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| Name |
Rulon Henderson Graves |
| Birth |
26 Jul 1899 |
Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Initiatory (LDS) |
28 Oct 1925 |
SLAKE |
| FamilySearch ID |
KWCD-D46 |
| Death |
6 Jul 1983 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Burial |
11 Jul 1983 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Headstones |
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| Person ID |
I166331 |
mytree |
| Last Modified |
25 Feb 2024 |
| Family |
Lily Walker, b. 27 Oct 1901, Yorkshire, England d. 5 Jun 1981, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 79 years) |
| Marriage |
28 Oct 1925 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
| Children |
| + | 1. Gordon Lamar Graves, b. 17 Jun 1927, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 21 Oct 2017, Centennial, Arapahoe, Colorado, United States (Age 90 years) |
| | 2. Quinton Rulon Graves, b. 27 Apr 1930, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 3 Mar 2009, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 78 years) |
| | 3. Patricia Graves, b. 18 Apr 1933, Sugar City, Madison, Idaho, United States d. 26 Dec 2014, Clinton, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 81 years) |
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| Family ID |
F42097 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
21 Apr 2024 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 26 Jul 1899 - Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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 | Initiatory (LDS) - 28 Oct 1925 - SLAKE |
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 | Marriage - 28 Oct 1925 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Death - 6 Jul 1983 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Burial - 11 Jul 1983 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States |
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| Notes |
- [born July 26, 1899]
(from a notebook in his own handwriting, 1977)
Rulon: Born 302 N 2nd West, Sandy Utah
My father: Riley Henderson Graves
My mother: Sarah Ann Russell Graves
Father in various business in City Drugstore Saloon [can't read his wr i t i ng] (?Dumphuis? Marshall)
Active civic affairs, I.O.O.F. member [Independent Order of Odd Fello w s , a worldwide group of local service groups. They provide service an d s u p port to other members of the group. It is still an active servic e org a niz ation today with more than 600,000 members worldwide. ]
He died when I was 8 months old. [April 9, 1900]
Mother returned to her old home at Murray ______ yr?
I was the youngest of three boys: James Benton Graves [1890-1972] an d C o r win Russell Graves [1893-1978]. James was 10 years my senior an d Cor w i n 6 years older.
Grandfather [Thomas Wilson] Russell came to Utah in 1849 [18 or 19 y e a r s old at the time]. He buried a wife [Jane McFall, 1830-18??], some wh e r e between Utah and Nauvoo. I believe he was in the Orson Spencer g rou p. H e married again to Elizabeth Ann Hamilton [in August 1853]. In t he A p ri l [general] conference of 1854, he was called on a mission to E nglan d. A t that time, they were living in a dugout on Gordons Lane, bet ween S t at e Street and what is now 4500 South. They had a cow but no ho rses , s o h e traded [their] cow for a horse and he rode the horse to St . Lou is, the n he went on to England on a ship, working his way as a pur ser [ a n office r on a ship who handles financial accounts and who keep s mone y a nd valuab les for passengers].
My mother was born that fall on October 27, 1854. She did not see he r f a t her until she was 3 years old. [He returned to Salt Lake with th e Jo h n W. Berry company of pioneer in 1858] He later filled another mis sio n t o ne ar St. George. They were called to settle there. It was cons ider e d a miss ion at that time. They returned later to [Salt Lake City ] Uta h a nd he squ atted on the ground on Big Cottonwood Creek, where h e buil t a l arge farm. That ground was [then] Missouri territory [he mea nt th e Uta h territory]. There [was] no [homesteading], but squatter's r ight . Thi s was the plac e we moved after father's death. I remember a l arg e rock h ouse set away b ack in with a long lane as [you] enter. It w a s a two-stor y house surround ed by a big orchard. Big Cottonwood Cree k w as the outsid e boundary. A lar ge pond and a big barn.
[Thomas] raised fruit of all kinds and sold to the general authorit i e s i n Salt Lake. I do not remember either of my grandparents as the y di e d soo n after we moved there. [Elizabeth Ann Hamilton died 1902, T homa s R ussel l died 1903] The farm was sold about that time. I must hav e bee n ab ou t 4 years old.
We were very poor financially and mother took a job as janitor of th e g [ r ade] school. She had to walk about a mile each way to the schoolh ous e a n d back, twice a day. Mother and father had a fine farm and toda y (1 977) t here are nearly fifty homes built on the old site.
Other information about Thomas W. Russell:
Thomas arrived in Utah sometime before the 1850 federal census was tak e n . He appears as a 19-year-old laborer living with the Alexander Hil l f a m ily. Further research is needed to determine exactly when and wit h w h o m he traveled to the Salt Lake Valley.
In 1858 he returned from England and traveled back to Utah with th e J o h n W. Berry company.
Here's a short listing of Thomas Russell from the diary of John W. B e r r y company:
Tho[ma]s W. Russell, age 26, in Church 14 years, 5 quo 70 [5th quo r u m o f the Seventy], Pastor of Cheltenham & C, England, residence G.S. L . C o. F armer
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