William Grieve 1850-1922 Janet Howat 1855-1935

NOTE: Check the US Census Records for 1900 in Plain City and you will find William, Jeanette (Janet) and four children: Jenette, Violet, Christina, Margeret.

There is a William and Janet in the US 1900 Census in Wyoming, but the dates do not check out for THIS family. The William in Wyoming was born in Jun 1840, his wife in 1850 and only two of their children match the names in this family.

The confusion is understandable. According to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints church records, Jeanette, James, Violet, and Christina were born in Wyoming.  However, they did not stay in Wyoming. It appears they left after their son, William, was killed in a mining accident.

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Paternal
2nd great grandparents

William Grieve
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William Grieve

Parents: Peter Grieve and Isabella Ferrier

Born 9 Jun 1850 Westerton Cottage, Kincardine, Scotland
Christened 29 Jun 1850 Fordoun, Kincardine, Scotland
Note: His mother's name is spelled Isobel in christening record.
Married Janet Howat 26 Jun 1874 Galston, Ayr, Scotland

Immigrated to Utah: 1886 

Note: it's recorded in the 1900 US Census for Plain City that they immigrated in 1880. This cannot be correct. he was definitely in Scotland in December of 1880 because in September the following year, a little girl was born and died. If he did leave to scout things out, which seems highly unlikely, he must have returned to Scotland and remained working on a farm because My great grandmother, his daughter, Lillias, was 2 when the family left for Utah. 

Occupation(s)  

Carter 1871
Carters (also known as teamsters) were men that hauled goods.
This was the early form of trucking goods.

Coal Miner - Almy, Wyoming according to his obituary

Farm Servant in Scotland 1881,
Farmer in Scotland then Utah and
was still farming up until time of death

  

1895: His oldest son, William, died in mining accident and family moves to Utah. His youngest daughter is born in Salt Lake in 1896. 

Teamster (1900)

Note: In 1900, the typical teamster worked 12-18 hours a day, seven days a week for an average wage of $2 per day. A teamster was expected not only to haul his load, but to also assume liability for bad accounts and for lost or damaged merchandise.

Farmer (1915, Utah)

Died 9 Nov 1924 Plain City, Weber, Utah 

COD: Lobar Pneumonia

Illustration from Wikipedia

NOTE:  
Informant: Mrs. L.E. Wilkinson (his daughter, Margot)
incorrect year for birth (1852 should be 1850),
wrong mother's name (Jane Watson - should be Isabella Ferrier),
wrong name of wife (Janet Watson - should be Janet Howat).

Buried 12 Nov 1924 Plain City Cemetery, Plain City, Weber, Utah

William's headstone

Obit
Mistakes: his mother was Isobel Ferrier, not Janet Watson
His wife was Janet Howat, not Janet Howard 

Funeral Announced

Sources
Occupation as a farmer: U.S. City Directories Ogden, Utah 1915, 1935

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20136418/william-grieve
Picture:  Family Search
Birth and Christening: IGI Film 0993316&17 Batch C112597 dated 1820-1855 and Scotland Births and Baptisms (christenings)
1851 England and Wales Census Kincardine,Scotland (age 9m, son of Farm Laborer)

1861 Census Kinnef & Catterline, Kincardine, Scotland GS ser #14511 pt 164 (age 10)
1871 Census Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland (age 20, lodger)

1881 Census Galston, Ayr, Scotland (age 28, married, farming)

1900 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah  page 4A (age 47, Teamster)
1910 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 1 (age 57, Farmer)
1920 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah (age 68, Farmer)
LDS Branch Records, Ayr, Scotland GS call no F Scot 17 pt 3
LDS Branch Records, Almy, Wyoming, GS ser no 8256 pt 2
LDS Branch Records, Rock Springs, Wyoming, GS ser 8281 pt 1
LDS Branch Records, Plain City, Weber, Utah, GS Utah pt P.C.

Civil Marriage:  IGI Film 6035516 Batch M11593 dated 1855-1875

Temple Marriage: Utah Marriages (Logan Temple) Logan, Cache, Utah

Utah Death Certificate

Obituary: 10 Nov 1924 Ogden Standard Examiner

Funeral Notice: 13 Nov 1924 Ogden Standard Examiner

Family Search

ancestry.com

Janet Howat Grieve
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Janet Howat

Born 10 Dec 1855 Galston, Ayr, Scotland
Parents: William Howat and Janet Findlay
Occupation: 

Cotton Weaver/Mill worker (1871, Scotland)
Weaver (1881, Scotland)

Died: 29 Nov 1935 Plain City, Weber, Utah 

Informant: John Jacob Driver, son-in-law

COD: Possible Cerebral Hemorrhage due to High Blood Pressure

Headstone for Janet
Buried: 1 Dec 1935 Plain City Cemetery, Plain City, Weber, Utah

Sources

Picture:  Family Search
Birth: IGI Film 6035516 Register Batch C115931 dated 1855-1875
1861 Census Galston, Ayr, Scotland (age 5)

Janet's obituary in Salt Lake Telegram

Janet's Obit in 
Salt Lake Tribune

1871 Census Galston, Ayr, Scotland (age 15, with parents)

1881 Census Galston, Ayr, Scotland (age 24, married)

1900 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 4A
1910 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 1 (age 54)
Note:  name incorrectly spelled Ganet
1920 US Census for Weber County, Utah (age 68)
1930 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 2A (age 73)
Utah Death Certificate

Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20136437/janet-grieve

For an example of more modern weaving and to hear the 'brogue' spoken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIV-cKjLF8&t=90s (this link was working as of Oct 2023)

Obituary: Salt Lake Telegram 30 Nov 1935 

Family Search

ancestry.com

Probate Notice: 

CHILDREN

William Howat Grieve

Born 30 November 1874 Galston, Galston, Ayr, Scotland
Note: on Church record, his mother's surname was spelled Houet

Occupation: 

Coal Miner - Almy, Wyoming

Died 20 Mar 1895 Almy, Uintah, Wyoming

COD: Killed in the explosion at #5 mine, Almy, Wyoming.

He was 20 years 3 months, 20 days old.

Buried: Unknown. This fact is bothering me. If you know the truth PLEASE let me know!

So far, here is what my research helped me conclude: 

1) All the bodies were brought out and identified, so there was a body and it had to be buried somewhere. None of the articles I’ve found mention who did the identifying of the dead. Logically, it was either surviving miners or family members. In addition, cremation was not yet offered, so he wasn't 'sprinkled' somewhere and bid adieu. 

2) There was a mass funeral at the nearby ward (a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints meetinghouse) with burials that followed on the Sunday after the disaster. Were they all members. I am not 100% sure. The clipping says 32 were buried. The news article below states that only 20 of those buried in Almy, were members of the ward.

The Almy Cemetery was established in 1888 and the explosion was 7 years later. William's parents were members and lived in Almy, so it was likely their ward building.
I took a look at findagrave online to check for his. It is missing. 
Note: I didn't check for funeral programs for the other men that died. 

3) The families were supposedly given $600 dollars by the company. To me, it sounds like such a small sum for the life it cost.  The average cost for a funeral in rural Texas was about $78. Embalming was available (see history of Abraham Lincoln, who died 1865, and was a good 'advertisement' for embalming practices because his body was not rotting as it traveled to its final destination), but the state of Wyoming didn't have laws about it (that I have found) until 1913. 

The verse at the bottom of the Memorial card:

A precious one from us has gone.

A voice we've loved is stilled;

A place is vacant in our home.

Which never can be filled.

 

God in his wisdom has recalled,

The boon His love had given;

And tho the body moulders here,

The soul is safe in heaven.

CRITICAL NOTE: I looked up how much $1 in 1895 is worth in 2023 money. The answer: $1 = $35.72. If you multiply that number by 600, the family had the buying power (in 1895) of $21,372.  

3) There was an Indian War going on at the time concerning a minor uprising in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This is a 129-mile journey. The Bannock tribe was allowed to hunt on unoccupied lands. This may have been (but I think unlikely) a reason for the decisions made concerning his body. 

MY THOUGHTS: $600 would have been a fortune to them. So, why no headstone in Almy, Wyoming or Utah, for that matter? 

 

One reason for not shipping the body by RR is the fact that in the near future (1913 - a mere 18 years), you had to have a body embalmed for transport. Common sense lets us know that they would not have a law if certain unfortunate circumstances (such as decaying corpses) had not made the law a necessity.  From what I've read about the disaster that took his life, the bodies were in such bad shape (either burned or crushed), that they couldn't be embalmed, even if available. The embalming fluid would have just leaked out. Also, according to the article below, at least some of the miners were unidentifiable (too badly damaged to be identified).

Now, the only other mode of transportation was by car or wagon. Cars were still few and far between and I doubt less than a truck (if available) would have been large enough to move a casket.  Following more logic, they wouldn't be able to throw the casket in the back of the wagon and just mosey on to Utah. That trip - a distance of 80 miles from Almy to Ogden - would have taken significant time and that isn't feasible with a decomposing body.  On a personal note, the winters in Wyoming are fierce. Even if it was later March (a temperamental beast of a month at best) would make it a freezing cold, and possibly muddy or snowy wet mess. Even if it happened to be cold enough to keep the body from rotting, how would you get the rest of your belongings home? Two wagons? Send part of the family home on the railroad and part of them ride a wagon?  Cars were still few and far between.

Likely, because of the condition of the body, they buried it there. That fact brings up the funeral program at the top of this post. The fact there is a funeral program means there was a funeral. Maybe. 

Part of me wonders if the program is just a memorial card,  after all, it was published by the "Toledo Memorial Card Company" based in Ohio. 

I guess it could have simply been a memorial service held in Utah and during that they may have said he was buried in Almy. 

about 1878 (4 years old)
This is the only known picture of William.
His little brother, Peter, was also in the picture.

Almy Mine disasters 

- the picture below is what above ground looked like after the horrific explosion that killed 62. 

WyoFile could find little information about the origin of this photograph, other than it depicts the detritus from the 1895 explosion in the Red Canyon Mine No. 5. The mine was located in Almy, just north of Evanston, and the blast killed 62. An earlier blast on Jan. 12, 1886, led the Wyoming Territorial Legislature to create the office of state mining inspector.

January 12, 2018, by Angus M Thuermer Jr. 

On this day in 1886 an explosion in a coal mine in Almy, just north of Evanston, killed 13 miners.

It was not the first, nor would it be the last time miners in the Almy complex died at work. The explosion on Jan. 12, 1886, however, spurred the Wyoming Territorial Legislature to establish the Office of State Mining Inspector, a position that persists to this day.

Tragedy first struck in 1881 when an explosion killed 38 miners in the Central Pacific Mine No. 3. A fire had been burning in the mine, which had opened in 1869, for 5 years. But workers had sealed it off with stone walls, The Cheyenne Weekly Leader reported. The dead, the newspaper said, included “35 Chinamen and 3 white men.”

The 1886 explosion occurred in Almy Mine No. 4 and killed 11 men and 2 boys. Utah papers covered the disaster because of the heavy Mormon population in the area.

The explosion was “so terrific as to blow all of the building’s above-ground into kindling wood, sending great timbers and rocks three-quarters of a mile,” the Deseret Evening News in Salt Lake City reported.

Nine years later, in 1895, a third explosion occurred, the results of which are depicted in the photograph above. It blew up the Red Canyon No. 5 mine, killing 62. It is considered the third-largest mining accident in Wyoming history.

The state shut down the Almy mines in the 1940s because of their danger.

There’s little information readily available about the photograph, although several persons, including bloggers Eric Christensen and Ron Keyes, have referenced the mines and the disasters in documenting their family histories.

From Wyoming Genealogy (see link listed in sources) which gives a bit more information:

"...Most disastrous of all Almy explosions was that of March 10th, 1895, when, at No. 5, sixty men who were just about to come to the surface for the evening meal were suddenly ushered into eternity. 

The victims were James B. Bruce, O. Maltby, W. E. Cox, James W. Clark, William Sellers, Jr., Jerry Crawford, James Limb, Fred Morgan. Samuel Clay, W. H. Grieves, Willard Brown, John G. Lock, George Hydes, David W. Laurie, Jr., Wm. Morris, John Clark, James T. Clark, Wm. Longdon, Marshall Longdon, John Morris, David Lloyd, John G. Martin, George Crichley, George Hardy, Matthew Johnson, H. A. Hyborn, Wm. Pope, John Wilkes, Charles Casola, Gus Casola, Wm. Weedup, James Hutchenson, Samuel Hutchenson. Thomas Hutchenson, Wm. Sellers, Hugh Sloan, Wm. Graham. Jr., Henry Scotthern. Albert Clark, John Phebes, Wm. Mason, Andrew Mason, John Lester, Wm. Wagstaff, Chas. Clark, Joseph Hyden, John Lethu, Matt Silta, Walter Miller, Thomas Booth. Benjamin Coles, Samuel Bates, John Dexter, Henry Burton. Samuel Holston, John Iapar, Angel Dermodi, John Fern. Baptiste Julian, Aaron Butte, Isaac Johnson.

Seven on the outside were killed by flying timber. Death came instantaneously to James Bruce, the mine foreman, and O. Maltby, superintendent of motive power, died about two hours after being found. Those within the mine were killed instantly. The bodies were all rescued through the heroic efforts of rescue parties. The disaster occurred on Wednesday, and on the following Sunday, interment services were held by ministers of the various denominations. Thirty-two were buried from the Mormon Church, and the others from the chapels to which they belonged." [This differs slightly from the above clipping].

There were many news articles from around the 48 contiguous states that had articles. Most were taken and modified from the original SL City article and even that article indicated it had taken its information from an Evanston, Wyoming news source. 

William Wallace Cluff wrote this article, was a member of the 
Utah Territorial Legislature, and a leader of men.  
William Grieves' body, according to article, 
at end of the second paragraph, it claims his body was recovered.
He is listed as W.H. Grieve 


Some articles say the bodies were "buried from the church" meaning the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and at least one other article said that the bodies were returned to their families and buried in their own wards.
This article claims at the end that a "general funeral"
was likely going to be held on Sunday at 2 p.m.
I'm not sure if William's parents (or anyone in the family) attended the group funeral
or left the body there to be buried in Almy Cemetery, or took the body home.

IF they did, I have no record of a burial for him anywhere with the family
in any of the usual graveyards.

Sources

Birth: Deceased LDS Church member record from early members' ward/branch records

1881 Galston, Ayrshire, Scotland Census (age 6)

Death: Family Search via Jerilin Whiting1

Frontier Times Almy Mines Article by Cliff Stewart pages 12-14, unknown (it was cut off), and page 54

Many news articles from several states from New York to California also reported the incident.

Information about the Almy Mine disaster: WyoFile 12 January 2018 by Angus M. Thuermer Jr

https://wyominggenealogy.com/uinta/almy.htm

Newspaper article:  https://morby.us/sitebuilder/images/coal96-441x600.jpg

Link to 2023 article about the disaster - no one claims authorship and most of it is repeats of what has been said before: https://wyominggenealogy.com/uinta/almy.htm

Peter Grieve

Peter with bike - enhanced and colorized

Picture from Tami Jones Carr on Family Search

Born 2 Jan 1877 Galston, Ayr, Scotland

Peter Grieve
Enhanced and colorized using My Heritage technology

Occupation: (1940) Crane operator, Amalgamated Sugar Company

Sugar Sack from Amalgamated Sugar Co.
Ogden, Utah, where Peter worked

Ogden, Utah Amalgamated Sugar Company

Married: (1) Laura Petersen 15 Sep 1897 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah (he was 21, she 23)

Children: Laura, Janet, Emma, Ellen, William, Violet, Peter 

Laura Petersen 
Colorized photograph

(2) Camilla Ipsen Hunt  2 Jan 1930 Ogden, Weber, Utah

Children: she had a son from a previous marriage

Camilla Ipsen Hunt

Died 20 Apr 1955 Dee Hospital, Ogden, Weber, Utah 

COD: Senility, Bronchial Pneumonia

Informant: Robert? S Hunt 

Peter's Obituary

Buried Plain City Cemetery, Plain City, Weber, Utah
Note: Death Certificate states the body was removed and doesn't give a date of burial

Peter and Laura's headstone

Sources
Picture:  Family Search
Marriage to Laura: BYU-ID Western States Marriage Index Volume H page 132
Marriage to Camilla: Film 1324687 Batch M74792-6 p217 #P
1881 Scotland Census (age 4)

1910 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 2
1920 US Census for Weber County, Utah page 7 (age 43)
1930 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah Plain City, Weber, Utah (age 51)
Note: 18-year-old Stepson Albert G Hunt is living with them
1940 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 4B (age 63)
Utah Death Certificate
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20136428/peter-grieve

Hugh Howat Grieve

Born 11 Jun 1879 Galston, Ayr, Scotland
Died Sep 1879 Scotland

Buried 1879 Scotland
Sources
Family Search

ancestry.com

Annabella Grieve 

Born 2 Sep 1881 Galston, Ayr, Scotland
Died Aug 1882 Scotland

Buried Scotland
Sources
Birth: Scotland Select Birth and Baptisms (Christenings)

Family Search

ancestry.com

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Paternal
Great Grandmother

*Lillias (Lilly) Grieve

Lillias (Lilly) Grieve
Enhanced/colorized pic

Born 15 Oct 1884 Galston, Ayr, Scotland
Married: Charles Ezra Taylor 13 Aug 1902 Plain City, Weber, Utah
Children: Hannah, Thelma, Arvilla, Howard, Clark, Russell, Hugh, Anne
Died 20 Nov 1973 Ogden, Weber, Utah
Buried 24 Nov 1973 Plain City, Weber, Utah
Sources
1900 US Census, Plain City, Utah: 16y old domestic servant in the Milo Sharp household.  The Sharp's were next-door neighbors.
1910 US Census page 8
Note in the Census middle initial given as L
1920 US Census page 5 (age 36)
1930 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah
1940 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah
Photo:  Family Search
Obituary in Ogden Standard-Examiner
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20130196/lillias-taylor
Family Search

ancestry.com

Jeanette (a.k.a. Janet) Grieve

Jeanette Grieve Driver
enhanced and colorized
using MyHeritage technology

Born 1 Oct 1887 Almy, Uinta, Wyoming
Married: John Jacob Driver 26 Feb 1913 Ogden, Weber, Utah 

John Jacob Driver

Children:  Lucille
Died 26 Oct 1970 Roy, Weber, Utah
Buried 28 Oct 1970 Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Ogden, Utah

Jeanette's headstone

Sources
Picture:  Family Search
Marriage: Utah, County Marriages
Note:  her given name is spelled Jannette in record
1900 US Census for Plain City, Utah page 4A (with parents)
1920 US Census for Ogden, Weber, Utah page 1 (age 32)
SS Death Index
Billion Graves Index
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67107061/jeanette-grieve

Family Search

ancestry.com
James Grieve
Born 15 May 1889 Almy, Uinta, Wyoming
Died 14 Jun 1890
Sources
Family Search

ancestry.com

Violet Grieve
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Violet Grieve
Born 6 Mar 1891 Almy, Uinta, Wyoming
Married Delwin Sharp 25 Sep 1907 Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah
Note: Delwin was a neighbor and about 7 years older than Violet
Children: Milo, Albert, Mae, Frank, Fern

Note: Both Milo and Frank died young of bronchitis
Died 18 Jan 1964 Dee Hospital, Ogden, Weber, Utah

Violet and Delwin's headstone

Buried: 21 Jan 1964 Plain City Cemetery, Plain City, Weber, Utah
Sources
Picture:  Family Search
Marriage:  Utah Marriages
1900 US Census for Plain City, Weber, Utah page 4A (as a daughter)
1910 US Census  Plain City, Weber, Utah (age 19)
1920 US Census  Plain City, Weber, Utah (age 28)
1930 US Census  Plain City, Weber, Utah (age 39)
1940 US Census  Plain City, Weber, Utah (age 48)
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/20207126/violet-sharp

Christina Mae Grieve
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Christina May "Tina" Grieve
Born 19 Aug 1893 Almy, Uinta, Wyoming
Note: on church record, her mother's surname is incorrectly spelled Howatt
Married Henry Thomas Dance 16 Oct 1914 Salt Lake City LDS Temple, Salt Lake, Utah
Died 9 Jul 1970 McKay Hospital, Ogden, Weber, Utah
OBITUARY:
Death Takes S. Ogden Pair in 4-Hour Span

SOUTH OGDEN -A South Ogden couple, Henry T. Dance, 75, and his wife, Christina "Tena" Grieve Dance, 76, of 3895 Riverdale Road, died within four hours of each other at the McKay Hospital of natural causes.
Mrs. Dance died Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. and Mr. Dance died this morning at 1:30.
The couple was married Oct. 16, 1914, in the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Mr. Dance was born Sept. 27, 1894, in West Weber, a son of Henry B. and Margaret Etherington Dance.
A lifelong resident of Weber County, he was a farmer and raised horses.

Christina and Henry Dance headstone

HELD OFFICES
He was former president of Weber County Farm Bureau and Weber Canal Co. He was a high priest in the 32nd LDS Ward.
Mrs. Dance was born Aug. 19, 1893, in Almy, Wyo., a daughter of William and Janet Howat Grieve. She was also a lifelong resident of Weber County. She was a member of the 32nd LDS Ward and had been active in the Primary and Relief Society.
Mr. and Mrs. Dance are survived by two grandsons and one granddaughter, E. Gary Cragun, Roy; W. Henry Cragun and Miss Christy Cragun, both of South Ogden, and two great-grandchildren.
Also surviving Mr. Dance are two brothers and one sister, John E. Dance, Floyd Dance both of West Weber, and Mrs. Francis Maw, Ogden.
Mrs. Dance is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Lillias Taylor, South Ogden; Mrs. Janet Driver, Ogden; Mrs. Margot Robinson,.Evanston, Wyo. Joint funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 1 p.m. at Lindquist and Sons Colonial Chapel with Bishop Robert L. Nielsen of the 32nd Ward officiating.
Friends may call at the mortuary Friday from 7 to 9 p.m and Saturday until services.
Burial will be in the Washington Heights Memorial Park. 
Buried 11 Jul 1970 Washington Heights Memorial Park, Ogden, Weber, Utah
Sources
Picture:  Family Search
Marriage:  Utah, County Marriages
1900 US Census, Plain City, Utah Film 1241688 sheet 4A Ref 30 Image 815
1910 US Census Plain City, Weber, Utah page 1 (age 16)
1930 US Census Riverdale, Weber, Utah (age 36)
1940 US Census Riverdale, Weber, Utah (age 44)
Ogden Standard-Examiner July 9, 1970
SS Death Index
Deceased LDS member record
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87066539/christina-may-dance

Margot Grieve
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Margaret Ann (Margot) Grieve 
Born 5 Aug 1896 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Note: Her name on church record is Margot and her mother's surname is incorrectly spelled Howett.
Married: (1) Lyle Elvin Wilkinson 22 May 1919 Salt Lake City Temple, Salt Lake, Utah 

Note: he died 18 Jun 1942 of a heart attack

Lyle Wilkinson and Margot Ann Grieve Wilkinson

No Children
(2) George Robinson 3 Feb 1943 Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho

No Children

George Robinson

Civil Ceremony
Shows her previous married surname

After I did some correcting on findagrave, I received a special email I received about this couple (Margot and George) from Jason O'Driscoll (my additions are in red): 

I grew up a block away from her and George, he was also our ward clerk. 

I got spoiled with candy from George way too many times. He would give out candy at church and I would stop by his house after elementary school and come home with a produce bag of candy and I made sure once my little sister was old enough she got her share of candy also. I never knew Margot very well. She was always sick in bed and if I stopped by when George was not home she was mad, I don't blame her. 

I was seven-years-old when she died. I remember going trick or treating with my friend and when we came to George's door he informed me that his wife had passed away [she died the day before and they had been married for 33 years) and wanted me to make sure I told my mom. 

George was a good friend and when I got married he had me and my wife drop by to get a gift, a spaghetti strainer that we still have. I remember the day my mom called in November 1993 that George had sadly taken his own life and was found in his house by his Neighbor Read Putman. 

I think of George and Margot often and pass the house every time I visit my mom. 

One more thing: George gave me his 1940s Christmas tie in 1993 after I was married and told me he would wear it every Christmas, I have kept the tradition going.

Died 30 Oct 1976 Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming

OBITUARY

<----if you can't read the print, I've typed it below - with a special note about her real age and why the date is incorrect in her obituary and on her headstone.

Margot W. Robinson
EVANSTON, Wyo. Margot Ann Wilkinson Robinson, 73, Evanston, Wyo., died Oct. 30, 1976, at home of a lingering illness.  Born Aug 5, 1903, Salt Lake City, to William and Janet Grieve. (Note incorrect birth year. She told George, her second husband, 1903 so he wouldn't know she was 12 years older than him)

Married Lyle Elvin Wilkinson, Salt Lake LDS Temple. He died 1942.

SL Temple 1899

Married George Robinson, Feb 3, 1943, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Active in LDS Relief Society, serving as secretary in Ogden and served as secretary in the presidency in Evanston, Wyo. Served on MIA Stake Board while living in Ogden.
Survivor: husband.

Funeral services Wednesday, 10 a.m., Crandall Bills Funeral Home, Evanston, Wyo., where friends may call Tuesday, 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday one hour before services. Additional services held Larkin and Sons Mortuary, Ogden Wednesday 5 p.m. Friends may call one hour before services. Burial, Ogden City Cemetery.

Buried: Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden Weber, Utah Plot J-1-4-5W

Margaret's headstone

Sources
Birth: Utah Salt Lake County Birth Records

1900 US Census, Plain City, Utah Film 1241688 sheet 4A Ref 31 Image 815
1910 US Census Plain City, Weber, Utah page 1 (age 13)
1920 US Census Weber County, Utah page 10 (age 23)
1930 US Census Ogden, Weber, Utah page 17B (age 29)

1935 Census Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (age 36)

1940 US Census Evanston, Uinta, Wyoming (age 36)

Marriage to Lyle: Western States Marriage Index

Marriage to George: Idaho Marriage Records
SS Death Index (which has her correct birth year)

Obituary: Salt Lake Tribune 1 November 1976 page D5
Picture:  Family Search

ancestry.com
Deceased LDS member record
Headstone:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39816744/margot-ann-robinson