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Show Rowswell The old Beckstead home was a two room lumber, adobe lined house that stood on the Southeast corner of Main and Lennox Streets. The Beckstead farm took up a quarter of the block that now contains four large apart 1869 the ment buildings and five homes. EDWARD A. AND ALICE G. BATEMAN Frances Alice Glover, born in 1868, in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the daughter of James and Mary Glover, was the last of their ten children. In family moved to West Jordan (Midvale). Alice could remember Ole Amundsen putting the framework on their Street in was house. She attended school new a home owned on the north side of Center Street on a small near her Maggie Smith as teacher. She also went to school in the "Mud Temple," a building made of adobe brick. father's blacksmith shop,. with Junction. A dedicated the son Saloon They lived in River. Later at the Ira a log cabin on the hill west of the Jordan they bought land from James Glover on brickyard, a worked for the West becoming manager. frame house. Edward worked who crack shot. I have one seen him throw five were abiding people trying to make the most out of life, especially foreign countries who had come to Midvale to make their homes. The day of his burial, many friends from different ethnic groups who could not find a place in the church service, lined the street to pay him homage. eight room brick home, which Charles Cundick, a cousin, built for them at 46 South Allen Street,' Midvale. Alice lived here lIDtil1952, when she moved to Salt Lake to live with her son, Dr. E. Allen Bateman, who was Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Iris B. Searle FOUR GENERATIONS OF CANNINGS Benjamin Canning married Hannah Gomm in Loxley, England, and came to utah about 1882. They bought a large tract of land bordered by the present Utah. Alice held many church positions during her lifetime. When the Daughters of Utah Pioneers organized a camp in Midvale in 1934, Alice as the oldest member, was She chose the Lennox and South Main in West Jordan (Midvale). Later, her father, William Gomm, who had said he were parents of twelve Alonzo, Melissa Alice, Laura Vivian, Vera May, Emma, Edward Allen, James Glover, Samuel Alberto, Marvin Bordotto, Dean, Mary and Harold Elmer. Alice was a widow for over forty years and buried eight of her children. She lived to be 92. Edward and Alice Bateman children - Melissa B. Glover I'RA AND JOSEPHINE BECKSTEAD Ira Beckstead respected and was a rough spoken sometimes feared. He man was who em time and hit them all before those from Midvale in 1912 and 1913, then he sold insurance. In 1904, the Edward Bateman family moved into the name. was a He was kind and considerate of the law Cooper hauling flour Cooper's Mill burned down, he Jordan Milling Company, later He was elected city recorder of given the honor of chosing the name of "Glover" Camp. Christmas eve, pty cans in the air at they hit the ground. then for William to Salt Lake. When one ficer. of Samuel and Marinda Allen Bateman. Center Street and built he helped capture three robbing the Golden Gate killed a Midvale police of police officer, in the process of who, men Alice married Edward Alonzo Bateman in 1866. He was was a Salt Lake by Mr. Howell. Melissa Borlase her first teacher. Later she studied in building police officer most of his life. He joined the County Sheriff's Department in 1903 under Joseph C. Sharp and C. Frank Emery. He and his par tner, Dave Beckstead, quit the Sheriff's department and then went to work for the police department of Bingham Ira South Main was "Irrie" to all who knew him. He was born in West Jordan, utah, in 1867, ninth child of Alexander and Kiziah A. Petty Beckstead. He moved to Bingham Junction (Midvale) in 1896 and married Josephine Riley. They had three daughters: Gladys (Mrs. Bernard Rasmussen), Iris (Mrs. David J. Searle) and josephine Carmita (Mrs. Norman E. Wilden). Hannah 44 Canning. Martha. Elizabeth. Mabel. |
