Joseph Leo Stott

1894 - 1959  (64 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has more than 100 ancestors and 21 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Joseph Leo Stott
  Birth	28 Oct 1894	Provo, Utah, Utah, United States
  Gender	Male
  Census	1900	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation Gender Race BirthDate Age Status Years Married Children Born/Living BirthPlace BirthPlace of Father BirthPlace of Mother Immigration Year Occupation 48 1841 Joseph L Stott Head Male White Jun 27 Married 0 Utah England England 49 1841 Sarah E Stott Wife Female White Feb 27 Married 0 Utah Tennessee England 50 1841 Joseph L Stott Son Male White Oct 5 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah 1 1841 Cleon B Stott Son Male White Aug 3 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah 2 1841 Melba E Stott Daughter Female White Sep 1 Single 0 Utah Utah Utah  ED:  0107  Sheet:  11B    Microfilm:  1241683   Transcript ID is  dbid=7602&iid=004115258_00741
  Initiatory (LDS)	21 Aug 1918	SLAKE
  Census	1930	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Image Transcript Ln Hhold Given Surname Relation Gender Race BirthDate Age Status BirthPlace BirthPlace of Father BirthPlace of Mother Immigration Year Occupation Veteran Street 5 1696 Seas I Stott Head Male White abt 1895 35 Utah Utah Utah 6 1696 Velma Stott Wife Female White abt 1900 30 Utah Utah Utah 7 1696 Nadine Stott Daughter Female White abt 1919 11 Utah Utah Utah 8 1696 Leola Stott Daughter Female White abt 1921 9 Utah Utah Utah 9 1696 Stella V Stott Daughter Female White abt 1923 7 Utah Utah Utah 10 1696 Joseph B Stott Son Male White abt 1926 4 Utah Utah Utah 11 1696 Norena M Stott Daughter Female White abt 1928 2 Utah Utah Utah   Transcript ID is  dbid=6224&iid=4547395_00771
  FamilySearch ID	KWCB-VCJ
  Death	25 Aug 1959	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Burial	28 Aug 1959	Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I5279	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Joseph Lees Stott,   b. 25 Jun 1872, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 27 May 1923, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Sarah Ellen Bennett,   b. 9 Feb 1873, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 13 Jun 1961, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 88 years)
  Marriage	19 Jul 1893	Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F3376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Velma Bushnell,   b. 11 Jul 1899, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 10 Dec 1985, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	17 Jul 1917	Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States
  Children	+ 1. Nadine Stott,   b. 4 May 1918, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 2 Nov 2005, Eagle, Ada, Idaho, United States (Age 87 years)   2. Leola Stott,   b. 8 Aug 1920, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 26 Mar 2012, Orem, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 91 years) + 3. Stella Vee Stott,   b. 8 Nov 1922, Delta, Millard, Utah, United States d. 16 Feb 2006, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 83 years) + 4. Leo Ben Stott,   b. 12 Jun 1931, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 13 Jun 2003, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 72 years)   5. Joseph B Stott,   b. 16 May 1925, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 20 Mar 2014, Fillmore, Millard, Utah, United States (Age 88 years) + 6. Norena M Stott,   b. 21 Jun 1927, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 9 Apr 2018 (Age 90 years)   7. Reah Knoll Stott,   b. 3 Aug 1933, Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States d. 11 Sep 2017, Boise, Ada, Idaho, United States (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F3169	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 28 Oct 1894 - Provo, Utah, Utah, United States Census - 1900 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Marriage - 17 Jul 1917 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Initiatory (LDS) - 21 Aug 1918 - SLAKE Census - 1930 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Death - 25 Aug 1959 - Meadow, Millard, Utah, United States Burial - 28 Aug 1959 - Meadow Cemetery, Millard, Utah, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOSEPH LEO STOTT I was born October 28, 1894, in Provo, Utah, a son of Joseph Lees Stot t a nd Sarah Ellen Bennett. My Dad was then going to school at the Brigha m Yo ung Academy. I wore ringlets and when I was six years old, I had my first barber. I s a w Emil Pearson and he said, "Hello Slick", and all through school, I ne ve r was called anything but "Slick". I went to school in Meadow in the little rock school house through the 8 t h grade. I liked to enter in athletics in any way. I always took them s er ious and kept myself in shape physically. Before I was out of 8th grade, I played with the adult baseball team a n d we traveled around the county to play and I remember we often ate a t th e Robison Cafe in Fillmore. I went to the Murdoch Academy at Beaver when I was 13 years old. At th a t time, I was still wearing knee pants and I was boarding with Aunt Lib b y Fisher. Before my Dad turned the wagon to go home, I was homesick an d c rying. It was at this time, I got my first long pants to wear on Sund ay. When I was in grade school, I was a jockey at local matched horse race s o n holidays and special days. I went to school the next two years at the Millard Academy in Hinckle y . I was on the track, baseball and basketball teams while there I got c hu mmy with team mates and Dad thought I was spending too much time. I took piano lessons three years at the Academy, but I had no sense of r h ythm or tune, so I didn't even learn "I Drop my Dolly in the Dirt". The fourth and fifth year, I went to B.Y.U., taking half high school a n d half college, majoring in education. While there, I played basketbal l , baseball and had an opportunity to play professional baseball, but m y D ad wouldn't let me go, so I then started teaching school. I taught school 4 years in Meadow, farming in the summer. I married Velma Bushnell at her parent’s home on the 17 of July, 1917 . W e spent our honeymoon out on the dry-farm (between Meadow and Fillmor e) , where I was plowing, for two weeks. We stayed in a sheep cabin. I served in the U.S. Army at Camp Lewis, near Tacoma, Washington, from A u g. 1918 to March 1919. Our first home was one room in the house of Mary Jane Duncan, of Meado w ( now the Clem Duncan home on 3rd East and 1st South Street). When I ca me h ome from the army, we moved into the old Iverson home, which is no w use d as a garage and storage house, behind our own new home. There wa s no ba th or running water in it. We built our new home in 1928. Before we were married, we went to Kanosh to a dance. I had a date wit h V elma and there were other couples with us. We went over on a Bob Sled . O n the way going over, it tipped over and the girls got their dresse s al l wet and muddy. During the dance, a warm wind came up and we came h ome o n the rocks. After I came home from the army, I asked Velma to make some malt beer fr o m a recipe I had copied from a buddy, I had met in the service. He ha d to ld me it was extra good. It called for 2 lbs. of gelatin. Velma wen t to F illmore and bought all the gelatin she could get, but it was not n ear 2 l bs. She came home and made the malt beer. The next day, when we c hecked o n the beer, it had set up hard. We discovered later that I had c opied th e recipe to read the 2 lbs. and it should have read 2 tbs. In 1920-21, I started teaching in Deseret. I was Principle of the A. C . N elson Elementary for two years. I was also principle of Delta for on e yea r 1922-23. In Deseret, we just made a team of town boys and we had an unbeatable te a m. They were called the Deseret Lizards. I was the manager and coach. We played Las Vegas, B e aver, and Fillmore. We beat the team in Nephi, that won the State Champ io nship, but I couldn't go to State, because we hadn't joined the League . T he year I was in Delta, I played baseball also. In May 1923, my Father died, and I took his place as County Assessor f o r the next three and a half years and then I was reelected for anothe r fo ur years. I was feeding beef at this time and used to get up at 4 A.M. to go two m i les, on horseback, to feed cattle, all through the winter and come bac k a nd be to work by nine o'clock. I ran for assessor again in 1930, and was defeated by Roosevelt Landslid e . I thought the world had come to an end and I was going to starve, bu t i t was the best thing that ever happened to me. I was elected Mayor of Meadow. While I was in, we got the electric ligh t s (Nov. 1926) and changed the wood pipes for steel in the waterworks . I n order to get Kanosh to come in on the lights, so that we could ge t elec tricity, we had to go 60% to their 40% on the lines. I was made Bishop in 1926 and served until 1936. Venoy B. Labrum and Cec i l Fisher were my counselors and J. Milton Beckstrand was the Ward Clerk . I served on the school board for the unexpired term of Don Swallow, an d t hen elected to the board and served seven years. Velma and I took our first trip to California in 1925, to visit Velma' s s ister, Luella and her husband, Lloyd Nickle, who was studying to b e a mor tician. He took me on trips with him through town in the ambulanc e. In 1935, the Taylor Grazing Act was passed, putting all public domain un d er government supervision. People were allowed to graze livestock accor di ng to priority use, and commensurate property. A board was organized i n e ach district to determine how much livestock each applicant could gra ze . I was secretary and treasurer of this board and the office was in ou r h ome. I was on this board until 1956, except for one year. I bought stock in the Oasis Seed Plant (cleaning plant for alfalfa) in 1 9 32 and became the director in 1950 until 1958. I have been a member of the Fillmore Lions Club from 1948 and served a s P resident for a time. I was President of Meadow Irrigation and was ins trum ental in getting cement ditches for saving much needed water. I was elected a Bank Director in 19 and still hold this position at th e p resent time. I bought my first purebred cattle in 1945. I bought 15 head in San Lou i s Valley, Colorado, from Baca Grant Land and Livestock. We sold three h ea d to Ernest Bushnell. The bred heifers were delivered in March 1945. From one of these, a bu l l was born, which we sold for $33,500 cash, with some breeding privileg e . This was the highest price ever paid for a bull in Utah. The bull wa s l ater sold at auction for $43,500 and went to South Dakota. We develop ed i nto a big Hereford ranch, known as Stott Bros., and later as Leo Sto tt an d Sons. We made a trip to California before Donna was born, in a bootleg bus a n d it took us three days, because the driver was bootlegging whiskey al l t he way. To come back, we bought a Model T Ford at Barstow, we went ha lf w ay to Needles, before we found we were on the wrong road and had t o com e back. I was in partnership with my brother Cleon from 1923 until about 1948. D u ring this time, we built up quite a large estate. I went to help my brother-in-law burn grass on his lambing ground, and t h e fire got away and burned Telluride Power and Taylor Grazing ground. T he y both sued us and we were tried by jury, but the judge said he woul d rev erse the decision, if the jury found us innocent, so he fined the t wo of During the years, we have had many people come from California, to go De e r hunting each year. We've made many, many friends this way and visite d w ith them in California. During the depression, there was always a bed for any hobo or bum, who h a ppened to come through. Many of them were real characters and some wer e m ental cases. We were lucky we didn't get into more trouble. I was always a lover of children and was always giving them rides on m y h orse. One night, after giving my nephew (Jimmy Nickle) a ride, he sai d t o his mother, "I wish Uncle Leo had borned me." The Indians always considered me their friend, as well as any one else w h o was in need. If I had it, I was always willing to give to some one i n n eed. I was a basketball referee for Beaver and Millard High Schools. I was li c ensed by the State. During the drought of 1932-33-34, I spent two winters in Deseret in a sh e ep cabin, feeding cattle. leaving the girls and my wife to milk 10 cow s a nd take care of things. Leola and Nadine did the milking, night and m orni ng before school. During this drought period, in the spring, we took leased cattle, alon g w ith the ones we had, to Burbank, Utah from Delta, to graze for the su mmer . There were 600 head and in the 10 days, 60 head died. Some of the m wer e to weak to make the trip. The year Nadine was a senior in High School, she got Scarlet Fever. Th e b oard of Health didn't quarantine me, if I didn't live with the family , s o I stayed in a locked room. I was out on a Taylor Grazing trip, whe n I c ame down with Scarlet Fever, on the Sawtooth Mountain. I have seven children, born as follows: Nadine, Leola, Stella, Joe, Don n a Mae, Ben and Leah, and 30 grandchildren.