m. 12 Dec 1898
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| Born |
1 Dec 1872 |
Elm Springs, Washington County, Arkansas, USA  |
| Died |
27 Jun 1959 |
Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, USA |
| Buried |
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Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, USA |
| Married |
12 Dec 1898 [1] |
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| Father |
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| Mother |
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| Born |
15 Dec 1878 |
Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA |
| Died |
20 Jan 1965 |
Tooele, Tooele County, Utah, USA |
| Buried |
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Brigham City Cemetery, Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, USA |
| Father |
Higley, Daniel Lee | F13894 Group Sheet |
| Mother |
Turpin, Nancy Ann | F13894 Group Sheet |
| Born |
11 Sep 1899 |
Brigham City, Box Elder County, Utah, USA |
| Died |
28 Nov 1987 |
Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, USA |
| Buried |
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Grantsville Cemetery, Grantsville, Tooele County, Utah, USA |
| Spouse |
Sackett, Golden Noble | F17312 |
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| Sources |
- [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 3), 9 Jan 2018.
Memorial ID 14467202
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14467202
Nancy Lorean Higley Walters
Birth: Dec. 15, 1878
Tooele
Tooele County
Utah, USA
Death: Jan. 20, 1965
Tooele
Tooele County
Utah, USA
Nancy Lorean Higley (always known as Lorean), the fourth child of Daniel Lee Higley and Nancy Ann Turpin, was born December 15, 1878 in Tooele, Utah, in a little two room log cabin on a beautiful Sabbath morning. She was a bright blue-eyed child, with hair that matched the color of newly coined gold piece.
In the fall of 1870, when Lorean was nine months old, the family left Tooele to seek a new home in Goose Creek, now known as Oakley, Idaho. But her parents acquired homestead rights to some land at the foot of Black Pine Mountain, where they moved early in the spring of 1880, having spent the winter in a dug-out made in the north bank of a high embankment of Curlew Creek.
Later in the fall of 1880, Lorean with her mother and two younger children were taken back to
Tooele to Grandmother Malinda Higley's home. Grandfather Higley's second and third wives lived in the valley a little ways apart. Lorean's family was taught to call them Aunt Eliza and Aunt Amanda. The following spring Lorean's sister, Luella was born.
Aunt Lizzie and Uncle George Higley, took two children to raise -- a boy and a girl to Black Pine. That made company for the children. They gathered Indian Arrow heads made of various colors of flint, which is found on abundance on the foothills and flats next to Black Pine Mountain. Some of the workmanship of the arrow heads was of beautiful cut. They gathered hundreds of them on the ranch, especially around the big spring.
In 1884, they moved to Brigham City, where her father had purchased a three room adobe house and an acre lot, filled with seedling peach trees. Each year her father would replace the seedling trees with as many good trees as he could afford.
After living in Brigham City nine years, they moved back to the ranch, in 1893, so Daniel could prove-up on his homestead. Lorean's two elder brothers moved them back with a teams and two heavily loaded wagons of furniture. It was the most miserable, unhappy move of her life. It began raining shortly after they started and poured down nearly all the way (five days). It fell on Lorean to ride the horse and drive the cow that would not lead. When they arrived at the ranch they were elated over the new home their father had just built. It had six rooms, a lean-to and a very fine cellar. Daniel soon piped the water from the head of the cold spring to the house.
During their sojourn in Brigham City, several families had located in the Curlew Valley, making it more pleasant for all. That first summer, James Walters and family moved to Curlew Valley. Lorean soon became acquainted with the family, as the Walters girls would come to their place. Lorean met their son, Charles, whom she married five years later.
Some of the best times were spent in Snowville, attending many parties, dances, Fourth of July and Twenty fourth of July celebrations, Christmas parties, etc. They made the trip 18 miles each way in buggies in the summer, and in the winters they went in bob sleds.
Daniel and Will converted the old homestead building into a school house. An extra door with a window on the west side made it much more pleasant.
Lorean and Charles was married December 12, 1898. They started married life in Idaho in her father's large log house. Later, she stayed in the old adobe house at Brigham, as Charles was in the sheep business with her father and brother Charles. Some years later, Lorean's family and her brothers and two sisters homesteaded a dry farm at Buena, Idaho. Lorean's oldest sister, Etta lived just over the mountain at Holbrook. With family so close it made life very comfortable and fun. The whole Curlew Valley was fast becoming homesteaded and they were all united in home parties, dances and big suppers. Soon the whole community got together and built a large log school house with an excellent floor for dancing at Black Pine. Church meeting were also held in the school. When they moved back to the dry farm in Buena, Lorean accepted the position of the instructor of the genealogical class. She was chorister and taught a primary class along with teaching the songs to the children. She had loaned the Black Pine Branch her organ and now she loaned her piano to the Buena Branch.
After they left Buena they moved back to Brigham and after her mother and father passed away they moved to Ogden and then to Honeyville, Utah, where Charles farmed. A few years later they moved back to Brigham where they built a home on 1st east. Charles gave up farming and went back to herding sheep, so the next few years he was away from home most of the time until he retired. Charles died June 27, 1959. Lorean passed away Januray 20, 1965 at the Tooele nursing home. She was buried in the Brigham City cenetery, at the age of 86. They had five children, Chloe Lorlean, Erna Opal, Lowell Merlin, Thelma Naomi and DeOrr Lee Walters all born in Brigham City, Utah.
Family links:
Parents:
Daniel Lee Higley (1850 - 1919)
Nancy Ann Turpin Higley (1852 - 1919)
Spouse:
Charles Jefferson Walters (1872 - 1959)*
Children:
Chloe Lorlean Walters Davenport (1899 - 1987)*
Opal Erma Walters Williamson (1907 - 1993)*
Lowell Merlin Walters (1909 - 1997)*
Thelma Naomi Walters Fehlman (1911 - 1982)*
Siblings:
Etta May Higley Thompson (1873 - 1937)*
Daniel William Higley (1874 - 1940)*
Charles Stacey Higley (1876 - 1949)*
Nancy Lorean Higley Walters (1878 - 1965)
Rose "Ethel" Higley Ralphs (1880 - 1931)*
Sarah Higley Holst (1881 - 1931)*
Violet Higley Sackett Bird (1884 - 1952)*
Mattie B Higley Alvord (1887 - 1915)*
Clifford Lee Higley (1893 - 1965)*
Jesse Woodruff Higley (1895 - 1981)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Brigham City Cemetery
Brigham City
Box Elder County
Utah, USA
Maintained by: Deborah King Medina
Originally Created by: Kim Millett
Record added: May 31, 2006
Find A Grave Memorial# 14467202
Researched by Ted Smith
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