LaFarr Price Astle

Brief Life History of LaFarr Price

When LaFarr Price Astle was born on 1 January 1908, in Round Valley, Rich, Utah, United States, his father, Joseph Hyrum Astle, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Ellen Price, was 26. He married Thora Myrlene Nelson on 12 June 1937, in Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States. He lived in Trinidad, Las Animas, Colorado, United States in 1930. He died on 18 November 1993, in Layton, Davis, Utah, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Logan Cemetery, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

LaFarr Price Astle
1908–1993
Thora Myrlene Nelson
1913–2000
Marriage: 12 June 1937

Sources (31)

  • Lafarr Price Astle in household of Joseph Hyrum Astle, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Astle, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • La Farr p Astle, "Utah, Weber County Marriages, 1887-1939"

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World Events (8)

1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed

Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.

1916 · The Logan Library

The Logan Library was created to serve the fifty thousand citizens of Logan with the access of over two hundred thousand items for children, teens, students, and adults to check out and learn from. The library also provides several programs that are popular with the community. The library moved to its current location in 2009 and reached a milestone in items checked out in 2012, at over 1 million.

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

Name Meaning

English: habitational name from a place in Cheshire called Astle, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + hyll ‘hill’. There may also have been some confusion with Asthall and Astley . Or occasionally this may be a topographic name denoting residence on an ‘east hill’ (from Middle English ast + hill or hull), i.e. a hill to the east of a settlement.

English: perhaps also a habitational name from Astwell, Northamptonshire, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + wielle ‘spring’.

English: habitational name from Asthall, Oxfordshire, from Old English ēast ‘east’ + halh ‘nook’.

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

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