Brief Life History of Leslie Thomas
When Leslie Thomas Foy was born on 21 September 1894, in Monticello, San Juan, Utah, United States, his father, Thomas Bingham Foy, was 25 and his mother, Juliette Burr, was 22. He married Florence Howard Tuttle on 12 April 1922, in Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Moab, Grand, Utah, United States for about 10 years and Malad, Oneida, Idaho, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1918. He died on 14 February 1937, in Allen Memorial Hospital, Moab, Grand, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Bountiful Memorial Park, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States.
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- Leslie Foy in household of Thos B Foy, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
- Leslie Thomas Foy, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Leslie Thos. Foy, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937" md Florence 1922
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1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
1903
A ferry across the Colorado River was in operation by 1885. The first bridge across the Colorado, a three-span steel bridge, was completed in 1912. By the first decade of the twentieth century, Moab had developed as one of Utah’s finest fruit-growing areas, producing peaches, apples, and some grapes. Moab became the county seat when Grand County was created from portions of Emery and Uintah counties in 1890. Moab was incorporated as a town in January 1903 and became a third-class city in December 1936.
1906 · Saving Food Labels
The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Name Meaning
Irish: variant of Fahey .
Irish: variant of Fee .
French: from the medieval female personal name Foy, which is from Old French foi (from Latin fides) ‘faith’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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HISTORY OF LESLIE THOMAS FOY
by Florence Tuttle Foy, his wife Leslie Thomas Foy was born in Monticello, San Juan County, Utah, September 21, 1894 in a log house in the extreme western frontier. His father was Thomas Bingham Foy …
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