Mormon Vernon Selman

July 4, 1855–November 13, 1929

1 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, “Welsh Mormon Immigrant Project,” database, Welsh Mormon History (http://welshmormon.byu.edu, accessed Jan. 2015), 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 “Welsh Mormon Immigrant Project,” database, Welsh Mormon History (http://welshmormon.byu.edu, accessed Jan. 2015).
  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.