black ink.
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Notes for Emma Arathusa NOAKES:
MARRIAGE: The marriage date of 9 Octo 1876 was entered and not scratched out. The entry below hers was for Polley's marriage was
changed to 29 Dec 1877.
Notes for Polly Ann NOAKES:
MARRIAGE: The original entry for the marriage date was 3 Jul 1884. This was scratched out and a date of either 29 or 19 Dec 1877 was
entered in bold black ink.
Notes for Susan Agnes NOAKES:
BIRTH, DEATH: From an original handwritten family record in the possession of Leonard E. Olds. Many of the events in this record appear
to have been recorded when they occurred.
Notes for Arney Amanda NOAKES:
BIRTH, DEATH: From an original handwritten family record in the possession of Leonard E. Olds. Arney was added at the bottom of the list
of children as one who died in California. The note "at birth" was crossed out. Apparently her twin sister Susan Agnes died on the day of
the birth and Arney died the next day.
Notes for John Thomas NOAKES:
BIRTH: From an original handwritten family record in the possession of Leonard E. Olds. Many of the events in this record appear to have
been recorded when they occurred.
MARRIAGE: A marriage date of 17 Mar 1886 is given in the FGR's of Kate N. Gibbey Snow and Illa Day Newton. The date of 10 Aug
1887 in the original handwritten family record in possession of Leonard Olds seems to be a correction for the erroneous marriage date of 10
Oct 1894 for Eunice Alberta Noakes rather than being an entry for John Thomas Noakes.
DEATH: The record originally had a death date of 18 May 1926 written in pencil with a question mark. This has been overwritten in ink to
be 22 May 1941. However his wife had moved to Roseville, California where she passed away in 1932. It's likely then that John had
already died. Thus the 1926 date is felt to be more correct.
BURIAL: Eureka tombstone inscription: 1865-1926.
BIOGRAPHY:
1875-1885: Worked on his father's farm raising cattle and horses and hay and grain. The Noakes' horses were the finest in the
community.
1886: Married Amilla Guymon a beautiful young girl from a large polygamous family. She was the 10th of 12 children and had 21 other
half brothers and sisters.
1886-1890: Worked a small piece of land in Springville spending the summers up the canyon in a sawmill. Pearl, Emma, and Milton were
born in Springville.
1891-1896: Since they couldn't accumulate enough land in Springville to make a living, they sold their Springville home and bought an
orchard in Orangeville, Emery County. In 1885 his sister Polly Noakes Day was living in Orangeville. While living in Orangeville, John
developed rheumatism but was healed by Amilla's home remedies. Kate and Winnifred were born in Orangeville.
1896-1897: Homesteaded a farm seven miles from Blackfoot, Idaho on a flat piece of land covered with sagebrush, built a cabin and
plowed and planted the ground. Next year bought a larger farm with a larger cabin on shares. However there was a drought and the crops
failed.
1898-1903: Returned to Springville onto a few acres of land given to them by his father (Hubbard Noakes). Built a two room house where
their son Clarence was born. John began working for contractors drilling quarrying holes. He accidently drilled into a hole with black
powder and was knocked unconcious. During this time he had a vision where he was shown an open book and told that his work on earth
was not yet complete and he had to return to finish it. Three additional children, Clarence, Robert, and Elmo were born while living in
Springville.
1903: Farming a small acreage in Springville was not profitable. John moved the family to Scofield to work in the coal mines near Clear
Creek.
1905-1917: Moved to Thistle and worked as a fireman on the D&RGW RR. (The record said that he worked there for 22 years. However
in 1918 Amilla was living in Eureka where she buried their son Clarence.)
1918 to abt 1926: Probably moved to Eureka possibly working as a contractor. He may have been in Salt Lake on business in 1926 when
he died and was brought back to Eureka for burial. He was in the 1920 Census in Eureka with his wife Millie and Elmo.
1927-1932: His widow Amilla probably then traveled to Roseville, California to live with her daughter Pearl until she died in 1932.
Notes for Eunice Alberta NOAKES:
MARRIAGE: Film 488,399., Springville Marriages also obituary clipping. The marriage date was orginially entered on the family record as
10Oct 1894 which was corrected with an entry just above this one of 10 Aug 1887. the 10 Oct 1894 appears to have been an intended
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DEATH: Newspaper clipping from Springville Newspaper honoring their 50th Anniversary. Noted that she taught Relief Society for many
years. Obituary newspaper clipping.
Notes for David Patten NOAKES:
BIRTH, DEATH: FGR of David Oakley Noakes. Birth date listed as August 1873 in 1900 Utah Census, Springville 2nd Ward, pg 6. Living
next door to Del Noakes' family. Birth & death date from 4 April 1965 letter from David Oakley Noakes. Also from original handwritten family
records in possession of Leonard E. Olds
MARRIAGE-1: Film 488,399, Springville Marriages 1892-1897. Also in original handwritten family record of J. Hubbard Noakes and
Susan A. Childs giving 10 Oct 1894.
MARRIAGE-2: Estimated. His first wife died in 1903, and he was married to Julia in the 1910 Census.
Notes for Moses Adelbert NOAKES:
BIRTH: Original handwritten Family Record of John Hubbard Noakes' family in possession of Leonard E. Olds listed birth as 15 Dec 1872
with a penciled correction of a 3 above the 2. Birth record from Springville Ward Record of Blessings, 026458, listing birth as 16 Dec 1872.
MARRIAGE: Utah County Marriage License and Certificate, recorded 18 Dec1895. The marriage entry in the Hubbard Noakes family
record appears to be erroneously made for Dec 30, 1895.
DEATH and BURIAL: Funeral notice. Buried in Evergreen Cemetery,Springville, Utah. Also Family Records of John Hubbard Noakes.
Notes for George Hubbard NOAKES:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: Handwritten family record in possesion of Leonard E. Olds. A December 2, 1974 letter from Marie Ward
said that they had no children.
MARRIAGE: Various marriage dates have been suggested. The FGR of Illa Day Newton gives 20 Dec 1897 and this is felt to probably be
correct because of the two 1900 Census entries.
Springville:Geo Noakes, Head, born March 1873 age 26
Martha A. Noakes, Wife, born Feb 1858, age 42
Della Huntington, Dau born Dec 1876, age 21
Thistle: Susan Childs, Head
George Noakes, Son, Feb 1875, age 25
William Noakes, Son, Nov 1878, age 21
Since there is no other Geo Noakes that has been found, it is likely that Martha kept a home in Springville for her daughter while George
Hubbard Noakes worked on the railroad in Thistle. A date of 20 Feb 1930 has been entered in the above handwritten family record, but this
is five years after George died and is felt to be a date the temple sealing was done.
BIOGRAPHY: Marie Ward said that George had a good job at the railroad and was very generous with his money when they came to see
them. At the age of 25 he was living in the railroad town of Thistle.
Notes for William Inkpen NOAKES:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: From a handwritten family record of the John Hubbard Noakes and Susan Amelia Childs family in
possesion of Leonard E. Olds.
MARRIAGE: The original marriage entry in the family record of J. Hubbard Noakes was for 26 Aug 1915. This was corrected to 27 Jan
1904.
BIOGRAPHY: William owned a grocery store in Springville, Utah which Marie Noakes' family were customers of when they were in
Springville. In the 1900 Census William was living with his mother in Thistle at the age of 21.
Notes for Ann Amanda NOAKES:
BIRTH, DEATH: From a handwritten family record of the John Hubbard Noakes and Susan Amelia Childs family in possesion of Leonard
E. Olds.
BURIAL: Tombstone inscription 4/10/1885.
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Table 14: Family Group Sheet for Lewis S. Barnett and Lavina J. Brown
Family Group Record for Lewis Scott BARNETT
Husband:
1
Lewis Scott BARNETT
Birth
19 Aug 1851
Death
12 Aug 1925
Burial
Aug 1925
Terra Haute, Vego, Indiana
Father:
Solomon BARNETT
Mother:
Eliza LISTER
Wife:
Lavina Janett BROWN
Birth
22 Jan 1854
Marr.
22 Apr 1875
Calhoon, Harrison, Iowa
Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa
Lewis Scott BARNETT
Death
29 Dec 1909
Burial
31 Dec 1909
Father:
William BROWN
Mother:
Mary COON
1.
Mary Aleapha BARNETT
Birth
18 Jun 1876
Missouri Valley, Harrison, Iowa
Marr.
13 Nov 1893
Provo, Utah, Utah
Death
8 Mar 1940
Burial
Mar 1940
Evergreen Cem., Springville, Utah, Utah
James Henry CLARK
2.
Birth
7 Nov 1877
Marr.
17 Dec 1895
Marr.
25 Jan 1942
Death
30 Oct 1957
Salt Lake City, Utah, Utah
Burial
2 Nov 1957
Mt. Calvary Cem., Salt Lake City, Utah
Joseph THOME
3.
Bertha Alice BARNETT
Birth
30 Nov 1881
Marr.
6 Apr 1898
Death
17 Jun 1918
Provo, Utah, Utah
Burial
20 Jun 1919
Fredrick John PAYNE
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Maud Laurine BARNETT
Birth
22 Feb 1884
Marr.
6 Apr 1905
Adelbert G. THORN
Death
9 Aug 1975
Burial
5.
Payson Hospital, Payson, Utah, Utah
Delores Camile BARNETT
Birth
18 Sep 1886
Marr.
9 Jan 1907
Death
10 Jan 1971
Shoshone, Lincoln, Idaho
Burial
13 Jan 1971
Richfield, Lincoln, Idaho
Chester Adelbert JOHNSON
6.
Clara Candace BARNETT
Birth
4 Feb 1888
Marr.
28 Sep 1905
Provo, Utah, Utah
Death
4 Sep 1947
Provo, Utah, Utah
Burial
7 Sep 1947
Daniel Edward PAYNE
7.
Beulah Myrtle BARNETT
Birth
30 Jan 1892
Marr.
1 May 1918
Death
18 Mar 1978
Arthur Ralph BEARD
Burial
Wasatch Lawn Cem, Salt Lake, Utah
Notes for Lewis Scott BARNETT:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: From "The Brown Family, Descendants of Daniel Brown and Elizabeth Stephens" by Erold Wiscombe,1986.
929.273B812 Film 1307628 item 10 pg 58. From Maude Thorn. FGR of Erold Wiscombe citing sources in Eliza Lister record.
DEATH: A second FGR citing the same sources gives a death date of 17 August.
BIOGRAPHY: Lewis married Lavinia when he was 24 in Harrison Cty, Iowa. Lavinia had joined the LDS Church and after the birth of
their first child, Lewis moved his family to Utah where he remained a professional non member. Lavinia's mother had previously gone to
Utah, and they joined her settling in the Springville area. Lewis did construction work and helped build the railroad lines through Utah. In
appearance, he was tall and quite thin. A hardy pioneer. Maud Thorn said that her father was not interested in the LDS Church but that her
mother was. He chewed tobacco extensively and wouldn't bathe. But he claimed that he never needed false teeth because of chewing
tobacco. The family farm was across the road fromLincoln School and two to three blocks from Main Street near the center of Springville.
Notes for Lavina Janett BROWN:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: From "The Brown Family, Descendants of Daniel Brown and Elizabeth Stephens" by Erold Wiscombe,1986.
929.273B812 Film 1307628 item 10 pg 58. From Maude Thorn.
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BIOGRAPHY: Lavinia was baptized in the LDS Church in Iowa, with her family possibly making the trek across Iowa from Nauvoo and
locating in Missouri Valley area some 25 miles north of Council Bluffs. When she married Lewis Barnett in 1875 at the age of 21 her mother
had already moved to Utah, and after her first baby was born she persuaded Lewis to move to Utah settling in Springville. She had a family
of six daughters. She died in 1909 at the age of 55.
Notes for Mary Aleapha BARNETT:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: Unidentified FGR citing History of Springville by Johnson and Family Records of Maud Thorn.
Notes for Maggie Annie BARNETT:
BIRTH: Listed as two years old in the 1880 Utah Census, page 5, Springville City and Precinct, Dwelling 34, Family 37. Listed as being
born in Nov 1877 in 1900 Census, Springville District, 2nd Ward. She was legally named Maggie Annie but she unofficially changed it to
Margaret Anna (9 Jan 1967 letter from Maud Thorn.)
MARRIAGE (1): Utah County Marriage Certificate recorded 18 Dec1895.
(2): Salt Lake County Marriage Certificate No.90551.
DEATH AND BURIAL: Funeral program of Neil O'Donnell Mortuary.
BIOGRAPHY: She was a friendly young girl with six sisters and no brothers. She married Del in 1896 at the age of 19. She had six
children with one dying one month after birth. Three of her other children died in one week during the flu epidemic of 1919. In this flu
epidemic, the entire family became sick at the same time. Dora came home to help out along with Maggie's sister Aleapha and a trained
nurse. However Dora died only a few days after getting there along with Della and George in the same week. Her sister Maud and her
husband were kept busy going from Springville to Eureka (some 40 miles) every day. When Maggie and her family were able to move,
Maud brought them to her home in Springville where they stayed for 3 months while recovering. They returned to Eureka in order for Del to
close out his mining business after which they bought a boarding house on 2nd South in Salt Lake City where Maggie cooked for roomers
and boarders. She was an excellent cook , traveling with her family in the summer on railroad construction jobs living in railcar homes. She
ran a boarding house in Eureka and a restaurant in Springville. After Del died, she managed an rooming apartment facility at 26 1/2 W. 2nd
South. In 1942, she married JoeThome, a catholic, in Salt Lake City. She died in Salt Lake in 1957 at the age of 80 from diabetes.
Notes for Bertha Alice BARNETT:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: From an Unidentified FGR citing History of Springville by Johnson and family records of Maud Thorn. This
record gave a death year of 1918. Erold Wiscombe gives a death year of 1919.
Notes for Maud Laurine BARNETT:
BIRTH: Unidentified FGR citing History of Springville by Johnson and family records of Maud Thorn.
In a listing of genealogies Maud once gave her middle initial as B.
Notes for Delores Camile BARNETT:
BIRTH: Unidentified FGR citing History of Springville by Johnson and family records of Maud Thorn.
Two birth dates are given citing the same sources: 18 Sep 1886 and 1 Dec 1886.
Notes for Clara Candace BARNETT:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE, DEATH: Unidentified FGR citing History of Springville by Johnson and family records of Maud Thorn.
Notes for Beulah Myrtle BARNETT:
BIRTH, MARRIAGE: Unidentified FGR citing History of Springville by Johnson and family records of Maud Thorn.
DEATH: Salt Lake Newspaper obituary dated 21 Mar 1978.
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Anderson
Anderson
Baker
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Barnett
Beethe
Beethe
Beethe
Bent
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Bird
Birdsong
Birdsong
Birdsong
Birdsong
Borman
Boutwell
Boyack
Brower
Brown
Brown
Brown
Brown
Brown
Bryan
Bryan
Bryan
Bryan
Bryan
Bryan
Bryan
Camp
Campbell
Cassity
Cassity
Castro
Chambers
Childs
Childs
Childs
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Clark
Genevieve
John E.
Richard D.
Bertha A.
Beulah M.
Clara C.
Delores C.
J. Otis
Lewis S.
Maggie A.
31, 54
15
60
9, 10, 14, 36, 55, 87, 89
9, 14, 36, 54, 55, 88, 89
9, 14, 36, 54, 88, 89
9, 14, 36, 54, 88, 89
68, 69
7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 36, 54, 65, 69, 87, 88
2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 31,
35, 36, 53, 54, 65, 79, 80, 87, 89
M. Aleapha
9, 10, 14, 36, 53, 55, 87, 89
Maud L.
9, 14, 17, 36, 46, 53, 54, 88, 89
Solomon
65, 67, 69
Karlee P.
60
Richard L.
60
S. Abigail
60
Anna L.
62
Gary R.
15
J. Arvil
15
James A.
15
John L.
15
Kenneth l.
15
Manilla
15
Maurice
15
Russen V.
15
Thelma
15
Wallace
9, 15
Walter L.
15
William
15
William A.
15
W. Othell
9, 15
Anthony N.
60
Jasmyne
60
Melinda J.
60
Thomas E.
60
Frank
38
Elizabeth
46, 69
Catherine
14, 50
Leona B. H.
61
Daniel
69
Ethel
4
James
4
Lavina J.
8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 36, 65, 69,87, 88
William
65, 67, 69
Beama
9, 14, ,49
Emma
9, 15, 49
James A.
9, 49
John
9, 14
Mary A.
9, 15, 49
Minerva
9. 15
Olive A.
9, 15, 49
Miss
41
Elizabeth H.
61
Edna
18, 43, 55
S. Edward
6, 18, 55
Rick
60
Miss
39
Moses
7, 10, 46, 65, 67, 69
Parker
46, 69
Susan A.
8, 9, 13, 48, 49, 65, 69, 82, 84
Alice
14
Blanch
9, 10, 15, 55
Cassie
9, 10, 14, 55
Florence
14
James H.
9, 10, 14
Lena
14
Louis E.
14, 55
Sarah L. (Sadie) 10, 14, 55
Clark
Clark
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Clegg
Condie
Condie
Condie
Conley
Cook
Coon
Coon
Cossam
Davenport
Davidson
Davies
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Day
Diamond
Ducker
Eborne
Engberg
Epperson
Evans
Evens
Evens
Fisher
Foote
Gibby
Gilbert
Groves
Guyman
Halton
Harrison
Harrison
Hennesy
Higgensen
Hoagland
Honice
Huff
Huff
Huff
Huff
Hughes
Huntington
Husbands
Husbands
Husbands
Ingger
Inkpen
Inkpen
James
James
Jenkins
91
Scott J.
Wanda
Elsie
H. Lewis
Hilda
Ida
Israel E. Jr.
Israel E. Sr.
Mabel
Mary E.
Verona A.
Earl
Ella
Richard
Melvin R.
Mary
Samuel
Susannah
Debbie A.
Andrew
Ann
Abraham E.
Amelia
David L.
Dortha A.
Elmira
Gay H.
Ira A.
Ira N.
Irene
Joseph M.
Polly
Ruby
Thomas
Ann
Nina V.
L. T.
Harold
Mathilda
Mr.
L. Jane
Lurline
Jonathan C.
Bertha L.
Jesse L.
Amelia A.
Hattie
Walter
Martha A.
Mrs
Ida
G. Earlene
Elizabeth
Delores B.
Emma L.
John L.
John W.
John
Bishop
M. Maria
Thomas
Thomas W.
Edward J.
Emma
Jane
John
Abe
9, 14
14
9, 14
9, 14, 49
15
9, 14, 49
9, 15, 49
9, 14, 49
9, 14, 49
9, 14
9, 15
15
49
49
60
15
65, 67, 69
69
69
59
59
67
9, 15
9, 15
14
9, 14
9, 15
9, 14
9, 14
9, 15
9, 14
14
9, 15
50
46
67
60
2
42, 54
65, 67
67
59
18, 55
15
76
77
9, 11, 14, 50, 55
39
49
9, 14, 50
39
13, 41, 42
28, 46, 48, 74
69
15
15
15
15
46
12
3, 65, 67 65, 71
65, 67
67
68
69
46, 65, 67, 68, 69
67
67
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Dora
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Elmo
Emma
Emma A.
Eunice A.
Fannie
George
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
George H.
Hilda
Irvin L.
J. Hubbard
John T.
Kate
Kenneth
Leo M.
M. Adelbert
Noakes
Noakes
Pearl
Polly A.
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14
14
14
8
69
68
59
39
15
15, 49
15
15
15
12
15
60
7
65, 67, 69
69
61
61
61
61
61
15
42
7
7
7
7
7
7
1, 7, 18, 31, 39, 62, 75
15
1, 7, 13, 17, 18, 42, 54
39
60
39
54
59
15
84, 86
82, 85
9, 14, 49
9, 11, 14, 55
14, 46, 49, 51, 55
9, 14, 46, 49, 51, 83, 86
8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 35, 41,42, 47, 50
53, 80, 81
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 35, 41, 42,
43, 44, 47, 50, 53, 54, 79, 81
11, 14, 19, 50
9, 15, 49, 51
9, 14, 82, 85
9, 14, 17, 48, 49, 50, 51, 55, 82, 85
9, 14, 49
8, 13, 14, 17, 35, 42, 43, 46, 47, 50, 53, 54
80, 81
9, 10, 14, 83, 86
9, 14, 49
15
8, 9, 13, 46, 49, 51, 55, 65, 69, 82, 84
9, 11, 12, 14, 50, 55, 83, 85
9, 15, 46, 50
8, 10, 35, 50, 79, 81
9, 15, 19, 55
2, 7, 8, 9, ,10, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 31, 35,
43, 44, 50, 53, 54, 55, 65, 69, 79, 83, 86
9, 15
9, 14, 55, 82, 85
Noakes
Noakes
Ralph
Reed
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Oakley
Officer
Officer
Officer
Officer
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Robert V.
Ruby A.
Sterling G.
Susan A.
Thelma
Thomas
Verona A.
William
William I.
William W.
Winnifred
Lillie A.
Clarence E.
Eugene
Herbert
Walter M.
Allyson R.
Birdie M.
Braiden T.
Brenna A.
Brian M.
Camden B.
Charles W.
Corbin F.
Darrel C.
David
David J.
Derek A.
Edson B.
Eric T. B.
G. Eugene
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Garrett D.
Isaac
Jakob J.
Jameson R.
Janet L.
Jennifer V. K.
John
Jonah D.
Kathleen L.
Kendra
Leonard D.
Leonard E.
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Olds
Ould
Parsons
Lisa K.
Luther Sr.
Luther, Jr.
Megan E.
Michael C.
Mrs. Minnie
Mrs. Shirley
Nathan A.
R. Kimball
Rachel R.
Randolph C.
Rebecca L.
Robin M.
Roger A.
Samuel J.
Susan J.
Theresa J.
Thomas B.
True E.
Victoria
William H.
Robert
Isham
92
14, 50
8, 13, 14, 17, 18, 28, 29, 31, 35, 42, 50, 51
80, 81
9, 11, 14, 50
15
14, 50
82, 85
14, 60
46, 65, 67, 68, 69
9, 14, 49, 51, 55, 82, 84
46, 69
9, 14, 50, 51, 84, 86
14, 50
9, 11, 14, 50
9
4,39
5
5, 31
29, 30, 31
61
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 18, 34, 38, 39, 40, 43, 55
61
61
60
61
1, 7, 18, 30, 39, 62, 75
61
62
3
59
59
66
60
19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31,
40, 65, 72, 74
61
3, 4, 30, 34, 65, 66, 67, 71
60
61
61
60
3
60
59
60
59
19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30,
31, 40, 43, 46, 54, 65, 72, 74
59
65, 67
3, 65, 66, 67, 71
61
60
62
62
60
59
59
60
60
60
59
59
60
59
60
3, 4, 5, 6, 18, 19, 34, 38, 40
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Chester A.
Glen B.
Mont A.
General
Elizabeth
Elizabeth B.
Jamie K.
Fred
G. Don
Glenn D.
Glenna
Keith
Reno G.
Jesse
Laura E.
Lynn L.
John
Eliza
Nathan
Scott A.
Teagan O.
Tehmi N.
Tristyn C.
Victoria R.
Alice E.
Johnnie
Alice
Anna
Charles C.
Deborah
Luella
Marion
Olive I.
Cyrus G.
John
Dr.
Mary A.
Mr.
Louise
Nancy E.
Sarah E.
Ann A.
Arney A.
Bessie
Clarence J.
D. Oakley
David P.
Della
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to
Jennings
Johnson
Johnson
Johnson
Johnston
Keeler
Keller
Kelly
Keltz
Kennedy
Kennedy
Kennedy
Kennedy
Kennedy
Knight
Larsen
Leabo
Lilley
Lister
Lister
Lowe
Lowe
Lowe
Lowe
Lowe
Luthy
Manwaring
Mason
Mason
Mason
Mason
Mason
Mason
Mason
McArthur
McCulland
McGibben
McHugh
McMaster
Miller
Nelson
Nielsen
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
Noakes
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Mary M.
Francis J. P.
Henry
John Sr.
Leah S.
Patten
Patten
Patten
Pattie
Patton
Payne
Payne
Payne
Payne
Payne
Payne
Payne
Payne
Perez
Pierce
Pierce
Pierce
Pierce
Pierce
Pierce
Pierce
Polkinghorne
Polkinghorne
Pope
Pope
Price
Putnam
Reeves
Rice
Risner
Risner
Risner
Risner
Risner
Risner
Risner
Roberts
Rogers
Romero
Runyan
Runyan
Rupita
Sauer
Smith
Schroeder
Smith
Snidman
Staker
Staley
Stauffer
Stauffer
Stephens
Taylor
Thome
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Thorn
Waight
Walsh
Archibald
David W.
Polly
Emily
Mae
Arthur S.
Daniel E.
Edditha
Edward L.
Fredrick J.
Jesse B.
Maud C.
Raymond L.
Matthew J.
Cal W.
Enid
Frank
Hugh
Junis M.
Russel H.
Winnifred
Eliza
Henry
Elizabeth
William
Frank
Lee
Edward A.
Mr.
Amanda L.
Ellen L.
Gerald C.
Henry C.
Jesse F.
Michael C.
Raymond L.
Joyce
Lilly A.
Debra C.
George
Lucy
Ethel
Traci L.
John
Ann M.
Kate
Effie
Leona M.
Kathy M.
Corrie E.
David
Elizabeth
Jennie L.
Joseph M.
Adelbert G.
Howard A.
Lavanda
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Wilford Jr. 26, 28, 44, 62
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Theodore L. 27, 28, 29, 31, 44, 62, 77
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Margaret M. 65, 67
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Alfred W. 14, 17, 49
Archie R. 9, 14, 49
Ernest G. 9, 14, 17, 27
Madeline 15
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Nellie E.
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Nolan
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Ralph B.
William F. 9, 15, 46, 48, 49
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John H.
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Elizabeth 46
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When the stars no longer shine.
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Another to me,
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My Parents-Story of George L. Olds and Marie Noakes

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