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1	It was a four day round trip from St. Thomas	Family: F2548
2	Merged data also had the merged date as 18 Feb 1906	Family: F758
3	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Chauncy W. Abbott
4	Was married but went on a mission for the LDS Church in 1899. "After he returned from his mission, John and Chrissie made their home in Idaho and Oregon."	John Austin Abbott
5	Letter from Chauncy Abbott about Ora Abbott -(Dated March 15, 1983, Washington) "To know where she was coming from you have to know some spots in time and place in Ora's life. She was born exactly in the middle of her family. There were four older brothers (one died in infancy) and three brothers (one died at age 5) and one sister younger than she. The oldest brother was eight years older than she and the youngest sibbing (brother) was almost 12 years younger. She was two years younger to the next older brother and two years older than the next younger brother. Born Aug. 18, 1904 in Cove, Oregon (or Cave). All of the older children born in Nevada and the younger ones in Oregon. Her early years she lived in logging sawmill oriented areas. Part of the years in logging camps. During one year in Workd War I she and I went to school in a box car set off beside the logging track. Three kids from a stump ranch, up on the ridge, came down to make the five needed for a school. There we were in the deep snows along the Looking Glass River. A very pretty, short girl, attracitve to all. When Teddy Roosevelt came through on his 1912 Bull Moose Campaign for President, at his La Grande, Oregon stop, from the back platform of his train car he saw Ora, golden haired, beautiful, smiling. He called to her and papa came close with Ora on his shoulder and the great man did admire her - 8 years old. On the irrigated, small farm, in Idaho, for three years (she was very popular) boys and men. After Feb. 26, 1921 she married Leon J. McDonald; two chioldren, Chad and Joyce - living in Overton, Nevada. Leon was away a lot with his brothers working on mining properties, playing for dances, doing bicycle repair. Ora, ill, lonesome, but surrounded for the best with relatives: The Whitneys and their offshhots, Perkins, McFarlands, Syphus, Burgess, Hughes; the Abboths and their relative ties - Bunkers, Leavitts, and others. These became her friends. She liked the Syphus/Whitney side better. She thought them livelier, more fun loving, more outgoing. These were her mother's people. The Abbotts, she said were staid and serious. Later in Los Angeles and Hollywood she would invite them all to come - and many did. She entertained and visited and kept track of the wider family. When she could and often, she returned to Nevada to visit people and places and relive family (ancient) memories and her own. Then in Hollywwod, as Mrs. Ora Abbott McDonald Gilford, she often enticed her husband, Hally, to take her to Nevada and to see relatives in Idaho, Oregon and California. Her youngest brother, Cletus Lyman Abbott, was a fastidious person. He bought a new car and Ora persuaded him to take her to Nevada - and to Panaca. She found where her mother was born and the old home of her great grandfather Luke Syphus. This run down - abandoned, open with cattle using it. But, some things had been left as worthless. The bundle of letters all tied together, apparently falling out of the wall where they had been hidden; love letters! These are the letters. (Note: These letters are at the UNLV Library, in the Special Interests Department on the 4th floor, as of Jan. 1992. They are letters written by Mary Etta Syphus to John Bunker and from John Bunker to Mary Etta Syphus before these two married in 1895. LThe letters are dated from 1891 to 1895.) And these old ledgers and much else but Cletus complained and would not let her put the dirty - dusty stuff in his car. This is all she saved. She cried as she told me of the valuable things left there in the dust - and ruin. Before she could get back it was all gone, burned or hauled away with the ruin of the home. Ora died Sept. 16, 1975. Buried Los Angeles Rose Hill Memorial Park."	Ora Abbott
6	!SOURCE: Savage Dict. V.R. Lowley, Mass. p. 107 A6F10 "Jewetts in America" Bradford Yorks, Eng. Par. Reg. (Yorks Bn.s. vol. 3) Mass. 20 Vol 4	Bozoan Allen
7	Temple Ordinance Records also show her birth place as Braintree, Norfolk, MA	Hannah Ames
8	! Source: Ye Atte Wode Annals by E.F. Attwood 1203-1928 B 10 F 19; Laurn R. Rice 4020 E Slauson Maywood, CA	(Deacon) John (Wood) Attwood
9	!Jane Bachelor md (1) Walter Michinor	Jane Bachelor
10	IGI Film 1558732 and 1558733. Sent in by William George Baker a relative. Temple work done by William George Baker. Endowments: Source 0170624. Family Group Sheet from the Church archives lists him as the first child and parents are Henry Walter Baker and Eliza Anne Elliott. Found in the 1900 and 1910 censuses of Contra Costa County, California with his wife and family and his mother-in-law, Mary A. Syphus. Not found in either the 1920 censuses of California or Utah A call came on May 25, 1995 from: Janet Baker Price 110 Celest Drive Midvale, Utah 84047 (801) 255-0088 She has much information on the Baker family going back from Henry William Rio Baker.	Henry William Rio Baker
11	At least one living individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.	Leroy Gene Ball
12	Birth: 20 Feb 1750 or 30 Mar 1751	Benjamin Barnard
13	Baptism & Endowment date as on original sheet	Edmund Barnard
14	Sealed to husband: 19 May 1966 or 18 Mar 1938 Baptism: 19 Dec 1934 or 8 Jan 1927 Endowment: 17 Jan 1935 or 12 Jan 1927 Marriage to Sarah Cutting: 5 Mar 1682/83 Source: Film 34260 pt 41, pg 15 Mass W20h; Scrapbook of Queries and answers from the Hartford Times 6191 pg 23 (Provo Gen Library) Savages Gen Dict of New England pg 15	John Barnard
15	Source: History & Gen of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass by Bond pg 32; Sherman Gen. pg 81; Shirley Bennett Coons box 4 Pomerene, AZ	John Barnard
16	Source: History of Worcester, Mass pg 398; Mass W20b, Vol 1 pg 14; Mary I.B. Kemsley 10470 Haddon Ave Pacoima, CA	John Barnard
17	Source: Film 34260 pt 41 Family groups Endowment: 18 May 1926	Jonathan Barnard
18	Baptism date 25 Mar 1933?	Lamuel Barnard
19	!Data from the Luke Syphus Temple Book, all data. !Shifford Parish Records, Oxfordshire, England. Marriage Record: Zacharish Long married Elizabeth Barnes Nov. 16, 1832. Death: Elizabeth Long, Aston, Buried Sept. 27, 1838 (age 24).	Elizabeth Barnes
20	! Source: 1. Mass 2Q-vol 4 pg 2499-2500 2. B 9 C 2 pg 13-14 3. Mass W 20 b pg 18-19; Ira John Boyce 172 Canyon Rd SLC, UT	Thomas Bartlett
21	!Deacon	John Batchelder
22	!Marriage date: 17/19 Jan 1710/1711	John Battelle
23	!Source: Land marks Plymouth, Mass. by Davis Pope pp 39-296, Banks MSS Boston Mass. V.S. Attle barough, Mas. V.S. Compen, Am Gen. Virkus	Thomas Battelle
24	!Source: Cohasset Gen. & Hist. p. 58 New Eng. Gen. vol. 4 p. 1923	Edward (Battelle) Battles
25	Twin to John	James Battles
26	Twin to James	John Battles
27	!Source: Mass. H 20b Vol 2 p 51 Gen. of families of Cohasset Mass. Davenport Vital Rec. Fitchburg, Mass.	Joseph Battles
28	Twin to Rachel	Mabel Battles
29	Baptism: 2 Jun 1925 Endowment: 2 Oct 1925	Priscilla Battles
30	Twin to Mabel	Rachel Battles
31	Marriage record from the Fairford Parish, Gloucestershire, England. Married at Southrop, Gloucestershire, Englnad on Sept. 2, 1667 at the age of 22 to Alexander Betterton who is a widower and a yeoman. Name on marriage record is spelled Bayly.	Alice Bayley
32	St. Thomas, Nevada Ward records. "Muddy Mission". Ward records are hard to read and dates are not readable. St. George Genealogy Building, Film 14,924 F69 3654 & 24776. Patriarch Blessing in Overton, Nevada, 8 Mar 1924. Baptized by James Jepson. Confirmed by Wm. Haslem, on 4 Apr 1882. Another baptism date is hard to read: 5 May 1895 or 1896 ... Film 24776. St. George, Utah - 1932 to 1937 Had diabetes - in about 1932 they moved from St. Thomas, Nevada and built their lovely home on Highway 91 (now called the Boulevard) and 8th East street. This home was called the most modern of it's time. They had an open house and their friends came to see the new home and it's modern design. Eleanor and gotten heavy set during her later years and when she got sick, she did not want to do many things. Her illness confined her to bed, much of the time. Fay and Beth Syphus lived in the home with Eleanor and Edward Syphus and Beth took care of Grandmother Eleanor. Also, Clara (Edward's sister) would visit and help out at times. Uncle Levi, Edwards brother, would also stay with the family so there was lots of company all the time. Eleanor records show that she died in Logandale, Nevada although her home was in St. George, Utah. Address: 798 E. 100 N. (on Highway 91 thru town) St. George, Utah Marriage: Second wife of Edward Henry Syphus 21 Dec 1892. Record of license on Film 484821, Item 3 by the Clerk of Washington County, Utah	Eleanor Amanda Beebe
33	Will of Alice Betterton, wife of Christopher Betterton, written in 1617 and proved in 1624/25 in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. Seems that she has a daughter married to a Wlater Shaver, this couple had children but they are not named in the will. So this may not be a daughter for them. The children were given two shillings a piece. Assumed daughter who seems deceased by 1617 as it is written in her mother's will (Alice Betterton) which was proved in 1624/25: "I give unto HENRY POTTER'S children - twelve pence a peece. (Note: Alice Betterton was giving something to each of her grandchildren and it is assumed these children of Henry Potter are grandchildren. However, it is not proved and not names are mentioned for the children.)	Betterton
34	!Family Group Sheet. !Parish records of Fairford, Gloucestershire, England.	Alexander Betterton, Jr.
35	Fairford Parish Records, Gloucestershire, England. Abstract of the will of Alexander Betterton, Fairford, Gloucestershire, 1693. i, ALEXANDER BETTERTON, of ffaireford in the County of Gloucr., Inneholder, weake in Body, etc., make this my last will and testament. I give to my sonne CHRISTOPHER BETTERTON one shilling and all those my two closes or peaices of pasture ground lying in Milton end in ffaireford, called Bettertons poeices lyeing on the west side of the Lane leading to Horcutt, but my wife shall hold the said peices for fforty yeares if she soe long live. I give and devise to my second sonne ALEXANDER BETTERTON my New House & the peice or ground wherein it stands but my wife shall hold the said peice for ffifty yeares if shee soe long live. I give and devise unto my two younger sonnes CHARLES & ROBERT my ground lyeing next Masons peice but my wife ALICE shall hold & enjoye the saom for Twenty yeares. I give and devise unto my two daughter KATHERINE & ALICE fiffty pounds apeice (when 22) and to each of them a feather Bedd wth Bedsteed & all things belonging thereunto. I give and devise unto my Loveing Wife ALICE all my land lyeing in Milton end feild which I bought of ALBERT SAVERY. All the rest of my goods, chattels, cattle, household stuffe, etc., I give and bequeath unto my Lveing Wife ALICE BETTERTON whom I make sole executrix of this my last Will and Testament. Dated this 27th day of July 1693. Signed: ALEX. BETTERTON Witnesses: JNO. CHAUNLER, LAURENCE COMLEY, ANE HAINES. Proved: at Cirencester 6th Nov 1693. Note: A son, Charles had died in 1674 so this shows that the family named a second son Charles who is alive in 1693. Not mentioned in his grandmother, Alice Betterton's will which was written in 1617 and proved in 1624/25. It looks like he may have been born after the grandmother died. There is an Alexander Betterton who married Ann Watkins on Nov 6, 1644 in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. Parish records. Do not know which Alexander it may be as there are several by that name at this time.	Alexander Betterton
36	No birth record found yet. Alexander Betterton marriage record in the Fairford Parish, Gloucestershire, England. Married to Alice Watkins on Nov. 6, 1644 in Fairford.	Alexander Betterton
37	Register of Parish in Fairford, England. Alexander Betterton/Betterson was the administrator of goods in the city of Fairford, Gloucestershire, England in the year 1722. From the Parish records. No death record found in the Fairford Parish Records, Gloucestershire, England.	Alexander Betterton
38	Will: Paynswick, Gloucestershire, England. Alexander Betterton - Inquisition taken at Paynswick, 12th. January, 13 Charles 1 (1638), before John Poole, gent., escheator, after the death of Alexander Betterton, by the oath of William Osborne, gent., Richard Packer, Giles Field, John Bancknett, Anthony Gardner, John Gide, John Kinge, Thomas GArdener, Thomas Winne, Thomas Castle, Robert Hilman, Richard Knowles, John Thomes, and Henry Gardener, who say that: "ALEXANDER BETTERTON was seised of a messuage, situate in Faireford, in a place there called Milton End and Faireford; all that toft in Milton End or Faireford called Stewards and 1/4 of a virgate of arable land in the fields there to the same belonging; 2 several closes of meadow or pasture there, one whereof is called Well Close and the other Sheephouse Close; 2 other several closes of arable land and pasture, called Horcott Peeces, containing 40 acres, lying together in the fields of Milton End and Faaireford; all that parcel of meadow and pasture in Faireford called Cockemeade Hay, containing, 2 acres, and common of pasture for 39 horses and otherbeasts and 230 sheep in the fields, wastes and commons in Milton End and Faireford. Of whom or by what services the said premises are held the jurors know not: they are worth per annum, clear, 40s. Alexander Betterton died at Fairford, 3rd. November, 9 Charles 1 1633; Edmond Betterton, yeoman, is his son and next heir, and was then age 21 years and more. (misc. chan., inq.p.m., 13 charles 1, part 33, no. 114.) Alexander Betterton/Betterson - in 1620 was the church warden of Fairford, Gloucestershire, England.	Alexander Betterton
39	!Family Group Sheet has her listed in the family. However, the Fairford Parish records do not show her, but there is an Alice Betterton born to Robert and Alice Betterton and baptized on June 21, 1710. !Marriage: Record in the Fairford Parish, Gloucestershire, England. Both she and herhusband are of Fairford. Sept. 26, 1725.	Alice Betterton
40	Fairford Parish records, Gloucestershire, England. Seems to almost be 8 years old.	Alice Betterton
41	Named in her father's will in 1693. She was not yet age 22 at the time and she received her father's gift when she gets age 22 of fifty pounds. In 1693 shw was age 16. Fairford Parish record of her baptism: June 10, 1682. Parents are Alexander and Alice Betterton.	Alice Betterton
42	Parish records of Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. An Alice Betterton is found but I think this is another Alice but will put this date here. She is declared a widow in her burial data in 1702. Fairford transcript, Gloucestershire, England. Alice, relict of Edm'd Betterton, Yeom' buried March 8 1682, Fairford.	Mrs. Alice Betterton
43	Alse Betterton, mentioned in the will of her grandmother, Alice Betterton. The will was written in 1617 and proved in 1624/25 in Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. "Alse Hodges, one gawdron, one pott and platter."	Alse Betterton
44	1617 - Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. She is named in the will of her mother-in-law, Alice Betterton. The will was proved in 1624/25. "I give unto Alse Betterton, my sonnes wife, my best hatt, and to Edmond, her sonn, one great pann of brasse and two sheepe, and unto her son, christopher, one ffether bedd and two sheeps, and unto elizabeth, her daughter, one sheeps, to Alse Hodges, her daughter, one gawdron, one pott and ;plastter, and unto her daughter, Ann Betterton, on sheeps." Alexander Betterson/Betterton - was buried Nov. 3, 1633 in the cemetery at Fairford, Gloucestershire, England. This is a parish records. Also, it states that his wife, Ann, was buried Jan. 24, 1654.	Mrs. Alse Ann Betterton
45	1617 will of her grandmother, Alice Betterton. Will was proved in 1624/25. She was to receive, "one sheepe".	Ann Betterton
46	Mentioned in her mother's will of 1624/25 proved. "To my daughter, Ann Thatcher, three pounds and my wearing hatt...." Note: Seems to have been married twice as she is called Ann Thatcher but her four children are named Geffris.	Ann Betterton
47	Fairford Parish records, Gloucestershire, England. No birth records or names of parents. Burial in Fairford Parish, Gloucestershire, England - transcript: Ann Betterton, buried Aug 1, 1643.	Mrs. Anne Betterton
48	!Family Group Sheet.	Betty Betterton
49	!Family Group Sheet.	Betty Betterton
50	!Fairford parish records, Gloucestershire, England shows his baptism and burial dates. Son of Alexander Betterton and Alice. Temple Ordinance Records also have his christening date as 21 Feb 1672	Charles Betterton