More Memmott Family Reunion History Information

Deseret News Mar 1, 1916
MEMMOTT FAMILY REUNION IN SCIPIO
(Special Correspondence.)

Scipio, Feb. 28.—In honor of Thomas Memmott, who was 78 years old Feb. 27. A family reunion was held on the 26th in the Relief society hall. There were present 115 members of the Memmott family, the majority of whom are descendants of Mr. Memmott and his deceased wife, Emma W. Memmott. All his children seven sons and on daughter their wives and husband, and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren were present. An appropriate program was given, games were played and a ball in the evening concluded the festivities.

Thomas Memmott was born in England son of William and Ann Memmott. He was married in 1857 and came to Utah in 1862. He lived in Deseret from 1864 to 1868, when he moved to Scipio, where he has since resided. His wife, Emma died in 1898 and in 1900 he married Catherine Hunter. Mr. Memmott has always been an active Church worker; know especially for his ability as a choir leader. He has also filled civic positions or responsibility.

In the 1979 Memmott Family Bulletin is this By Thomas Kemner Memmott:
It was in the year of 1935 that I first attended a Memmott Reunion. I was attending a summer session at BYU and went to Scipio to spend a weekend. As luck would have it, they were having a reunion. Calvin Memmott was conducting the meeting.

The family continued to meet annually at Scipio in a reunion type get-to-gether. They always were entertained with a fine program, using family talent. On two different years the reunion was held at Nephi and at Provo. New officers were selected each year.

Through the years committees were formed. Sometimes the head of the committee was called “chairman”. Other years he was called “president”. According to the records, that Paul Memmott produced, I found the following:
1936 Fenton Memmott, President
1937 Fenton Memmott, President
1938 no reunion
1939 Fenton Memmott, President
1940 Fenton Memmott, President
1941 to 1952 – No minutes are available
1952 Kemner Memmott, Master of ceremonies; held in Nephi
1953 Howard Memmott, Chairman
1954 Kemner Memmott, President
1955 Chester Memmott, President
1956 LaVoy Memmott, Chairman
1957 Jay Memmott, President
1958 Angus Memmott, President
1959 Howard Memmott, President
1960 Neil Monroe, Chairman

1961 no minutes
1962 no minutes
1963 Beulah Clayson was in charge
1964 no minutes from 1963 on; however, there are rosters of members attending in 1964, 1965 and 1966
Late 1960’s & early 1970’s – interest seemed to wane and for a few consecutive years no reunions were held. He then told the story that was also written by Clifton Memmott in the Memmott Family Bulletin 1986.
1972 Evan Jed Memmott, President
1973 Evan Jed Memmott, President
1974 Evan Jed Memmott, President
1975 Paul Memmott, President
1976 Paul Memmott, President
1977 Alice Adams, President
1978 Alice Adams, President
1979 Robert ‘Bob’ Memmott, President; reunion held in Mexico
1980 Robert ‘Bob’ Memmott, President
1981 Larry L Memmott, President
1982 Larry L Memmott, President; reunion held in California
1983 Larry L Memmott, President
1984 Wanda Carter, President
1985 Wanda Carter, President
1986 William ‘Bill’ R. Memmott, President
1987 William ‘Bill’ R. Memmott, President; reunion held at Lagoon
1988 Clayton L. Memmott, President
1989 Clayton L. Memmott, President; reunion held at Wheeler Farm
1990 Robert ‘Bob’ Salmon
1991 Dorthy Sorensen Smith, President; reunion held in West Valley City
1992 Dorthy Sorensen Smith, President
1993 Bryce W Memmott, President
1994 Cola Dawn Memmott Larsen, President
1995 Karma Jean Memmott Robertson, President
1996 no mention in Bulletin who was President
1997 Clayton Memmott, conducted the meeting, held at Wheeler Farm
1998 no mention in Bulletin who was President
1999 William ‘Bill’ R. Memmott, President; reunion at This is the Place State Park
2000 William ‘Bill’ R. Memmott, President
2001 Bonny Ingle, President; reunion held at Wheeler Farm
2002 Bonny Ingle, President
2003 no mention in Bulletin who was President; reunion at the Gardener Village
2004 Kimberly Daniels, President
2005 no mention in Bulletin who was President; reunion held at Bill & Joava Good’s home in Draper
2006 no mention in Bulletin who was President-reunion in Nephi
2007 Jill Memmott Olsen, President; reunion at the Gardener Village
2008 Jill Memmott Olsen, President
2009 William “Bill” R. Memmott, President; reunion at ‘This is the Place state park’
2010 William “Bill” R. Memmott, President
2011 Rosalie Memmott Nolan, President; reunion at the Gardener Village
2012 Rosalie Memmott Nolan, President
2013 Susan Memmott Allred, President Elect

Letter from the President:

Dear Family Members:

It has been a couple months since the Family Reunion 2011 at the Gathering Place in Gardener Village.  We appreciate those who helped pull it together, carried it out and all who participated.  We were able to acknowledge the 75^th Wedding Anniversary of Chester and Esther Memmott, who were present.

We found the owner of the lost camera that was mentioned at the Reunion – it was Karma Robertson and she now has it back.

One of the items discussed was this Family Blog it is the first try at it and any suggestions or helps will be appreciated.  We invite all Family members to submit births, weddings, missionaries, death, honors to family members and etc.  Pictures and family histories are needed.  We started with a brief summary of the organization as we understand it from past Family Bulletins and have included information on the Family that we know best.  Please provide input and information on your family line so we can get to know each other better.

There is still a need for to fill open position of officers on the Memmott Family Association Executive Board.  Second Vice president, Family Genealogist, Historian and Secretary are needed.

Sincerely,

Rosalie Memmott Nolan

Welcome

The William and John Memmott Family Association, Inc.

The Memmott Family Association, INC was incorporated in 2001 in the state of Utah - The William and John Memmott Family Association, Inc. which was incorporated in 1982 was not renewed so it had to be incorporated again.   It has researched and published genealogies and histories on the ancestors and descendants of the Thomas Memmott family living in Aston and Sheffield, Yorkshire, England.

Since February 26, 1916 reunions have been held, these have been annually from 1972 to date.   The current Officers are as follows:

President – Susan Memmott Allred (Randy)

1^st vice President – 

2^nd Vice President – volunteer currently needed

Secretary – volunteer currently needed

Treasurer- Jackie Memmott Wampler (Forrest)

Family Genealogist – volunteer currently needed

Historian – Volunteer currently needed

Bulletin Editor –

Quilter – Dorthy Smith [she has given a quilt each year of over 40 years now]

Committee Members:  Bill (Collette) Memmott, Jill (David) Memmott Olsen, Joava (Bill) Memmott Good have served with the officers to hold a reunion the last several years.  Interest seems to have waned; to keep the reunions going more involvement from the Family members is needed.  Please help!

This family organization has been established to honor our progenitors by carrying out activates which will not only remind us of them, but which will inspire, motivate, and help all of us to achieve the purposes for which we have been born here on this earth. 

The organization will plan, design and carry out activities with the following in mind:

·         Perform Genealogical Research with reliable results

·         Prepare and gather Family Histories that will inspire and motivate

·         Gather and Organize information about John and William Memmott Families

·         Create a Family Archive of Family History

·         Gather Family Members and Keep family Records Current

·         Strengthen Families and individuals

·         Provide opportunities for descendants to socialize and become acquainted.

Please contribute to the Family Bulletin and Blog; send noteworthy news from the family branches and Family Histories to the President or 1^st Vice President or directly email them to memmottreunion@gmail.com .  Your news could include:

·         Family Research

·         Life sketches

·         Mission announcements

·         Births, wedding, deaths

·         Trivia

·         Project for kids

Obituary-- Elaine Kirkpatrick

Elaine Kirkpatrick 

  

1933 ~ 2011
Alice Elaine Probert Kirkpatrick, age 78, passed away in her Scipio, Utah home on 3 October 2011 after a valiant fight with cancer which she contracted from being a "Downwinder." Sincere appreciation is expressed to Dr. Saundra S. Buys and her staff for their help in prolonging Elaine's life, and to Jon Huntsman for creating the excellent Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City. Thank you to IHC Hospice and Home Health and Nurse Denise Allgood and Pam Robison and Donna Crapo for their excellent care.
Elaine was born on 31 July 1933 in Provo, Utah to Samuel Don Probert and Genevieve Alice Peterson, the last of their five children. She grew up in Scipio, and graduated from Utah State University in Logan with a degree in Elementary Education. She married Stewart Raymond Kirkpatrick on 1 June 1956 in Scipio. They were sealed for eternity in the Salt Lake Temple on 23 March 1984.
Kirk's service in the Air Force took them to Texas, Turkey, Virginia, Colorado, and Hawaii. When he retired, they moved to Farmington, Utah and lived there for 32 years.
Elaine has served in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a teacher, counselor, and president of the Primary, Young Women's, and Relief Society organizations. She was very active in the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers and served as first vice president on the central board in Salt Lake City in the 1980s. Kirk and Elaine served two LDS missions in Hawaii and Istanbul, Turkey. They have lived in Scipio for the past 4 years. Every place they have lived, Elaine has made special friends, loving them and they loving her.
Elaine is survived by her husband of 55 years and their three children, Stewart (Kelly) of Billings, Montana, Mark (Sue) of West Valley City, Utah, and Suzie
(Chris) Roseville, California, 15 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren, her sister Arlene (Jay) Memmott, and her brother Dick (Thelma) Probert of Scipio; sister-in-laws, Gloria Probert, Scipio, UT and Shirley Probert, Scipio, UT. Preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Carl Probert and Bud Probert.
Funeral service will be held Friday Oct 7 at noon at Scipio Ward, 85 W 100 N Street. The family will receive family and friends from 10 to 11:30 a.m. prior to the service. Interment will be in the Scipio Cemetery. Funeral arrangements by Rasmussen Mortuary, Mount Pleasant, Utah.

Elaine and Kirk before their LDS mission to Turkey

I was able to attend Elaine's funeral, it was beautiful. My mother gave the tribute and said, "She's probably planning a party." I think so too! Elaine loved to have people around. She touched many lives, Elaine made everyone she knew feel important and special. She was very genuine and real. I truly feel that I'm a better person because I knew her.

Front of funeral program

Inside of the funeral program

The Pallbearers put their butoners on the casket. Her grand daughters made pink ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness for those attending the funeral, and many put their ribbons on the casket.

Elaine wanted a pink casket and got it, even the vault was painted pink.

Elaine in a pioneer costume as a child

Elaine during her high school years
with the smile Kirk loved.

Elaine's Memmott line: Alice Elaine Probert, Samuel Don Probert, Sarah Memmott, John Memmott, Thomas Memmott, Ann Memmott, William Memmott, Francis Memmott.

If anyone would like to share memories of Elaine that would be wonderful. Please do so in the comments of this post.

Thanks to Elaine's daughter-in-law Sue Kirkpatrick for getting me many of these pictures.

History's James Wilson Memmott

Jill Memmott Olsen has transcribed many histories from family bulletins and has offered to send them along with the pictures she has. Thanks Jill for all your help!

James Wilson Memmott

 James Wilson Memmott (1841 – 1919)

Written by James Wilson Memmott

(Published in the 1976 Bulletin)

This is a sketch of the life of James Wilson Memmott born February 25, 1841, in Aston, Yorkshire, England.  Son of William Memmott, born in Aston, Yorkshire, England, on August 30, 1823 and Ann Wilson Memmott, born in Woodhouse Mill, Yorkshire, England on August 30, 1823.  My parents had seven children: Thomas, Martha, James Wilson, John William, William, Samuel and Sarah Ann.

I received some schooling until 10 years of age.  At about 12 years I commenced to learn the engineering trade.  At the age of 18 I learned a part of the milling business.  At 20 I married Elizabeth Hopkins on 24 March 1861.  Went to Utah April 23, sailing on a ship, Underwriter.  Arrived on New York 29 May 1861, about six days before the Civil War commenced.  Left New York for St. Joseph, Missouri, 30 May 1861.  Traveled by river, went up to Florence by steam boat arriving about 10 June 1861. Camped about three weeks there and then started for Salt Lake City, Utah in July.  Traveled in the Milo Andrews and Omer Duncon train.  Had a first rare time and good trip.  Our team, first two yoke oxen, one cow, with eleven family members.  We arranged our business first rate.

I don’t think we were five dollars to the good – or five dollars in debt.  We had a little trouble on account of Indians, but I consider we had a first class trip.  Some few died on the trip.  There were seventy- five wagons, five hundred head of oxen, and about five hundred people.

We camped in Salt Lake City about ten days and found some of our old Sheffield friends.  Harry Roper, Matthew Rowen and others.  We went to Payson, sixty or sixty-five miles south.  Found many friends and got along fine for newcomers and not being used to the country and people.

On 16 July 1862, my wife gave birth to a baby girl (Annie Elizabeth), which at this time is 51 years old and has eight living children.  But my wife never recovered and died 13 September 1862.  This was very hard on me and many a time I would have gone back to my old home, my Mother raised the baby and she called her Mother.

All my people moved to Scipio, Millard County, Utah, but I stopped in Payson until 1890 when I went to Mexico.  In the meantime I bought about $10, 000 of land, two threshing machines, two saw mills, and done general business which Mormons generally do so as to make a living and build a home.

In the years 1863-64-65 I made shingles, made two trips to Montana, in 66 I took charge of Simons Mill and held it for over twenty years.  I built a good home in 1866 and in 1871 – I married a young lady, Jane Mathewson, from Scotland.  We lived together for twenty years and had 10 children.  They are:  Martha Jane, James Wilson, Lillie, Mattie, William George, Lee Edward, David F., Zoe Helen, Maude May and Zella Ireta.

We lived in Payson for fifteen years, and then moved to Salem in 85’, and in 1890 we moved back to Payson.  In six weeks trouble got in the family and in less than forty-eight hours I was on my way to Mexico.  Arriving in Juarez on 9 July 1890.  I have made five visits to Salt Lake since I came to Mexico.  After arriving in Colonia Juarez, I rested for about twenty days, and then went to work for W.R.B Stowell to run his grist mill, of about 75 bushels per twelve hours.  At first I earned one dollar per day, but as people move in, business increased.  I had a great time as I did not know the Spanish language.  After a time I got acquainted and saved some cash, bought me a home and found me a wife.  I married Mary Ann Mellor, 14 June 1894.  Since that time we have had six children, two girls and four boys.  They are: Mary Etta, Joseph Fletcher, James Wilson, George Liecester, and  Hazel.

Many changes have come to pass, and today July 20, 1914, we are in Thatcher, Arizona, wondering who is in Mexico, and wondering when we go back to our home, and 200 acre farm with tools and everything complete.  I worked with and for  W. R. R. Stowell as miller about six years and was very much pleased and took much pleasure with the Stowell Family for three years, then built a mill below Jackson Mill, but before it was completed Joseph Jackson offered me his mill for $12,000 Mexican.  I ran it for seven years then sold it to Don Leuis Terrazas of Chih.  And moved to Colonia Juarez at the time I was making cash.  I bought P.N. Skousen’s farm for $6,000.  The seven years I run the mill and farm I cleaned up about $5.00 a year and did quite a large amount of business from 1890 – 1903.  After 1908 trouble in Mexico was talked about so I sold to P.N. Skousen $18,000 land.

When in 1907 I built a home worth $7,000 with a good barn, one hundred acres in San Jose, and one hundred in Chuachupa.  In 1912 we all left Mexico for a time, a few came back, and many never did.  We came back and had to leave again.

This was written by James Wilson Memmott.  He died February 13, 1919 in El Paso, TX.

Memmott Family Reunion August 13th 2011

This year's Memmott Family Reunion was held at The Gathering Place in Gardner Village. We enjoyed a delicious lunch, wonderful entertainment, and time catching up with family. A deli lunch was provided by The Gathering Place. The pre-program entertainment was given by Karli and Alexa Augat, who are granddaughters of Chester and Esther Memmott. We all enjoyed listening to their beautiful voices. Then Kirk Memmott shared some excerpts from the third volume of the Thomas Memmott journal. Susan Memmott Allred arranged the after lunch entertainment which was provided by Clive Romney and his group. They used our family history to write a song about our ancestors that will be available to us next year. We also raffled off a quilt made by Dorthy Smith, who has made a quilt every year for the raffle for the last 40 years and each one has gone to a different family.

Susan Memmott Allread put together this Forrest Memmott Family display.

Enjoying the good meal and wonderful company.

Chester and Esther's children recognized their parents 75th wedding anniversary. They never had a wedding reception and Esther never had a bouquet so their children provided a bouquet and all posed for pictures.

After lunch entertainment.

All pictures were provided by George Nolan.

Memmott Family Association

The purpose of this blog is to make sharing family histories, pictures, and documents easier. It is also to stay connected and informed about our reunions and what is going on in our family. Our first set of posts will be a Memmott Family Reunion History. There is a tab at the top where you can access the full history. Also at the top there will be tabs to access historic pictures, documents as well as pictures from our recent reunions.

This blog will be maintained by me, Britta Hughes. I am the daughter of Rosalie Memmott Nolan and George E. Nolan who currently are serving as the Association's Presidents. If you have any information you would like to share please contact us through the Memmott Family Associations email: memmottreunion@gmail.com