Genealogical Record: Viva Chew

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Viva Chew

*1894 04 02 Centerfield, Sanpete Co., UT, USA

LDS AFN 5TH6-TK.

17794

John Hoyle (Jack) Chew
Servant

*1852 08 11 Sabden, Pendleton, Lancashire, GBR
+1954 08 25 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co., UT, USA

LDS AFN 1GV3-VK. Tentative identification with 1880 Census record, made by JC 10001, confirmed by ML 100199.

1880 Census: Gunnison, Sanpete, UT, USA. Single white male, 26, servant, living in home of William Bangs, parents also born in England.

ML 100199 adds: He lived most of his life in Uintah Co., UT, USA. After his mother's death, he was hired as a ranch hand (stock handler) for a man named Parmer, for whom he worked for about 6 years, and with whom he had lived earlier as a boy. He may have lived at the Bangs' home for a few years, doing chores in exchange for lodging, but the Census entry notwithstanding would not have described himself as a servant. The Bangs family lived in the small settlement of Chicken Creek, where MEM 15620 lived with her parents, and her father had a flour mill. He went on to work stock for several others, and took care of the Centerfield community's herd for 2 years, camping at a place now known as Jack's Flat. In 1894/95, he went to work for Oscar Berglund. In 1899, he began spending 2 years moving Berglund's cattle to Browns Park, CO, where his last four children were born. He and MEM 15620 had 14 children. The second-born, Hoyle, was killed at about 12. The 13th, Madge, died at birth, and was buried a few hundred feet from where she was born. The remaining 12 grew to adulthood and had productive lives. He worked as a stockman, then left the cattle business to capture wild horses to break them and sell them to the U.S. Army's Cavalry. He is buried beside his wife in the villege cemetery in Jensen, Uintah Co., UT, USA. His ranch was inherited by his son Rial, with Ralph and Douglas purchasing land nearby. The family are still active as stock growers and in government regulation organizations in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado.

15619 <15:2

William Chew
Overlooker

*1826 04 01 Sabden, Pendleton, Lancashire, GBR
+1911 05 24 Ladore (Browns Park), Moffat Co., CO, USA

LDS AFN B9ZW-FW. ML 100199: Buried in Community Center Cemetery. JHC 15619 was his first son. Rejoined his family in Utah around 1895. Joined JH 100205 when he moved his ranching operation to Colorado. Died of frostbite injuries sustained in his last winter.

17781

Obadiah Chew
1794 08 03-1846 09 25
100201
Henry Chew
100203
Betty Greenwood
100204
Ann Wardley
100202
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Phebe (Phoebe) Hoyle
Glover

*1833 07 15 Haslingden, Lancashire GBR
+1867 Juab Co., UT, USA

LDS AFN B9ZW-G3. From ML 100199. Left her husband and two daughters to emigrate to Utah with JHC 15619, sometime between her father's emigration in 1852 and her estranged husband's eventual emigration around 1895.

17782

John Hoyle
100205
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Mary Davis
100206
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Mary Eliza Metcalf

*1863 10 15 Springville, Utah Co., UT
+1950 12 17 Vernal, Uintah Co., UT, USA

LDS AFN 1GV3-WQ. Daughter of Anthony Metcalf (of Belfast, IRL), owner of a flour mill in Chicken Creek, UT, USA and Sylvia Eliza Sandford (of Hanck, IL, USA).

15620 <15:2

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