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A Family History Journey Through Time

A PHOTOGRAPHIC ACCOUNT OF THE BARTLETT AND WILSTEAD FAMILIES IN AMERICA: THE FIRST SIX GENERATIONS

Robert Dodd Wilstead (circa 1892).*<br />
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Robert and Susannah were the parents of eight children. Their sixth child was DESSA ANN WILSTEAD who was born on July 23, 1889.<br />
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Robert and one of his sons (James William) died in the tragic dust explosion in the Scofield Mine disaster at Winter Quarters mine on May 1, 1900.** The blast killed over 200 men, and left 107 widows and 268 fatherless children including Susannah Wilstead and her family.<br />
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*Courtesy, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young Library, Brigham Young University, Prove, UT 84602.<br />
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** J.W. Dilley, History of the Scofield Mine Disaster, The Skelton publishing Company, Provo, Utah.

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Robert Dodd Wilstead (circa 1892).*

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Robert and Susannah were the parents of eight children. Their sixth child was DESSA ANN WILSTEAD who was born on July 23, 1889.

Robert and one of his sons (James William) died in the tragic dust explosion in the Scofield Mine disaster at Winter Quarters mine on May 1, 1900.** The blast killed over 200 men, and left 107 widows and 268 fatherless children including Susannah Wilstead and her family.

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*Courtesy, L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young Library, Brigham Young University, Prove, UT 84602.

** J.W. Dilley, History of the Scofield Mine Disaster, The Skelton publishing Company, Provo, Utah.

$This historical studio image of a couple to be married belonged to Dessa and later to Susan, but there was no accompanying information of any kind. <br /> <br /> I believe this is a 1903 marriage photograph of Maria Dodd Wilstead (older sister of Dessa and known by most of our relatives as "Aunt Daisy") and her first husband, James Leo Roper. Maria was nineteen, and James (referred to as Lee Roper in some family records) was twenty-one. The couple were married on March 11, 1903 in Lawrence, Utah.*<br /> <br /> One child of the marriage, William l. Roper, was born in 1906 at Castle Gate, Utah.**<br /> <br /> In 1907, only one year after the birth of their son, James suffered a cervical fracture and died in Salt Lake City. He was buried in Provo. <br /> <br /> Five years after James passed away, Maria married Ray Bartlett and this union resulted in the birth of five children.***<br /> <br /> This second marriage also resulted in many of us having many "double cousins", since Daisy (Dessa's sister) married Ray Bartlett (Barney's brother).<br /> <br /> <br /> ------------------------------------------------<br /> <br /> *Western States Marriage Record Index<br /> <a href="http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=215099">http://abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/westernStatesRecordDetail.cfm?recordID=215099</a><br /> <br /> **Personal family records<br /> <br /> ***Ibid.$