Olivia "Ollie" Alger

Brief Life History of Olivia "Ollie"

When Olivia "Ollie" Alger was born on 23 June 1847, in Florence, Douglas, Nebraska, United States, her father, John Alger, was 26 and her mother, Sarah Ann Pulsipher, was 22. She married Philip Louis Oakden in October 1864, in Beaver, Beaver, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States in 1900 and St. George, Washington, Utah, United States in 1920. She died on 22 November 1930, in Cleveland, Emery, Utah, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Cleveland, Emery, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Hyrum Smith Bryson
1852–1905
Olivia "Ollie" Alger
1847–1930
Marriage: 27 January 1877
Don Lewis Oakden
1870–1898
Hyrum Smith Bryson Jr.
1877–1887
Samuel Conrey Bryson
1879–1935
John Alger Bryson
1881–1947
Olivia Bryson
1882–1902
David LeRoy Bryson
1886–1911
Ross Charles Bryson
1888–1888
Earl Donald Ross Bryson
1891–1914

Sources (71)

  • Olivia Alger Bryson, "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Church Census Records (Worldwide), 1914-1960"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Olivia Alger - birth: 23 June 1847; Winter Quarters, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
  • Utah, U.S., Death and Military Death Certificates, 1904-1961

World Events (8)

1855

Historical Boundaries: 1855: Washington, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Washington, Utah, United States

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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.

Name Meaning

English: from the Middle English personal name Alger. Pronounced with a soft g it is from Old French Alg(i)er, Aug(i)er (ancient Germanic Adalgari, composed of the elements adal ‘noble’ + gāri ‘spear’); see Auger . Pronounced with a hard g, it is a variant of Algar .

Scottish and English: in Scotland, Alger may be a variant of Algeo .

German: from a shortened form of the ancient Germanic personal name Adalgar (see 1 above).

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

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Story Highlight

Annie Eliza Alger, Her Memories [John Alger & Brigham Young conversation, Move to St George, Herd Cows, House Robbed]

A little west of Main Street on Third South [Salt Lake City], my father owed an acre of land and there I was born on the twentieth day of December, 1855, the sixth child of John Alger and Sarah Pulsip …

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