Brief Life History of Roslyn
When Roslyn Alston was born on 5 December 1884, in Dover, Sanpete, Utah, United States, his father, Christopher Alston, was 31 and his mother, Annie Charlotte Chapman Smith, was 31. He married May Pursley in 1910. He lived in Rural, South Salt Lake, Salt Lake, Utah, United States in 1935 and Denver, Colorado, United States in 1940. He died on 11 December 1940, at the age of 56, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.
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- Roslyn Alston, "United States Census, 1940"
- Roslyn Alston, "United States Western States Marriage Index"
- Roslyn I Alston, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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World Events (8)
1886
Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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, that all forms of polygamy were to be banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
1899 · The Salt Palace Convention Center
The original Salt Palace was built in 1899 and It stood on 900 South, between State Street and Main Street. The Salt Palace was a frame structure covered in large pieces of rock salt, which gave it its name. The Salt Palace was destroyed by fire on August 29, 1910 and was replaced by the Majestic Hall. This Hall only lasted for a while during the remodel of the Salt Palace. The Salt Palace served as the Olympic Media Center during the 2002 Winter Olympics. Salt Lake Comic Con has been held at the Salt Palace Convention Center since September 2013.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish:
from the Middle English personal name Alstan, which is a coalescence of several different Old English personal names: Æthelstān ‘noble stone’, Ælfstān ‘elf stone’, Ealdstān ‘old stone’, or Ealhstān ‘temple stone’.
habitational name from any of various places called Alston (in Cumbria, Lancashire, Devon, and Somerset) or Alstone (in Gloucestershire and Staffordshire). With the exception of Alston in Cumbria, which is formed with the Old Norse personal name Halfdan, these placenames all consist of an Old English personal name + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, for example Ælfsige in the case of Alstone in Gloucestershire.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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