Brief Life History of Clifford Molyneaux
When Clifford Molyneaux Alston was born on 30 August 1882, in Dover, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Christopher Alston, was 28 and his mother, Annie Charlotte Chapman Smith, was 29. He married Clara Effie Howell on 19 April 1905, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in East Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1900 and Salt Lake, Utah, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1917. He died on 16 August 1938, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 55, and was buried in Wasatch Lawn Memorial Park, Millcreek, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Clifford M Alston, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Clifford Alston, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"; Birth, Baptism, Elder Ordination
- Clifford M. Alston, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
1896 · Utah Becomes a State
After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1897 · The Utah State Historical Society
The Utah State Historical Society was, founded in 1897 and now part of the Government of Utah's Division of State History. It encourages the research, study, and publication of Utah history. It also publishes a history journal named the Utah Historical Quarterly. The Utah State Historical Society has grown to several thousand members and has published over 300 issues of the Utah Historical Quarterly.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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