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1. Censuses:
1880 US: Panguitch, Iron, Utah, FHL film 1255336, NA film T9-1336, p. 345A:
Jefferson Slade, M, 42, LA, NY, LA.
Sarah J., keeping house, wife, M, 32, TX, MS, AL.
Mary Jane, keeping house, wife, M, 28, Eng Eng Eng.
Sarah A., dau, 13, UT, LA, TX.
Jefferson A., son, 9, UT, LA, TX.
Elizabeth E., dau, 9, UT, LA, Eng.
James M., son, 4, UT, LA, Eng.
William F., son, 6, UT, LA, Eng.
Samuel J., son, 5, UT, LA, Eng.
Ada A., dau., 4, UT, LA, Eng.
Joseph H., son, 1, UT, LA, TX.
Benjamin, son, 11M, UT, LA, Eng.
1900 US: Eagar, Apache, Arizona, p. 30A:
Jefferson Slade, Sep 1837, 62, m. 35 years, LA NY NY, farmer.
Joanna, wife, Jan 1845, 55, m. 35 years, 11 total children with either 8 or 9 living, TX.
Jessee, son, Apr 1881, 19, S, UT LA TX, teamster.
Erastus, son, Feb 1884, 16, NM LA TX, farmer.
George, son, Aug 1887, 13, UT LA TX.
Fannie P., dau., Nov 1888, 11, UT LA TX.
BIOGRAPHY:
1. Parents: Jefferson Slade and Sarah Joanna Barron per Ancestral File v4.19. Middle name given with family Ancestral File is "Either" and not "Ether." "Ether" occurs in Ordinance Index. This Jefferson Slade was the husband of Sarah Chestnut, sister-in-law to George Washington Adair, the father of George Slade's wife.
2. Received from Don and Carolyn Smith the following biography on George Ether Slade & Edna Adair. Transcribed from "Our Valley" Compiled by Rosetta (Huntsman) Biggs Life Story written by Pansy (Slade) West & Roberta (Slade) Davis, 1973:
"George E. Slade was born in Moab, Utah 8 August 1886, son of Jefferson Slade and Johanna Barron. When he was four years old, they moved to Fruitland, New Mexico, and lived there for a short period before moving to Eager, Arizona. It was around 1904 when Jefferson Slade moved part of his family from Arizona to the Kline, Colorado area. They stopped of in Fruitland for a time and then went to what was known as Jackson. They found they were not quite satisfied, so they went on to the Kline Area. George was the youngest son of the family, having a sister younger who married Lester Holgate. There he worked on the ranch his father bought. Later he and his brother and cousins went to Silverton to work in the mines.
About two years earlier, the Adair family came through the valley, looking for a new place to settle. They also stopped in Fruitland, but were not there the same time as the Slades. They went on to a new place being settled by the Mormons, called Hammond, on east and south of the San Juan River. Edna was the baby of this family. Edna's brother, Rufus went to Silverton to work in the mines, where he met George Slade who took him home to meet his sister, Fannie. Fannie wanted Rufus to bring his sister, Edna, to meet her brother, George. This proved love at first sight, almost. Edna was eighteen and had always wanted to be married in the Temple. In fact, Edna's Patriarchal Blessing said: Inasmuch as you will forsake all others, you will have a husband who will take you to the Temple of the Lord. Within a year they were engaged. George went back to Silverton to work in the mines and Edna to Farmington to work in a tomato canning factory that was going there. She and a niece, Bertha Adair, and Florence Finch lived together and worked in the canning factory. As I remember, they received $3.00 per week, maybe I'm wrong. Bertha's younger sister, Bessie, who was twelve, came to stay with them. When George would get a chance to visit he would come down by train. Bertha latter married Tom Finch, Florence's brother.
Time passed and George and Edna were twenty-one and planning to go to the Temple. Between them they had around $500.00, but for some reason which was hard to understand, because of the testimonies of these two young people, George took Typhoid and Pneumonia in Silverton. Before he could be gotten to Durango he was almost dead. This was late September or October. He continued to worsen and a drastic operation was performed by a wonderful surgeon, who was in Durango because his wife had TB. They had come from Chicago and this was Doctor Oschner. He removed two and one-half ribs and half a lung from George. He developed an abscess in this cavity and was in a dying condition. Edna had been sent for and was staying in the hospital.
One night the Doctor said he couldn't live through the night and left word for the horse-drawn mortician to call at the hospital in the morning, Edna sent Ross, his brother, to Kline (twenty-six miles) by horseback, for the Bishop and his brother, Will Slade. I think the Bishop was Brother Butler and Will was a Counselor. Edna obtained a marriage license from a judge, and when the Bishop came, was kneeling at his bed to be married. The Bishop promised him he would raise a family . George was in the hospital a long time. Altogether a year and a half because of a second operation.
Their first child died at birth, the second being Pansy Alice, who was born in the old Farmington Hospital, when George was working on the railroad. They had many faith-promoting experiences during this time. George was never to strong but worked hard as a laborer for the most part of his life.
The family moved a lot for health reasons and trying to find a place to get a start. The next period of time in the lower San Juan Valley was in 1915 when Pansy Alice was about four years old. They moved to Jewitt Valley where George worked for the Ditch Company. During that time he was in the Bishopric and Edna was in the Presidency of the YLMIA.
The Slades then moved to Bloomfield and Hammond for a period of time, during which Roberta, Edwin, Bill, and Irene were born. In 1926 they were in the Muddy Valley in Southern Nevada, where Edna's sister, Ruth's family was living. Ruth had died in 1920, leaving a husband and five children. Edna became seriously ill here and was taken to Salt Lake City for medical help.
In 1927 her brother-in-law, Ren Huntsman, died and the three younger children were sent to California to live with some of his relatives.
The next time we see the Slades, we see them in the valley when Pansy is a junior in High School, and they spent that winter in what was known as the Nelson house. The next winter they moved to the Black Diamond coal mine to work for Will Jack. The following spring they moved to Fruitland, where George raised sugar cane and made molasses to sell. Pansy had graduated from high school and started teaching school, first in Hammond in a little one-room school house, and then at La Plata.
The rest of the family moved to Kirtland and rented until the spring of 1933, when they moved into their new brick house, constructed by Al Palmer.
In March 1934 Pansy was married to Francis Patton and moved to Tuba City, Arizona.
In the spring of 1935 Roberta graduated from Central High School. Rosetta Huntsman a niece of Edna's who came to live with them in 1931, also graduated.
During these years, both the Slades were very active in church work. Edna was secretary of the Sunday School and also of Primary. George was active in priesthood work.
Late in the year 1935 Howard George, the first grandchild, was born. He was dearly loved by all the family.
In the spring of 1937 Edna died while being prepared for surgery. The same year, Roberta married Frank Davis of Farmington, originally from Ramah and Gallup. Also that year Edwin graduated from Central High School.
George married Bessie (Adair) Fuller and brought into the home the two sons of her first marriage, Walter and Leo Fuller. Edwin went to live with the Pattons, and from there went into the army when World War Two had not been going very long.
Irene and Bill remained in Kirtland until they graduated from high school in 1941, then Irene went to live with Frank and Roberta in Gallup, until she married Bill Stock in 1941. Bill Slade eloped with Eleanor Foutz, daughter of Roy and Gertrude Foutz, in June of this same year.
Edwin did not come back to the San Juan to live when he was released from the Air Force. He married and remained in California. He has four sons, his first wife dying of Leukemia at the birth of their son, Gary, and he had three sons by his wife, Kathryn. They had one daughter, Roberta Irene, who died at birth. His other sons are Harold, Daniel, and Bill. At this time he is living in Ventura, California.
Irene lives in Ogden, Utah, and her husband owns and runs Smalley's Jewelry Store. She has had five children, her oldest daughter being killed by a car, when she ran out into the street when she was four years old. Irene has twin boys, Kerry and Jerry, and a daughter, Rochelle, and a much later son, Jay.
Frank and Roberta lived most of thirty-two years in southern New Mexico in and around Silver City, except for two and one-half years, 1948-1950 they were in business in Kirtland, known as the Kirtland Welding Shop. Then Frank's former employer wanted to take him into the business and it was too good to pass up, so they went back to what was home to the girls. They have two daughters, Margaret Irene, born 29 February 1940, and Alice Louise, born 5 July 1942. Margaret married Bill Phillips of Silver City, August 1959, and they are the parents of one daughter and two sons and live in Albuquerque. Alice married Daniel Thomas of Silver City, July 1961, and their home is in Orem, Utah. They have six children, four girls and two boys.
Frank and Roberta sold their home in Silver City in 1971 and moved to their new home just below Lemon Dam, close to Durango, Colorado.
George and Bessie Slade continued to live in the family home and George died 14 February 1958. Bessie later sold the home and now lives in a mobile home at the Tanner Trailer Park in Kirtland.
The Pattons lived in California for some years, and Francis Patton died in 1952. They had a son, Edward Francis. Pansy married Floyd West and they lived in Livermore, California. Howard, the oldest boy, and his wife, Margie, and two daughters, also live there. Edward and his wife, Jan, live in San Francisco, California. Floyd and Pansy lived in West Virginia for awhile, where he was with the Naval Academy. He is now retired."
BIRTH:
1. Same date but alternate place per Ordinance Index FHL films 884323-884326, batch H000137, LDS membership of a deceased individual: "Grand River Valley, Grand, Utah." One other entry mentions same date in Kirtland, San Juan, New Mexico. 7 Apr 2002 I inquired of Don and Carolyn Smith in New Mexico about this and they say definitely Moab, Grand, Utah per several descendants living in there are a.
2. Email 4 Jan 2005 from Colleen Gwynn : I, too, ran into various birthplaces and these also:
Cemetery marker has death date: 15 Feb 1958, birth date: 8 Aug 1886 per Record of the Kirtland Cemetery Eagle Project by Henry P. Potter III, LDS:FHL@SLC book 987.982 V3k.
Eagar Ward Membership for birth: 8 Aug 1887, LDS:FHL@SLC film #2386.
Baptism Date: 6 Apr 1896 Dec'd Membership Record, FHL film #885325. 6 May 1896 Eagar Ward Arizona Membership Record, FHL film #2386
I retained the 8 Aug 1887 for birth*, 6 May 1896 baptism date*, and 14 Feb 1958 for death date. *These dates came from a record nearest to the event thus the reason behind the choice.
Grand County not formed until 1890 from Unitah and Emery which was after his birth year sometimes people use the old county followed by (now and the current county name). Don't know if any of this helps with additional documentation. I recall seeing Vern Hixson's entries but I don't recall if documentation was included - you will know. I didn't copy any from his entries so only my memory when I saw his name.
3. WWI Draft Registration shows 8 Aug 1886 at Moab, Grand, Utah.
MARRIAGE:
1. Email 4 Jan 2005 from Colleen Gwynn : Marriage record from Kline Ward, Colorado, FHL film #2726.
2. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456961, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002.
DEATH:
1. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456961, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002.
BURIAL:
1. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456961, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
1886 - 1958 (71 years)