PART
SIXTY-ONE
The
Gloucestershire and Worcestershire to Utah Line
Updated May 2016
Whilst this is a relatively new line
to the Collett Family History website, the vast majority of the details were
previously contained in error in Part 5 – The Tewkesbury Line. It was only the discovery of the adult
baptism record for William Collett (Ref. 5M20), which was kindly provided by
Darcey Slaughter from Columbia in Missouri, that has enabled this error to be
corrected. This vital information,
received in December 2011, revealed that he was the son of Thomas Collett by
his wife Mary Vellender, rather than the son of Henry
Collett and his wife Sarah Woodford. In
addition to this, Darcey has also supplied other details which have helped to
build a more accurate picture of William Collett (Ref. 61N2) and his family.
Over the preceding six years there
have been many other contributors of information for this family line and they
are Mark R Collett of Utah, Lu Rae Mortensen nee Collett (Ref 61S5), Clive
Long, Janice Evans, and David Young Thomas, (Ref. 61R31) of Utah, whose great great grandfather was Reuben Collett (Ref. 61P4) of Pendock
in Worcestershire and Smithfield of Cache County in Utah.
The new information added in October
2014 was kindly provided by Lee Ward Collett (Ref. 61Q113) of Hagerman in
Idaho, Tom Rogers from Bountiful in Utah – the son of Lucille Rogers nee
Collett (Ref. 61R4), while the new photographs were supplied by Sharron Collier
nee Collett (Ref. 61S1) of Provo in Utah.
Furthermore, new details received from
Mark R Collett in Utah would appear to provide a line of descendents leading
back to Thomas Collett (Ref. 1D1) 1485-1538 at the start of Part 1 – The Main Gloucestershire Line. However, clarification is being sought on a
section of the family line relating to William (Ref. 61I1) the son of Henry
(Ref. 6H1), who in turn was the son of another William (Ref. 61G1) who was born
around 1590. The main problem seems to be
that William (Ref. 61I1) married Mary Komm who was
born around 1632, so was William a similar age to his wife, and therefore only
around forty years younger than his grandfather. A reply to these questions will hopefully be
received from Mark in due course.
61F1 |
Thomas Collett was born around 1577 and if so he
would have only been 13 years old when his son was born in 1590, which seems
highly unlikely. Thomas was married to
Ann Moulton who, it is suggested, was also born in 1577, thus also making her
only 13 at the birth of her son. The
death of Thomas seems to have taken place during 1612. The family tree provided by Mark R Collett
indicates that Thomas was the son of Robert Collett and Katherine Sanders who
were both born in 1552. However,
Katherine Sanders who was born in 1555, was the
second wife of John Collett (Ref. 1E8) of Broadwell in Gloucestershire (1525
to 1605), the youngest son of the aforementioned Thomas Collett (Ref. 1D1). |
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61G1 |
William Collett |
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61G1 |
William Collett is reputed to have been born around
1590, although a further record also shows that he died in 1603 which, if
true means that he was never married, nor was he able to have a son. It therefore seems more likely that he died
in 1630, the earlier date simply being an error in transcription, and this
would enable his son to have been born in 1632 by his wife Elizabeth. |
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61H1 |
Henry Collett |
Date of
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61H1 |
Henry Collett was originally thought to have been
born in 1625, although this would appear to be unrealistic bearing in mind his
son married a lady born in 1632.
However, it appears that Henry’s wife Elizabeth was born in 1628 and that
he died in 1674, just fourteen years after his son William. Further research work is required in this
area to resolve these anomalies. |
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61I1 |
William Collett |
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61I1 |
William Collett was married to Mary Komm, the daughter of Robert Komm,
who was born around 1632, although no reasonable date of birth has yet been
found for William. It would therefore
make more sense if William was a similar age to his wife Mary, and therefore
also born around 1632. What is known
is that William Collett died in 1660, when his son was barely one year old. |
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61J1 |
John Collett |
Born circa
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61J1 |
John Collett was born around 1659 and it would
appear that he married later in his life as he would have been around forty
years of age when his son was born.
The boy’s mother was Ann Collett who was born in 1663. Details regarding where father and son were
the born are not known at this time. |
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61K1 |
Richard Collett |
Born circa
1700 |
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61K1 |
Richard Collett may have been born in
Gloucestershire around 1700. Certainly
in 1725 he was living in Lower Slaughter when his son William was born. There is a possibility that Richard’s wife
was Ann Harper who was also born around 1700 to 1705. Ann Collett nee Harper died during 1770,
while her husband Richard Collett passed away five years later when he died
in 1775. |
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61L1 |
William Collett |
Born in
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61L1 |
William Collett was born at Lower Slaughter in 1725
and all that is known about him at this time is that he married Elizabeth Skerrett, with whom he had a son Thomas who was born at
Charlton Abbots. |
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61M1 |
Thomas Collett |
Born in
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61M1 |
Thomas Collett was born at Charlton Abbots in
October 1752, the son of William and Elizabeth Collett. He was very likely an agricultural labourer
and he married Mary Vellender at Charlton Abbots on
3rd November 1778. Mary was
born in 1749 and was baptised as Mary Verinder at
Winchcombe on 12th October 1749, the eldest child of James Verinder and his wife Mary Balinger. It is also interesting that Mary would have
already been carrying Thomas’ child on their wedding day, the child eventually
being named after Mary’s youngest sister Naomi who was baptised at Cutsdean
on 19th September 1762 as Naomi Felinder,
daughter of James and Mary Felinder. This shows some of the variations of the Vellender name, as kindly provided by Zoe Cleal nee Vellender whose 5x great aunt was Mary Collett nee Vellender. Some
years before they were married Mary Villender had
been committed to Gloucester Gaol from Winchcombe bridewell
from where she absconded in 1771 and, according to the ‘Verrinder
Views’ Special Edition 2002, she was the later wife of Thomas Collett. |
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The
notice of banns and the date of their wedding day were noted in the parish
register at Charlton Abbots as follows “Banns
of marriage between Thomas Collett bachelor and Mary Vellender
spinster both of this parish were published in this church on 11th
& 18th days of October and the 1st day of November
1778. The said Thomas Collett &
Mary Vellender were married in this church this
third day of November 1778 by me J W Bedwell, Curate. The marriage was solemnised between us [the
marks of Thomas and Mary] in the presence of Thomas Crook and Thomas Redes”. |
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parish records also show that they had at least four children at Charlton
Abbots, with their first child born within six months of the date of their
marriage. It almost seems likely that
other children may have been born to the couple in the seven years between
their third and fourth child listed below.
Thomas Collett died during November 1820 and was buried at Charlton
Abbots on 15th November 1820, when it is believed his age was
incorrectly recorded as 87 instead of 68, either that or he was not the Thomas
Collett born to William and Elizabeth in October 1752 – see below. |
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Mary
Collett nee Vellender died at Charlton Abbots on 14th
December 1837. The death was
registered at Winchcomb Registration District in the sub-district of Guiting
on 21st December 1837 with the following details. Mary Collett of Charlton Abbotts, female,
age 85, labourer. Reason for death,
general break-up of constitution. The
informant was Eleanor Smith [who made her mark], an inmate present at her
death at Charlton Abbotts. It
therefore seems likely that she was also an inmate living at the Charlton
Abbots Union Workhouse, and that her age was given in ignorance of her actual
age which would have been nearer to 88. |
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If
the age of Thomas Collett who died in 1820 was correct at 87, then one
possible option is that he was Thomas Collett who was baptised at Temple
Guiting on 8th April 1744 when he would have been around ten or
eleven years of age, although no parents were named. The reason for including this is that
Temple Guiting is only one and a half miles from Cutsdean where Mary's family
settled and where her sister Naomi Felinder was
baptised, as referred to above.
However, it is the Charlton Abbots connection which is the most
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61N1 |
Naomi Collett |
Born in
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61N2 |
William Thomas Collett |
Born in 1781
at Charlton Abbots |
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61N3 |
Thomas Collett |
Born in
1783 at Charlton Abbots |
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61N4 |
Elizabeth Collett |
Born in
1790 at Charlton Abbots |
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61N1 |
Naomi Collett was born at Charlton Abbots in 1779,
where she was baptised on 25th April 1779, the eldest child of
Thomas Collett and Mary Vellender. It was at Charlton Abbots on 12th
May 1804 when Naomi was twenty-five that she married John Cummins who was
born in 1776. Their marriage produced
three children Hannah Cummins (1807-1809), John Cummyns/Cummings
(c1808-1891) who was baptised in 1810, and Amy Cummin(g)s
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John
Cummings’ wife was Hannah and they had nine children, seven sons and two
daughters between 1830 -1848. The
eldest child, John Cummin(g)s (1830-1906) was born at Didbrook and was baptised at
Temple Guiting during 1830. The
youngest daughter was named after his mother Naomi Collett and Naomi Cummin(g)s
(c1844-1921) later married Thomas Dolphin in 1867 within the Pershore
registration district. Naomi’s and
John’s youngest daughter Amy Cummin(g)s
(c1818-1893) married William Perry (c1825-1862) at Temple Guiting in 1845,
and they only had one child, their daughter Ann Perry (c1847-1925) who
married John Greening in 1870 at Winchcombe. |
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61N2 |
William Thomas Collett [previously Ref. 5M20] was born at
Charlton Abbots, to the east of Cheltenham, on 30th January 1781,
the son of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Vellender. Within the parish register for Charlton
Abbots the first baptism recorded in 1781 was that of William Collett, which
was notated as follows “1781 Feb 18th
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William
was 24 when he married Elizabeth Bromage on 7th October 1805 at
Tirley, five miles south-west of Tewkesbury.
However, Elizabeth was ten years older than William, having been
baptised on 1st December 1770, and was shortly to give birth to
their first child. She was the
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The
baptism of the couple’s first child was recorded at Tirley in Gloucestershire
when the parents were named as William and Betty Collett. It would appear that the family then moved
to Corse, just south of Eldersfield, where their second child was born,
before settling in Pendock, just north of Eldersfield, where their later two
daughters were born. The baptisms for
both son Daniel and daughter Ann have been found amongst the records for the
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It
was at Haws Croft (Hawcross) near Redmarley in
Worcestershire on Thursday 9th April 1840 that Elizabeth Collett
was baptised into the Mormon Church by Church Elder Wilford Woodruff, the
same day as her married daughter Elizabeth Ruck and
her husband Robert Ruck. Earlier that same week Elizabeth’s son
Daniel, together with his wife, and Elizabeth’s daughter Ann Oakey and her
husband Thomas were also baptised by Wilford Woodruff on 5th April.
It was just over one year later when
Elizabeth Collett nee Bromage was around seventy years old that she died at
Frogsmarsh near Eldersfield on 24th May 1841, after which she was
buried at the Church of St John the Baptist in Eldersfield on 27th
May 1841. Her husband survived her by over
twenty years. The record of her death
was registered on 29th May under the name of Betty Collett, aged
72, the wife of a labourer, when the informant was a Philip Hughes and the
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Regardless
of whether or not William was baptised when he was only three weeks old in
February 1781, his actual baptism certificate, which validates his place and
date of birth as Charlton Abbots and 30th January 1781, also shows
that he was the subject of an adult baptism and confirmation service nearly sixty years later. That was carried out by his son-in-law
Thomas Oakey, the husband of his daughter Ann, at Eldersfield on 25th
May 1840, who had converted to the Church of Latter Day Saints only seven
weeks earlier, as detailed above. It was
a year after that when his wife died, following
which the census conducted on 6th June 1841 placed widower and
agricultural labourer William Collett, age 60, living at Frogsmarsh within
the parish of Eldersfield. Living in
the same dwelling with him was his daughter Ann Oakey with her husband Thomas
and their four young children, all confirmed as having been born within the
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Ten
years later in 1851 William Collett, age 70, was still working as a farm
labourer. On that occasion he was a
lodger at the home of Joseph and Fanny Poole, in the house right next door to
his daughter Ann Oakey, whose family had been increased by three more
children, that very likely being the reason why William had moved out. However, new information has come to hand
which suggests that William was abandoned by his own grown up children, and
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After
a further ten years the census in 1861 revealed that William was a patient
living in the Upton-upon-Severn Union Workhouse, where he was described as
having been born as Charlton Abbots, formerly an agricultural labourer,
although his age was recorded in error as 83, rather than his actual age of
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It
was just over two years later that William Collett died in the same Union
Workhouse in Upton-upon-Severn on 8th May 1863, aged 77, following
which he was buried with his wife at Eldersfield two days later when his age
was recorded as 87, both dates being incorrect, since he was around 82 years
of age. The death certificate
confirmed that he was a farm labourer, that he had died of natural decay, and
that the informant was C G Rolls, who was Charles George Rolls, the Master of
the Workhouse. By the time of his
death, two of William’s children, Daniel and Ann, were well on their way to
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61O1 |
Elizabeth Collett |
Born in
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Daniel Collett |
Born in
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Amy Collett |
Born in
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61O4 |
Ann Collett |
Born in
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61N3 |
Thomas
Collett was born at
Charlton Abbots in 1783, and was baptised there on 1st June 1783,
the son of Thomas and Mary Collett. At
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61N4 |
Elizabeth
Collett was born at
Charlton Abbots in 1790 and baptised there on 17th October 1790,
the last known child of Thomas Collett and his wife Mary Vellender.
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61O1 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Tirley in
Gloucestershire on 10th December, shortly after her parents
William Collett and Elizabeth Bromage were married there on 7th
October 1805. It was also at Tirley
that she was baptised on 22nd December 1805 when her parents were
named as William and Betty Collett. It
was just less than twenty years later that she married Robert Ruck at the parish church in Redmarley D’Abitot near
Ledbury in Worcestershire on 2nd April 1825. He was the son of John and Hannah Ruck and was baptised at Whittington in Gloucestershire
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By
the time of the first national census in June 1841 Robert and Elizabeth Ruck were living at Redmarley within the Newent &
Redmarley registration district of Worcestershire, by which time Elizabeth
had presented Robert with seven children although only four of them were
recorded with the couple on that occasion.
Robert and Elizabeth were both 35, while their children that day were
John Ruck who was eight, Charles Ruck who was six, Thomas Ruck
who was four and George Ruck who was not yet one
year old. The missing children were
Judith Ruck (born 1826), Robert Ruck
(born 1827) and Ann Ruck who was born during 1829
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Prior
to the census that year the Ruck family had become
members of the Church of Latter Day Saints.
It was on Thursday 9th April 1840 at the home of William
Simons at Haws Croft (Hawcross) in Redmarley near
Ledbury that Robert Ruck, age 36, and Elizabeth Ruck, age 34, as residents of Redmarley, were baptised by
Church Elder Wilford Woodruff in a pond on the farm. It was also recorded that Wilford Woodruff
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According
to the Journal of Wilford Woodruff, in addition to Robert and Elizabeth Rook
(sic), others from this family line were also baptised by him, including
Robert’s mother-in-law, Elizabeth Collett, who was baptised with her daughter
and son-in-law on 9th April.
Four days earlier, on Sunday 5th April, Robert Ruck’s sister-in-law, Ann Oakey nee Collett, and her
husband Thomas Oakey (below) and their three young children were baptised by
him, while on the 6th April at Eldersfield the brother of Ann and
Elizabeth Collett, church clerk Daniel Collett (below), was baptised into the
Mormon Church, just a few of the six hundred baptisms conducted around that
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Around
five years later it was Robert himself who blessed and baptised his own
children and in 1851 he and his family were still living in Redmarley when
Robert Ruck was 46 and described as an occasional
preacher, since by then he was an elder with the LDS. However on the census form those words were
crossed out, on top of which was written agricultural labourer. His wife Elizabeth Ruck
was 45 years of age and three more children had been added to her family by
then, so the family comprised John who was 19, Charles who was 16, Thomas who
was 13, and George who was 10, plus the new arrivals Michael Ruck who was eight, Wilford Ruck
who was five – recorded in error as Wilfred, and daughter Sarah Ann Ruck who was two years old, all three of them born at
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The
family was still living at Redmarley in 1861 where Elizabeth and Robert were
both recorded as being 54, and the only children still living there with them
were Richard Ruck, age 19, Wilfred Ruck, age 15, and Sarah Ann Ruck
who was 13. Just after that time the
family must have been discussing the prospect of emigrating
to America, and the opportunity arose for that to happen three years later in
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It
was as a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints that Elizabeth sailed out
of London on board the ship Hudson on 3rd June 1864, bound for New
York. That journey was the vessel’s
maiden voyage, and on board were 863 Mormon Saints
from the British Isles, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, all presided over by Church Elder John M. Kay. The crossing was unusually slow, taking
forty-six days, but the kindness of the Captain Isaiah Pratt did much to
alleviate the fatigue of the travellers.
However, during the long sea journey there was an outbreak of measles
among the children, resulting in the death of nine of them who were buried at
sea. The journey also witnessed the
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From
New York the large group of Mormons were then taken overland by railroad to the small township of Wyoming near Nebraska City in
Nebraska where they join the William Hyde Company church train on 9th
August. Just
over one month later the train of 62 ox-drawn wagons had advanced to Julesburg in Wyoming, where they arrived
on 12th September. From
Julesberg and then through the Laramie Mountains,
the route took them onto Fort Hadek and Rattlesnake
Pass. It camped on the North Platte,
following which the train then crossed the Plate River on Saturday 1st
October and camped at Sage Creek. The
following day, Sunday 2nd October, it was cold and snowing, so that
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On
Monday 3rd October they crossed Bridgers
Pass, and by Friday 7th they had reached the head of Bitter Creek,
where the Stage Coach bound for Salt Lake City passed them. On Sunday 9th the wagon train arrived
at Blacks Fork where they set up camp for the night, during which there was a
storm. However, by that time,
Elizabeth Ruck nee Collett must have been suffering
after the long hard trek, since it was on Monday 10th October 1864
at Point of Rocks that she died, just a few miles short of the state boundary
between Wyoming and Utah. She was one of just 47 people who died during the terrible
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Eventually
the sad news of her passing was reported back to her family back in England,
although it was not until 1870 that her husband and her daughter set sail
from Liverpool bound for New York, where they arrived on 22nd
September 1870 on board the two-masted, single-funnelled, ship Idaho. By that time Sarah Ann Ruck
was married to Stephen Cannon, so the ship’s passenger list recorded the
three of them as Robert Ruck from Great Britain,
age 59, Stephen Cannon, age 35, and his wife Sarah Cannon who was 22. Once they had crossed the Atlantic the three
of them travelled luxury class on the newly opened Union Pacific Railroad to Wyoming
where Sarah Ann is believed to have formally recorded the death of her
mother. It is also understood that it
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Within
the General Voyage Notes for the ship the Idaho, Robert Ruck
was mentioned as being a member of the Church of Latter Day Saints for thirty
years and that that he had been baptised by Wilford Woodruff. It was around thirteen years after he
arrived in America that he died at there, at Smithfield in Cache County, Utah
on 1st January 1883. There
is a mystery surrounding his daughter Sarah Ann Ruck
since, for the sea voyage she was recorded as the wife of Stephen Cannon, but
she was later married Austin Merrill, when Stephen was married to another
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Little
is known about the children of Robert and Elizabeth Ruck,
except that two of them are known to have settled in America, where they died
but without producing any children of their own. However, the vast majority of the
information relating to the Ruck family has been
generously provided by Robert John Brown from Dunstable in England. He is descended from Thomas Ruck [1837-1895] the son of Robert and Elizabeth Collett
who was born at Redmarley D’Abitot and who died at Little Marcle
near Ledbury. He had married Sarah
Davies and their son, John Ruck [1874-1927] of
Herefordshire, was married to Priscilla Harriet Gibbons, whose daughter was
Blanche Mary Ruck [1915-1978], the mother of Robert
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Above
is the headstone erected at Smithfield Cemetery in 2012 by Robert John Brown,
which commemorates the passing of both Robert Ruck
and his wife Elizabeth Collett. To the
right of that is another photograph illustrating the beautiful setting that
is the last resting place of Robert Ruck. The amazing diary
of Robert John Brown, covering the months leading up to his visit to America
and the days spent there, were serialised in the Collett Newsletter during
the first four months of 2013, copies of which are available upon request
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Daniel Collett was born at Corse on 12th
December 1807 and was baptised at Eldersfield on 10th January
1808, the only son of William and Elizabeth Collett. The Eldersfield Parish Record included the
surname as Collot, as they had for Daniel’s sister
Ann (below). At some time in his life
he lived at Tirley, where his mother had been born and, as a young man, he
was trained in the skills of a wheelwright and a blacksmith, possibly at
Pendock where his two younger sisters were born. During those days he was also known to give
boxing demonstrations, and it was his physical presence that was also later
used to protect his family against those who were opposed to his religious
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It
was at a meeting of the United Brethren where Daniel met his future wife, who
apparently was attending the meeting with her intended husband Charles
Capper. When that liaison failed Daniel
was married by banns at Corse to (1) Esther Jones on 23rd April
1833. Esther was born at Bullingham in
Herefordshire on 10th October 1814 and was baptised at St Martin’s
Church in Bullingham in Hereford. Shortly
after they were married Daniel and Esther were living at Pendock in
Worcestershire where their first child and fourth child were born. In between times the family was living at
Wellington in Herefordshire and at Beckerton in Worcestershire, where the
couple’s second child and their third child were born, and where Daniel was a
Church Clerk working within the Church of England by then. Also at some time in their life, the couple
lived at Charlton Abbotts in the Cotswolds, ten kilometres east of
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However,
Daniel and Esther were both baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints by
Wilford Woodruff at Tirley Hall – the home of Benjamin Hill - in Eldersfield,
Worcestershire on Monday 6th April 1840, the
day after Daniel’s married sister Ann Oakey and her husband Thomas Oakey (below)
had been baptised at nearby Leigh. It
was just over one year after their baptism into the Mormon Church that Daniel
and Esther and their young family comprising Sylvanus, Rhoda and Reuben, sailed out of Bristol on board the ship
Harmony on 10th May 1841, bound for Quebec in Canada. From Quebec the family travelled south to
Nauvoo in Hancock County, Illinois, where they settled for the next four
years. Not long after their arrival
there, Daniel and Esther received their Patriarchal Blessings from Hyrum
Smith on 3rd December 1841 and five years later the couple
received their endowments into the Church at the Temple in Nauvoo which took
place on 2nd February 1846.
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It
was also at Nauvoo where the couple’s next two children were born, although both
of them also died there not long after they were born. In the end, it was during 1846, when the Latter
Day Saints were driven out of Nauvoo that the Collett family went to Winter
Quarters in Nebraska where wheelwright Daniel was asked by the church authorities
to stay and build wagons, carts and other conveyances for the Saints crossing
the plains. Esther also helped by making
quilts, while he son Reuben assisted her with threading the needles. On the
way to Winter Quarters in September that year their daughter Mary Ann was
born in a wagon box at the camp on Sugar Creek in Lee County, Iowa. Sugar Creek was seven miles from Nauvoo, it
being the first major campsite for the Mormons in Iowa. In 1846 there was an estimated 2,000 people
there, including Brigham Young and most of the church leadership. The couple’s second Iowa born daughter
Elizabeth was born at Council Bluffs (aka Kanesville)
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Following
the birth of Elizabeth Matilda in 1849, the Collett family set out on that
trail bound for the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
They travelled with the Ezra Taft Benson Company which entered Salt
Lake City on 27th October.
The census conducted the following year in 1850 recorded the family as
Daniel Collett who was 42 and a carpenter, Esther Collett who was 36,
Sylvanus Collett who was 16, Rhoda S Collett who was 14 and Reuben Collett
who was 11, and all of them born in England.
The two youngest children, who had been born in America, were Mary A Collett
who was four and Elizabeth Collett who was two years of age. It may have been around that same time when
Daniel Collett was commissioned to build a carriage for Brigham Young’s
personal use. |
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By
the time of the birth of their daughter Julia just over one year later the
family was living at Mill Creek, near Salt Lake City, then shortly after that
they moved again to Lehi in Utah, where their last two children were
born. On settling in Lehi the first
family home were scattered across the valley, but troubles with the native
Indians resulted in them gathering together and to build a fort on the higher
ground. The houses were built side by side in a square around a court, with
first Bishop Evans and other, including Daniel Collett, living on the north
side of the enclosure. A survey of the
town was directed by Bishop Evans, with Daniel assisting, following which a
schoolhouse was constructed. One of the first pupils was Daniel’s son
Sylvanus Collett. |
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It
was also there at Lehi that ceremony of sealing Daniel Collett to Esther
Jones took place on 30th May 1854.
Six months earlier Esther had given birth to son Charles Albert Capper
Collett, who was named after Esther’s first possible husband before she
married Daniel, and two year later she presented Daniel with the couple’s
last child James. Esther Collett nee
Jones was 43 at the time of her death one year later on 4th June
1857, following which she was buried two days later at Lehi. She was a natural nurse and also a singer
of some quality. Later that same year
at Lehi, Daniel married (2) Mary Empey, a widow
with three young children, who was born Mary Foulks
at Totternhoe in Bedfordshire, England on 9th July 1826 and with
whom he had a daughter who was born during the following year. Mary was the daughter of William and
Elizabeth Turner Foulk and the former wife of Jesse
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Just
after the birth of their daughter during September 1858, an exploring party,
which included Daniel Collett, left Lehi in search of a new home. Upon arrival at Ogden the group consulted
with President Lorin Farr, who said he knew of an ideal
site for a new settlement. Lying
around ten miles northwest of Ogden and just one mile from the Weber River,
it was a rich plain with a fertile soil. Having checked out the location, the group
returned to Lehi where they spent the winter preparing for the move to Weber
County in the following spring. And so
it was on 10th March 1859 a company of some one hundred people,
among them Daniel and his family, left Lehi and travelled north with teams of
oxen, horses and mules. On arrival the
men set to work planning and surveying their township and farming land, with
each family being given a city lot and twenty acres of land. Daniel drove the
oxen and his son Reuben guided the plough when the first irrigation ditch was
made in this vicinity. The first
houses were initially only dugouts, but not long after settlers began to
construct log cabins. The new
settlement was two months old when it was organised into a branch of the
Church of Latter Day Saints, with William Raymond as President, and Daniel
Collett and Jeppe Folkman
as Counsellors. At the inaugural
meeting the City of the Plains was chosen as the name of the township, which
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When
Mary Collett nee Foulks died at Plain City in Weber
County, Utah on 31st August 1859 and was buried at Smithfield in
Cache County, Daniel married (3) Elizabeth Gordon on 23rd October
1859 at Plain City. Elizabeth was born
on 3rd May 1823 at Bridge of Weir in Renfrewshire in Scotland, the
daughter of Joseph and Jane Stewart Gordon. It was during the following year when
Elizabeth gave birth to a son at Smithfield, to where Daniel and Elizabeth
had moved in 1860. However, prior to
the birth of that child Daniel was still recorded at Weber County in the
census of 1860, although his new wife was not with him on the day of the
census, perhaps because she was already settled in Smithfield. Instead, the census return listed Daniel as
Danl Collett, age 52, with just his four children,
and they were Mary A Collett who was 13 and from Iowa, Chas Collett who was
seven and from Utah, Jas Collett who was four and from Utah, and Eliza A
Collett who was also from Utah who was just one year old. |
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Four
years later, when Daniel was 56 and still married to Elizabeth Gordon, who
later died on 17th October 1869, he married (4) Elizabeth Miles,
aged 34 and the widow of Thomas Miles, at Salt Lake City on 6th
February 1864. Elizabeth Ward was born
at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire England on 15th
November 1830, the daughter of Thomas Ward and Elizabeth Powell or Elizabeth
Lock. Elizabeth arrived at New York on
1st May 1860 and was married to William Pidcock
later that same year. Her third
marriage to Daniel Collett produced another two sons, both of them being born
at Smithfield. Previously her marriage
to Thomas Miles, who had died in 1863, had produced a daughter Elizabeth Anne
Miles who became Elizabeth Anne Miles Ward Collett following Elizabeth’s marriage
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The
census conducted in 1880 placed farmer Daniel Collet (sic), at the age of 71,
as a widower - when he was still married to Elizabeth, living at the
Smithfield home of John and Rebecca Pitcher from England, who had only settled
in Utah around 1871. It was apparently
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That
fifth marriage took place on 4th October 1880 at Smithfield, when already
married Daniel wed widow (5) Martha Drury who was born at Wyberton in
Lincolnshire England on 23rd September 1811, the daughter of John
Noble and Ann Wilson. And it was at
Smithfield that Martha Collett nee Noble died eight years later on 30th
June 1888. Sometime later Daniel and
Elizabeth went to live at the Smithfield home of Daniel’s married daughter
Julia Ann Cantwell where they spent the remainder of their life. It was there at Smithfield that Daniel
Collett died on 8th June 1894, where he was buried there two days
later on 10th June 1894. Sixteen
years later his widow Elizabeth Collett nee Ward died at Raymond in Alberta
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During his life Daniel Collett was a farmer, a
wheelwright ad a carpenter. He was a
member of the Nauvoo 3rd Ward of the Church of Latter Day Saints and in 1860
Daniel lived in a household of seven, with a real wealth of $300 and a
personal wealth of $100. Ten years
earlier it is established that Daniel Collett was a pioneer who settled in
Smithfield during 1850. He was a very active member of his local
community and at a meeting held on 1st March 1866, Daniel Collett
was appointed water master of the district, a position he held for many
years, during which time a canal was built to bring water from nearby
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Sylvester Collett |
Born in
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Sylvanus Collett |
Born in
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Rhoda Sylvia Collett |
Born in
1837 at Beckerton, England |
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Reuben Collett |
Born in
1839 at Pendock, England |
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Fanny Marie Collett |
Born in
1841 at Nauvoo, Illinois |
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Daniel Collett |
Born in
1843 at Nauvoo, Illinois |
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Mary Ann Collett |
Born in
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Elizabeth Matilda Collett |
Born in
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Julia Ann Collett |
Born in
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Charles Albert Capper Collett |
Born in
1853 at Lehi, Utah |
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James Jones Collett |
Born in
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Eliza Ann Collett |
Born in
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William Gordon Collett |
Born in
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Elizabeth Anne Miles Ward Collett |
Born in
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Thomas Ward Collett |
Born in
1865 at Smithfield, Utah |
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Daniel Ward Collett |
Born in
1866 at Smithfield, Utah |
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Amy Collett was born at Pendock in 1810, where
she was baptised as Amey Collot
on 6th January 1811, the daughter of William Collot
and his wife Elizabeth. Tragically Amy
only survived for a few years, when she died in 1815 and was buried in an
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Ann Collett was born at Pendock on 12th
January 1812, but was baptised at Eldersfield on the 23rd January
1812, when her parents were recorded in the parish register as Wm and
Elizabeth Collot.
She married Thomas Oakey at St Nicholas’ Church in Gloucester on 30th
September 1836, although by three years earlier Ann had already given birth
to a base-born daughter in Gloucester the father of whom is not known. It is also possible that Ann was already
pregnant with her second child on her wedding day, with her son being born
less than eight months later at Frogsmarsh in the parish of Eldersfield. The boy’s father Thomas Oakey was born at
Eldersfield on 21st September 1813, the son of Thomas Oakey and
his wife Sarah Pritchard. He was a
member of the recently formed United Brethren of England, founded by Thomas
Knighton in the mid 1830s, which built the chapel at Gadfield
Elm near Eldersfield in 1836. Today
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Thomas
Oakey did not enjoy the best of health and three years after they were
married his inability to work resulted in him being branded a pauper. Therefore it may have been the desperate
time that the family was having to endure, which
prompted Thomas and Ann to change their religious beliefs. It was during the following year that
Thomas and Ann Oakey were both baptised into the Church of Latter Day Saints
by Wilford Woodruff on Sunday 5th April 1840 at Leigh in
Worcestershire. According to the
journal of W Woodruff, it was the following day that Ann’s brother Daniel and
his wife Esther (above) were baptised by Church Elder Woodruff at
Eldersfield. As a result of his
baptism into the Mormon Church, Thomas Oakey became a lay-preacher and, on 25th
May 1840 at Eldersfield, it was son-in-law Thomas Oakey who conducted the
adult baptism and confirmation ceremony for Ann’s father William Collett, her
mother Elizabeth Collett having been baptised by Wilford Woodruff on 9th
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One
year later Ann’s mother died, at which time Ann and her family moved into the
home of widowed William Collett, presumably to look after him. This was confirmed by the Frogsmarsh in
Eldersfield census carried out on 6th June 1841, when head of the
household William Collett had living with him his son-in-law Thomas Oakey and
his wife Ann. By that time in her life
Ann had presented her husband with four children. Both Thomas and Ann had a rounded age of
25, while their children were Ann Oakey, who was five, Charles Oakey, who was
four, Jane Oakey, who was two, and baby Heber Thomas Oakey who was only four
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Ten
years later in 1851 the family was still living at Frogsmarsh within the
parish of Eldersfield, when Thomas
Oakey was 37, his wife Ann was 39, and their children were recorded as Jane
Oakey, age 11, Heber Oakey, age 10, Moroni Oakey
who was seven, Rhoda Oakey who was five, and Reuben Oakey who was three years
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Two
more children were added to the family over the next three years, but shortly
after 1854 Ann Oakey and her family emigrated to
America, either with her brother Daniel (above), or after he was settled
there. Prior to leaving England Thomas
and Ann had suffered the loss of two of their young children, with James dying
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Thomas
and Ann Oakey and their family were travelling across America with the famous
James G Willies Handcart Company when they were caught up in the notorious
Snow Storms of 1856 near Rock Springs, Wyoming, due to which they lost their
daughter Rhoda Rebecca Oakey at the age of eleven years. Despite their loss, the family eventually
arrived at Salt Lake City on 9th November 1856. The
later American census of 1880 identified Thomas Oakey, age 66, a farmer from
England, living at Paris in Bear Lake County with his wife Ann, also 66 and
from England, who was described as keeping house. Living not far away in Paris was their
eldest son Charles Oakey, also a farmer, with his large family. This
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it was there in America, at Paris in Bear Lake, Idaho, that first Thomas
Oakey died on 15th April 1890, and was followed two years later by
his wife Ann Oakey nee Collett who also died there on 14th April
1892, where she was buried with her husband three days later. Sadly the name Oakey is almost illegible on
the damaged headstone, as can be seen here in the photograph on the right. The
intriguing story of the couple’s conversion from the United Brethren of
England to the Church of Latter Day Saints, and their struggle to cross the
American Wild West, written by Connie Lyn Harris Hansen of Spanish Fork in
Utah, has been kindly provided by Robert John Brown and has been serialised
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Born in
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Charles Oakey |
Born in
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Jane Oakey |
Born in
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Heber Thomas Oakey |
Born in
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Joseph Lorenzo (Moroni)
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Born in
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Rhoda Rebecca Oakey |
Born in
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Reuben Hyrum Oakey |
Born in
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James William Oakey |
Born in
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Sarah Ann Oakey |
Born in
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Born in 1854
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Sylvester Collett was born at Pendock in
Worcestershire on 31st December 1833, the first child born to
Daniel Collett and his first wife Esther Jones, but tragically he died that
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Sylvanus Collett was born at Wellington in
Herefordshire on 3rd March 1835, the eldest surviving son of
Daniel and Esther Collett, following which he was baptised at the Weslyan Church of St Nicholas in Hereford on 24th
May 1835. When he was five years old
his family sailed from Bristol bound for the New World aboard the ship
Harmony on 10th May 1841, while ten years after arriving at Quebec
Sylvanus and his family were living at Great Salt Lake in Utah in 1850. By that time in his life Sylvanus Collett
was 16 years of age and was the eldest of the five surviving children still living
there with his parents. The three
missing children were Sylvester, Fanny and Daniel, who had all died not long
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In
1851 the family moved to Lehi and two years later when he was 18, Sylvanus
Collett of Lehi married (1) Lydia Karren also of
Lehi, the marriage taking place at the Salt Lake City endowment house on 19th
February 1853. Lydia was born at
Liverpool on 29th December 1838, the daughter of Thomas Karren and Ann Radcliffe.
The marriage produced five children for the couple, the first two
having been born at Lehi, the next two at Smithfield and the last at Logan in
Cache County in Utah. Sadly Lydia died
at Logan on 15th November 1865, just one month after the birth of
their last child. The Salmon River
Mission was established at the 1855 General Conference in April that year,
following which twenty-seven men were selected to form the first group who
set up Fort Limhi, the first white settlement in
Idaho. Sylvanus was called up in March
1856 and returned eighteen months later in October 1857. Fort Limhi was
finally abandoned on 28th March 1858 due to continued problem with
the Indian tribes. On leaving Fort Limhi, Sylvanus and the missionaries and their families
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Sylvanus
Collett played a prominent role in the early days of Lehi and, when there
were Indians to subdue, he was always one of the first to respond to the call
of arms. He was a tall man with broad
shoulders and an athletic physic. He
was entirely without fear and if discussions with the hostile Indians were
needed, then it was usually Sylvanus who was chosen, as he spoke their
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Sylvanus
was a vigilante and colonel in the Utah based Nauvoo Legion and in 1857 he
was called with three other Lehi men (including Orin Porter Rockwell who,
with Sylvanus’ father Daniel, had been a bodyguard to Joseph Smith in Nauvoo)
to escort four gentiles, who had accompanied the Saints returning to Geneseo in Carson Valley, Nevada, during the Utah War,
back to California by the ‘southern route’.
In the early 1860s Sylvanus moved to Cache Valley where he acquired a
huge ranch. It was at Logan where he
was a Colonel of Militia in the Nauvoo Legion and took part in the Indian War
at Smithfield in 1863. Following the
killing of one or two men the Indian Chief was captured and held under guard
by Colonel Collett, E R Miles and Thomas Winn. It was during the winter of 1863 that the
famous battle with the Indians took place on Battle Creek, in southern Idaho,
when General Connor of Fort Douglas wiped out a combination of Bannocks,
Snakes and Shoshones, but with a loss to many of his own men, who were buried
in the military cemetery at Salt Lake City.
Prior to battle Colonel Collett and Thomas E Ricks were sent as
special envoys from the Cache Valley settlers to secure the return of some
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After
leaving Cache Valley, Sylvanus Collett lived for a while at Norman Valley in
Bear Lake County, Idaho, where he grazed large herds of horses, cattle and
sheep. From there he moved to Cokeville in Wyoming in 1878 and was the first white man
to settle in that area, where he lived for the remainder of his life and where
he was engaged in mining and rearing livestock. It was also at Cokeville
that he was the Justice of the Peace and was the sole defendant in a
notorious trial in Provo (the Aiken Affair), charged with dispatching John
Aiken, one of the four gentiles, none of whom were ever heard from
again. “First Trump”, a play by Tom
Rogers (see Ref. 61R4) focuses on the trial of his grandfather Sylvanus
Collett and is based on microfilm transcripts of reportage from The Salt Lake
Tribune. The play is also embedded in
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It
would appear that Sylvanus Collett was also married to (2) Phoebe Lodina (Lodema) Merrill in 1864
and prior to the death of his first wife, with that second marriage producing
a further four children for Sylvanus.
The first child was born at Logan, while the others were born at
Smithfield. Phoebe Lodina
(Lodema) Merrill was born at Elba in Genesee County
in New York state on 5th August 1832, the daughter of Samuel
Merrill and Phoebe Odell. Thirteen
years earlier Phoebe had married Parmenio Adams Jackman at Salt Lake City on 16th October
1851, who was killed by Indians in 1860.
She was also the first of three members of the Merrill family who were
married to members of the Collett family, the other two being her older
brother Philemon Christopher Merrill, who married Sylvanus’ sister Rhoda
Sylvia Collett (below), and Elthurah Roseltha Merrill who married Sylvanus’ brother Reuben
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What
happened at Smithfield around the time of the birth of his third child by
Phoebe in 1870, their daughter Mary Merrill Collett, is not clear, since
Sylvanus was also credited with being the father of a son, Reuben Collett,
that same year, who was very likely the son of (3) Sarah Jane Lawrence. What is known though is that two years
later, on 2nd December 1872, Sylvanus Collett married (4)
Elizabeth Frances Praetor, while Phoebe was still alive, but whether she was
the mother of Reuben is not known. It
was also in 1872 that Fanny Collett, the child of Sylvanus and Elizabeth, was
born perhaps even before they were married.
However, it seems highly likely that Elizabeth did not survive the
ordeal. |
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It
is also understood that Sylvanus took three further wives, although the date
of each of the marriage is not known.
Shortly after the death of Elizabeth, his fourth wife, Sylvanus
married the much younger (5) Sarah Ellen Gee who was known as Nellie, to whom
he was married right up until the time he died. That then raises a query over whether he
was married to two more wives Jane Lawrence and Phoebe Jackson, one of which
may have been his third wife and the mother of his son Reuben Collett who was
born in 1870. Being a Mormon, he very
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However,
by the time of the US Census of 1880 Sylvanus Collett, age 45 and a farmer
from England, was the husband of Nellie Collett, age 27, who was also born in
England. By that time in his life
Sylvanus and his family were living at Cokeville, Uinta in Wyoming, his children being Sylvanus, who was
16, Thomas, who was 14, Reuben, who was 10, Fanny who was eight, Nellie who
was seven, Robert W Collett who was four, and Rose Collett who was one year
old. |
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It
is also interesting to note that within the Smithfield census of 1880, three
of Sylvanus’ children were still living there at the home of William A
Thompson, from England, and his wife Phoebe L Thompson, who was the former
Phoebe Lodina (Lodema) Collett
nee Merrill. They were his sons Samuel
Collett who was 15 and Daniel Francello Collett who
was 13, and his daughter Mary Merrill Collett who was 10 years of age. No record has been found of Marion Merrill
Collett, who would also have been ten years of age, who was possibly the twin
brother of Mary Merrill Collett as they had the same date of birth. |
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Sylvanus
was still residing at Cokeville at the time of the
census in 1900. Sylvanus Collett was
65 and by then had been married for 32, placing his wedding day in 1868. His wife Nellie Collett was 47, and the
only children living with the couple on that occasion had all been born at Cokeville in Wyoming, two of them after the census of 1880. Robert W Collett was 23, Burt Collett was
20, and Roy Collett was 19. It was in the
following year that Sylvanus Collett of Cokeville died
during a visit to Salt Lake City on 10th April 1901, after which
his body was returned to Cokeville where he was
laid to rest. His former wife Phoebe Lodema Collett died on 18th January 1909 at
Parker, Fremont County in Idaho, and was buried in the Rexburg Idaho Cemetery
with William Thompson. |
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Information
received from Alaric DeArment during the summer of 2012 indicated that Marion
Merrill Collett, the son of Sylvanus Collett and Phoebe Lodina
(Lodema) Merrill may have been adopted since it was
originally believed that he had born at sea.
That now has been disproved, with new information unearthed in 2015
suggesting that he had been born at Smithfield in 1871. In addition to this Marion Merrill Collett
does not bear any resemblance at all to either the Colletts or Merrills, judging by the photographs of both families
held by Alaric. He was also
illiterate, whereas the two families were not, with Sylvanus being a highly
prominent member of the Mormon community.
It may also be significant that it was fairly common for the Mormons
to adopt child from the minority communities, but how then did he have the
same date of birth as Mary Merrill Collett, unless they were twins. |
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61Q1 |
Sylvanus Collett |
Born in
1856 at Lehi, Utah |
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61Q2 |
Esther Ann Collett |
Born in
1858 at Lehi, Utah |
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61Q3 |
Lydia Isabel Collett |
Born in
1861 at Smithfield |
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61Q4 |
Sylvester Collett |
Born in
1863 at Smithfield |
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61Q5 |
Thomas Karren
Collett |
Born in
1865 at Logan |
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following are the children of Sylvanus Collett by his second wife Phoebe Lodema Merrill: |
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61Q6 |
Samuel Merrill Collett |
Born in
1865 at Logan |
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61Q7 |
Daniel Francello
Collett |
Born in
1867 at Smithfield |
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61Q8 |
Marion Merrill Collett twin? |
Born in
1870 at Smithfield |
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61Q9 |
Mary Merrill Collett twin? |
Born in 1870
at Smithfield |
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The
following is possibly the only child of Sylvanus Collett and his third wife Sarah
Jane Lawrence: |
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61Q10 |
Reuben
Collett |
Born in
1870 at Smithfield |
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following is possibly the only child of Sylvanus Collett and his fourth wife
Elizabeth F Praetor: |
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61Q11 |
Fanny
Collett |
Born in
1872 at Smithfield |
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following are the children of Sylvanus Collett by his fifth wife Sarah Ellen (Nellie)
Gee: |
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61Q12 |
Nellie
Collett |
Born in
1873 in Idaho |
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61Q13 |
Robert William Collett |
Born in 1876
at Cokeville, Wyom. |
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61Q14 |
Rose Collett |
Born in 1878
at Cokeville, Wyom. |
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61Q15 |
Burt Collett |
Born in
1880 at Cokeville, Wyom. |
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61Q16 |
Roy Collett |
Born in 1881
at Cokeville, Wyom. |
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61P3 |
Rhoda Sylvia Collett was born at Beckerton in Worcestershire
on 20th April 1837 and emigrated to
America with her parents Daniel and Esther Collett in 1840. It would appear that Rhoda was a child
bride when, at the age of fifteen years and ten weeks, she married (1) John
Sunderland Eldredge on 4th July 1852. John Eldredge was
29 at that time, having been born at Sennett in Cayuga County in New York on
30th April 1821. However,
their first child was not born until she was seventeen and half years of
age. That event may have taken place
at American Fork in Utah, where the last two of their four children were also
born. The children of John and Rhoda
were Ira Eldredge who was born on 3rd
October 1854, Esther Ann Eldredge who was born on 3rd
May 1860 Daniel Eldredge who was born on 1st
March 1862 and Horace Eldredge who was born on 5th
February 1865. |
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John
Sunderland Eldredge was fifty years old when he
died in 1871 and two years later his widow Rhoda married the much older (2)
Philemon Christopher Merrill on 9th October 1873 at Salt Lake
City. Philemon was born at Byron in
Genesee County in New York on 12th November 1820 and was the older
brother of Phoebe Lodina (Lodema)
Merrill, who married Rhoda’s brother Sylvanus Collett (above). |
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That
second marriage for Rhoda produced another son who was born at Bennington in
Bear Lake County, who initially carried the Collett surname, but was later
identified in the Arizona census of 1880 as Adrian Merrill from Idaho who was
four years old. However, by that time
his father Philemon C Merrill, aged 60, was married
to Serina Merrill who was 63. So where Rhoda was on that occasion, or
where she was living up until her death, is still a mystery. Rhoda Sylvia Merrill nee Collett died on 28th
November 1929 at St David in Cochise County in Arizona, while her former
husband Philemon Christopher Merrill had predeceased her by twenty-five
years, when his passed away during 1904.
The body of Rhoda Sylvia Merrill nee Collett was laid to rest in
Safford City Cemetery, Graham County in Arizona. |
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61Q17 |
Adrian Collett |
Born in
1876 at Bennington |
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61P4 |
Reuben Collett was born at Pendock in
Worcestershire on 19th July 1839, the son of Daniel and Esther
Collett. He travelled to America with
his parents when he was around one year old and was baptised there when he
was eleven years old on 1st May 1850. Fifteen years later Reuben married Elthurah Roseltha Merrill on 17th
January 1861 at Smithfield, the very first marriage in Cache County’s newest
township. Elthurah
was born at Nauvoo, Hancock County in Illinois on 13th September
1842 and was baptised on 25th December 1853. It also seems likely that she was related
to siblings Philemon Christopher Merrill and Phoebe Lodina
(Lodema) Merrill who married Reuben’s brother
Sylvanus Collett (above) and his sister Rhoda Sylvia Collett (above). The photos of Reuben, and Sylvanus
(above), and the family of his son Marion Merrill Collett (below) were kindly
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Over
the next twenty-seven years Elthurah presented
Reuben with twelve children, the first six of which were born at Smithfield
in Cache County in Utah. The family
then seem to have moved to Idaho, where their next child was born, before
returning to Utah and Escalante where the following child was born. At some time in his life Reuben lost an arm
but still managed to be an active frontiersman, having served as one of the
two scouts who explored the Colorado River and recommended the route taken by
the Saints during the Holy-in-the-Rock expedition. |
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And
it was at Escalante in Iron County, Utah that the family was recorded in the
census of 1880. Reuben Collett from
England was 39 and a farmer, his wife Elthurah R
Collett was 35 and from Michigan, and listed with the couple were seven of
their eight children, with just their eldest daughter Phoebe being the only
missing one. Reuben S Collett was 16,
Sylvester D Collett was 13 as was his twin brother Sylvanus Collett, Julia A
Collett was 10, Adelbert T Collett was seven years old, Charles Collett was
four, and Princetta was named in error as Princety Collett, who was two years of age. Staying with the family on that day was
William F Flack from Mississippi who was 41. |
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Two
years later, and during 1882, the family was living in Arizona and it was at
Leti in Maricopa County that the next three children were born. Around 1887 Reuben and Elthurah
returned once more to Utah and their last child was born at Vernal in Uintah
County. By the time of the census in
1900 the family was living at Riverdale in Naples Precinct, Uintah County,
where the census record incorrectly included Reuben as Ruth Collett, age 61
and from England, his wife as Elthroch (sic) E
Collett, age 58 from Michigan, who had living with them four of their
children. They were Julia Ann Collett,
age 28 from Utah, Rosevelle (sic) Collett, age 16,
Clarence J Collett, age 14, both from Arizona, and Geo Collett, age 12 from
Utah. After a further ten years Reuben
and his wife were living alone at Myton in Wasatch
County, Utah. Reuben Collett from
England was 70 and his wife Elizabeth (sic) was 66. |
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Just
over five years later Elthurah Collett nee Merrill
died on 13th July 1915 at Smithfield in Cache County in Utah where
she was buried two days later. Following
the death of his wife, Reuben went to live with his married daughter Julia Postma nee Collett, and it was at her residence in Cache
County that he was recorded in the census of 1920 as Reuben C Collett from
England who was 80 years old.
Tragically it was just a few days later that Reuben Collett died at
Smithfield on 21st January 1920 and where he was buried on 25th
January 1920, and it was also there that his father had died and was buried twenty-six
years earlier. |
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61Q18 |
Phoebe Theresa Collett |
Born on
24.07.1862 at Smithfield |
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61Q19 |
Reuben Samuel Collett |
Born on
26.05.1864 at Smithfield |
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61Q20 |
Sylvester Daniel Collett (twin) |
Born on
15.12.1866 at Smithfield |
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61Q21 |
Sylvanus Collett (twin) |
Born on
15.12.1866 at Smithfield |
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61Q22 |
Julia Ann Collett |
Born on
20.02.1869 at Smithfield |
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61Q23 |
Adelbert Teancum
Collett |
Born on 03.11.1872
at Smithfield |
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61Q24 |
Charles Merrill Collett |
Born on
06.06.1875 at Bennington |
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61Q25 |
Princetta
Collett |
Born on
11.01.1878 at Escalante |
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61Q26 |
Orrin Collett |
Born on
16.07.1882 at Leti, Arizona |
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61Q27 |
Roseltha
M Collett |
Born on
29.04.1884 at Leti, Arizona |
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61Q28 |
Clarence James Collett |
Born on
05.05.1886 at Leti, Arizona |
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61Q29 |
George Collett |
Born on
15.09.1888 at Vernal, Utah |
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61P5 |
Fanny (Fannie) Marie
Collett was the
daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett who was born at Nauvoo in Hancock
County in Illinois on 22nd November 1841. Sadly she died shortly after she was born
in late 1841 or during the early months of 1842. |
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61P6 |
Daniel Collett was the son of Daniel and Esther
Collett and was born at Nauvoo in Hancock County on 22nd October
1843, but died there within the next few months. |
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Mary Ann Collett was born at Sugar Creek in County
Lee in Iowa on 3rd September 1846 and was baptised as an adult on
26th May 1878. She was the
daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett and had not reached her eighteenth
birthday when she married (1) William Wamsley on 1st
May 1864 at Vernal. William was
thirteen years older than Mary Ann having been born at Preston in Lancashire
in England on 13th April 1834. |
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The
marriage of Mary Ann and William resulted in the birth of eleven children and
the many different places of birth suggested that they were a travelling
family. Esther Ann Walmsley
was the first born on 4th September 1865 at Bear Lake, then came Lydia Theresa Walmsley
at Bloomington on 3rd June 1867, and the next three were born at
Smithfield. They were Marinda Walmsley, who was born on 30th January 1870,
Francis Walmsley, who was born on 11th
April 1872, and William Thomas Walmsley, who was
born on 6th April 1873. |
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During
the next couple of years the family returned to Bloomington where the next
three children were born, Jane Vilate Walmsley on 14th October 1876, Daniel Heber Walmsley on 14th February 1878, and Albert Walmsley who was born on 8th April 1880. The last three children, Myrtle Walmsley, who was born on 23rd June 1882,
Maude Walmsley, who was born on 20th
August 1884, and Mary Eliza Walmsley who was born
on 2nd December 1887, were born at Preston, St David Cochise, and
Vernal respectively. |
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Sometime
during her life, possibly following the death of her husband, Mary Ann
married for a second time when she wed (2) Ralph Merrill who was very likely
related to Phoebe and Philemon Merrill (above) who also married members of
the Collett family. It is even
possible that Ralph Merrill was in fact Ralph Teancum
Merrill who earlier had married Mary Ann’s sister Elizabeth Matilda Collett
(below). What is known is that Mary
Ann Merrill nee Collett died at Price in Carbon County in Utah on 15th
November 1929 and was buried at Maeser Fairview Cemetery in Vernal. |
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61P8 |
Elizabeth Matilda
Collett was born at
Council Bluffs in Pottawattamie County in Iowa on 27th February
1849, the daughter of Daniel and Esther Collett. She was twenty years old when she married
Ralph Teancum Merrill at Salt Lake City on 24th
May 1869. Ralph was also born at
Council Bluffs on 13th June 1849.
The marriage produce five children for Elizabeth and Ralph and all of
them were born at Smithfield. They
were Nora Matilda Merrill, who was born on 23rd April 1870, Ralph Teancum Merrill, who was born on 22nd June
1872, Lydia Merrill, who was born on 27th December 1875, Julia
Merrill, who was born on 29th December 1877, and Alice Olive
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Although
Elizabeth lived to a grand age, it is possible that Ralph later married
Elizabeth’s older sister Mary Ann (above), following the likely death of her
own husband. Elizabeth was living at
Smithfield in Cache County at the age of 95 when she died on 30th
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Julia Ann Collett was born at Millcreek in Salt Lake
on 27th September 1851 and was baptised in June 1862, the daughter
of Daniel and Esther Collett. Ten
years later she married James Cantwell at Salt Lake City on 15th
January 1872 with whom she had nine children, all of which were born at
Smithfield. |
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James
was from England, having been born in Liverpool on 28th February
1843 and his and Julia’s children were Daniel James Cantwell, born on 12th
October 1872, William Hamer Cantwell, born on 17th March 1874, Elthura Cantwell, born on born 1st January
1875, Francis Reuben Cantwell, born on 6th December 1878, Stephen
Cantwell, born on 21st January 1882, Julia Cantwell, born on 3rd
February 1885, Leonora Cantwell, born on 24th August 1886, Esther
Cantwell, born on 20th August 1888, and Milo Cantwell, who was
born on 15th July 1890.
From around 1888, until his death in 1894, Julia’s father Daniel
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Like
her sister Elizabeth (above), Julia Ann Cantwell nee Collett was also living
at Smithfield when she died on 21st April 1934, although an
alternative source gives the date of her death as 15th November
1929. There is also a conflict
regarding the date of birth of her daughter Esther. Esther Cantwell Littledyke
Partington, the daughter of James Cantwell and
Julia Collett died at Salt Lake City on 30th January 1947 at the
age of 56. At the time of her death
her date of birth was stated as being 20th August 1890, but with
the day being correct it is perhaps just a simple error on the part of the
informer, who did not realise that she was two years older and therefore 58
rather than 56. |
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61P10 |
Charles Albert Capper
Collett was born at
Lehi in Utah on 28th December 1853, the son of Daniel and Esther
Collett, his name taken from Charles Capper who was his mother’s betrothed
before she married Daniel Collett. Charles
was nearly twenty-three years of age when he married (1) Hannah Ann Merrill
at Salt Lake City on 28th October 1876, which corresponds with the
date of birth of their first child.
Hannah on the other hand was only 17, she having born at Farmington in
Davis County in Utah on 24th January 1860, yet another link
between the Collett and Merrill families, as detailed earlier in this family
line. |
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An
alternative source of information on the internet suggests that they were
only married at Logan, Utah on 19th April 1893, when Charles was
40 and Hannah was 33. However, it is
the census in 1900 which validates their marriage in 1876, by stating that
they had been married for twenty-four years, thus proving that Hannah, who
was sometime known as Annie, was definitely the first wife of Charles Albert
Capper Collett. |
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It
was in the census of 1880 that Charles’ wife was named as Annie Collett, and
according to the census record that year, Chas Collett, age 24, was living
with his young family at Soda Springs in Caribou County (previously Oneida
County), Idaho, where his occupation was that of a freighter. His wife Annie Collett was 20, and their
two daughters were Mary J Collett, who was two years old, and Melissa Collett
who was just one year old, all four members of the household had been born in
Utah. |
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Over
the next twenty-years Hannah Ann Collett nee Merrill presented her husband
with a further nine children who were born at various locations across Utah
and Idaho, suggesting a wandering life-style.
It was just before the end of the century that Charles and Hannah finally
left Utah and briefly stopped in Idaho, where their penultimate child was
born, while on their way north to a new life Canada. And it was there, at Magrath in Alberta,
that the couple’s last child was born in 1904. |
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When
the US Census of 1900 was conducted Charles and his family, together with his
brother James Jones Collett (below) and his family, were residing at Bennington
in Bear Lake County, Idaho, on their way north to Canada. With Charles Collett, age 47, was his wife
and eight of their eleven children. Hannah
A Collett was 40, Melissa Collett was 21, Charles Collett was 18, Maud
Collett was 16, son Phileman (sic) Collett was 14,
Nora M Collett was 12, Harriet A Collett was eight, Reuben D Collett was six,
and Ralph D Collett, was four years old.
It is of further interest that also listed in the census of 1900, but
for Cokeville Town in Wyoming, was Charles C
Collett age 47 and from Utah, who was born there in December 1853 of English
parents, and a married man of 23 years, who was recorded as staying there
with his son Charles C Collett who was 18. |
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Sometime
before 1915 Charles was made a widower by the death of his wife, as confirmed
by the Canada Census of 1916. By that
time he was living within the Lethbridge district of Alberta when he was
described as Chas Capper Collett, age 62 and from Utah, who had immigrated to
Canada in 1902. Still living with him
were four of his children, and they were Reuben Daniel Collett who was 21,
Ralph Demar Collett who was 19, Lola Collett who
was 16 and son Morgan Collett who was 12 and born at Alberta whereas the
other three children had been born in Utah.
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Once
his children had grown-up and left the family home it seems that Charles
sought the company of an older women and may have met her after he had
returned to Bear Lake County. It was
at Montpelier in Bear Lake County on 18th December 1921 that
Charles Capper Collett, age 67 and from Lehi, (2) married Christianna
Werner who was 72 and from Ogden in Utah.
After they were married the couple returned to Alberta, although that
second marriage only endured for precisely one year, when Charles Albert
Capper died at Taber in Alberta on 17th December 1922, where he
was buried three days after. |
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61Q30 |
Mary Jane
Collett |
Born on
12.09.1877 at Smithfield, Utah |
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61Q31 |
Melissa Collett |
Born on
24.10.1879 at Smithfield, Utah |
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61Q32 |
Charles Capper Collett |
Born on
06.06.1882 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61Q33 |
Maude Collett |
Born on
27.11.1884 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61Q34 |
Philemon Merrill Collett |
Born on
03.05.1886 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61Q35 |
Lenora
Collett |
Born on
08.10.1889 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61Q36 |
Harriet
Amelia Collett |
Born on
16.03.1892 at Smithfield, Utah |
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61Q37 |
Reuben Daniel
Collett |
Born on
08.10.1894 at Meadowville, Utah |
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61Q38 |
Ralph Demar
Collett |
Born on
10.04.1897 at Meadowville, Utah |
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61Q39 |
Lola Collett |
Born in
1900 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61Q40 |
Morgan Collett |
Born on
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James Jones Collett was born at Lehi on 24th
April 1856, the son of Daniel and Esther Collett, and was just over one year
old when his mother died. He later
married (1) Marietta Tidwell on 28th December 1877, the same day
that his younger sister Eliza (below) was also married. Mariett was born
at Ogden in Weber County, Utah on 23rd August 1858 and was later baptised
on 16th May 1867. The
couple’s first four children were born while James and Mariett
were living at Smithfield in Cache County, while their last child Julia was
born after the family had moved to Bennington in Bear Park County in
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In
the census of 1880 the family was stated as living at Richmond in Cache
County, where James Collett was 29, Marsett (sic)
Collett was 22, and their two children were James Collett who was one year
old and Saphrona (sic) Collett who was just one
month old. After nearly ten years of
married life together Marietta Collett nee Tidwell died at Smithfield on 25th
February 1887 and it was there that she was buried. |
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Nine
years after the death of his wife James married (2) Jane Wardrop
on 25th July 1896 at Bennington and their first child born at
Bennington during the following year was named after his first wife. Jane was born at Salt Lake City on 7th
April 1859 and was baptised there on 15th April 1859. Of James’ and Jane’s two other children,
the second of these was born at Logan in Cache County, whereas it has not
been determined yet where their daughter Alice Blanche Collett was born, or
when that event took place. |
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According
to the census of 1900, James and his second wife and all eight of his children,
were recorded at Bennington in Bear Lake, Idaho, while they were making their
way north to Canada with James’ brother Charles Albert Capper Collett and his
family (above). At that time in their
life James J Collett from Utah was 44 and had been married to Jane Collett,
age 41 and also from Utah, for four years.
James’ six children previous first marriage were James 21, Elmer 18,
Sidney 18, Minnie 15, Clarence 12, and Robert who was 10. His two children with Jane were Merette (sic) Collett, who was three, and Blanche Collett
who was two. The first five children
had been born in Utah, the sixth in Wyoming, and the two youngest after the
family had moved to Idaho. |
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By
1916 only the couple’s youngest son was still living with James and Jane,
when the census that year recorded the family as residing at Raymond Township
within the Lethbridge district of Alberta, where it appears the couple
remained for the rest of their lives.
James Collett was 60, Jane was 57, and Ralph W Collett was 14. Visiting the family at that time was
Richard Leishman from Scotland who was 80. The census return for 1916 also confirmed
that the family had immigrated to Canada in 1906, which was four years after
James’ brother Charles had settled there. |
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And
it was at Raymond, at Lethbridge in Alberta that James Jones Collett died on
12th May 1924, and where he was buried four days later. Jane Collett nee Wardrop
survived for another twenty-seven years and also died at Raymond on 6th
June 1951, where she was buried with her husband. |
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61Q41 |
James Tidwell Collett |
Born in
1878 at Smithfield |
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61Q42 |
Sadie Sophronia
Collett |
Born in
1880 at Smithfield |
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61Q43 |
Elmer T Collett |
Born in
1881 at Smithfield, Utah |
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61Q44 |
Sidney
Collett twin |
Born on
04.11.1882 at Smithfield |
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61Q45 |
Elsie Collett twin |
Born on
04.11.1882 at Smithfield |
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61Q46 |
Julia (Minnie) Collett |
Born on
02.10.1884 at Bennington |
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61Q47 |
Clarence
Collett |
Born in 1888
at Bennington |
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61Q48 |
Robert
Collett |
Born in 1890
at Bennington |
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following are the children of James Jones Collett and his second wife Jane Wardrop: |
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61Q49 |
Marriette
Collett |
Born on
22.04.1897 at Bennington |
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61Q50 |
Alice
Blanche Collett |
Born in
1898 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61Q51 |
Ralph Wardrop
Collett twin |
Born on
21.05.1902 at Logan, Utah |
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61Q52 |
Riley Wardrop
Collett twin |
Born on
21.05.1902 at Logan, Utah |
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61P12 |
Eliza Ann Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 3rd
September 1858 and was baptised on 29th December 1867 was the only
child of Daniel Collett and his second wife Mary Foulks. Ten years after she was baptised Eliza
married Robert John Jones at Smithfield on 17th December 1877,
with whom she had nine children.
Robert was born at Kaysville in Davis County in Utah on 31st
July 1854. Their first six children
were both while the couple were living at Smithfield but around 1888 the
family moved to Dayton in Franklin County in Idaho where the last three
children were born. |
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And
they were Mary Ann Jones, born on 7th September 1878, Charles
Jones, born on 22nd August 1880, Robert Roy Jones, born on 25th
November 1881, Sylvester Jones, born on 20th September 1883,
Daniel Reuben Jones, born on 29th January 1886, Lenora Lillian
Jones, born on 4th November 1887, George Leslie Jones, born on 10th
November 1889, Delila Jane Jones, born on 6th
February 1892, and Vessa Maud Jones, who was born
on 1st December 1900. Eliza
Jones nee Collett died at American Falls in Power County in Idaho on 11th
June 1929, but was buried at Dayton in Franklin County on 14th
June 1929. |
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61P13 |
William Gordon Collett
was born at
Smithfield on 11th November 1860, the only known child from the
third marriage of Daniel Collett to Elizabeth Gordon. By the time of the Smithfield census of
1880 he had left the family home and was simply recorded as William Collett,
age 19 and from Utah, when he was working as a farmhand, lodging with the
Richardson family from England. Just
over four years later he undertook an adult baptism on 19th August
1884 and less than four years after that he married Ada Rich on 23rd
May 1888, but tragically died later that same year. |
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61P14 |
Elizabeth Anne Miles
Ward Collett was
born at Farmington, Davis County, Utah on 7th October 1862, the daughter of Elizabeth Miles nee Ward and her husband
Thomas Miles. Upon the death of her
father when she was one year old, and the subsequent marriage of her mother
to Daniel Collett in 1864, Elizabeth took up the Collett surname. She was only fifteen years of age when she
married Allen Spencer Burk at the Endowment House in Salt Lake City (the Temple there not yet having been
completed) on 14th March 1878, and their son Allen Spencer
Burke was born in 1883 who later died in 1968. Elizabeth’s husband died during 1902, while
she survived for a further thirty-seven years, when she passed away on 4th
August 1939 at Phoenix, Maricopa County, in Arizona. Her son married Mary Elizabeth Ross
(1895-1973), the daughter of Carl Mert Ross - a
Methodist Episcopal Minister, and their son Spencer L Burke was born in
1918. It was during May 1944 that
Spencer married Virginia Lane (1924-2012) and they were the parents of
Richard Spencer Burke (born during June 1946 in Phoenix) who kindly provided
the new information on his great grandmother. |
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Richard,
or Rick as he is known, was living in Richmond, Virginia, at the start of
2014 with his wife Pamela Borneman and their three
daughters Amy Burke, Heather Burke and Kelley Burke. The story handed down through the family
suggests that when Elizabeth Anne Miles Ward Collett was much younger her
Collett family was massacred by native American Indians, at which time she
was taken in by the Burk (Burke) family, into which she was later married. |
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61P15 |
Thomas Ward Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache
County on 8th May 1865 and was baptised ten years later on 18th
July 1875, the eldest son of Daniel Collett by his fourth wife Elizabeth
Miles nee Ward. In 1880 Thomas Collett
was 15 and was employed at Smithfield as a farmhand like his brother William
(above), while he was lodging with Benjamin Aiken from Massachusetts. After a further eleven years he married Ida
Amelia Anderson, the daughter of Neils Anderson, on
11th November 1886 at Soda Springs in Caribou County, Idaho with
whom he had at least nine children who, bar one, were all born in Idaho,
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It
was at Club Springs, Salt River Precincts in Bannock County, Idaho, that the
family was living in 1900. The census
that year listed the family as Thomas Collett from Utah, who was 35, his wife
Ida Collett, who was 33, their two daughters Ada Collett, who was 13, and
Blanche Collett, who was 11, and their two sons Loren Collett, who was six,
and David Collett who was three years old.
Boarding with the family was William Fowler, age 20, and Koseltha Fowler who was 17, both from Utah. |
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Around
the end of the first decade of the new century Thomas and Ida must have been
temporarily living for a few years at Alberta in Canada, which was where
their daughter Alberta was born during 1910, and that would account for why
there is no census return for the family that year. By 1914 the family was once again living
back in Idaho, where all of the remaining children were born. |
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The
Cassia County, Idaho census in 1920 recorded the family living at Burley
where Thomas Collett was 54, Ida was 51, and their children were Blanch (sic)
Collett age 30, David D Collett, age 23, Thomas W Collett, age 19, George W
Collett, age 16, Alberta Collett, who was 10, Elizabeth Collett, who was six,
and Nancy Collett who was four years old. |
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Thomas
Ward Collett died at Burley just two years later, when he passed away on 18th
May 1922 at the age of 57, following which his body was returned to Soda
Springs for burial. His death
certificate confirmed that during his life he had been a farmer, that his parents
were both from England, his father being Daniel Collett and his mother
Elizabeth Ward, and that he had been born at Smithfield on 8th
May, although the year was incorrectly stated as 1866, that being the year
his younger brother Daniel Ward Collett (below) was born. At the time of his death his obituary
confirmed that he was survived by his wife, four sons and four daughters, and
several brothers and sisters. Thirty-two
years after the death of her husband Ida Amelia Collett nee Anderson died
during 1954. |
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61Q53 |
Ada Mary Collett |
Born in 1887
at Idaho |
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61Q54 |
Blanche Elizabeth Collett |
Born in 1889
at Idaho |
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61Q55 |
Elmer Thomas Collett |
Born in
1892 at Idaho |
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61Q56 |
Loren A Collett |
Born in 1894
at Idaho |
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61Q57 |
David Daniel Collett |
Born in 1897
at Soda Springs, Idaho |
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61Q58 |
Thomas Ward Collett |
Born in
1901 at Idaho |
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61Q59 |
George Ward Collett |
Born in
1904 at Idaho |
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61Q60 |
Alberta
Collett |
Born in
1910 at Alberta, Canada |
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61Q61 |
Elizabeth
Collett |
Born in
1914 at Idaho |
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61Q62 |
Nancy Collett |
Born in
1916 at Idaho |
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61P16 |
Daniel Ward Collett was born at Smithfield on 4th
July 1866 and was baptised there just eight days later on 12th
July 1866. He was the last known
children of Daniel Collett by his fourth wife Elizabeth Miles nee Ward. He later married Sarah Lottie Phillips on 7th
March 1891 at Preston in Franklin County in Idaho. She was born at Brigham City in Box Elder
County, Utah on 25th November 1872. |
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During
their married life Sarah, who was better known as Lottie, presented Daniel
with thirteen children, although it would appear that two of them did not
survive beyond infancy. What is known
for sure is that in the US Census of 1900 the family was living at
Presto, Grays, Taylor Precincts, Bingham in
Idaho. On that occasion the family
comprised Daniel W Collett, age 34 from Utah, whose parents had been born in
England, and who had been married for nine years to Sarah L Collett, age 28
and also from Utah. Their four Idaho born children that day were Edna
Collett, who was eight, Lottie L Collett, who was six, Sarah Collett, who was
four, and Daniel P Collett who was two years old. Also living with the family was Daniel’s
mother Elizabeth Collett, who was 70, and his nephew James Collett who was 18
and born at Utah during February 1882.
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During
the next decade a further four children were added to their family, as
confirmed by the next census in 1910 when the family was recorded at Dayton,
Oneida in Idaho. Daniel W Collett was
43, his wife was by then listed as Lottie Collett, age 38, and with them were
their eight children. Edna was 18, Lewella was 16, Sarah was 12 – and not 14, Daniel was 10
– and not 12, Elizabeth was seven, William was five, Mabel was three, and
Ralph was under one year old. |
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The
next census in 1920 raises a number of issues, the main one being that only
two additional children were recorded with the family, by which time they
were living at Cassia in Idaho. The
two new children were Elverta and Barbara, thus
indicating the both of the daughters named Berniece
had not survived. The family at Cassia
was made up of Daniel Collett, who was 53, Lottie Collett, was 47, Daniel,
who was 21, Elizabeth who was 17, William, who was 15, Mabel, who was 12,
Ralph who was nine, Elverta who was seven, and
Barbara who was five. |
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After
the death of the couple’s two daughters prior to 1920, Lottie finally
presented Daniel with his thirteenth and last child during the following
year. This was confirmed in the census
of 1930 when the family had finally settled at Hagerman in Gooding County in
Idaho. Dan W Collatt
(sic) from Utah was 63, Lottie Collatt was 55,
Ralph Collatt was 20, Verta
Collatt was 18, Barbara Collatt
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Daniel
Ward Collett was still living at Hagerman two years later when he died on 28th
September 1932 at the age of 66 and was buried at Dayton in Franklin County,
Idaho on 30th October 1932.
An alternative website on the internet states that Daniel Collett was
born at Smithfield on 20th July 1867, rather than one year
earlier, the earlier date corresponding better with his age at the time of
death. |
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Following
the death of her husband, Sarah Lottie Collett was still living in Hagerman
with her son Alton in 1935, but shortly after she went to live with her
eldest married son Daniel, and was recorded at Glenns
Ferry, in Elmore County, Idaho in 1940 when she was described as the widow
Sarah L Collett from Utah who was 67. |
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61Q63 |
Edna Collett |
Born in
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61Q64 |
Lottie Lewella
Collett |
Born in
1894 near Henry, Idaho |
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61Q65 |
Sarah Collett |
Born in
1897 at Soda Springs, Idaho |
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61Q66 |
Daniel Phillips Collett |
Born in
1898 at Presto, Idaho |
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61Q67 |
Elizabeth Collett |
Born in
1902 at Basalt, Idaho |
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61Q68 |
William Phillips Collett |
Born in
1904 at Basalt, Idaho |
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61Q69 |
Mabel Collett |
Born in
1907 at Dayton, Idaho |
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61Q70 |
Ralph Thomas Collett |
Born in
1910 at Dayton, Idaho |
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61Q71 |
Elverta
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Born in
1912 at Dayton, Idaho |
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61Q72 |
Barbara Opal Collett |
Born in
1914 at Dayton, Idaho |
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61Q73 |
Berniece
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Born in
1916 at Weston, Idaho |
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61Q74 |
Alton Ward Collett |
Born in 1920
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Ann Collett was born at Gloucester on 9th
November 1833, the base-born daughter of Ann Collett. There is a record in Gloucester which may
indicate that her father was Benjamin Price.
However, it was nearly three years after she was born that her mother
married her married Thomas Oakey at Gloucester, on 30th September
1836, at which time she became Ann Collett Oakey. By the time her brother Charles (below) was
born in 1837 the Oakey family was living within the parish of Eldersfield at
the hamlet of Frogsmarsh. And it was
there that Ann Oakey was recorded with her family in the census of 1841, when
she was curiously listed as being only five years old, perhaps a cover for
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Sometime
during the later part of the 1840s, Ann and her brother Charles sailed to
America, where their family joined them a few years later. It was when Ann Oakey was around eighteen
years of age and living with her family at Nauvoo in Hancock County, Illinois
that she married Charles Price on 6th October 1851. The couple had only been married for
fourteen years when Ann Collett Price nee Oakey died at Marriott-Slaterville in Weber County, Utah during February 1865. |
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it a pure coincidence that her husband’s surname was Price, the same as her
most probable father, or was there some older family relationship that
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Charles Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 25th
May 1837, the eldest son of Thomas and Ann Oakey. Charles was four years old in the
Frogsmarsh census of 1841, but was absent from his family which was still
living there in 1851. It seems likely
that Charles and his sister Ann (above) travelled to America in advance of
the rest of their family, and that this was the reason for both their absence
from the family in 1851. The surviving
members of the family eventually sailed across the Atlantic Ocean during the
mid-1850s to be reunited with Charles and Ann, who may well been living with
their uncle Daniel Collett (Ref. 61O2) who settled there around 1840. |
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According
to the 1880 census Charles Oakey, from England, was 43 and a farmer living
near to his parents at Paris in Bear Lake County, Idaho. Living there with him was his wife Mary Ann
Oakey, age 36 and also from England, and their six children. They were Charles L Oakey, age 17, Elthura R Oakey, age 15, William T Oakey, age 13, Reuben
H Oakey, who was six, Joseph H Oakey, who was four, and Mary Ann Oakey who
was one year old. The two eldest
children had been born in Utah, while the four younger children had all been
born after the family’s arrival in Idaho. |
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much else in currently known about Charles Oakey except that he died on 16th
May 1903 at Paris in Bear Lake County, Idaho, and was buried in the City
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Jane Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 8th
April 1839, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Oakey. In the census of 1841 Jane Oakey was two
years old, and in the next census of Frogsmarsh in 1851 she was still living
there with her family at the age of 11.
Four year later her parents took the family to America, where Jane
Oakey died on 1st July 1863 at Draper in Salt Lake County, where
she was also buried three days after.
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Heber Thomas Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 30th
January 1841, the son of Thomas and Ann Oakey. He was four months old in the June census
at Frogsmarsh later that same year, where he was still living with his family
in 1851 when he was 10. Following his
family’s emigration to America in the mid-1850s, Heber married Jane from
England who was four years old. |
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Their
marriage produced a number of children which, by the time of the 1880 census,
numbered six living with the couple at Bennington in Bear Lake County, Idaho,
where Heber T Oakey was a farmer from England at the age of 37 (sic). His wife Jane, also from England, was 41,
while their children were Ida Jane Oakey, age 16, Edward T Oakey, age 12,
George L Oakey, age 10, Sophia M Oakey, who was seven, Reuben H Oakey, who
was three, and Ernest C Oakey who was six months old. Only the eldest of their children had been
born in Utah, with all the later children born in Idaho. |
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was at Paris in Bear Lake County, Idaho, that Heber Thomas Oakey died on 10th
May 1920, following which he was buried at Bennington in Bear Lake. |
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Joseph Lorenzo (Moroni) Oakey was
born at Frogsmarsh on 9th August 1843, the son of Thomas and Ann
Oakey. There is some confusion over
his name which may have been Joseph or Lorenzo, or both. In the Frogsmarsh census of 1851 he was
simply listed living there with his family as Moroni
Collett aged seven years. Four year
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Once
living in Idaho in America Joseph married a local girl towards the end of the
1860s. That was confirmed by the 1880
census for Liberty, Richardson in Nebraska, where they and their family were
living at that time. Joseph O’Kee (Joseph Lorenzo Oakey) was 36 and a farmer from
England, while his wife Mary Okee was 26 and from
Iowa. Their eldest child was Annie Okee had been also been born in Iowa, and she was 10
years old, meaning that her mother had been a young teenage bride when she
married Joseph. |
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Of
their other two children at that time, Ellen Okee
was eight and had been born in Iowa, while the last child, John Okee, was only eight months old and had been born after
the family had settled in Nebraska.
There were two single men living with the family, who were labourers,
perhaps helping Joseph on the farmstead, and they were the brothers Daniel
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It
can now be revealed why Joseph changed his name. On his family’s overland trek to Salt Lake
City in the winter of 1856 Joseph had gone separated from his family and
ended up being taken in by a family who took pity on the young lad and
brought him up as one of their own.
Despite his parents never giving up looking for him, it was through an
advertisement in a newspaper that he was reunited with his family after an
absence of twenty years. During that
time he had married and raised his own family, as detailed above. The full story is told in a serialisation
in the Monthly Collett Newsletter. The
only other known fact about Joseph Lorenzo Oakey is that he died on 31st
July 1931. |
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Rhoda Rebecca Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 28th
October 1845, the daughter of Thomas and Ann Oakey. She was five years old in the Grogsmarsh census of 1851, and around the time that Rhoda
was ten years old her parents took the family to America. It was during the family’s overland trek
with the Willies Handcart Company that Rhoda Rebecca Collett died on 10th
November 1856 at the age of 11, near Rock Springs in Wyoming, during the snow
storms that battered the state that month. |
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Reuben Hyrum Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 20th
August 1847, the son of Thomas and Ann Oakey and was three years old in the
census of 1851. He was nearly seven
old when his family left England for America, where he died on 28th
December 1876 at the age of 29.
However, prior to his death he had married Sarah Jane Nate. |
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61P24 |
James William Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 27th
May 1849, the son of Thomas and Ann Oakey.
One internet record indicates that he died on the same day that he was
born. However, knowing that his
farming family emigrated to America around the time
that James was six years old, it is possible that he did survive and
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The
reasoning behind this assumption is that a James Oakey from England was
recorded in the US Census of 1880 with his English wife and their four
children. They and their family were
living at Second Ward, Ogden in Weber County, Utah, where James Oakey was 32
and a teamster on a farm, his wife Sarah E Oakey was 30, their daughter Ada R
Oakey and Daisy E Oakey were seven and five, while their sons were K Oakey,
who was two, and Walter M Oakey who was eight months. All four children had been born in Utah. |
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Other
members of the Collett and Oakey families had connections with Ogden and
Weber County, so this also perhaps confirms that James did not suffer an
infant death. |
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Sarah Ann Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 9th
May 1852, the youngest daughter of Thomas and Ann Oakey. When she was only a few years old her
parents emigrated to America, where in her later
life Sarah was married three times. |
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She
first married (1) William Sterrett at Salt Lake
City on 16th June 1867, then (2) Albert Humburg
at Montpelier in Bear Lake County on 16th August 1879, and finally
(3) Stephen Bedford Ludlum at Paris in Bear Lake on 24th December
1887. The first marriage produced four
Sterret children, the second produced four Humburg children, and the third marriage produced two
Ludlum children. In addition to those
ten children, Sarah also had two Oakey children born in 1875 and 1879,
possibly after the death of her first husband and before she married the
second. |
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Ann Ludlum lived a long life and died just five years short of a century on 2nd
July 1947 at Liberty in Bear Lake County, Idaho. She was buried three days later at Paris in
Bear Lake. |
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Walter John Oakey was born at Frogsmarsh on 27th
June 1854, the last child of Thomas Oakey and his wife Ann Collett. He was only one month old when he died
there on 25th July 1854. |
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61Q1 |
Sylvanus Collett was born at Lehi in Utah on 23rd
January 1856, the eldest child of Sylvanus Collett and his first wife Lydia Karren. It was
also at Lehi that Sylvanus junior died two years later in 1858 when he
drowned in a creek near Lehi. |
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61Q2 |
Esther Ann Collett was born at Lehi on 3rd
February 1858 and was there baptised on 26th June 1867, the eldest
daughter of Sylvanus and Lydia Collett.
It would appear that she died at Kirtland, San Juan in New Mexico on
14th March 1946 although she was buried four days after at Mesa in
Maricopa County in Arizona. |
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61Q3 |
Lydia Isabel Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache
County, Utah on 25th April 1861, the daughter of Sylvanus and Lydia
Collett. She ten years old when she
was baptised on 18th September 1871. It was while she was living at Salt Lake
City that she died on 9th March 1937, and was buried at Smithfield
three days later. |
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61Q4 |
Sylvester Collett was born at Smithfield on 23rd
July 1863, the eldest surviving son of Sylvanus and Lydia Collett. By the time he was 16 he and his family
were living at Cokeville in Uinta
County, Wyoming, although his father’s wife on that occasion was Nellie who
was only 27 and Sylvester’s stepmother.
It was around eight years after that when Sylvester married Elnora
Tanner from Utah at Cokeville, and there also that
their two children were born, and where the family was living in 1900. The census that year recorded the family as
Sylvester Collett, age 37, Lanora L Collett, age
35, and their son Reuben T Collett who was eight years old. |
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By
the time of the next Cokeville census in 1910 Nora
had presented Sylvester with a daughter.
So the family was listed as Sylvester, who was 46, Nora, who was 45,
Reuben, who was 17, and Elsie who was five years old. Within a couple of years the family moved
to the town of Burley in Cassia County in Idaho where a great tragedy hit the
family in 1915 with the death of their son.
And it was at Burley that the reduced family was living in 1920. The census that year recorded the couple’s
names in error as Sylvesta Collett, age 56, Nara
Collett, age 52, while their daughter was named in error as Elsie R Collett
and she was 15. |
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It
was also at Burley that the family was still living in 1930, when Sylvester
Collett was 66, his wife Nora Collett was 65, and by which time their
daughter was using her second name and was listed with them as Jean Collett
who was 25. Sylvester Collett died on
24th November 1938. |
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61R1 |
Reuben Tanner Collett |
Born in
1892 at Cokeville, Wyoming |
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61R2 |
Elsie Jean
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Born in
1905 at Cokeville, Wyoming |
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61Q5 |
Thomas Karren Collett was
born at Logan in Cache County, Utah on 19th October 1865, the last
son of Lydia Collett nee Karren, who died three
weeks after he was born. During the
previous year his father Sylvanus Collett had taken another much younger
wife, who presumably took over looking after her husband’s children, but not
Thomas. According to the account of the
story as told to the family much later by his wife, it was at his mother’s
death-bed request that Thomas be given up into the care of her close and
wealthy non-Mormon friend, a Mrs Rogers, who raised him for several years and
later resided at Montpelier in Idaho.
Mrs Rogers nevertheless remained a close surrogate mother both to
Thomas and, still later, to his children, who remember her with great
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In
1880, when Thomas was 14 years old, he was living at Cokeville
in Wyoming and it was around ten or eleven years later that Thomas married
Catherine Elizabeth Sims from Bear Lake in Idaho who had been born at
Centerville in Utah and they initially settled in Idaho where their first two
children were born. Before the end of
the century the family left Idaho and moved back to Cokeville,
where the family of four was living in 1900.
Curiously the census return stated that the couple had been married
for seven years, despite their eldest child being eight years old which was
very likely an error (see 1910 census below).
Thomas K Collett was 35, Kate E Collett was 30, Imogene Collett was
eight, and Lucille Collett was five years of age. |
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The
parents of Catherine Elizabeth Sims were handcart pioneer converts from South
Africa, where her father, Alexander, a Scotsman born in Aberdeen, was an
apprentice miller, and her mother, Elizabeth McDermott, whose father was
Irish, was descended from a two centuries long line of largely Dutch South
African Boers, with smatterings of German (her mother’s father), Austrian,
and political exile ancestry from Indonesia, including Indonesian, East
Indian and Chinese, as well as, possibly, Portuguese. Alexander Sims was one of the first pioneer
burr millers at Sugar House, Liberty Park, Centerville, and, finally, Bear
Lake, where for seven years he and his seven sons blasted through thirty feet
of rock to construct the St Charles Canal, affording the local farmers water
rights that would have otherwise gone to sugar beet farmers in Utah. Tragically he died after falling into his
mill race on the day of the canal’s opening. |
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In
1905 Thomas and Catherine and their two daughters were residing in Cokeville where the couple’s only son was born. By 1910 the family was still in Cokeville where Thomas H Collett (sic) was 44, Catherine
E Collett was 39, Imogene Collett was 16, Lucille Collett was 14, and son Thiel Collett was five years old. No more children were added to the family
and by 1920 they were living in Salt Lake City in Utah. Eldest daughter Imogene had left home by
then, presumably to be married, so the family was made up of Thomas K
Collett, age 54, Katherine E Collett, who was 49, Lucille Collett, who was
25, and Thiel D Collett who was 15. |
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After
another ten years the family was still residing in Salt Lake City, but by
then the couple’s son had departed to make his own way in the world. On that occasion the family was therefore
recorded as Thomas K Collett who was 64, Katherine Collett, age 58, and
unmarried Lucille Collett who was 32.
Thomas was a farmer and appeared to be employing four unrelated
individuals who were living with the family and described as ‘roomers’ |
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It
was just under two year later that Thomas Karren
Collett died at Salt Lake City on 23rd December 1931 at the age of
66. His death certificate confirmed
that he was a farmer and that he was buried on 27th December 1931,
that his wife was Catherine Collett, that his father was Sylvanus Collett,
and that his mother was Lydia Karren, both of them
from England. Whether an error here in
this family history, or an error made by his wife when completing the death
information, his date of birth was stated at Logan as 25th October
1865 rather than 19th as stated above. |
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61R3 |
Imogene
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Born in
1894 at Idaho |
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61R4 |
Lucille Collett |
Born in
1896 at Idaho |
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61R5 |
Thiel
D Collett |
Born in
1905 at Cokeville, Wyoming |
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61Q6 |
Samuel Merrill Collett
was born at Logan,
Cache County, Utah on 16th December 1865, and was the eldest child
of Sylvanus Collett from England by his second wife Phoebe Lodina (Lodema) Merrill who was
from New York state. Around the mid
1870s his parents split up, each of them marrying someone new. This was proved in the census of 1880 when
Samuel C Collett, age 13 (sic) was still living at Smithfield, but with his brother
Marion Collett and his sister Mary Collett (both below), at the home of their
mother Phoebe L Thompson and her new husband William A Thompson. |
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Twenty
years later in 1900 Samuel M Collett, age 34 and from Utah, was a married man
living at Rexburg Town in Fremont County, Idaho. He had been married to Alice from Utah for
ten years, and she was only 29. During
those ten years Alice had presented Samuel with four children after they had
settled in Idaho, and they were Samuel E Collett, who was ten, twins Iva and
Ivan Collett, who was seven, and Dora L Collett who was three years old. |
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With
no record of the family in 1910, by 1920 they were residing at Teton in Idaho.
All of the couple’s earlier children had grown up and left home, while
listed with Samuel M Collett, age 56, and his wife Alice B Collett, age 49,
were Luella Collett, who was 13, Stella E Collett, who was 10, and Madge
Collett who was eight years old, together with the couple’s adopted son Lloyd
L Collett who was 11. Very little else
is known about Samuel Merrill Collett except that it was nine year later that
he died at Idaho Falls, Bonneville in Idaho on 8th February 1929. |
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61R6 |
Samuel E
Collett |
Born in
1890 in Idaho |
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61R7 |
Iva Collett twin |
Born in
1893 in Idaho |
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61R8 |
Ivan
Collett twin |
Born in
1893 in Idaho |
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61R9 |
Dora L
Collett |
Born in
1897 in Idaho |
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61R10 |
Luella
Collett |
Born in
1907 in Idaho |
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61R11 |
Lloyd L
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Born in
1909 in Idaho |
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61R12 |
Stella E
Collett |
Born in
1910 in Idaho |
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61R13 |
Madge
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Born in
1912 in Idaho |
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61Q7 |
Daniel Francello Collett was born at Smithfield on 20th July 1867,
one of the four known children of Sylvanus and Phoebe Collett. By the time of the census in 1880 Daniel’s
father had remarried and was living with his new family at Cokeville in Uinta County,
Wyoming. Where Daniel was at that
time, when he would have been 13, has not yet been discovered. However, ten years later in 1890 he married
Mary, who had also been born in Utah, with whom he had at least three children. |
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In
1900 Daniel and his young family was living at Precinct 47 within Ward
5 of Salt Lake City. Listed in that
year’s census return was Daniel Collett, age 33, his wife Mary A Collett,
also 33, and their three Utah born children, Mary P Collett, who was nine,
Hazel Collett, who was six, and Dean Collett who was not yet one year
old. The census confirmed that the
couple had been married for ten years, and that Daniel’s father was from
England and his mother from New York. |
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It
was as Daniel F Collett that he was recorded in the next census of 1910,
although on that occasion his father’s place of birth was noted as Illinois,
while his mother’s was Missouri. By
1910 the family was living at Emerson in Salt Lake, where Danial
(sic) F Collett was 43 and from Utah, Mary A Collett, was 43 and from Utah,
and with them just their two youngest children. Hazel Collett was 15, and Dean Collett was
10. |
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During
the next decade the family left Utah, when they moved to Los Angeles, where
they were living at Precinct 218 in 1920.
Danial (sic) F Collett was 52, as was his
wife Mary A Collett, and by that time their daughter Hazel had been married
and widowed, and was back living with her parents. So again it was the same two children
living with Daniel and Mary, they being Hazel Melbie,
age 25, and Dean L Collett, who was 19.
Also staying with the family on the day of the census was Harry
Burdick who was 36 and from California. |
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Whilst
there was no place of birth stated in 1920 for Daniel’s parents, they were
once again confirmed as having been born in England and New York in the
census on 1930. Daniel and Mary were
then residing at Long Beach in Los Angeles, with just their widowed daughter
for company. Both Daniel F Collette
(sic) and his wife Mary A Collette were noted as being 62 and from Utah,
while their daughter Hazel Milber was 35. It is not known at this time whether
Hazel’s name was Melbie or Milber. However, it is now established that Daniel Francello Collett died later that same year in 1930. |
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61R14 |
Mary Phoebe
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Born in
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61R15 |
Hazel
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Born in
1895 at Salt Lake City |
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61R16 |
Dean L
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Born in
1900 at Salt Lake City |
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61Q8 |
Marion Merrill Collett
was previously
believed to have been born at sea on 21st April 1875, although
this has always been in doubt bearing in mind the age of his eldest child and
his age in later census records. However,
it is now known that he was born on 21st April, but in 1870 and at
Smithfield in Cache County, with his birth was registered in Utah, where he
was raised by Sylvanus Collett and his second wife Phoebe Lodina
(Lodema) Merrill.
There is every possibility that he was of Mediterranean descent and
was adopted by the Collett family prior to his adopted parents separating and
each remarrying prior to 1880. In the
census that year he was recorded as the stepchild of William A Thompson at
his home in Smithfield, William’s wife being Phoebe L Thompson, formerly
Collett, nee Merrill. It was simply as Marion Collett age ten
years that he was listed with his mother and two of her natural Collett
children, Samuel Collett and Mary Collett. |
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It
was his death certificate, detailed below, which provided his date of birth
and the fact that he was born at sea and not at Smithfield like the other
members of the family, as previously stated here. The census in 1900 indicated that he was
first married to Annie, who was no longer with him and his family in 1910. However, Annie may well have been Anna Laura
Horn who was born at Richmond in Cache County, Utah on 10th March
1871 – see below. |
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Anna Laura Horn was the daughter of Thomas
Horn and Sarah Spears from Alabama and Mississippi and she presented Marion
with six children. It
is also known that at least two of his children, his only son Leslie and his
daughter Myrtle, later converted to Catholicism and, on leaving school, his
son Leslie was a smoker like his father (see below), and was also a cigar
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images above are extracts from the same photograph, the top one being Marion
himself, while the second one has his wife Anna Laura standing between two of
her daughters, although it has not been determined which of her five
daughters they are. The records of the
life of Marion Collett appear to show that he had been of Jewish ancestry
and, despite him being taken in by the Mormons, he
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By
the time the census was conducted in 1900 the family was living at Portneuf in Bannock County, Idaho. However, there appear to be a number of
queries on the census return. Firstly
Marion’s name was not clearly written, secondly his age was stated as being
29, and his wife’s name was Annie L Collett who was 28. With them were their five children, while
every member of the household had been born in Utah. The children were listed as Leslie Collett
who was 11, Lillie Collett who was 11, Waneta
Collett who was eight, Pearl Collett who was six and Sucresha
(sic) Collett who was one year old. |
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One more child was added to the family around
four years later, and she was born after the family had settled in Butte in
Silver Bow County, Montana. The family was residing at Butte in 1910, although
Marion’s wife was not listed with the family.
Once again there are question marks over the contents of the census
return, since Marion Collett said he was 47 instead of 40, his son Leslie was
23 instead of 21 and his three daughters were named as May who was 20 and
might have been either Lillie or Wauneta in 1900, Cretia
(sic) who was 12 and Myrtle who was six years old. |
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Over
the following decade all bar Marion’s youngest child left the family home in
Butte, where they were living in 1920, and by which time Marion was married
to Laura. Marion Collett from Utah was
51, confirming once again that he had been born around 1870 rather than
1875. His wife Laura Collett, also
from Utah, was 49 and his daughter Myrtle Collett from Montana was 14 instead
of 16. After a further ten years
Marion, age 59, and Laura, age 58, were recorded at the Seattle home of
Marion’s married son Leslie and his family in 1930. |
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It
was just over five years later that Marion Merrill Collett died at Butte in Silver
Bow County, Montana on 15th March 1935, the cause of death being a
heart attack, following which he was buried at Mount Moriah
Cemetery in Butte – lot 347 grave 4.
At the time of his passing he was working as a quartz miner. Coincidentally on the same day that he was
buried, his daughter Pearl Sylvester nee Collett was buried alongside him in
a double funeral service. Four days
later a report of the event was published in the Butte Standard newspaper on
Tuesday 19th March, as follows:
“Double funeral services for
father and daughter Marion Collett and Mrs Pearl Sylvester were conducted at
2 o’clock at Duggan’s Merrill mortuary.
The services were under the auspices of the Church of Latter Day
Saints. Burial was side by side in Mount
Moriah Cemetery.
Marion Collett died late on Friday at his home, 238 New Street,
following a long illness. His daughter
had died at a local hospital a few hours later after she became suddenly ill
shortly after completing funeral arrangements for her father. Her home was at 713 Placer Street.” Fourteen years after the death of
Marion Merrill Collett his widow Anna Laura Collett nee Horn passed away on 11th
April 1948 while in Seattle, presumably where she had been living with her
married daughter Myrtle Murray nee Collett.
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61R17 |
Leslie Marion Collett |
Born in
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61R18 |
Lillie
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Born in
1889 at Utah |
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61R19 |
Wauneta Collett |
Born in
1892 at Smithfield, Utah |
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61R20 |
Pearl Collett |
Born in
1894 at Smithfield, Utah |
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61R21 |
Lucretia Laura Collett |
Born in 1899
at Smithfield, Utah |
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61R22 |
Myrtle Katherine Collett |
Born in 1905
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Mary Merrill Collett was born at Smithfield on 21st
April 1870 and was the last child of Sylvanus Collett and Phoebe Lodina (Lodema) Merrill. It is worth pointing out that Mary’s
brother Marion Merrill Collett (above) was also born on the same day. Before Mary was two years old her father
and mother were no longer together when, in 1872, her father remarried, as
did her mother perhaps a little later on.
By the time of the census in 1880 her father, and yet another wife,
had moved to Wyoming, while Mary Collett, age 10 and from Utah, was still
living at Smithfield at the home of her stepfather William A Thompson and his
wife Phoebe L Thompson, formerly Collett, nee Merrill. Also living there were Mary’s two older
brothers Samuel Collett and twin (?) Marion Collett. |
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Mary
Merrill Collett never married and was a nurse. By the time of the census in 1900 she was
living with her widowed mother Phoebe L Thompson at Lyman Rudy, Independence
Precincts in Rexburg Town, Fremont County in Idaho, when she was recorded as
Mary Collett from Utah who was 30 whose father had been born in England and
her mother born in New York. Her birth
was also confirmed as April 1870.
Following the death of her mother in 1909, no record of Mary has been
found in 1910 or 1920, but in 1930 she was described as Mary Collett, age 58,
from Utah, the daughter of an English father and a New York mother, the aunt
of Benjamin L Rich with whom she was living at Salt Lake City. Benjamin was 52 and from Utah and his wife was
Anna C Rich who was 50 and also from Utah.
Living with them was their son Benjamin L Rich who was 15. |
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Mary
was still living with the Rich family ten years later, by which time they
were residing with Ward 4 of Salt Lake City Precinct. The census in 1940 also recorded that they
had been living at the same address in 1935.
Mary Collett was 69, while Ben L Rich was 61 and his wife Anna C Rich
was 59. It was ten years later that
Mary Merrill Collett died at Salt Lake City on 11th February 1950. The certificate of her death recorded all
of the following details. On the day
she died she was a patient at the Salt Lake City Hospital at 4678 Highland
Drive, where she had been for three weeks, while her home address was 74
Virginia Street in Salt Lake City. The
cause of death was cardiac failure at the age of 79, while it is apparent
that she was originally attending the hospital for injuries to her neck and
femur, presumably following a fall. The
certificate gave the correct details for her date of birth and the name of
her mother. However, with regard to
her father, the certificate stated that he had been born at Wellington but,
instead of England, it said Willington in New York. |
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61Q13 |
Robert William Collett
was born at Cokeville in Wyoming on 14th June 1876, the
son of Sylvanus Collett by his fifth wife Sarah Ellen (Nellie) Gee. And it was at Cokeville
he was listed with his parents in 1880 when he was four years old, and again
in 1900 when he was 23. On both census
returns he was named simply as Robert W Collett. Shortly after 1900 Robert married (1)
Nettie from Kansas and in 1910 the childless couple was living at Austin in
Lander County, Nevada. Robert was
recorded as R W Collett, age 33 and from Wyoming, whose parents had been born
in England, while his wife was Nettie M Collett who was 26. Ten years later the census in 1920 placed
the couple living at Lincoln in Wyoming, where Robert W Collett was 43 and
Nettie M Collett was 34. Staying with
the couple was Irene Jackson from Wyoming who was 20. |
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Sometime
during the following years Nettie M Collett died leaving Robert a
widower. However, a little while after,
he married (2) the much younger Marjorie and in 1940 they were living at Cokeville, when the census return that year confirmed
that they had also been living at the same residence five years earlier in
1935. By that time in 1940, Robert
Collett was 62, Marjorie Collett from Ohio was 42, and living with them was
Robert’s elderly mother Nellie Collett from England who was 87. |
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It
was sixteen years later that the death certificate for Robert William Collett
revealed more about him and his life.
At the time of his passing he was residing at 2921 West Palm Lane,
Phoenix in Maricopa County, Arizona, although it was from there that he was
taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix where he died on 15th
July 1956. The death certificate
confirmed that he had lived within the city limits for the past six years and
had also been a resident of Arizona for the same period of time. He was 80 years of age, having been born in
the City of Cokeville on 14th June 1876,
and was married to Marjorie L Collett who was also the informant of his
death. Under occupation, Robert was
described as a retired marshall, while his parents were named as Sylvanus
Collett and Nellie Gee. |
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It
had been twelve days earlier when he had been admitted to hospital with a
bowel obstruction and two days after had been operated on, when it was
discovered that it was adhesions that were causing the obstruction. The cause of death was recorded as
congestive heart failure, while the certificate also confirmed that he had
been suffering with pulmonary heart disease for the past ten years and with
pulmonary emphysema for the past twelve years. |
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61Q14 |
Rose Collett was born at Cokeville
in Wyoming on 1st November 1878, the daughter of Sylvanus and
Nellie Collett and was one year old in the census of 1880. Sadly she died ten years later on 12th
January 1890. |
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61Q15 |
Burt Collett was born at Cokeville
in Wyoming on 1st August 1880, the son of Sylvanus and Nellie
Collett. He was still living at Cokeville with his parents in 1900 at the age of 20. It was later in that same decade that he
married Eva from Ohio with whom he is known to have had at least two
children. By the time of the census in
1920 Burt, age 40, and Eva, age 39, were living with their family at Oak Park
Township in Cook County, Illinois.
Curious on that occasion, as well as twenty years later, Burt gave his
place of birth as Indiana. |
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Their
two children were recorded as Bertran Collett, age
11 from Indiana, and Robert Collett, who was five and from Illinois. Within the next two years Eva gave birth to
another son who was still living with the couple at the time of the census in
1940. The family of three was once
again recorded as residing at Oak Park in Cook County, where Burt Collett was
60, Eva Collett was 59, and Richard Collett was 18. Sometime later in his life Burt Collett
left Illinois when he returned to finally settle in Wyoming,
and it was there at Rock Springs in Sweetwater that he died during the month
of August in 1967 at the age of 87. |
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61R23 |
Bertram
Collett |
Born in
1909 in Indiana |
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61R24 |
Robert
Collett |
Born in
1915 in Illinois |
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61R25 |
Richard
Collett |
Born in 1922
in Oak Park, Illinois |
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61Q16 |
Roy Collett was born at Cokeville
in Wyoming during November 1881 and was still living there with his family in
1900. He married Sarah Amelia (Millie)
Svenson at Bear Lake in Idaho on 19th
June 1906 and by 1920 they had five children and were living at Cokeville in Lincoln County, Wyoming. Millie was born at Logan on 6th
September 1883, the daughter of Frederick Svenson
and Wilhelmina Fosberg from Sweden. The census that years listed the family as
Roy, who was 38 and from Wyoming, Millie, who was 33 and from Utah, as was
their eldest daughter Thelma who was 13, Leroy, who was 11 and from Wyoming,
Grant, who was eight and from Utah, Robert, who was six, and Lois who was
three, both of them born in Wyoming. |
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Three
years prior to the next census in 1930 the family received the dreadful news
that their son Leroy had died, possibly the result of an accident at work, as
he was a labourer. He was working away
from home at Twin Falls in Idaho when he died on 13th November 1927
at the age of 18. The record of his
death confirmed that he was buried at Cokeville,
where he had been born on 12th February 1909, and that his parents
were Roy Collett from Wyoming and Millie Svenson
from Logan in Utah. |
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By
the time of the census in 1930 the couple’s eldest daughter had already left
the family home, perhaps to be married, so it was just Roy’s and Millie’s
three youngest children who were still living with them at Cokeville. On that
occasion the family’s surname was recorded as Collette. Roy was 46, Millie was 41 and both of her
parents had been born in Sweden, Grant was 18, Robert was 16, and daughter
Lois was 13. The family home was still
at Cokeville twelve years later when Roy Collett
died there during 1942. Millie
survived him by ten years, when Sarah Amelia Collett nee Svenson
died at Ogden in Weber County, Utah, on 24th April 1952 at the age
of 68, wife of the late Roy Collett. |
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Their
daughter Thelma was married by then as was Thelma Nieghbor. At the time of her death on 18th
April 1983 she was named as Thelma Collett Neighbor,
the daughter of a Collett father and a Svenson
mother. She died at Alameda in
California, and her death record gave her date of birth as 11th
February 1907 at Utah. |
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61R26 |
Thelma
Collett |
Born in
1907 in Utah |
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61R27 |
Leroy Collett |
Born in
1909 at Cokeville |
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61R28 |
Grant
Collett |
Born in
1912 in Utah |
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61R29 |
Robert
Collett |
Born in
1914 at Cokeville |
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61R30 |
Lois
Collett |
Born in
1917 at Cokeville |
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61Q17 |
Adrian Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Lake
County, Idaho, on 3rd November 1876. Rather oddly he was the only son of twice
married Rhoda Sylvia Collett and her second husband Philomen
Christopher Merrill, so why his birth was not registered under the name of
Adrian Merrill remains a mystery.
However, by the time of the census in 1880 he was Adrian Merrill, age
four years, when he was living at the Mormon Settlement on San Pedro River in
Pima County, Arizona, with his father Philemon C Merrill, age 60, and his
wife Serina Merrill, age 63, both of them from New
York. Where Adrian’s mother was on
that occasion, or at any later time, has not been determined, except that she
would have been 43 and she actually died in Arizona during 1929. |
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61Q18 |
Phoebe Theresa Collett
was born at Smithfield
in Cache County, Utah on 24th July 1862. She was the first child of Reuben Collett
by his wife Elthurah Roseltha
Merrill, but sadly she died on 16th January 1863 when she was less
than six months old. |
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61Q19 |
Reuben Samuel Collett was born on 26th May 1864
at Smithfield and was baptised on 16th May 1875, the eldest son of
Reuben and Elthurah Collett. Just over fifteen years later he married
(1) Flora Elsie Colton at Logan on 20th November 1890. Flora was just passed her eighteenth
birthday when she married Reuben who was twenty-six. Although Flora had been born at Provo in
Utah on 7th June 1872, she was baptised just two years prior to
her wedding day on 16th December 1888. |
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All
of the couple’s eight children were born at Vernal in Uintah County in
Utah. Although Reuben’s wife survived
him by eight years (see details below), it is understood that at some stage
in his life he married (2) Gertrude Asolia Pomeroy
who was born at Salt Lake on 2nd February 1864. It is not known at this time whether Reuben
had any children with Gertrude, but there is a remote possibility that she
may have been the mother of his first child born in 1892 when Gertrude would
have been twenty-eight. However,
Gertrude has never been listed with Reuben in any census, nor has she been
identified in any census. Therefore
she may have died giving birth to her daughter Gertrude. |
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According
to the census in 1900 the family was residing in Vernal Town, when it was
confirmed that Reuben and Flora had been married for ten years. Reuben S Collett was 36, Flora E Collett
was 28, and living with them were the first six of their eight children. They were Gertrude Collett, who was eight,
Elsie Collett, who was six, Reuben S Collett, who was five, Marie Collett,
who was four, Karl W Collett, who was two, and Merle Collett who was only one
year old. Tragically in November that
same year, the family’s youngest child died, but fifteen months after that
sad event Reuben and Flora were blessed with the birth of twin daughters. |
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By
1910 the family at Vernal comprised Reuben, who was listed as R S Collett age
45, his wife Flora E Collett, age 37, Gertrude Collett, age 17, Elsie
Collett, age 16, Reuben S Collett, age 14, Marie Collett, age 13, Karl W
Collett, age 12, and the twins Flora and Cora who were eight years of
age. The couple’s eldest daughter and
eldest son both left the family home between 1910 and 1920, during which time
the reduced family left Vernal and moved to Duchesne County in Utah, where
they were living in 1920. |
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The
census for that year recorded the family as Reuben S Collett, who was 55,
Flora E Collett, who was 47, Elsie Collett, who was 25, Marie Collett, who
was 23, Karl W Collett, who was 21, and Flora and Cora who were 12. Shortly after that their son Karl travelled
to England, possibly on a Mormon Mission, and returned in 1923, following
which he became a married man around 1927 and settled in Salt Lake City where
he and his young family were living by 1930. |
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No
record of Reuben and Flora has been found in 1930, but by 1935 they too were
living in Salt Lake City, and living with them in 1940 was their married but
widowed daughter Gertrude Thomas and her four children. Reuben, as R S Collett, was 75, his wife
Flora E Collett was 67, and their daughter was 47. The census return also confirmed that the
family had been living at the same address in 1935. It was just over six years later that
Reuben Samuel Collett died at Salt Lake City on 20th September
1946 and was buried there on 23rd September 1946 at the Wasatch
Lawn Cemetery. His first wife Flora
Elsie Collett nee Colton died at San Francisco on 28th January
1954, and was also buried at Wasatch Lawn Cemetery in Salt Lake City. |
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61R31 |
Gertrude Collett |
Born on
09.07.1892 at Vernal |
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61R32 |
Elsie Collett |
Born on
11.02.1894 at Vernal |
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61R33 |
Reuben Sterling Collett |
Born on
13.05.1895 at Vernal |
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61R34 |
Marie Collett |
Born on
04.10.1896 at Vernal |
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61R35 |
Karl Warren Collett |
Born on
29.05.1898 at Vernal |
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61R36 |
Merle Collett |
Born on
21.06.1899 at Vernal |
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61R37 |
Flora Collett twin |
Born on
19.02.1902 at Vernal |
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61R38 |
Cora Collett twin |
Born on
19.02.1902 at Vernal |
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61Q20 |
Sylvester Daniel
Collett was one
half of a set of twins who were born at Smithfield on 15th
December 1866, the son of Reuben and Elthurah
Collett. He was baptised in a joint
ceremony with his brother Sylvanus (below) on 4th August 1878, but
died in Mexico eleven years later on 5th May 1889. |
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61Q21 |
Sylvanus Collett was one half of a set of twins who
born at Smithfield on 15th December 1866, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett.
He was also baptised on 4th August 1878 with his brother
Sylvester (above). On 2nd
June 1886 he married (1) Sarah Elizabeth Simkins at
Leti in Maricopa County in Arizona.
Sarah was born at Beaver City in Utah on 12th October 1865
but was not baptised until after she was married. That event took place on 1st
October 1889 between the birth of the couple’s first and second child. |
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According
to the US Census of 1900, Sylvanus and Sarah had been married for fourteen
years and were living at Maybell, Browns Park
Precincts in Routt County, Colorado, with just
their three surviving children, following the death of daughter Annie not
long after she was born. Sylvanus was
34, Sarah was 35, Wiley Collett was 12, Orin Collett was five, and Alice
Collett was three years of age. |
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Sarah
presented her husband with a total of five children prior to her death on 27th
February 1902, when her youngest child was just one month old. Sarah Elizabeth Collett nee Simkins died at Vernal (Naples) and was buried at the
Memorial Park Cemetery in Vernal. Two
years later Sylvanus married (2) Ethelwynne Stringham at Salt Lake City on 20th January
1904 with whom he had a further five children, all of whom were born at Vernal,
as were all by one of the children from Sylvanus’ first marriage. Ethelwynne was
ten years younger than her husband, having been born at Salt Lake City on 25th
July 1876. |
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Sylvanus
and his new wife then moved to North Ashley just north of Vernal, where the
family was living at the time of the next census in 1910. Sylvanus was 45, Ethelwynne
was 35, son Orin Collett was 16, Alice Collett was 12, and Byron S Collett
was eight years old. Twenty years
later Sylvanus and Ethelwynne were once again living
in North Ashley, their address in the census of 1920 being simply Vernal. |
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In
the January of 1920 the family of Sylvanus Collett living at Vernal was
listed as follows. Sylvanus, age 53,
his wife Ethelwynne, who was 43, Byron S Collett,
age 18, Howard S Collett, who was five, Edna Collett, who was three years and
eleven months, and Edith Collett who was one year and eight months. Staying with the family on that day was
Francis A Cole, age 24, his wife Margaret Cole, who was 22, and their daughter
Orpha Cole who was one years and nine months. |
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Ten
years later the family was recorded again as residing in North
Ashley, where Sylvanus Collett was 63, Ethelwynne
Collett was 53, Howard S Collett was 15, Edna Collett was 13, Edith Collett
was 11, and Carl S Collett was seven years old. It was just over two years later that Sylvanus Collett died at Maeser
(Vernal) on 29th April 1932, where he was buried at Vernal City
Cemetery three days later. His death
certificate specified his age as being 65 years 6 months and 14 days, and
that his wife was Ethelmore (sic) Stringham Collett, while his parents were named in error
as Reuben Collett and Ethinah R Merrill. Ethelwynne Collett
nee Stringham survived her husband by forty years,
when she passed away at Vernal on 12th July 1962. |
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61R39 |
Wiley
Sylvanus Collett |
Born in
1888 at Maeser, Utah |
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61R40 |
Annie Elthora
Collett |
Born in
1891 at Leti |
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61R41 |
Orin Collett |
Born in
1893 at Vernal, Utah |
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61R42 |
Alice Collett |
Born in
1897 at Vernal, Utah |
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61R43 |
Byron Sylvester Collett |
Born in
1902 at Vernal, Utal |
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following are the children of Sylvanus Collett by his second wife Ethelwynne Stringham: |
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61R44 |
Claude Stringham
Collett |
Born in
1911 at Vernal, Utah |
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61R45 |
Howard Samuel Collett |
Born in
1914 at Vernal, Utah |
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61R46 |
Edna Collett |
Born in
1916 at Vernal, Utah |
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61R47 |
Edith Collett |
Born in
1918 at Vernal, Utah |
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61R48 |
Carl Stringham
Collett |
Born in
1922 at Vernal, Utah |
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61Q22 |
Julia Ann Collett was born at Smithfield on 20th
February 1869 and was baptised on 4th August 1878, the daughter of
Reuben and Elthurah Collett. After a period of living in Arizona, where
three of his younger siblings were born, the family returned to Utah, and in
1900 Julia Ann Collett, age 28, was stilling living with her family at
Riverdale in Uintah County. It was
eight years later, when she was 36, that she married Beense
William Postma at Vernal on 13th May
1905. William, as he was known was
born at Warrega, in Freisland in the Netherlands on 7th September
1875. Their marriage produced three
children for the couple Elthura Grace Postma, William Andrew Postma
who was born on 14th November 1910 at Ogden in Weber County in
Utah, and Sylvanus Julius Postma. |
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At
the time of the census in 1920, William Postma from
Holland was 46, while his older wife Julia A Postma
from Utah said she was 49 rather than 51.
Living with them at Cache County in Utah were two of their three
children, their daughter El Arah (sic) Postma, who was 12, and their son Sylvania (sic) Postma who was seven.
Also living with the family on that occasion was Julia’s widowed
father Reuben C Collett from England who was 80 and who sadly passed away
within days of the census. It would
appear that Julia lived all of her life in Utah since it was at Logan in Cache
County that she died on 17th September 1961 aged 92, following
which she was buried at Smithfield three days after. |
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61Q23 |
Adelbert Teancum Collett was
born at Smithfield on 3rd November 1872, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett.
He was first baptised at Smithfield three months later on 16th
February 1873, an act curiously repeated after a further ten years on 7th
June 1883. It was then ten years later
that Adelbert Collett married Harriet Penelope Goodrich at Vernal on 25th
December 1893. Harriet was born at
Richville in Morgan County in Utah on 4th April 1872 and she
presented Adelbert with seven children, and all of them born at Vernal. |
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According
to the census in 1910 the family of Adelbert Collett was at Dragon in Uintah
County, Utah. Adelbert from Utah was
37 and his wife was referred to as Nellie, who was 38 and also from Utah,
where all of their children had been born.
Only five of their seven children were living with them, and they were
their two daughters Veda Collett, age 15, Mabel Collett, age 13, and their
three sons Ralph Collett, who was eight, Wells Collett, who was six, and Rulon Collett who was four years old. The missing child was Mamie or Marnie who must have died while she was still very young,
with the couple’s last child due to be born after the census day in 1910. |
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The
reason that no previous record of the family in 1920 had been reproduced here
before now is that the family was recorded under the name of Colbert. Adelbert and Harriet were both 47 in 1920,
while still living with them at Cache County in Utah were
five of their seven children. They
were Mabel, who was 22, Ralph, who was 18, Wells, who was 16, Ruland (sic) who was 14, and Owen who was nine. Only the couple’s youngest son was still
living with them in 1930, by which time the family was residing at Logan in
Cache County. Adelbert T Collett was
57, Harriet G Collett was 58, and their son Owen M Collett was 19. |
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Six
years later the couple left Logan when they settled in Kaysville. The fifty-first wedding anniversary of their
marriage was recorded in the Salt lake Tribune newspaper on 24th December
1944 in the following way: “Christmas Day will mark the 51st
wedding anniversary of Mr & Mrs Adelbert T Collett of Kaysville. The couple was married on 25th
December 1893 in Vernal where Mr Collett was engaged in farming and in the
freight transportation business between Vernal and Price. They moved to Salt Lake City in 1923 and
came to Kaysville in 1936. He was born
in Smithfield Nov 3 1872, while his wife Harriet Goodrich Collett was born
April 4 1872 in Richville. Sons and
daughters of the couple are Mrs Jesse T Brimhall
and Ralph A Collett, Kaysville; Mrs Paul A Harwood, Berkeley, Cal.; Lt Col
Wells Collett overseas with the USA army air forces; Rulon
S Collett and Owen M Collett, Salt Lake City.
They have 17 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.” |
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By
the time of the death of Adelbert Teancum Collett
on 23rd March 1959 he was living at Salt Lake City where he was
also buried three days later. The
Vernal Express newspaper issued on 26th March 1959 printed the
following article: “Funeral services will be held today
(Thursday) at 1 pm in the Union Mortuary in Bountiful for Adelbert T Collett,
86, of Kaysville, who died Monday at 9.40 pm in a Salt Lake City hospital of
natural causes. Mr Collett is a
brother-in-law of Byron Goodrich of Vernal.
He was born Nov 3 1872 in Smithfield to Reuben and Elthura
Merrill Collett. He married Harriet
Goodrich, Dec 25 1893 in Vernal. The
marriage was later solemnised in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Surviving are his widow, daughters and sons,
Mrs Jesse (Veda) Brimhall and Ralph A Collett, both
of Farmington, New Mexico; Mrs Paul (Jacqueline) Harwood, Santa Ana, Cal.;
Col Wells F Collett, Kaysville; Rulon S Collett and
Owen M Collett, both of Salt Lake City; 22 grandchildren, 52 great
grandchildren, two great great grandchildren, three
brothers and two sisters.” |
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Adelbert’s widow Harriet Penelope Collett nee
Goodrich survived him by three years when she passed away during 1962 at the
age of 90. |
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61R49 |
Veda Collett |
Born in
1895 at Vernal |
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61R50 |
Mabel Jacqueline Collett |
Born in
1897 at Vernal |
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61R51 |
Mamie (or Marnie)Collett |
Born on
11.04.1899; died in 1903 |
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61R52 |
Ralph Adelbert Collett |
Born in
1901 at Vernal |
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61R53 |
Wells Frank Collett |
Born in
1903 at Vernal |
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61R54 |
Rulon
Samuel Collett |
Born in
1906 at Vernal |
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61R55 |
Owen Milton Collett |
Born in
1911 at Vernal |
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61Q24 |
Charles Merrill
Collett was born at
Bennington in Bear Lake County in Idaho on 6th June 1875 and was
baptised on 17th July 1883, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett.
In between those two events Charles Collett was four years old when he
and his family were living at Escalante in Iron County, in Utah. He later married (1) Mary Elnora Munk at Salt Lake City on 9th March 1898, Mary
having been born at Mantua in Box Elder, Utah on 30th August 1877. |
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Once
married the couple initially settled in Bennington, where the expectant
couple was living in 1900, when Charles Collett was 25, and Mary E Collett
was 23, who was anticipating the birth of their first child within the next
few months. The marriage produced a
total of six children for Charles and Mary, one of which their son Charles,
was born at Bennington, but tragically he did not survive to reach his second
birthday, when he died on 17th February 1906. |
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According
to the following census in 1910 Charles and his family had left Bennington
and instead were living at Smithfield in Utah. Charles M Collett from Idaho was 34, Mary E
Collett from Utah was 32, and the children living there with them were Viola
Collett, who was 11, Marcella Collett, who was eight, and Farrell Collett who
was two years and six months old, all three children had been born in Idaho,
most likely at Bennington. |
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The
family was still residing in Cache County in 1920, by which time the family
had increased in size. Charles M
Collett was 44, Mary E Collett was 42, Phoebe V Collett was 21, Lois M
Collett was 18, Reuben F Collett was 12, Ruth Collett was nine, and son Roco (sic) Collett was six years old. Two other males were staying with the
family and they were Alva Lundsvall from Sweden who
was 26, and James Lawsen who was 22 and from Utah. |
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By
1930 the family had returned to Bennington in Bear Lake County, Idaho,
although by the time of the census that year only three of the couple’s
children were still living at the family’s home. Chas M Collett was 54, his wife was
described as M Elnora, who was 52, Farrell R Collett was 22, Ruth Collett was
19, and Raeo Collett was 16. Boarding with the family was Edna Sawyer
who was 23 and from Idaho. |
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It
was also at Bennington that the couple was living in 1935, and they were the
only members of their family still living at the same address in Bennington
five years later in 1940. By that time
Charles was 65 and Mary was 62. Mary
Elnora Collett nee Munk died sometime during 1957
and later that same year Charles Merrill Collett married (2) Fannie Bell
Weeks Winn who was thought to have been a similar age to Charles. That married endured for around eleven
years, when Charles Merrill Collett died at Salt Lake City on 27th
February 1969 at the grand age of 94. |
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61R56 |
Phoebe Viola Collett |
Born in 1899
at Bennington, Idaho |
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61R57 |
Lois Marcella Collett |
Born in 1901
at Bennington, Idaho |
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61R58 |
Charles
Lester Collett |
Born on
06.08.1904; died in 1906 |
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61R59 |
Farrell Reuben Collett |
Born in
1907 at Bennington, Idaho |
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61R60 |
Ruth Collett |
Born in 1910
at Smithfield, Utah |
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61R61 |
Raeo
Collett |
Born in 1913
at Smithfield, Utah |
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61Q25 |
Princetta
Collett was born at
Escalante in Garfied County in Utah on 11th January 1878 and was
baptised in January 1886, the daughter of Reuben and Elthurah
Collett. She married James Albert
Bills at Vernal on 12th August 1897. James was aged 21 years at that time,
having been born at Colver Valley in Lincoln Nevada on 19th April
1876. The marriage did not produce any
children for Princetta and James and late on in
their lives they were living at Meeker in Rio Blanco in Colorado where first
James died on 15th June 1931 followed by his wife who died eight
years after on 7th April 1939.
Both of them were buried at Meeker. |
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61Q26 |
Orrin Collett was born at Leti in Maricopa County
in Arizona on 16th July 1882, the son of Reuben and Elthurah Collett.
He was just approaching the age of one and half years when he died at
Leti on 22nd December 1883. |
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61Q27 |
Roseltha
M Collett was born
at Leti on 29th April 1884, the daughter of Reuben Collett and Elthurah Roseltha Merrill. She was three years old when her parents
returned to live in Utah, where Roseeltha was
baptised on 5th May 1894 when she was ten years old. In 1900 she was recorded in error in the
census that year as Rosevella Collett, age 16 from
Arizona, when she and her family were residing in Riverdale in Naples, Uintah
County. It was just over two years
later when she married Albert Wellington Nielsen at Naples on 28th
August 1902. |
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Albert
Nielsen was born at Payson in Utah on 22nd December 1876 and he
and Roseltha had seven children, one of which,
Kenneth Reuben Nielsen, is known to have been born at Smithfield where he
also died. The full list of children
is: Roseltha Mae Nielsen; Sarah Veda Nielsen;
Albert Peter Nielsen; Kenneth Reuben Nielsen (13.07.1912 – 04.11.1912); Chloris Nielsen; and Donna Lois Nielsen. By the time of her death on 18th
October 1969 Roseltha was living at Sandy in Salt
Lake although she was buried at Vernal. |
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61Q28 |
Clarence James Collett
was born at Leti on
5th May 1886, the son of Reuben and Elthurah
Collett, and was baptised in Utah on 2nd February 1894 at the age
of eight years after his parents had returned there when he was around one
year old. At the time of the census in
1900 Clarence J Collett was 14 and was living with his family at Riverdale
within the Naples Precinct of Uintah County, Utah. It was seven years later that he married
(1) Margaret Watkins on 5th February 1907 at Vernal, with whom he
had nine children. Margaret was born
at Midway in Wasatch County in Utah on 18th August 1884 and was
baptised on 6th September 1893. |
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Once
married the couple settled in Utah where all of their children were
born. Seven of their nine children had
already been born by the time of the census in 1920 and they were all recorded
with the couple on that day, when Clarence J Collett was 35 and his wife
Margaret was 36. The seven children
were Genevieve M Collett age 12, Opal Collett age 10, Clarence L Collett who
was eight, Earl M Collett who was six, Elthose
(sic) Collett who was five, Edward R Collett who was three years and eight
months, and A Jay Collett who was two years and six months. |
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According
to the next census in 1930 the family was residing in Salt Lake City where
Clarence J Collett was 43, Margaret Collett was 45, and still living with
them were all nine of their children, including the couple’s eldest daughter
who was married by then and had her husband living at the family home. Margaret G Davies was 22 and her husband
Albert H Davies was 23. Opal Collett
was 21, Leon C Collett was 19, Earl M Collett was 17, Elthura
Collett was 15, Edward R Collett was 13, A Jay Collett was 12, Luella Collett
was three years old, and Milo J Collett was two. Also staying with the family was Byron Sylvester
Collett (ref. 61R43), and his wife Clela H Collett
from Oklahoma, who was incorrectly described as the cousin of Clarence James
Collett, when in fact he was his nephew. |
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By
1940 the dramatically reduced household was living at Murray City in Salt
Lake, where Clarence J Collett was 53, Margaret Collett was 54, Ajay Collett
was 22, Luella Collett was 14, and Milo Collett was 12. Fifteen years after that Margaret Collett
nee Watkins died at Salt Lake City on 21st June 1955 and was
buried at the Memorial Garden in Sandy on 24th June 1955,
following which her widowed husband married (2) Amanda Peterson Spencer,
although neither the date, nor the location are known. What is known is that Clarence James
Collett died at Bluffdale in Utah on 27th June 1973 and was buried
at Salt Lake City. |
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61R62 |
Genevieve Margaret Collett |
Born in
1907 at Uintah County |
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61R63 |
Opal Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61R64 |
Leon Clarence Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61R65 |
Earl Murray
Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61R66 |
Elthura
Collett |
Born in 1914
at Uintah County |
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61R67 |
Edward Reuben Collett |
Born in
1916 at Richmond, Utah |
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61R68 |
A Jay
Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61R69 |
Luella Collett |
Born in
1926 at Uintah County |
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61R70 |
Milo James Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61Q29 |
George Collett was born at Vernal on 15th
September 1888, the last child born to Reuben Collett and Elthurah
Roseltha Merrill.
He was nine years old when he was baptised on 15th July
1897, and less than three years later he was 12 years of age in the 1900
Census when he and his family were living at Riverdale in Naples, Uintah
County. He later married (1) Leon May
Larsen Raleigh, but she may have died without their being any children born
to the couple. |
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George
later married (2) Melvina Duke on 15th
October 1914 at Vernal and the couple initially settled in Logan where their
first two children of seven were born.
Melvina was born at Vernal on 10th
December 1891 and baptised on 2nd October 1900. The last two children were born while the
family was living at Thatcher in Bannock County in Idaho and Salt Lake
City. Although nothing is known about
three of the children the other four died shortly after they were born. |
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Ivan
died after fifteen days on 26th August 1915, Iona died the same
day that she was born, as did June, and Clifford survived for almost two
months when he died on 9th March 1925. And it was at Salt Lake City that Melvina died on 1st July 1955 and was buried
in the Memorial Gardens there four days later. George Collett survived his wife by
twenty-seven, before he too died whilst at Salt Lake City on 6th
November 1982, where he was also buried three days after. |
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61R71 |
Ivan
Collett twin |
Born on
11.08.1915 at Logan |
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61R72 |
Iona
Collett twin |
Born on
11.08.1915 at Logan |
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61R73 |
Darwin
Clyde Collett |
Date/place
of birth unknown |
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61R74 |
Roberta
Collett |
Date/place
of birth unknown |
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61R75 |
Marva Collett |
Date/place
of birth unknown |
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61R76 |
Clifford
Lewis Collett |
Born on
10.01.1924 at Thatcher |
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61R77 |
June
Collett |
Born on
08.03.1928 at Salt Lake |
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61Q31 |
Melissa Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache
County, Utah on 24th October 1879, the second child of Charles
Albert Capper Collett and his wife Hannah Ann Merrill. She was still an infant when her parents
took the family to Soda Springs in Caribou County, Idaho where they were
living in 1880 when Melissa Collett was one year old. By the end of the century Melissa was 21
when she was still living with her family which by then had settled in
Bennington, Bear Lake County, Idaho.
It would appear that she was twice married as she was later referred
to as Melissa Burbank and Melissa Van Orman. The only other detail known about her is
that she died in 1962. |
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61Q32 |
Charles Capper Collett
was born at
Bennington in Bear Lake County, Idaho on 6th June 1882, the son of
Charles and Hannah Collett. It was
also at Bennington that he was still living with his large family in 1900
when he was 18. Two years after that
his parents moved to Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, taking their children
with them. Around 1910 Charles married
Effie Rebecca Seeley who was born in 1881 and from Duchesne County in Utah,
with whom he had at least eight children. |
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It
was at Lethbridge that the couple lived their early life together,
and there also that their first five children were born. This was confirmed in the census of 1916
when Chas Capper Collett was 34, as was his wife Effa
Seeley Collett, and their three Lethbridge born children were Lloyd Sully
Collett, who was five, Thelma Cecilia Collett, who was three, and Merrill
Dean Collett who was two years old. |
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Following
the birth of the couple’s fifth child the family left Canada and returned to
America, where they settled at Roosevelt in Duchesne County, Utah, possibly to
be nearer Effie’s family. The Duchesne
census in 1920 listed the family in error under the name Colett,
when Charles C Colett from Idaho, who was 37, his
wife Effie Colett who was 38, and their children
were Lloyde Colett, who
was nine, Thelma Colett, who was seven, Merrill Colett, who was five, William W W
Colett, who was three, and Brye
Colett who was one year and seven months old. |
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Three
more children were added to the family during the next decade while they were
still living in Roosevelt, which was where the family was still residing at
the time of the census in 1930. By
that time the couple’s eldest son was a married man, he and his very young
wife still living with his parents. On
that occasion Charles C Collett was 47, Effie S Collett was 48, when all of
their eight children, plus their daughter-in-law, were all still living at
Roosevelt with them. Lloyde S Collett was 19 and his wife Utahana
Collett was 17, Thelma Collett was also 17, Merrill Collett was 15, Woodrow
Collett was 13, Brie A Collett was 11, daughter Veva
A Collett was nine, Joseph R Collett was six, and Glenn Collett was three. |
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In
1940 the Collett family was residing within Ward 5 of Salt Lake City, when
Charles C Collett was 57, Effa S Collett was 58,
Merrill D Collett was 25, Brie A Collett was 21, Veva
A Collett was 19, Ralph J Collett was 16, and Glenn C Collett was 12 years of
age. Charles Capper Collett died at
Salt Lake City on 3rd April 1961, by which time he was already a
widower, having lost his wife Effie in 1959. |
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61R78 |
Lloyd Seely Collett |
Born in
1910 at Lethbridge |
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61R79 |
Thelma
Cecilia Collett |
Born in
1912 at Lethbridge |
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61R80 |
Merrill
Dean Collett |
Born in
1914 at Lethbridge |
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61R81 |
William
Woodrow Collett |
Born in
1916 at Lethbridge |
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61R82 |
Brie A
Collett |
Born in
1918 at Lethbridge |
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61R83 |
Veva A Collett |
Born in
1921 at Roosevelt, Utah |
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61R84 |
Joseph Ralph Collett |
Born in 1923
at Roosevelt, Utah |
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61R85 |
Glenn
Collett |
Born in
1927 at Roosevelt, Utah |
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61Q33 |
Maude Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Lake
County, Idaho on 27th November 1884 and was another daughter of
Charles and Hannah Collett. She was 16
years old in the Bennington census of 1900 when she was living there with her
family. It was later that same year
when Maude Collett died. |
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61Q34 |
Philemon Merrill
Collett was born at
Bennington on 3rd May 1886, a son of Charles and Hannah
Collett. Nothing further is known him
or his life after 1900, when he was 14, except that he died in 1943. |
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61Q38 |
Ralph Demar Collett was
born at Meadowville in Utah on 10th April 1897, another son of
Charles and Hannah Collett. On the day
of the census in 1900 Ralph D Collett was four years of age and was with his
family at Bennington in Idaho. By the
time he was 19 his mother had died and he and his father and younger brother
Morgan (below) were living at Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. The census for Lethbridge in 1916 recorded
him under his full name of Ralph Demar
Collett. It was during 1948 that Ralph
Demar Collett passed away. |
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61Q39 |
Lola Collett was born at Bennington during 1900 but
after the census day that year, the youngest daughter of Charles and Hannah
Collett. What happen to Lola after the
premature death of her mother is not known, as she was not with her father in
1916 when he and two of Lola’s brother were recorded at Lethbridge in
Alberta. What is known is that when
Lola married she became Lola Saunders who died in 1995. |
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61Q40 |
Morgan Collett was born at Magrath in Alberta on 23rd
June 1904 the last child born to Charles Capper Collett and Hannah Ann
Merrill. Following the death of his
mother, Morgan and his older brother Ralph (above) were the only children
living with their father at Lethbridge in Alberta. At the moment nothing further is known
about Morgan, except that it was during 1975 that he died. |
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61Q41 |
James Tidwell Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache on
30th September 1878, the eldest child of James Jones Collett and
his first wife Mariett Tidwell. He was aged eleven years by the time he was
baptised on 5th September 1889.
Sadly he died when he was working as a labourer, so perhaps it was an
accident at work that was the cause of death, when he died at Cache on 6th
July 1903. The death certificate gave
his age as 23, whereas he was nearly 25. |
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61Q42 |
Sadie Sophronia Collett was born at Smithfield on 15th April 1880,
the daughter of James and Mariett Collett. At the time of the census in 1880 Sadie was
recorded as Saphrona Collett, aged one month,
living with her family at Richmond in Cache County. Twenty years later Sadie, as Sada Collett was 20 and was the niece of Julia A Lewis
nee Collett, age 37 and from Utah, and her husband Walter W Lewis, who was
40, when she was living with the Lewis family at Bennington in Bear Lake
County in Idaho. No further record of
Sadie Collett has been found, therefore it is very
likely that she was married sometime after 1900. She lived a long life and died on 16th
May 1957. |
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61Q43 |
Elmer T Collett was born at Smithfield in late 1880
or early 1881 and was 18 years old in 1900 when he was living with his family
at Bennington in Bear Lake, Idaho. No
further record of him has been found to date, except that he is referred to
twice within the Historical Registers of National Homes for
Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 1866 to 1938.
Both give his age as 48, while making a reference to 1928, and for
both entries he was named as Elmer Collette.
The first entry referred to military service at Sawtelle
in California, while the second entry mentioned military service at
Leavenworth in Kansas and that he was born at Smithfield in 1880. |
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61Q45 |
Elsie Collett was one half of a set of twins born
on 4th November 1882 at Smithfield to proud parents James and Mariett Collett.
Sadly she only survived for three months and died on 3rd
February 1883. |
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61Q46 |
Julia Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Park
County in Idaho on 2nd October 1884, the last child of James Jones
Collett by his first wife Mariett Tidwell. Julia’s mother died when she was three
years old, and it was six years after that when she was baptised on 7th
September 1893, at the age of nine years.
It seems likely that she never married and that she died in December
1975 aged 91 years. |
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61Q49 |
Marriette
Collett was born at
Bennington on 22nd April 1897, the first child by the second wife
of James Jones Collett, Jane Wardrop. Her existence in this family line has been
determined through the DNA Study currently being carried out by Barry Collett
in the USA, the details of which were kindly provided by Marion O’Shea of
Australia whose family feature in Part 12 – The Chipping Norton |
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61Q51 |
Ralph Wardrop Collett was
born at Logan in Cache County in Utah on 21st May 1902, one half
of a set of twins, the last two children born to James Jones Collett and his
second wife Jane Wardrop. Sadly his twin brother did not survive, while
Ralph was eight years old when he was baptised on 18th September
1910. When Ralph was four years old
his family left Utah and made their home at Alberta in Canada. By 1916 he was the only child from his
family who still living with his parents, when the census that year recorded
the family as residing at Raymond Township within the Lethbridge district of
Alberta, where Ralph W Collett was 14.
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Ralph
later returned to America and by 1920 he was recorded in the census that year
at West Branch in Bonner County, Idaho when he was
staying there in a boarding house at the age of 17. Ten years later Ralph W Collett was still a
bachelor who was living at a boarding house in Denver, Colorado which was run
by James and Florence Robison. That
was significant since Florence Robison, the great grandmother of R Scott
Hayes who provided these new details, and the mother of Ralph's future wife,
Virginia Elizabeth Miller who was born on 24th May 1909 in Joplin,
Jasper County in Missouri. Virginia was
not living in her mother's home because she was recently divorced from James
Byron Woodward with whom she had a son. Curiously Ralph and Virginia were married on
9th February 1930, two months before the census was conducted that
year. So, for some reason, Ralph did
not declare his married status, nor has it yet been discovered where Virginia
was on the day of the census. The next
conundrum focuses on their daughter Florence Jane Collett who was born in
Colorado on 8th July 1930, only five months after their wedding
day, and three months after the census.
Presumably Ralph’s wife was hiding away, perhaps through the shame of
having become pregnant prior to the couple’s wedding date, which may also
have been the possible cause of her divorce. |
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Once
their daughter was born the family left Colorado and travelled to California,
where they settled in the town of Tulare where their remaining children were
born. it was there also that the
family was residing on the day of the census in 1940 when Ralph Wardrop Collett was 37, Virginia Elizabeth Collett was
30, and their six children were James Byron Collett (Woodward) who was 12,
Florence Jane Collett who was nine, Beulah Marie Collett who was seven,
Robert Wardrop Collett who was six, Joyce Yvonne
Collett who was three and Alice Ada Collett who was one year old. Ralph W Collett died at Tulare in
California on 25th January 1981, after which it is possible that
his widow re-married, since Virginia Elizabeth Shields nee Miller died in
1989. |
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61R86 |
James Byron Woodward |
Born in 1927
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61R87 |
Florence Jane Collett |
Born in 1930
at Denver, Colorado |
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61R88 |
Beulah Marie Collett |
Born in
1932 at Visalia, Tulare County |
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61R89 |
Robert Wardrop
Collett |
Born in 1933
at Farmersville, Tulare Cty |
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61R90 |
Joyce Yvonne Collett |
Born in 1936
at Farmersville, Tulare Cty |
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61R91 |
Alice Nevada Collett |
Born in
1938 at Tulare, Tulare County |
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61R92 |
Ralph Sidney Collett |
Born in 1940
at Visalia, Tulare County |
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61R93 |
Joann Fay Collett |
Born in 1942
at Visalia, Tulare County |
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61Q52 |
Riley Wardrop Collett, who was the twin brother of Ralph Wardrop
Collett (above), was born at Logan on 21st May 1902. Tragically he died at Logan in Cache
County, Utah, on 25th September 1902 and was buried at Smithfield
in an unmarked grave. |
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61Q53 |
Ada Mary Collett was born at Idaho in 1887, the eldest
child of Thomas Ward Collett and his wife Ida Amelia Anderson. In 1900 she was living at Club Springs,
Salt River Precincts in Bannock County, Idaho, with her family and was
13. Sometime later she married Earle
Miller and their son Thomas was born while the couple was still living in
Idaho. However, by 1920 the family had
moved west to San Buena, Ventura in California. Earle Miller from Colorado was 35, Ada
Miller from Idaho was 32, and their son Thomas W Miller was five years
old. Ten years later her son Tommy
Miller, age 16, was living at the Unity home in Cassia County of Ada’s
youngest brother George Collett (below) who was married to Anne Rose Miller,
the sister of Ada’s husband. Following
the death of her husband Ada re-married to become Ada Mary Henderson, the
name used at the time of her death in 1953. |
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61Q54 |
Blanche Elizabeth
Collett was born at
Idaho during September 1889, the daughter of Thomas Ward Collett and Ida
Amelia Anderson. All that is currently
known about her is that in 1900 she was living with her family is Club
Springs, Salt River Precincts in Bannock, Idaho, when she was 11, and that
twenty years later she was still a spinster at the age of 31 while residing
at Burley in Cassia County, Idaho with her parents. Upon being married she became Blanche
Elizabeth Johnson and died in 1957. |
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61Q55 |
Elmer Thomas Collett was born at Idaho in 1892 and died
in 1893. |
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61Q56 |
Loren A Collett was born in Idaho during December
1894, the third child and eldest son of Thomas and Ida Collett. In 1900 he and his family were living at
Club Springs in Bannock County, when Loren was six years of age. No record of him or his family has been
identified within the census of 1910 simply because, by then, they had been
living in Canada for a few years. It
was around 1913 that Loren married Lona from
Virginia, and by 1920 when the pair of them was living at Cassia in Idaho
their marriage had already given them their first three children. Loren was 25, Lona
was 24, and the three children were Uriel Collett,
who was five, Gordon Collett, who was three years and ten months, and Lillian
Collett who was two years old. All
three children had been born in Idaho. |
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The
family did not feature in the next census of 1930, but by 1940 it was a completely
different situation when Loren and Lona were living
at Grand View in Ada County, Idaho.
And it was there, in the same dwelling that the family had been living
in 1935. Loren A Collett was 45, Lona Mcollett from West
Virginia was 44, their son Gordon R Collett was 24, and their daughter Norma
V Collett was 18. Loren was hiring two
men to assist him, and they were Nicholas Rigapollos,
who was 56 and from Greece, and Melvin M Lyon from Idaho who was 23. |
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61R94 |
Uriel Collett |
Born in
1914 at Idaho |
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61R95 |
Gordon R
Collett |
Born in
1916 at Idaho |
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61R96 |
Lillian
Collett |
Born in
1918 at Idaho |
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61R97 |
Norma V
Collett |
Born in
1922 at Idaho |
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61Q57 |
David Daniel Collett was born at Soda Springs in Caribou
County, Idaho on 22nd April 1897, the son of Thomas and Ida
Collett. He was three years old at the
time of the Club Springs census in 1900 when he was living with his family in
Bannock County in Idaho. Ten years
later he and his family were in Canada, but had return to Idaho shortly
thereafter. It was as David D Collett,
age 23, that he was still living with his family in 1920 when their home was
in Cassia County in Idaho. It was at
the city of Burley in Idaho that David married the much younger Gwendoline Moench from Idaho on 19th September 1927, after
which the couple set up home at Unity in Cassis County where David’s two
brothers Thomas and George (below) were living in 1930. The census that year included the childless
couple living there with Gwendoline’s younger
brother staying with them on the day of census. Dave Collett was 33,
Gwendoline Collett was 21, while David’s brother-in-law was named as Frank Moench from Idaho. |
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During
the following decade Gwendoline presented David with two children while they
were still living in Unity, and it was there the family was recorded in the
census of 1940. By that time David D
Collett was 43, Gwendoline Collett was 31, their son Freddie Collett was
eight years old and their daughter Catherine Collett was six. It was after a further eighteen years when
David Daniel Collett died on 1st September 1958 that he was living
in Wendell in Gooding County, Idaho while his widow survived him by
thirty-one years when Gwendoline Collett nee Moench
died during 1989. |
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61R98 |
David
Frederick Collett |
Born in 1931
at Unity, Idaho |
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61R99 |
Catherine
Collett |
Born in
1934 at Unity, Idaho |
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61Q58 |
Thomas Ward Collett was born in Idaho during 1901, the
son of Thomas Ward Collett and Ida Amelia Anderson. At the end of the first decade of the new
century Thomas and his family were living in Alberta, Canada, but by 1920
they were back living in Cassia County in Idaho, when Thomas W Collett was
19. Three of four years later he
married Minnie Viola Peterson from Colorado, and over the following few years
they had a total of four children. The
first child was born at Burley, with the remainder born after the family had
settled at Unity in Cassia County. |
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By
the time of the census in 1930 the couple’s third child had only just been
born at Unity, where Thomas’ brothers David (above) and George (below) were
also living with their families.
Thomas Collett was 30, Minnie Collett was 26, and their three children
at that time were Viola Collett who was five, Thomas Collett who was two, and
baby Harold Collett. Their last child
was born there a few years later and by 1935 the family had moved to Grand
View in Ada County, Idaho, where Thomas’ older brother Loren (above) was also
living at that time. |
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According
to the Grand View census of 1940, Thomas W Collett was 39, his wife Minnie V
Collett was 36, Viola M Collett was 15, Thomas A Collett was 12, Harold E
Collett was nine, and Ida M Collett was seven. Also like his brother Loren, Thomas too was
employing two hired hands, and they were the brothers Leroy Beaman who was 27, and Sherman C Beaman
who was 23, from Colorado. |
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61R100 |
Viola Minnie Collett |
Born in
1925 at Burley, Idaho |
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61R101 |
Thomas A
Collett |
Born in
1928 at Unity, Idaho |
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61R102 |
Harold E
Collett |
Born in
1930 at Unity, Idaho |
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61R103 |
Ida M
Collett |
Born in
1933 at Unity, Idaho |
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61Q59 |
George Ward Collett was born in Idaho during 1904, the
youngest son of Thomas Ward Collett and his wife Ida. It was not longer after he was born that
his parents temporarily left Idaho and spent a few years in Alberta where his
sister Alberta Collett was born in 1910.
However, the family had returned to Idaho by 1914 since it was there
that George’s next sister Elizabeth was born. |
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All
of this was confirmed in the census of 1920, when the Collett family was
residing in Cassia County in Idaho, where George W Collett was 16. George was very likely around 24 or 25 when
he married Anne Rose Miller from Utah, the sister of Earle Miller who married
George’s older sister Ada Mary Collett (above). George and Anne he had two known children,
the first of which was a baby at the time of the census in 1930. By that time the family of three was living
at Unity in Cassia County, close to George’s two older married brothers David
and Thomas (above). George was 26,
Anne was 24, their son was named as John G Collett, and staying with the
family was nephew Tommy Miller who was 16 and from Idaho, the son of George’s
eldest sister Ada Miller nee Collett (above). |
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Unlike
his two brothers, George did not move to Grand View in Ada County, Idaho,
before 1935 but was still living in Unity by the time of the census in 1940,
which also confirmed that he had been living at the same address in
1935. George W Collett was 39, Anne M
Collett was 32, John Collett was 11, and George Collett was four years of
age. Lodging with the family was hired
hand Fred Hansen from Utah who was 38, together with his daughter Myra
Hansen, age 19, who was described as the niece of George Collett, and Warren
Hansen who was 15, and described as nephew.
This might indicate that George’s wife was Anne M Hansen, the sister
of Fred Hansen, since they were both born in Utah. Five years later George Ward Collett passed
away in 1940 and some time thereafter his widow re-married to become Anne
Rose Williams, who died in 1976. |
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61R104 |
John George Collett |
Born in
1929 at Elmore County, Idaho |
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61R105 |
George Edward Collett |
Born in
1935 at Cassia County, Idaho |
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61Q63 |
Edna Collett was born at Dayton in Idaho on 18th
December 1892, the first child of Daniel Ward Collett by his wife Sarah
Lottie Phillips. Nineteen years later
she married Leslie Bird Howell on 17th January 1912. |
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61Q64 |
Lottie Lewella Collett was
born on 26th November 1894, the daughter of Daniel Ward Collett
and Sarah Lottie Phillips. She was born
in a log cabin on the site of what is now the Blackfoot Reservoir near the
town of Henry in Idaho. The town of
Henry only had one general store which was originally built by John Henry
Schmidt, the great uncle of Lee Ward Collett who provided this information. Today in 2014 the store is now closed. It was one week after her twentieth
birthday when she married LeRoy D Manning on 2nd
December 1914. |
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61Q65 |
Sarah Collett was born at Soda Springs in Caribou
County, Idaho on 10th January 1897 and was twenty-seven years of
age when she married Dimon D Bodily on 11th
June 1924. |
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61Q66 |
Daniel Phillips
Collett was known
as Dan and was born at Presto in Bingham County, Idaho on 19th
July 1898, the son of Daniel and Sarah Collett. By 1900 Daniel P Collett was two years old
when he and his family were living at Presto, Grays, Taylor Precincts, Bingham County in Idaho.
Ten years later the family was at Dayton in Oneida County, Idaho,
where Daniel was curiously recorded as being 10 instead of 12. After another ten years Daniel was still
living with his family in 1920 when he was 21 and his family was at Cassia
County in Idaho. |
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Three
years later on 3rd October 1923 he married Anna Vernetta Buchanan, probably in a joint ceremony with his
sister Elizabeth (below). During the
next seven years Anna presented Daniel with their first three children, as
confirmed by the census in 1930. The
family on that occasion was recorded incorrectly under the surname Collatt, by which time they were living at Hagerman in
Gooding County, Idaho. Daniel P Collatt was 31, Vernetta A Collatt was 24, and their three children on that occasion
were Bobby D Collatt, who was five, Junior M Collatt, who was three, and Gloria A Collatt
who was under one year old. |
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Two
more children were added to the family during the first half of the 1930s,
and in between the two births Daniel’s father passed away, as a result of
which his widowed lived with him and his family thereafter. That may have been around the time that the
family left Hagerman and moved to Glenns Ferry in
Elmore County in Idaho, where they were al living in 1940. |
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The
family at that time was listed as Dan P Collett, age 41, Vernetta
A Collett, age 34, Bobby Dan Collett, who was 14, Max Collett, who was 13,
Gloria Ann Collett, who was 10, Donetta Collett,
who was nine, and Gary B Collett who was six years old. Daniel’s mother, Sarah L Collett from Utah,
was 67, while all of the other members of the household had been born in
Idaho.. |
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61R106 |
Bobby Daniel Collett |
Born in
1925 in Idaho |
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61R107 |
Junior Max
Collett |
Born in
1927 in Idaho |
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61R108 |
Gloria A
Collett |
Born in
1929 at Hagerman, Idaho |
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61R109 |
Donetta Collett |
Born in
1931 at Hagerman, Idaho |
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61R110 |
Gary B
Collett |
Born in
1934 in Idaho |
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61Q67 |
Elizabeth Collett was born at Basalt in Bingham
County, Idaho on 11th November 1902. She was one month short of her twenty-first
birthday when she married Martinus Anderson on 3rd
October 1923, the same day that her brother Daniel (above) was married, most
likely in a double wedding ceremony. |
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61Q68 |
William Phillips
Collett was born at
Basalt in Bingham County on 14th September 1904, and was five
years old in the census of 1900, when he and his family were living at Dayton
in Franklin County, Idaho. Ten years
later in 1910 the family had moved to Cassia County in Idaho, where William
was 15. With no obvious record of him
in 1920, it was five years later that he married Roxie Leora Collins on 26th
May 1925 and by 1930 they had a baby daughter and were living at Shoshone
in Lincoln County, Idaho. |
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It
is likely the couple settled in Shoshone once they were married and there
also where their daughter was born, since baby Shirley B Collett was not yet
one year old in the census of 1930, when her parents were recorded as William
P Collett who was 25 and Roxie L Collett who was 22. Further children were added to the family
during the next decade and in 1935 the enlarged family was living at Challis
in Custer County, Idaho, where the couple’s second son had been born. However, by 1940 the family had moved
again, on that occasion to Butte in Silver Bow County in Montana, where they
were recorded in the census as Collette.
William Collette was 35, Roxie Collett was 32, Shirley Collette was
10, sons Billie Collette and Jean Collette were seven and five respectively,
and daughter Patsy Collette was three years old. William Phillips Collett was 93 when he
died on 12th February 1998. |
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61R111 |
Shirley B
Collett |
Born in
1930 at Shoshone, Idaho |
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61R112 |
William
(Billie) Collett |
Born in
1933 at Challis, Idaho |
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61R113 |
Jean
Collett |
Born in
1935 at Challis, Idaho |
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61R114 |
Patricia
(Patsy) Collett |
Born in
1937 at Butte, Montana |
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61Q69 |
Mabel Collett was born at Dayton in Franklin
County, Idaho on 15th May 1907 and she later married William
Robert Owen on 29th December 1925. |
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61Q70 |
Ralph Thomas Collett was born at Dayton in Franklin
County on 15th April 1910, the son of Daniel Collett and Sarah
Phillips. He was twenty-four years of
age when he married Irene Mable Eliason at Acequia, Minidoka County in
Idaho on 26th February 1935, Irene having
been born at Racetrack in Powell County, Montana on 3rd December
1911. Over the next two decades Irene
presented Ralph with a total of seven children. All of the new details inserted in November
2014 have been kindly provided by Ralph’s son Lee. |
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61R115 |
Frank Ralph Collett |
Born in
1936 |
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61R116 |
Dorene
Mae Collett |
Born in
1938 |
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61R117 |
Kenneth Ray Collett |
Born in
1939 |
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61R118 |
Delores E Collett |
Born in
1942 |
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61R119 |
Lee Ward Collett |
Born in
1944 |
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61R120 |
Neal Earl Collett |
Born in
1947 |
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61R121 |
Glen Alton Collett |
Born in
1955 |
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61Q71 |
Elverta
Collett was born at
Dayton in Franklin County on 17th March 1912 and she was
twenty-one when she married Thomas Roosevelt Pope on 28th
September 1933. |
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61Q72 |
Barbara Opal Collett was born at Dayton in Franklin
County on 5th March 1914 and it was on 1st June 1933
that she married Moylan Isaac Eliason, whose sister
Irene Mable Eliason married Barbara’s brother Ralph
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61Q73 |
Berniece
Collett was born at
Weston in Franklin County, Idaho on 5th September 1916. Tragically she was only nineteen months old
when she suffered an infant death on 14th April 1918. |
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61Q74 |
Alton Ward Collett was born at Burley in Cassia County,
Idaho on 17th November 1920, the last child born to parents Daniel
Ward Collett and his wife Sarah Lottie Phillips. While he was still very young his parents
moved to Hagerman in Gooding County, Idaho where the family was listed as Collatt in the census of 1930. At that time Alton was recorded as Elton Collatt who was nine years old. |
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In
1935 he was still living at Hagerman with his widowed mother, following the
death of his father in September 1932.
After 1935 Alton and his mother moved to Glenns
Ferry in Elmore County, Idaho, where Alton’s eldest married brother William
Phillips Collett was living with his family.
In 1930 Alton’s mother was living with his brother, while Alton
Collett, age 20, was a hired hand at the Glenns Ferry
home of Duard F Campbell and his wife Una M
Campbell. It was after the Second
World War that Alton Ward Collett married (1) Phyllis Jean McMillian on 1st March 1946. No details of his second wife are currently
available. |
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61R1 |
Reuben Tanner Collett was born at Cokeville
in Wyoming on 29th December in 1892, the only known son of
Sylvester Collett and his wife Elnora Tanner.
Up until around 1912 he lived with his family at Cokeville,
where he was eight years old in 1900, and was 17 in 1910, after which they
moved to Burley in Cassia County, Idaho.
On leaving school Reuben became a bookkeeper and it was at Burley that
he tragically died at the age of 22 on 13th October 1915,
following which he was buried the next day at Pleasant Hill Cemetery. His death certificate confirmed his date of
birth, the names of his parents, and his occupation. |
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61R4 |
Lucille Collett was born at Idaho during 1896 and
was the second of the three children of Thomas Karren
Collett and his wife Catherine. By
1900 her family had settled at Cokeville in Wyoming
where Lucille was five years of age, and it was also at Cokeville
that the completed family was still living in 1910 when she was 14. Shortly
thereafter the family moved to Salt Lake City where unmarried Lucille was 25
when she was still living there with her parents in 1920. Sometime later she was married and became
Lucille Rogers, the result of which was the birth of a son Thomas Franklyn
Rogers, known as Tom, who was born in 1932.
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And
it was Tom who provided some additional details for this family line during
2014. Tom has served as a Mormon
missionary in Germany after receiving his first Bachelor of Arts degree from
the University of Utah in 1955. He
still travels to Eastern Europe at least three times a year and is
occasionally accompanied by one of his twenty-one grandson. Tom also has seventeen granddaughters. |
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In
addition to all of this Tom currently lives in Bountiful in Utah and retired
from the Brigham Young University faculty at Provo in 2000. He was a professor of Russian and had
served there for thirty-one years.
During that time, as director of the Honours Program, he was the
author of nearly thirty plays, including the first literary account of the
young German Latter Day Saints martyr, Helmuth Huebener. He was
the first mission president of the Russia St Petersburg Mission from 1993 to
1996 and, with his wife, taught English at the University of Peking for the
BYU China Teachers Program. He also
served a mission at the Sweden Stockholm Temple. Over eight years up to 2014 Tom has served
as an itinerant Russian speaking patriarch in the Church’s Europe East Area
and has completed twenty-four tours and bestowed there approximately 2,500
blessings. |
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61R5 |
Thiel
D Collett was born
at Cokeville in Wyoming in 1905, the only son and
third child of Thomas Karren Collett and his wife
Catherine. He was five years old in
the Cokeville census of 1910 but by 1920, when he
was 15, he and his family were residing in Salt Lake City. Thiel later
married and had a daughter Sharron Collett. On
25th April 1933 the adventures of Thiel
Collett and his trip to the Far East were reported in the newspaper, when the
Salt Lake City Tribune printed the follow article under the headline “Student
Returns From Year Tour of Orient Lands – youth declares cost of trip held to
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“Darkly tanned, Thiel Collett, prominent former University of Utah
athlete, has returned from an economy tour of the Orient and Europe. Mr Collett was away for a year visiting
Hawaii, Japan, Manchuria, China, French Indo-China, Java, Bali, Siam, Burma,
India, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, Italy, France,
Switzerland and England. The trip cost
him less than $2 per day, Mr Collett said Monday, explaining that it was
undertaken as a means of rounding out his education. Within the ensuing year he plans to write a
book on his travels. |
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A son of Mrs T K
Collett of 324 East Second South Street, Mr Collett was the captain of the
university football team in 1925. He
gained recognition for his ability in the centre and forward positions, and
later played basketball for the Arthur team of the Utah Copper League. The Traveller was in the Sino-Japanese war
zone, along the Southern Manchuria railway, for two weeks. Although he witnessed much suffering from a
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Mr Collett narrowly
escaped contacting Cholera. Two men he
met at Bangkok, Siam, an Indian and a United States government official,
contracted the dread disease while he was travelling with them to Calcutta
over a northern Siam and southern Burma malaria belt. Both recovered after two weeks treatment in
Calcutta.” |
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It
was Thiel’s athleticism that led to him being
selected as the model for the ‘larger than life’ size central bronze figure
in the Mormon Battalion Monument in the grounds of the Utah State
Capitol. His participation in this
venture was jointly due to his athletic physique and the fact that his great grandfather
Thomas Karren had been a member of the Battalion. The Mormon Battalion was recruited by the
US Government during the Mexican War in 1857, at the very time members of the
LDS Church had been forced from their headquarters in Nauvoo, Illinois, and
were undertaking the arduous trek to what is now Utah. Brigham Young agreed to the separation of
those badly needed men, most of them husbands and fathers, so that their army
wages could help provision their and other families on the pioneer
trail. The aforementioned Thomas Karren, the future father-in-law of the young Sylvanus
Collett, was one of those recruits.
The Battalion, which marched all the way to California and then back
to Utah after it disbanded, never saw military action. |
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Sharron Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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Leslie Marion Collett was born in Cache County, Utah on 12th
June 1889, the eldest child of Marion Merrill Collett and his wife Anna Laura
Horn. Leslie was 11 in 1900 when he
and his family were living at Portneuf in
Bannock County, Idaho. Around 1904 his
mother died and by 1910 Leslie Collett, age 23 (sic), was living with his
father and his sisters at Butte in Silver Bow County, Montana. |
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Where
Leslie was in 1920 has not been determined, although by 1930 he was a married
man and was living in Seattle with his wife.
Staying with the couple on that occasion were his own parents, plus
his mother-in-law. When and where
Leslie M Collett married Gertrude J Miller is not known. In 1900 Gertrude was four years old and was
living at Haddon Heights in Camden County, New Jersey, with her German born
parents J Fred Miller and his wife Anna S Miller. Gertrude was born during the month of May
in 1896 and was still unmarried and living with her widowed mother Anna
Miller at Queens, New York in 1920 when she was 24. |
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It
seems unlikely that Leslie and Gertrude ever had any children and in the
census of 1930 for Seattle they were recorded as Leslie M Collett from Utah,
age 41, as was his wife Gertrude J Collett from New York. His mother-in-law was Anna S Miller, age 66
and from Germany, and his own parents were Marion Collett, who was 59, and
Laura Collett who was 58. Ten years
after that the Seattle census of 1940 listed just the two of them as Leslie M
Collett and Gertrude Collett who were both 52. It was sixteen years after that when Leslie
Marion Collett died in Seattle on 2nd January 1956, following
which he was buried at Holyrood Catholic Cemetery
in Shoreline, nine miles north of Downtown Seattle, lot 808. |
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61R19 |
Wauneta Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache
County, Utah, during the month of February in 1892, the daughter of Marion
and Anna Collett at Utah. In the
census of 1900 she was listed with her family as Waneta
Collett aged eight years at Portneuf in
Bannock County, Idaho. Not long after that her parents moved
the family to live at Butte in Montana, where the death of Wauneta Collett
was recorded during June in 1909. |
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61R20 |
Pearl Collett was born at Smithfield in Cache
County, Utah during 1894, the daughter of Marion and Anna Collett, who was
six years old in the census of 1900 when Pearl and her family was recorded at
Portneuf in Bannock County, Idaho. When her family was recorded at Butte in
1910 and 1920 Pearl was not with them since, by the latter, she was a married
woman, Pearl Sylvester. While nothing
is known about her short married life, it was shortly after finalising the
funeral arrangement for her father that she became ill and died on 15th
March 1935. Four days both Pearl and
her father were buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery
when the following report was published in the Butte Standard newspaper. “Double
funeral services for father and daughter Marion Collett and Mrs Pearl
Sylvester were conducted at 2 o’clock at Duggan’s Merrill mortuary. The services were under the auspices of the
Church of Latter Day Saints. Burial
was side by side in Mount Moriah Cemetery. Marion Collett died late on Friday at his
home, 238 New Street, following a long illness. His daughter had died at a local hospital a
few hours later after she became suddenly ill shortly after completing
funeral arrangements for her father.
Her home was at 713 Placer Street.” |
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61R21 |
Lucretia Laura Collett
was born at
Smithfield in Cache County, Utah on 24th December 1899 another
daughter of Marion and Anna Collett.
She was one year old in the Portneuf census
of 1900 and by 1910, when she was 12 years of age she and her family were
settled in Butte, Montana. At some
time in her life she was married and was known as Lucretia Laura Harper when
she died in Seattle on 27th July 1928. |
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61R22 |
Myrtle Katherine
Collett was born at
Butte in Silver Bow County, Montana on 19th November 1905, the
last child of Marion Merrill Collett and Anna Laura Horn. Myrtle was six years old in 1910 when she
and her family were still living at Butte in 1910, where she was the only
child still living with her parents in 1920 when she was recorded as being
14. She later married to become Myrtle
Katherine Murray and it was in Seattle on 9th March 1952 that she
died. Myrtle Katherine Murray nee
Collett was the great grandmother of Alaric DeArment of New York who kindly
provided some of the information relating to this family line. |
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61R27 |
Leroy Collett was born at Cokeville
on 12th February 1909, the son of Roy Collett and Sarah Amelia
(Millie) Svenson.
Tragically she was only 18 years old when she died at Cokeville on 13th November 1927, following
which she was buried in Cokeville Cemetery in
Lincoln County, Wyoming. |
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61R31 |
Gertrude Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 9th
July 1892, but was not baptised until 16th August 1900. She was the eldest child of Reuben Samuel
Collett and his wife Flora Elsie Colton.
Gertrude later married Burke Reese Thomas at Salt Lake City on 22nd
October 1919 with whom she had four children.
Burke was born at Pocatello in Idaho on 10th February 1892,
the son of David B Thomas and Martha A Reese.
Shortly after they were married the couple was living at Knightsville
in Juab County in Utah where their first child was born. Within a few months the family had moved to
Salt Lake City, where their remaining children were born. |
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The
four children were Burke Reuben Thomas (16.08.1920 – 20.12.1976), Donald
Collett Thomas (01.06.1922 – 08.04.2008), Nancy Thomas (16.08.1923 –
23.01.1951), and Jean Lamar Thomas who was born on 27.05.1925. By the time of the census in 1940 Burke had
died and Gertrude was a widow living in Salt Lake City at the home of her
parents, together with her four children.
Gertrude was 47, and her children were Burke R Thomas, age 19, Donald
C Thomas, age 17, Nancy Thomas, age 16, and Jean Thomas who was 14. Gertrude spent most of her life at Salt
Lake City and it was there that she died on 26th March 1976. She was buried three days later at Wasatch
Lawn Cemetery in Salt Lake City. |
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Gertrude’s
son Donald married Beth Young at Salt Lake City on 8th September
1948 and it was their son David Young Thomas who was born at Salt Lake City
on 9th March 1954 who kindly provided all of the details relating
to his American family. |
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David
married Lori Clark at Oakland in California on 21st May 1977 with
whom he has five children - Jared Clark Thomas born at Provo on 22nd
March 1978, Justin David Thomas born on 30th November 1980, Amy
Beth Thomas born on 5th March 1983, and Sean Michael Thomas who
was born on 15th April 1987, all three of them born at Mesa, and
Trevor Matthew Thomas who was born at Santa Rosa on 7th December
1990. |
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61R32 |
Elsie Collett was born at Vernal on 11th
February 1894 and was baptised on 2nd August 1902, the second
child of Reuben and Flora Collett. She
married (1) Maurice Vernon Richardson
on 7th October 1922 at Salt Lake City and the marriage
produced one son for the couple, Maurice Vernon junior who was born at
Oakland on 3rd January 1923.
At the age of fifty-five, and presumably following the death of her
husband, Elsie married (2) George B Baldwin in San Francisco on 5th
August 1949. She later died on 16th
April 1984 at Palo Alta in California where she was also buried. |
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61R33 |
Reuben Sterling
Collett was born at
Vernal on 13th May 1895 and was baptised in 1903, the eldest son
of Reuben and Flora Collett. He
married (1) Mary Lulu Griffith with whom he had three children. He later married (2) Willie Maud Thomas nee
Binskin at Reno in Washoe County in Nevada on 2nd
November 1946. Willie Maud was born at
Banko in Texas on 14th January 1890. |
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Reuben
and Mary were living at Roosevelt in Duchesne County in Utah for the birth of
their first and third child, but in between times the family lived at Salt
Lake City where the second child was born.
Reuben Stirling Collett died at Waco, McLennan County in Texas on 21st
August 1975 and was buried at Vernal on 25th August 1975. |
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61S2 |
Sterling Driggs
Collett |
Born in
1920 at Roosevelt, Utah |
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61S3 |
Ray Samuel Collett |
Born in
1921 at Salt Lake City |
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61S4 |
Maureen (Maurine) Collett |
Born in
1924 at Roosevelt, Utah |
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61R34 |
Marie Collett was born at Vernal on 4th
October 1896 and was baptised on 4th June 1905, the daughter of
Reuben and Flora Collett. Over
thirty-four years later at the age of 43 she married Hobert
Wesley Wheeler at San Francisco on 22nd November 1939. Hobert was born
on 6th April 1902 at Hamden in New Haven in Connecticut. Marie was living at Walnut Grove in
California when she died on 22nd March 1986 and it was there that
she was also buried. |
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61R35 |
Karl Warren Collett was born at Vernal on 29th
May 1898 and was baptised on 2th August 1906, the son of Reuben and Flora
Collett. The Vernal census in 1900
included him with his family as Karl W Collett age two years. He was still there ten years later in 1910
when he was 12, but after a further ten years he and his family were living
in Duchesne County in Utah, where Karl W Collett was 21. It was very soon after that when Karl
sailed to England, most likely on a Mormon Mission, following which he
returned in 1923. His re-entry into
America from Liverpool was confirmed in the passenger manifest of the vessel
‘Montcalm’ which docked at Quebec on 14th
September 1923, his age being recorded as 25 years and 5 months, his date of
birth stated as being 29th May 1898. |
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Four
years later he married Dorcas Leah McBride on 7th June 1927 at
Salt Lake City. Leah, as she was
known, was born at Oakley in Cassio County in Idaho on 25th
January 1904. The marriage resulted in
the birth of two children for Karl and Leah, who were recorded with them in
the census of 1930 as residing at Salt Lake City. Karl W Collet was 31, his wife Leah Collett
was 25, and their daughters were La Rue Collett who was two years old and
Jolene Collett who was still under one year old. Lodging with the family was Fredrick Bosch
from Minnesota who was 31. |
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In
1935 the family of four was living at Boulder in Clark County, Nevada, but five
years later they had settled at Judicial Township 4 in Shasta County,
California. By that time Karl was 42,
Leah E Collett was 36, La Ray (sic) was 12, and Jolene was 10. |
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Tragically
the family lost their father sixteen years later when in 1956 Karl Warren
Collett was killed in an air-crash, from which his body was never
recovered. The accident happened on 9th
December 1956 near Hope in Alaska, British Columbia, and the list of
passengers included the name of Karl Warren Collett of Calgary in Alberta. Details of the fatal flight are contained
in an appendix at the end of this family line. |
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61S5 |
Lu Rae Collett |
Born in
1928 at Salt Lake City |
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61S6 |
Jolene
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Born in
1929 at Salt Lake City |
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61R36 |
Merle Collett was born at Vernal on 21st
June 1899, the daughter of Reuben and Flora Collett. Sadly she only survived for sixteen months
before she died at Vernal on 1st November 1900, where she was also
buried. |
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61R37 |
Flora Collett was one half of a set of twins who
was born at Vernal on 19th February 1902, the daughter of Reuben
and Flora Collett. She was baptised
with her twin sister Cora (below) in a joint ceremony on 2nd April
1910. She married Lewis Leroy George
on 14th June 1928 and together they had two daughters. The first of these was Coralie
George who was born on 27th January 1932 at Great Falls in Montana
and the second was Sally Ann George who was born at Sacramento in California
on 14th September 1941. |
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61R38 |
Cora Collett was one half of a set of twins who
was born at Vernal on 19th February 1902, the last two children
born to Reuben Samuel Collett and his first wife Flora Elsie Colton. She was baptised with her twin sister Flora
(above) in a joint ceremony on 2nd April 1910. Cora married (1) Clarence Etheridge Johnson
at Vernal on 7th March 1923 and the marriage produced three
children for the couple. They were
Norma Johnson who was born at Roosevelt on 1st January 1924,
Norman Etheridge Johnson who was born on 13th July 1927 at Salt
Lake City, and Flora Elsie Johnson who was born on 11th January
1929, after the family had returned to Roosevelt. |
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Cora’s
husband, who was born at Vernal on 10th November 1901 and baptised
on 2nd September 1911, sadly died when he was only thirty-one
years of age. That happened at Rialto
in San Bernardino CA on 20th January 1932, leaving Cora with their
three young children. After thirteen
years as a widow, Cora married (2) Percy Julius Prinz
on 29th May 1945 at San Francisco.
Percy had been born at Cincinnati in Hamilton, Ohio on 28th
October 1887 and was fifteen years old than Cora. And it was at San Francisco that Cora Prinz nee Collett died on 17th September 1977
and where she was buried three days later. |
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61R39 |
Wiley Sylvanus Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 8th
May 1888, the eldest child of Sylvanus Collett and his first wife Sarah
Elizabeth Simkins.
He was eight years old when he was baptised on 1st July
1896, and was 12 years of age at the time of the census in 1900 when Wiley
and his family were living at Browns Park Precincts in Routt
County, Colorado. After that time
there is a gap in his life story, perhaps because of his slightly unusual
name which may have had different interpretations in the various census
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It was previously written here in error that
he entered the church and was the Reverend Wylie Sylvanus Collett married to
Della Lyttle with whom he had two sons by the time
the census was conducted at Harlan, Kentucky in 1930. The family’s surname was recorded in error
as Collette, with Wiley Collette being 25, his wife Dallie
Collette being 22 and from Kentucky, as were their two children, Ernest
Collette who was five and Joe C Collette who was four, both born at Harlan. It was at Salt Lake City that Wiley
Sylvanus Collett died on 7th May 1962 at the age of 74, following
which he was buried four days after at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Vernal. |
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Ernest Collett |
Born in 1924 at Harlan, Kentucky |
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Joe
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Born in 1925 at Harlan, Kentucky |
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Thanks to V Brent Collett, the
grandson of Wiley Collett from Vernal in Utah, it is now known that Wiley
never lived in Kentucky and was certainly not the husband of Della Lyttle or the father of Ernest and Joe, whose details
have been retained here for completeness.
Following his endowment and initiation into the Church of Latter Day
Saints at Salt Lake City on 3rd April 1912 Wiley Collett married
Erma America Billings at Salt Lake Temple on 3rd June 1914. Erma was born at Jensen in Utah on 11th
July 1890, was the daughter of Alfred Nelson Billings and Alice Elvira Orser and was baptised on 2nd July 1898. Their marriage produced seven children, all
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On the day of the census in 1920 Wiley
S Collett from Utah was a farmer at Riverdale in Uintah County, Utah, working
on a farm that he owned through a mortgage.
He was 31, while his wife Erma A Collett was 29 and their two
surviving children at that time were son Vena B Collett who was four years
and two months and daughter Vella Collett who was
three years and two months. The
couple’s third child, Don B Collett - who was born on 1st December
1919, sadly died at Jensen on 12th January 1920 just over two
weeks before the day of the census that year. |
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Although no record of any member of
the family has been identified within the census of 1930, it is established
from the following census that the family was residing at Robertson in Uinta, Wyoming in 1935 where Wiley was still living in
1940 but not with his wife. Curiously
she was renting property in Mountain View in Uinta,
ten kilometres north of Robertson.
Wiley S Collett was 51 and the owner of a ranch valued at $500 where
he worked with his son Vena B Collett who was 24. Completing that part of the divided family
was daughter Vella aged 23 and daughter Alice who
was 13. Wiley was described as a
rancher who was working for seventy hours each week and whose annual income
for 1939 was $800. On that same day in
1940 Wiley’s wife Erma B Collett was 49 and was employed for sixty hours a
week as a local switchboard operator at Mountain View. With her were her three daughters: Anna who
was 19; Beth who was 16; and La Rue who was four years of age. |
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Wiley Collett died the day before his
seventy-fourth, when he passed away at Salt Lake City on 7th May
1962 and was buried on 11th May 1962 in the Memorial Park Cemetery
in Vernal. After three years as a
widow Erma was re-married to Joseph Wilford Slade during January 1965. In the end Wiley’s wife survived him by
almost seventeen years when as Erma America Slade she died at Vernal on 7th
March 1979 and was laid to rest with or near to her first husband in the
Vernal Memorial Park Cemetery. |
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Vene Billings Collett |
Born in 1915 at Vernal, Utah |
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Vella Collett |
Born in 1916 at Vernal, Utah |
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61S10 |
Don Billings Collett |
Born in 1919 at Jensen, Utah |
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Anna
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Born in 1921 at Vernal, Utah |
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Beth
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Born in 1924 at McKinnon, Wyoming |
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Alice
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Born in 1926 at McKinnon, Wyoming |
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Lu
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Born in 1935 at Robertson, Wyoming |
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61R40 |
Annie Elthora Collett was
born at Leti in Maricopa County in Arizona on 5th June 1891, the
first daughter born to Sylvanus and Sarah Collett. Tragically she died two years later on 27th
June 1893. |
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61R41 |
Orin Collett was born at Vernal on 3rd
October 1893 and was baptised on 27th September 1901, the son of
Sylvanus and Sarah Collett. He was
strangely recorded as being only five years old in the census of 1900, when
he and his parents were residing at Browns Park Precincts in Routt County, Colorado.
Following the death of his mother in 1902, Orin’s father remarried and
in 1910 the new family was living at North Ashley, to the north of Vernal,
when Orin Collett was 16. No record of
Orin has been found in 1920 but it is established that he married Essie of
Utah around 1915, and that by 1930 Essie had presented him with the first
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Orin
and Essie, both 37, were still living at North Ashley in 1930, where their
children were recorded as son Laveril Collett, who
was 14, Bernice Collett, who was 12, William R Collett, who was nine, Clara
Dell Collett, who was six, Betty Merle Collett who was two years old. It was during the following year that the
couple’s last child was born, and sometime after 1935 the family left North
Ashley and settled at Precinct 14 in Hanna in Duchesne County, Utah,
where they were living in 1940. |
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According
to the census that year the family had been living at (North Ashley) in
Vernal in 1935, and by 1940 the couple’s eldest daughter Bernice was no
longer living with them, and was perhaps married by then. Orin and Essie were both 47, while their
sons Laveril and Bill were 24 and 19
respectively. Curiously there was a
conflict with the ages and names of their first two daughters, with Betty
Collett now the older child at 16, with Clara Collett the younger at 12, so
it is possible that it was simply an enumerator error. The youngest daughter was named as Arva Collett who was nine years old. |
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Later
in 1940 Orin and his son William were also working together at Ouray Valley
in Uintah County when Orin was 48 and William was 20. It was just over twenty years after that
when Orin Collett was living in Los Angeles where he died on 12th
January 1963. His death certificate
confirmed that his mother was Simpkins and that he had been born on 1st
October 1893, rather than 3rd October as stated above. |
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61S15 |
Laveril Collett |
Born in
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61S16 |
Bernice
Collett |
Born in
1918 at North Ashley, Utah |
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61S17 |
William R
Collett |
Born in
1921 at North Ashley, Utah |
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61S18 |
Clara Dell
Collett |
Born in
1924 at North Ashley, Utah |
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61S19 |
Betty Merle
Collett |
Born in
1928 at North Ashley, Utah |
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61S20 |
Arva Collett |
Born in
1931 at North Ashley, Utah |
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Alice Collett was born at Vernal in 1897 and was
three years old in the census of 1900 when she was living with her family at
Browns Park Precincts in Routt County,
Colorado. Her mother Sarah Elizabeth Simkins died when Alice was only five years old, after
which her father Sylvanus married Ethelwynne and
the family moved a few miles north to North Ashley, where Alice was 12 in
1910. |
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Byron Sylvester
Collett was born at
Vernal on 28th January 1902 and was baptised on 30th
April 1910, the last child of Sylvanus and Sarah Collett. Byron never knew his mother because Sarah
Elizabeth Collett nee Simkins died when he was only
one month old. His father then
remarried and moved the family to North Ashley near Vernal where they were
living in 1910 when Byron S Collett was eight years old. He was still living with his father and his
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Sometime
in the later part of the 1920s Byron married Clela
from Oklahoma and in 1930 they were staying with the family of Clarence James
Collett (Ref. 61Q28) at Salt Lake City.
Byron S Collett was 28, while his wife Clela
H Collett was 26. It would appear that
their marriage produced just one child who was living with them at Hanna in
Duchesne County in 1940, although just prior to her birth the childless
couple had been living at Ely in St Louis, Minnesota in 1935. The census in 1940 confirmed that Byron S
Collett was 38, his wife Clela was 36, and their
daughter was Nita Veloy Collett who was four years
old. Byron Sylvester Collett was
living at Roosevelt in Duchesne County in Utah when he died on 5th
December 1971, and four days later he was buried at Vernal. |
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Nita Veloy Collett |
Born in
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61R44 |
Claude Stringham Collett was born at Vernal on 29th October 1911, the
eldest of the five children of Sylvanus Collett by his second wife Ethelwynne Stringham. Sadly he only survived for just over three
months, when he died at Vernal on 7th February 1912. |
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61R45 |
Howard Samuel Collett was born at Vernal on 11th
July 1914, the son of Sylvanus and Ethelwynne
Collett. It was as Howard S Collett
that he was recorded in the census of 1930 when he was living with his family
at North Ashley in Uintah County in Utah.
Nothing more is known about Howard after that time, except that he was
at Vernal on 27th July 1996 when Howard Samuel Collett died at the
age of 82. |
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61R46 |
Edna Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 2nd
April 1916, the eldest daughter of Sylvanus and Ethelwynne
Collett. Edna was 13 in the North
Ashley census of 1930 and she later married to become Edna Raines and she and
her husband had a son Robert J Raines.
He was the father of Miriam Plass who kindly provided the dates of
birth and the date of death of the children of Sylvanus Collett and his
second wife Ethelwynne. Edna Raines nee Collett was still alive in
later 2004 when her brother Carl (below) passed away. |
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61R47 |
Edith Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 1st
July 1918, the youngest daughter of Sylvanus and Ethelwynne
Collett. Edith was 11 years old in the
North Ashley census of 1930, and was four months short of being 72 was she
passed away at Vernal on 12th March 1990. |
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61R48 |
Carl Stringham Collett was born at Maeser (Vernal) on 10th June
1922, the youngest of the five children of Sylvanus Collett and Ethelwynne Stringham. He was seven years old in the census of
1930, when he and his family were living at North Ashley in Uintah County,
Utah. Carl
Stringham Collett was 82 when he died at Salt Lake
City on 24th December 2002.
Following his passing he was buried at Vernal Town Cemetery in Uintah
County with his wife Donna. |
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During
his early life he served with the Allied Forces in Europe in the Second World
War and was married to Donna B Williams, with whom he had seven
children. Donna was born on 9th
November 1926, she married Carl on 25th May 1946, and she at
Vernal died on 7th July 2009.
The headstone on the couple’s joint grave indicates that their
marriage was sealed on 30th April 1962. |
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The
obituary for Carl, published in the Deseret News on Tuesday 28th
December 2004, reads as follows: ”Father & Husband -
VERNAL - Carl Stringham Collett, beloved husband,
father, grandfather, and great grandfather passed away December 24, 2004 at
the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake City. He passed away surrounded by family members
from complications due to a stroke. He
will be greatly missed by his wife of 58 years, Donna Williams and sister
Edna (Raines) of Vernal and seven sons and daughters. Craig (and his wife Sandy), Randy Cornaby (and her husband Jay), Carl Ray (and his wife
Wanda), Terell (and his wife Sheryl), Donetta Egbert (and her husband Herald), Tracy (and his
wife Susan) and Guy (and his wife Dee).
Also 34 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday,
Dec. 30, 2004 at 11:00 at the Maeser Stake Center (2475 West 1000 North) in
Vernal, Utah. Burial will be at the Vernal Memorial Park with military honors
by American Legion Post 124 and 11.” |
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61S22 |
Craig
Collett (wife Sandy) |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61S23 |
Randy
Collett (husband Jay Cornaby) |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61S24 |
Carl Ray
Collett (wife Wanda) |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61S25 |
Terrell
Collett (wife Sheryl) |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61S26 |
Donetta Collett (husband Herald Egbert) |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61S27 |
Tracy
Collett (wife Susan) |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61S28 |
Guy Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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61R49 |
Veda Collett was born at Vernal in 1895 the
eldest of the seven children of Adelbert Teancum
Collett and Harriet Penelope Goodrich.
At the age of 15, Veda Collett and her family were living at Dragon in
Uintah County, Utah when the census was conducted in 1910. Later in her life she married Jesse T Brimhall and it was as Mrs Jesse T Brimhall
of Kaysville that she was mentioned in a newspaper article relating to her
parent’s fifty-first wedding anniversary in 1944. By the time of the death of her father in
1959 she was still Mrs Jesse Brimhall although by
that time in her life she was residing at Farmington in New Mexico, according
to his obituary. It was during 1983
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61R50 |
Mabel Jacqueline
Collett was born at
Vernal on 16th April.1897, another daughter of Adelbert and
Harriet Collett. On the occasion of
the census in 1910 Mabel, aged 13, was living with
her family which, by that time, had settled at Dragon in Uintah County,
Utah. After a further ten years Mabel
Collett was 22 when she was still living with her family but within Cache
County, Utah. Sometime thereafter
Mabel married Paul Harwood and in 1944, when her parents’ fifty-first wedding
anniversary was reported in the press, Mabel was described as Mrs Paul A
Harwood of Berkeley in California.
Fifteen years later, upon the death of her father, Mabel was named in
his obituary as Mrs Paul (Jacqueline) Harwood of Santa Ana in
California. Upon her death in 1977
Mabel was referred to as Jacqueline Collett Harwood. |
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61R52 |
Ralph Adelbert Collett
was born at Vernal
on 19th July 1901, a son of Adelbert and Harriet Collett. The family was living at Dragon, Uintah
County in Utah in 1910, when Ralph Collett was eight years old. After a further ten year Ralph was still
living with his family in Cache County, when he was listed in error as Ralph A
Colbert age 18. In the next census of
1930 Ralph A Collett, age 28 and from Utah, was boarding at an all male
establishment at Tunnell in Lincoln County,
Nevada. What happened to him after
1930 is not yet known, although it is confirmed that he died at Placer in
California on 28th November 1976, when the date of his birth was
confirmed as 19th July 1901.
In 1944 Ralph A Collett was a resident of Kaysville, while at the time
of the death of his father in 1959 Ralph A Collett was living at Farmington
in New Mexico. |
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61R53 |
Wells Frank Collett was born at Vernal on 18th
July 1903, the son of Adelbert and Harriet Collett. He was six years old in 1910 when he and
his family were living at Dragon, Uintah County, and he was still living with
his parents at Cache County in 1920 when he was 16, albeit under the surname
of Colbert. It was at the time of his
marriage to Carol Ivins that he was recorded under
his full name of Wells Frank Collett.
The couple was married at Salt Lake City on 8th June 1927,
when Wells Frank Collett was 23, and his bride was also 23, Carol having been
born at Lund in Nevada on 5th September 1903 the daughter of W H Ivins and Della Redd. The marriage certificate confirmed that
Wells had been born on 18th July 1903 and that he was the son of A
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The
couple’s first child was born in Utah exactly one year later. However, by 1930 the family was living at
Ogden in Weber County, Utah, when the name recorded in the census return for
both father and son was William Collett, rather than Wells Collett. William F Collett was 26 and from Utah, his
wife Carol I Collett was 25 and from Nevada, and
their son was William I Collett, who was two years old. The initial I for both mother and son was
very likely Ivins.
Lodging with the family was Bliss I Jones, age 30 and from Nevada,
with her son William N Jones age four and from Utah. |
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It
was at Kaysville in Davis County in Utah that the family was recorded at the
time of the next census in 1940, and where they had been living in 1935. On that occasion Wells F Collett and Carol
I Collett, both 36, had three children with them, and they were Wells Ivins Collett, who was 11, Carma
Lynee Collett, who was seven, and Carol Luana Collett who was five. Four years after that, when Well’s parents
were celebrating their fifty-first wedding anniversary, he was described in a
newspaper article as Lieutenant Colonel Wells F Collett who was serving
overseas with the United States Army Air Forces. Later, upon the death of his father in
1959, he was listed in the obituary as Colonel Wells F Collett of
Kaysville. Wells Frank Collett died
during 1982, while it may be of interest that an alternative and unverified
source suggested that his name was actually Wells Frost Collett. |
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61S29 |
Wells Ivins
Collett |
Born in
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61S30 |
Carma Lynee
Collett |
Born in
1933 at Kaysville, Utah |
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61S31 |
Carol Luana Collett |
Born in
1935 at Kaysville, Utah |
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61R54 |
Rulon
Samuel Collett was
born at Vernal on 12th December 1905, another son of Adelbert and
Harriet Collett, and it was as Rulen Collett, aged
four years, that he was living with his family at Dragon in Uintah County in
Utah in 1910. Ten years later, as Ruland S Collett, age 14, he and his family were recorded
in Cache County, Utah. It could only
have been four or five years after that when he married Lousha
Thompson, with whom he had four children, the first two born in Idaho. It was at Salt Lake City that the young
family was living in 1930, where Rulon S Collett
was 24, Lousha Collett was 23, Jacqueline Collett
was five, Donald C Collett was four, and Shirley K Collett was two years
old. Staying with the family at that
time was Lousha’s brother Lafoy
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By
1935 the family had increased by one extra child who was also born in Salt
Lake City, but after a further five years the family was settled at Midvale
in Salt Lake County, all as confirmed in the census of 1940. Rulon S Collett
was 34, Lousha Collett was 32, Jacqueline was 15,
Donald was 14, Shirley was 12, and Rulon Terris Collett was six years of age. In 1944 an article was published in the
press relating to the celebration of the 51st Wedding Anniversary
of Rulon’s parents when it was confirmed that he
and his family were still residing in Salt lake City, as did his father’s
obituary again in 1959. Sadly it was
just over a year later that the death of Rulon
Samuel Collett was recorded at salt lake City in 1960. |
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61S32 |
Jacqueline
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Born in
1925 in Idaho |
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61S33 |
Donald C
Collett |
Born in
1926 in Idaho |
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61S34 |
Shirley K
Collett |
Born in
1928 at Salt Lake City |
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61S35 |
Rulon Terris
Collett |
Born in
1934 at Salt Lake City |
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61R55 |
Owen Milton Collett was born at Vernal during 1911, the
last child born to Adelbert Collett and his wife Harriet Goodrich, and he was
nine years old in the Cache County census of 1920. He was the only child still living with his
parents in 1930 who, by then were residing at Logan in Cache County, when Owen
M Collett was 19. During the next five
years Owen married Calma, so in the census of 1940
the childless couple was living at Ward 1 in Salt Lake City, where Owen
Collett was 29, and his wife Calma Collett, also
from Utah, was 25. The same census
return also indicated that they had been living at that same address in
1935. It is also known that Owen M
Collett was still living in Salt Lake City in both 1944, on the occasion of
the 51st Wedding Anniversary of his parents, and again in 1959
following the death of his father. The
death of Owen Milton Collett was recorded there during 2007. |
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61R56 |
Phoebe Viola Collett was born at Bennington in Bear Lake
County, Idaho in 1899, the eldest child of Charles Merrill Collett and Mary
Elnora Munk.
Around the time she was nine years old the family moved to Smithfield
in Cache County where they were living in 1910 when Viola Collett was 11
years old. The family was still at
Smithfield in 1920 when Phoebe V Collett was 21. When Phoebe became a married woman she was
recorded as Viola Phoebe Tippetts, and it was with
that name that she died in 1987. |
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61R57 |
Lois Marcella Collett was born at Bennington in 1901, the
second child of Charles and Mary Collett.
A few years later the family left Bennington when they moved to Smithfield where, as Marcella Collett, she was eight years
of age in 1910 and as Lois M Collett in 1920, she was 18. Her parents eventually returned to
Bennington, where they were living in 1930, by which time Lois was married
and was Marcella Steiner, the number under which her death was recorded in
1992. |
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61R59 |
Farrell Reuben Collett
was born at
Bennington on 13th November 1907, the son of Charles Merrill
Collett and Mary Elnora Munk. Not long after he was born the family moved
to Smithfield in Cache County, Utah, where they were living in 1910 when
Farrell Collett was two and a half years old.
They were still there at Smithfield in 1920 when, as Reuben F Collett,
he was 12 years of age. After a
further ten years Farrell was still living with his family which by then had
moved back to Bennington, where Farrell R Collett was 22. At the time of his death on Tuesday 14th
March 2000 Farrell Reuben Collett was a resident of Saint George in
Washington County, Utah. |
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His
obituary, published in the Deseret News on Tuesday 21st March
2000, read as follows: “The funeral service held Monday in Ogden
for Farrell R Collett, 92, a well-known artist and educator, who died March
14 2000 in St George. Mr Collett has
resided there since about 1987. He
founded the art department and taught for 37 years at what is now Weber State
University, where the art building was named in his honour. His art was displayed at the 1939 New York
World’s Fair. The service was held at
Lindquist’s Ogden Mortuary and burial was at Lindquist’s Washington Heights
Memorial Park, Ogden. Born in
Bennington, Bear Lake County, Mr Collett was perhaps best known for his
wildlife and landscape paintings in oil and watercolour. He received a bachelor and a master of arts
degree from Brigham Young University, where he was editor of the yearbook and
student body president and where he helped work his way through school by
painting cougars on the jackets of students.
He joined the Weber College art faculty in 1939, was chairman of the
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He studied extensively
in California, Illinois, New York and Europe.
He won acclaim for such paintings as ‘The killing of Old Ephraim’, a
giant grizzly bear, and ‘The White Horse’, a moody study of a horse on the
summer day. He was the recipient of
numerous awards and honours, including the Henry Aldous
Dixon Memorial Award, an Honorary Doctor of Humanities and the Associated
Students Teaching Award at Weber State University. In 1983 he was presented with the
Outstanding Alumnus Award at BYU. He
served in the US Navy during World War II, was a member of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and had been a priesthood quorum
instructor.” |
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61R60 |
Ruth Collett was born at Smithfield in cache
County, Utah during the second half of 1910 the youngest daughter of Charles
and Mary Collett. In the Smithfield
census of 1920 Ruth was nine years old, suggesting that she was born after
the census day in 1910 which was 15th April. By 1930 the census that year revealed that
Ruth Collett, aged 19, and her family were residing at Bennington in Bear
Lake County, Idaho. Upon being
married, Ruth Collett became Ruth Westergard and as
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61R61 |
Raeo
Collett was born at
Smithfield on 4th June 1913 where he and his parents, Charles and
Mary Collett, were living in 1920 when he was listed in error as Roco Collett aged six years. Over the next decade the family returned to
Bennington in Bear Lake County, Idaho, where they had been living before Raeo was born. The
Bennington census of 1930 recorded Raeo Collett who
was still living with his family at the age of 16. He later married Dorothy Irene Barnard who
was born in 1917 who was 60 years old when she died in 1977. Raeo Collett
survived his wife by twelve years when he passed away on 22nd May
1989. |
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61R62 |
Genevieve Margaret
Collett was born in
Uintah County, Utah during 1907, the eldest of the nine children of Clarence
James Collett and his first wife Margaret Watkins. In 1920 Genevieve M Collett was 12 years
old, while during the next ten years she and her family moved into Salt Lake
City by which time Genevieve was married and was Genevieve Davies. And it was as Genevieve Davies that she
died in 1975. |
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61R63 |
Opal Collett, whose date of birth is not known, was a daughter of Clarence and Margaret Collett who
later married to become Opal Hatt, as confirmed in
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61R64 |
Leon Clarence Collett,
whose date of birth
is not known, was a son of Clarence and Margaret Collett. All that is currently known about him is
that he died in California on Sunday 17th September, just three
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61R66 |
Elthura
Collett was born in
Uintah County in 1914, another daughter of Clarence and Margaret
Collett. She was five years old in the
census of 1920 and by 1930, when she was 15, Elthura
Collett and her family was residing in Salt Lake City. Upon being marriage she became Elthura MacKay, the name that was used to record her
death in 1994. |
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61R67 |
Edward Reuben Collett was born at Richmond in Cache
County, Utah on 3rd July 1916, a son of Clarence and Margaret
Collett, who was three years and eight months on the day of the Utah census
conducted in January 1920. Ten years
later Edward R Collett was 13 and in the census of 1930 he and his family
were living in Salt Lake City. Nothing
more is known about Edward after that time, except that the death of Edward
Reuben Collett was recorded at taking place on 20th September 2000
at Murray City, following which he was buried at Larkin Sunset Gardens. The notice of his passing was published in
the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper on 22nd September and revealed
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“Edward R Collett, 84,
passed away from a brief illness at his home surrounded by his family
Wednesday 20th September 2000.
He was born July 3 1916 in Richmond, Cache County, Utah to Clarence
James Collett and Margaret Watkins.
Growing up in Utah he lived in numerous places including Vernal and
draper. He graduated from Murray High
School and lived in Murray city the rest of his life. Edward was a mechanic by trade and worked
35 years at Clark Tank Lines. Many
friends and family benefited from his knowledge of engines. He was active in the Boy Scouts and the
Lions Club for many years. His other
interests included fishing and visits to Powell Lake, working in the
community, and mostly just being with his family. He belonged to the Little Cottonwood 18th
LSD Ward. He married Ellen Mildred
Page on 22 April 1940 at Riverton, Utah. |
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He is survived by his
wife of 60 years; four sons, William Jay Collett (Josefina Mendoza), Donald
Edward Collett, David Morris Collett (Lynn Hillis),
Glenn Page Collett (Judith Crane); and one daughter Cheryl Collett Ferrin (Mark Ferrin). He was devoted to 19 grandchildren and
seven great grandchildren. He was
preceded in death by his parents, and five brothers and sisters. His elder brother Leon passed away earlier
this week on Sunday 17th September in California. Edward is survived by his sisters Opal Hatt and Luella Smith and one brother Milo James Collett. |
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61S36 |
William Jay
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Born at
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61S37 |
Donald
Edward Collett |
Born at
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61S38 |
David
Morris Collett |
Born at
Murray City, Utah |
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61S39 |
Glenn Page
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Born at
Murray City, Utah |
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61S40 |
Cheryl
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Born at
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61R69 |
Luella Collett was born in Uintah County in 1926
who was three years of age in the Salt Lake City census of 1930 when she was
living there with her parents. Later
in her life she was married and became Luella Smith, the name recorded on her
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61R70 |
Milo James Collett, whose date of birth is not known,
was the last child born to Clarence James Collett and his first wife Margaret
Watkins. All that is currently known
about him is that he was still alive in September 2000, since he was
described as the surviving brother of Edward Reuben Collett in his obituary. |
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61R84 |
Joseph Ralph Collett was born at Roosevelt in Duchesne
County, Utah on 23rd October 1923 and in the Roosevelt census of
1930 he was six years old when his family entered his name on the census
return as Joseph R Collett, while ten years later he was named as Ralph J
Collett, aged 16, when he and his family were residing in Salt Lake
City. He later married Beverley Ann
Patterson who was born in 1926 and who died in 1999, while it was on 8th
July 2004 at Murray in Salt Lake County when Ralph J Collett passed away. |
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61R86 |
James Byron Woodward was born at Kansas City in Missouri
on 24th June 1927, the only child of James Byron Woodward and
Virginia Elizabeth Miller from whom she was divorced to enable her to marry
Ralph Wardrop Collett. In 1940 James and his Collett family was
living at Tulare in California when James Byron Collett (sic) was 12 years
old. He was known as Jim Woodward and
never used the Collett surname and his death was recorded at Ukiah
in Mendocino County, California, on 22nd September 1989. |
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Florence Jane Collett was born at Denver in Colorado on 8th
July 1930 and was nine years of age by the time of the Tulare census of
California in 1940. Upon being married
she became Florence Jane Hays and died on 16th
April 1992 at Visalia in Tulare County, California. |
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Beulah Marie Collett was born at Visalia in
Tulare County, California
on 4th
April 1932 and was
seven years old in the Tulare census of 1940.
It was as Beulah Marie Schwarm that she died
on 5th July 1963 at Ukiah in Mendocino
County, California. |
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Robert Wardrop Collett was
born at Farmersville in Tulare County on 30th December 1933, a son
of Ralph and Virginia Collett, who was six years of age in the Tulare census
of 1940. At the time of his death on
24th November 2011 he was living at Ukiah in Mendocino County in
California when his obituary was printed in the Ukiah Daily Journal on 30th
November. “Robert (Bob) Wardrop Collett was born on
Dec 30 1933 in Farmersville, California and would be 78 next month. Bob passed away on Nov 24 2011 at the Ukiah
Valley Medical Centre from pneumonia, following a lengthy illness. Bob is survived by his wife Mary, three
children Robert jnr, Tom and Debra, 10
grandchildren and numerous great grandchildren and great great
grandchildren. Also he is survived by
his two brothers Ralph and Bartley, and sister Joann. Bob is predeceased by his mother Virginia,
father Ralph, as well as his brother James and sisters Florence, Beulah,
Joyce and Alice. He served with the
united States Navy from 1951 until 1954 during the Korean conflict. |
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Bob met his wife Mary
during military leave while recovering from an injury sustained in Korea and
they began their courtship through the US Mail while he completed his naval
service. They married in 1953 and two
years later began construction of their family home north-east of Ukiah which
has been their home for 56 years. Bob
began working for Masonite Corporation in Ukiah in
1955 as a heavy equipment mechanic and he worked for Masonite
for over 40 years until his retirement.
During that time he purchased a small vineyard in Redwood Valley which
Bob and Mary and their children worked until 1974, when it was sold after
Bob’s two sons left home to serve with the military. Bob was an avid hunter and fisherman and
worked as a commercial fisherman on his boats ‘The Dolphin’ and ‘My Pet’ out
of Noyo Harbour in Fort Bragg.” |
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Robert
Collett junior |
Date of
birth unknown |
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Thomas
(Tom) Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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Debra
Collett |
Date of
birth unknown |
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Joyce Yvonne Collett was born at Farmersville in Tulare
County on 28th February 1936, who was three years old in the
Tulare census of 1940. She later
married and as Joyce Yvonne Salisbury she died on 8th
May 1993 at Ukiah in Mendocino
County, California. |
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