Alan Harold Stratford

21 September 1905–14 October 1984 (Age 79)
Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States

The Life Summary of Alan Harold

When Alan Harold Stratford was born on 21 September 1905, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, his father, Horace Barwell Stratford, was 30 and his mother, Berenice Kate Haines, was 30. He married Bernice Littlefield on 22 June 1936, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. He died on 14 October 1984, in South Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in South Morgan Cemetery, Morgan, Morgan, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Alan Harold Stratford
1905–1984
Bernice Littlefield
1907–1984
Marriage: 22 June 1936

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 June 1936Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

    • Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (7)

    +2 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1906 · Saving Food Labels
    Age 1
    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.
    1909 · A Summer Capitol
    Age 4
    Besides farming and shipping with the trolley up to Ogden Valley, there was an effort to convince the state of Utah to have a summer capitol near the town of Huntsville. Even though it didn’t happen, the Ogden Rapid Transit Company extended the Trolley route to Huntsville, so others could vacation there.
    1927
    Age 22
    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    English:habitational name from any of various places called Stratford, for example in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Suffolk, Warwickshire, and Wiltshire, from Old English strǣt ‘Roman road’ (see Street ) + ford ‘ford’.habitational name principally from Strafford Sands (now lost) in Mexborough (Yorkshire), presumed to be the ancient meeting-place of Strafforth Wapentake, and deriving from the same source as 1 above.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

    Possible Related Names

    Trafford
    Street
    Stradford

    Sources (27)

    • Allen H Stratford in household of Horace B Stratford, "Utah, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records, 1914-1960"
    • Alan H Stratford, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"
    • Alan Harold Stratford, "Utah, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1947"

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