Brief Life History of Walter
When Walter Scholes was born on 22 July 1868, in Leeds St Peter, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Francis Scholes, was 33 and his mother, Sarah Jane Fishburn, was 32. He married Phoebe Lurancy Adams on 21 June 1893, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States in 1935 and United States in 1949. In 1920, at the age of 52, his occupation is listed as general farmer in Clark, Jefferson, Idaho, United States. He died on 10 July 1955, in Clark, Jefferson, Idaho, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rigby, Jefferson, Idaho, United States.
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- Walter Scholes, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Walter Scholes, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- Walter Scholes, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"
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1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
1877 · Logan's First Stake is Formed
Eighteen years after the first ward was established and the population of the valley increased exponentially, the first Stake was established.
1891 · The Logan Tabernacle is Dedicated
The Logan Tabernacle was dedicated by Wilford Woodruff in 1891 and has been a center piece of Logan since then. In the late 1980's, the Tabernacle underwent a restoration project that restored all the original pioneer designs. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1975.
Name Meaning
English: habitational name from one or other of the places called Scholes in Lancashire and Yorkshire, or from Scole in Norfolk, all named with Middle English scole or scoles ‘herdsman's hut(s)’ (Old Norse skáli). In northern England the name was sometimes interchangeable with Scales , a dialect variant of the same word.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Life of Francis Scholes Sr., written by his son Frederick Scholes
Francis Scholes, Sr., son of Thomas Scholes and Ann Newton, was born 2 July 1835 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. His father died when the subject of this sketch was in his fifth year; thus, was he early …
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