Item Detail
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Green, Elizabeth Rebecca Lloyd
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1879-1972
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MSS 827
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Elizabeth Rebecca Lloyd Green was born October 24, 1879 in Lake Creek, Wasatch county, Utah to John Lloyd and Emma Phillips. She attended Center Creek Elementary for six years and then moved to Tooele in 1898. In 1900, she married William Broomhead Green, and a year later, they moved to Ophir, where they lived for twenty-five years, driving horses and hauling ore. They then moved to Erda for a short time, then to South Willow, where Will was in charge of the power station. In 1929 they moved to Grantsville, where Will was a resident. Together, they had ten children. William died April 2, 1950 in Salt Lake City, and Elizabeth moved in to live with her third youngest daughter, Deon Johanson. Elizabeth died September 4, 1972.
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Part of the J. Allen Parkinson collection, this is a one-page typescript biography written by Elizabeth's grandson, Tim Sullivan. It is located in the eighth folder of the collection, which is labeled, 'Biographies, GA-GU.' There is very little information concerning Elizabeth's personal life. Her father did found the first saw mill in Heber, Utah. Tim ended the biography writing that Elizabeth is still working at the age of seventy-four.