Item Detail
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Bott, Olive Henson Allen
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1910-1996
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MSS SC 2429
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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 19-page typescript book, bound in a green folder and entitled, Henson: One Hundred years (1868-1968), is a compilation of family history made by Olive Henson Allen Bott, at the request of the children of Livinia Meriam Henson Allen (Olives mother). The file includes family history, genealogy, anecdotes, and inserts of photocopied notes, letters, and photographs pertaining to the Henson family.