William Brindle Whitehead

William Brindle Whitehead was born July 6^th, 1872 in Sugar House, Utah.  He died on the 20^th of March in 1944 and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Springville, Utah.  

The following was written by Hazel Whitehead Vorkink:

                William Whitehead was the first child born to Amelia and James Whitehead Jr.  They were living in Sugarhouse Ward in Salt Lake City, Utah.  William was blessed and given a name by W.C. Smoot and he was baptized into the LDS churn on 4 November, 1880 by William Bromley.  He was confirmed a member in this church by his father, James Whitehead Jr.

                The Family moved to Springville in 1875 where James Whitehead Jr. had purchased the woolen mills on Spring Creek, north of town.  His son, William, was only three years old at this time.  This child attended the schools of Springville and worked at the mill and on the family farm.  In 1893 he went to Southern Utah, Northern Arizona, and to the mining camps of Nevada.  He was occupied primarily in freighting supplies into these isolated camps.  In 1896 he filed a homestead on River Bottoms.  He married Mary Alice Barkdull on 8 February 1901.  She had been born 26 February 1880 in Petersburg, Millard County, Utah.  Due to drought and insect pests, they were forced to return to Springville, where William raised garden produce and operated a farm on Mapleton Bench.  In 1908 the family moved into the old Brindle home on the north side of town.  About 1927 William B. Whitehead went into the business of egg production.  He continued in this work until his death on 20 March 1944.  He was an active civic leader in Springville and he served eight years  as a City Councilman, two years on the Board of Directors of the Farm Bureau and for a year as a Board Member of the Poultry Association.  Mary Alice and William B. Whitehead were the parents of seven children:

Lloyd Whitehead

Olga Whitehead

Grant Whitehead

William Whitehead, Jr.

Clifton Whitehead

Glen B. Whitehead
James Melvin Whitehead

William Brindle Whitehead

In Memory of Clifton Whitehead

The following is a copy of the obituary for Clifton Whitehead:

Salt Lake Tribune, The (UT) - September 1, 1997
Deceased Name: Clifton Whitehead
Clifton Whitehead, 82, of West Valley City, died August 30, 1997 of an extended illness.

He was born on June 22, 1915 in Springville, Utah to William Whitehead and Mary Alice Barkdull. He spent his youth in Springville and graduated from Springville High School. He married Donna DeLora Patterson in Ogden, Utah, and worked for Rio Grande and Trailways, and retired from P.I.E. after 22 years. He was a member of the IAM Labor Union. He was a member of the LDS Church.

He is survived by his wife and two sons, Clifton Scott (Susan), Boston, Mass.; Craig (Kathleen), Orem; and one daughter, Janis (Brent) Thorne, Richfield; 11 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Preceded in death by parents, five brothers, one sister and three grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Sept. 3, 1997, at 12 noon, at Valley View Funeral Home, 4335 West 4100 So., where friends may call Tuesday evening from 6-8 p.m. and one hour prior to services on Wednesday. Interment Valley View Memorial Park. Funeral directors: Valley View Funeral Home.

Introduction

I can't say how many hours I've searched the internet for some small scrap of information on my ancestors. This little blog is just one more drop in the bucket of digital genealogy that needs to be filled. It won't help the majority of researchers out there, but hopefully it will help one or two.

I will be adding information that I have about the family information beginning with my grandparents, Clifton and Donna Whitehead. This blog is dedicated to their memory.