Item Detail
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Bott, Olive Henson Allen
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1910-1996
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MSS SC 2428
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Family History
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Olive Henson Allen Bott was born on 11 March 1910 in Cove, Utah. She was the daughter of Levi Knapp Allen and Livinia Meriam Henson, and was the youngest of 10 children, the others being Clarinda Meriam, Levi Andrew, Elijah Charles, James Sidney, Lydia Sophronia, Susan LaRene, Julia Mary, Esther Verona, and Theadore Alfred.
On 11 December 1929, she married Henry Reeder Bott in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had no children but spent much of their time together researching and compiling the history of their predecessors.
Olive worked as a secretary and was an active member of the LDS church. While she lived in Mesa, Arizona, she also served as a Family Record teacher at the local library, and an ordinance worker in the Mesa, Arizona Temple.
She died on 27 July 1996 in St. George, Utah, just three years after the death of her husband. -
This 191-page typescript book, entitled, Whos Who in the Bott Family in England & America, contains the history, genealogy, and origins of the Bott family. It is compiled by Henry Reeder Bott and his wife, Olive Henson Allen Bott, and is dated 10 October 1957. It also includes inserts of photocopied maps, photographs, ancestor charts, and letters relevant to the Bott family throughout the work.
In the back, there is also a photocopy of a newspaper article from Mesa, Arizona highlighting Olive as a local genealogical research consultant at the library. At this library, new and useful information on a family has recently become available. The family in question is that of John Craghead and his wife, Martha, who came from Virginia to the Salt Lake Valley with Captain Philemon C. Merrill in 1856.