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Mormon Vernon Selman

4 July 1855—13 November 19291

Born at Whitchurch, Glamorgan, Wales; son of Margaret Giles and Isaac Selman.2 Baptized in Wales, 1864.3 Immigrated to the United States aboard the Arkwright and traveled to the Salt Lake Valley, 1866.4 Lived at Wellsville, Cache County, Utah Territory; at St. George, Washington County, Utah Territory; and at Payson, Utah County, Utah Territory.5 Married Louisa Jane Daniels, 1877; participated in plural marriage.6 Appointed to serve a mission to Indianola, Sanpete County, Utah Territory, 1877; lived there twenty-two years.7 Moved to Vineyard and Provo, Utah County, by 1900.8 Died at Provo.9 (See Document 4.7)

Footnotes

  1. 1 Center for Family History and Genealogy at Brigham Young University, “The Welsh Saints Project,” database, The Welsh Saints Project (http://welshsaints.byu.edu, accessed May 2023), Mormon Vernon Selman. “Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904–1961,” database and images, Utah State Archives (http://archives.utah.gov, accessed Jan. 2015); from Utah Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, series 81448, file no. 519/455 (1929), Mormon Vernon Selman.

  2. 2 Utah death certificate, file no. 519/455. “Family Tree,” database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org, accessed Jan. 2015), Mormon Vernon Selman KWZQ-PWW. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah: With Sketches of Cities, Towns and Villages, Chronology of Important Events, Records of Indian Wars, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens (Ogden, UT: W. H. Lever, 1898), 591.

  3. 3 Mary Selman Scott, “Biography of Mormon Vernon Selman,” typescript, 1939, p. 1; from “The Welsh Saints Project,” database, The Welsh Saints Project (http://welshsaints.byu.edu, accessed May 2023),

  4. 4 Scott, “Biography of Mormon Vernon Selman,” 1–2.

  5. 5 Scott, “Biography of Mormon Vernon Selman,” 1–2. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, 591.

  6. 6 Scott, “Biography of Mormon Vernon Selman,” 1–2. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, 591.

  7. 7 Scott, “Biography of Mormon Vernon Selman,” 2. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, 591. Madoline Cloward Dixon, Peteetneet Town: A History of Payson, Utah (Provo, UT: Press Publishing, 1974), 110. Mormon V. Selman, Dictionary of Ute Indian Language (Provo, UT: M.H. Graham, [1900?]), [2].

  8. 8 1900 U.S. census, Vineyard, Utah Co., Utah, p. 1B, Mormon Selman; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com, accessed Jan. 2015); from NARA microfilm publication T623, roll 1854. Utah death certificate, file no. 519/455.

  9. 9 Utah death certificate, file no. 519/455.