Brief Life History of Royal Price
When Royal Price Oldham was born on 29 March 1891, in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States, his father, Samuel P Oldham, was 39 and his mother, Mary Jane Price, was 37. He lived in Avon, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 1 October 1912, in Charleston, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 21, and was buried in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States.
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Sources (14)
- Royal P. Oldham in household of Samuel Oldham, "United States Census, 1900"
- Royal Prince Oldham, "Find A Grave Index"
- Royal P Oldham, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Record of Members (Worldwide), 1836-1970"
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World Events (8)
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.
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.
1898 · War with the Spanish
After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
Name Meaning
English (Lancashire and Cheshire): habitational name from Oldham in Lancashire. The placename derives from Old English ald ‘old’ + Old Norse holmr ‘island, water meadow’.
History: Colonist and trader John Oldham was born in Lancashire, England, c. 1600 and emigrated to North America in 1623, arriving at Plymouth, MA, in July on the ship Anne.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Cause of Death
According to a family group sheet passed to me by my grandmother, Alice Jane Olsen Norman the Royal Price Oldham drowned in the mission field.
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