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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. Per website http://home.att.net/~dtadair/georgewashingtonadair.html: "On Nov. 1, 1908, she was married to George Ether Slade. They were the parents of George and Pansy Alice. Edna passed away on April 10, 1937."
2. Censuses:
1900 US: San Juan County, New Mexico, Precinct No. 6 Bloomfield (Hammond), 22 Jun 1900, p. 210a, family 133:
George W. Adair, June 1837, 63, md. 36 years, AL NC AL, farmer
Emily, wife, Jan 1847, 53, md. 36 years, IA NY NY.
William A., son, Feb 1872, 28, div., UT AL IA, farm laborer
Joseph W., son, Jun 1881, 19, sing., AZ AL IA, farm laborer
Rufus N., son, Sep 1884, 15, sing., AZ AL IA, farm laborer
Edna I., dau., Jan 1887, 13, sing., AZ AL IA, at school
3. Per 25 Jan 2002 email of Carolyn Smith : "Nellie & Rufus Adair traveled to St. George to be sealed in the Temple, George & Edna Slade traveled with them to witness the sealing. George & Edna had been sealed a few years prior to this. The trip to St George was a major undertaking & due to the financial situation of both couples and the fact that Rufus & Nellie's mode of travel was by team & wagon, it was necessary to travel some and then stop & work to help finance the remainder of their trip. We understand that several work stops were necessary to complete the trip. When they got to New Harmony they spent several months visiting family. The time spent there also allowed Rufus & George to find work to help finance their return trip to New Mexico."
4. FHL film 392631 LDS "Patriarchal Blessings Index", two blessings:
a. Edna Irene Adair, b. 20 Jan 1887 at Antrioso, Apache, Ariz., parents George W. Adair & Emily P. Tyler. Blessing date Nov. 26, 1890 at Beaver, Utah. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch Daniel Tyler. Vol. 262, p. 198.
b. Edna I. Adair, b. 20 Jan 1887 at Nurtioso, Ariz., parents George W. Adair & Emily P. Tyler. Blessing date 17 Jun 1908. Lineage: Ephraim. Patriarch William Halls. Vol. 145, p. 5.
5. Received from Don and Carolyn Smith the following biography on George Ether Slade & Edna Adair. Transcribed from "Our Valley"; compiled by Rosetta (Huntsman) Biggs. Life Story written by Pansy (Slade) West & Roberta (Slade) Davis, 1973:
"George E. Slade was born in Moab, Utah 8 August 1886, son of Jefferson Slade and Johanna Barron. When he was four years old, they moved to Fruitland, New Mexico, and lived there for a short period before moving to Eager, Arizona. It was around 1904 when Jefferson Slade moved part of his family from Arizona to the Kline, Colorado area. They stopped of in Fruitland for a time and then went to what was known as Jackson. They found they were not quite satisfied, so they went on to the Kline Area. George was the youngest son of the family, having a sister younger who married Lester Holgate. There he worked on the ranch his father bought. Later he and his brother and cousins went to Silverton to work in the mines.
About two years earlier, the Adair family came through the valley, looking for a new place to settle. They also stopped in Fruitland, but were not there the same time as the Slades. They went on to a new place being settled by the Mormons, called Hammond, on east and south of the San Juan River. Edna was the baby of this family. Edna's brother, Rufus went to Silverton to work in the mines, where he met George Slade who took him home to meet his sister, Fannie. Fannie wanted Rufus to bring his sister, Edna, to meet her brother, George. This proved love at first sight, almost. Edna was eighteen and had always wanted to be married in the Temple. In fact, Edna's Patriarchal Blessing said: Inasmuch as you will forsake all others, you will have a husband who will take you to the Temple of the Lord. Within a year they were engaged. George went back to Silverton to work in the mines and Edna to Farmington to work in a tomato canning factory that was going there. She and a niece, Bertha Adair, and Florence Finch lived together and worked in the canning factory. As I remember, they received $3.00 per week, maybe I'm wrong. Bertha's younger sister, Bessie, who was twelve, came to stay with them. When George would get a chance to visit he would come down by train. Bertha latter married Tom Finch, Florence's brother.
Time passed and George and Edna were twenty-one and planning to go to the Temple. Between them they had around $500.00, but for some reason which was hard to understand, because of the testimonies of these two young people, George took Typhoid and Pneumonia in Silverton. Before he could be gotten to Durango he was almost dead. This was late September or October. He continued to worsen and a drastic operation was performed by a wonderful surgeon, who was in Durango because his wife had TB. They had come from Chicago and this was Doctor Oschner. He removed two and one-half ribs and half a lung from George. He developed an abscess in this cavity and was in a dying condition. Edna had been sent for and was staying in the hospital.
One night the Doctor said he couldn't live through the night and left word for the horse-drawn mortician to call at the hospital in the morning, Edna sent Ross, his brother, to Kline (twenty-six miles) by horseback, for the Bishop and his brother, Will Slade. I think the Bishop was Brother Butler and Will was a Counselor. Edna obtained a marriage license from a judge, and when the Bishop came, was kneeling at his bed to be married. The Bishop promised him he would raise a family . George was in the hospital a long time. Altogether a year and a half because of a second operation.
Their first child died at birth, the second being Pansy Alice, who was born in the old Farmington Hospital, when George was working on the railroad. They had many faith-promoting experiences during this time. George was never to strong but worked hard as a laborer for the most part of his life.
The family moved a lot for health reasons and trying to find a place to get a start. The next period of time in the lower San Juan Valley was in 1915 when Pansy Alice was about four years old. They moved to Jewitt Valley where George worked for the Ditch Company. During that time he was in the Bishopric and Edna was in the Presidency of the YLMIA.
The Slades then moved to Bloomfield and Hammond for a period of time, during which Roberta, Edwin, Bill, and Irene were born. In 1926 they were in the Muddy Valley in Southern Nevada, where Edna's sister, Ruth's family was living. Ruth had died in 1920, leaving a husband and five children. Edna became seriously ill here and was taken to Salt Lake City for medical help.
In 1927 her brother-in-law, Ren Huntsman, died and the three younger children were sent to California to live with some of his relatives.
The next time we see the Slades, we see them in the valley when Pansy is a junior in High School, and they spent that winter in what was known as the Nelson house. The next winter they moved to the Black Diamond coal mine to work for Will Jack. The following spring they moved to Fruitland, where George raised sugar cane and made molasses to sell. Pansy had graduated from high school and started teaching school, first in Hammond in a little one-room school house, and then at La Plata.
The rest of the family moved to Kirtland and rented until the spring of 1933, when they moved into their new brick house, constructed by Al Palmer.
In March 1934 Pansy was married to Francis Patton and moved to Tuba City, Arizona.
In the spring of 1935 Roberta graduated from Central High School. Rosetta Huntsman a niece of Edna's who came to live with them in 1931, also graduated.
During these years, both the Slades were very active in church work. Edna was secretary of the Sunday School and also of Primary. George was active in priesthood work.
Late in the year 1935 Howard George, the first grandchild, was born. He was dearly loved by all the family.
In the spring of 1937 Edna died while being prepared for surgery. The same year, Roberta married Frank Davis of Farmington, originally from Ramah and Gallup. Also that year Edwin graduated from Central High School.
George married Bessie (Adair) Fuller and brought into the home the two sons of her first marriage, Walter and Leo Fuller. Edwin went to live with the Pattons, and from there went into the army when World War Two had not been going very long.
Irene and Bill remained in Kirtland until they graduated from high school in 1941, then Irene went to live with Frank and Roberta in Gallup, until she married Bill Stock ion 1941. Bill Slade eloped with Eleanor Foutz, daughter of Roy and Gertrude Foutz, in June of this same year.
Edwin did not come back to the San Juan to live when he was released from the Air Force. He married and remained in California. He has four sons, his first wife dying of Leukemia at the birth of their son, Gary, and he had three sons by his wife, Kathryn. They had one daughter, Roberta Irene, who died at birth. His other sons are Harold, Daniel, and Bill. At this time he is living in Ventura, California.
Irene lives in Ogden, Utah, and her husband owns and runs Smalley's Jewelry Store. She has had five children, her oldest daughter being killed by a car, when she ran out into the street when she was four years old. Irene has twin boys, Kerry and Jerry, and a daughter, Rochelle, and a much later son, Jay.
Frank and Roberta lived most of thirty-two years in southern New Mexico in and around Silver City, except for two and one-half years, 1948-1950 they were in business in Kirtland, known as the Kirtland Welding Shop. Then Frank's former employer wanted to take him into the business and it was too good to pass up, so they went back to what was home to the girls. They have two daughters, Margaret Irene, born 29 February 1940, and Alice Louise, born 5 July 1942. Margaret married Bill Phillips of Silver City, August 1959, and they are the parents of one daughter and two sons and live in Albuquerque. Alice married Daniel Thomas of Silver City, July 1961, and their home is in Orem, Utah. They have six children, four girls and two boys.
Frank and Roberta sold their home in Silver City in 1971 and moved to their new home just below Lemon Dam, close to Durango, Colorado.
George and Bessie Slade continued to live in the family home and George died 14 February 1958. Bessie later sold the home and now lives in a mobile home at the Tanner Trailer Park in Kirtland.
The Pattons lived in California for some years, and Francis Patton died in 1952. They had a son, Edward Francis. Pansy married Floyd West and they lived in Livermore, California. Howard, the oldest boy, and his wife, Margie, and two daughters, also live there. Edward and his wife, Jan, live in San Francisco, California. Floyd and Pansy lived in West Virginia for awhile, where he was with the Naval Academy. He is now retired."
BIRTH:
1. FHL Film 2456: "Early LDS Church Membership Records for Nutrioso, Arizona": Record of the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Nutrioso Ward, St. Johns Stake of Zion. Page not noted:
1. George W. Adair; father: S.J. Adair; mother: Jamima Mangum; 27 Jun 1837 at Pickens Co., Alabama; received 6 Apr 1885 from Kanab; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
2. Emily P. Adair; father: Daniel Tyler; mother: Ruth Welton; b. 28 Jan 1847 at Council Bluff, Iowa; first baptism: by Proctor; first confirmation: by Proctor; received 6 Apr 1885 from Kanab; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
3. Olive Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 27 Nov 1864 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing 27 Nov 1864 by Daniel Tyler; died 28 Nov 1864.
4. Emily Jane Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 28 Dec 1865 at Washington, Washington, Utah; blessing Jan 1866 by James Richie; first baptism: by John S. Bunting; received 6 Apr 1885 from Kanab; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
5. Daniel T. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 3 Dec 1867 at Beaver, Beaver, Utah; blessing 1867 by Daniel Tyler; received 6 Apr 1885 from Kanab; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
6. Samuel J. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 3 Mar 1870 at Beaver, Beaver, Utah; died 30 Jan 1871; blessing 1870 by S. J. Adair
7. William A. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 7 Feb 1872 at Beaver, Beaver, Utah; blessing 1872 by Jacob Hamblin; ordained a Teacher 29 Jul 1888 by Allen Frost; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
8. John W. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 10 Feb 1874 at Kanab, Kane, Utah; blessing 1874 by John Nuttall; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
9. George N. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 23 Mar 1876 at Kanab, Kane, Utah; blessing 1876; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
10. Ruth Alice Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 16 Sep 1878 at Kanab, Kane, Utah; first baptism: 2 Jun 1887 by Allen Frost; first confirmation: 2 Jun 1887 by G.W. Adair; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
11. Joseph W. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 17 Jun 1881 at Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona; first baptism: 5 Sep 1889 by L.J. Brown; first confirmation: 5 Sep 1889 by L.J. Brown; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
12. Rufus N. Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 16 Sep 1884 at Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona; blessing 1884 by S.J. Adair; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
13. Edna Irene Adair; father: George W. Adair; mother: Emily P. Tyler, b. 20 Jan 1887 at Nutrioso, Apache, Arizona; blessing by S.J. Adair; removed 25 Oct 1889 to Utah.
2. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456960, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002. Date and place confirmed with Nutrioso LDS Ward Records quoted above.
MARRIAGE:
1. Email 4 Jan 2005 from Colleen Gwynn : Marriage record from Kline Ward, Colorado, FHL film #2726.
2. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456960, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002.
DEATH:
1. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456960, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002.
BURIAL:
1. Date and place per www.familysearch.org, Pedigree Resource File, disc #8, Pin #456960, submitted by Vern Hixson, 819 Mesa Court, Los Banos, California 93635; 6 Jan 2002.
SOURCES_MISC:
1. Per Robin Adair 20 Jan 2002 email: robadair@thegrid.net. He is descendent through Daniel Tyler Adair.
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