Uintah County, Utah Pioneers
Isaac T. Luckey & Eliza Taylor Luckey
ISAAC THOMAS LUCKEY And Family
Isaac Thomas LUCKEY was born 25 Dec 1819, in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky. His actual birth date is questionable as is his birth location. Some records show him born in Wayne County but the majority shows him born in Jefferson County. Based on Solano County Land Records, the date on his tombstone (1819) and the 1870, 1880 and 1900 censuses, his birth date ranges from 1819 to 1832. His parents are believed to be Neil Lyle and Elizabeth Byers LUCKEY.
Little is known of his childhood though it is rumored that he left home after the Civil War destroyed his father's plantation and livelihood. In around 1863, he was in the area of Virginia City, Madison County, Montana when he met and married Eliza Jane TAYLOR in about 1865. Isaac was 46 and Eliza was 16. To date, no record of their marriage has been located. Eliza was born 16 Dec 1849 in Pertinalis Valley, Williamson County, Texas, to John TAYLOR and Nancy Eleanor BURKETT.
In the 1850 Census for Texas, Milam County, Milam/Williamson Precinct, the John Taylor family is shown with seven children, however Eliza Jane is not one of them. Yet in the 1860 Census for Utah, Weber County, Ogden, Eliza Jane is show as being eleven years old, in the 1870 Census for California, Solano County, Denverton Twp, she is show as 21 years old and in her obituary she is shown born in 1849, thus pretty well confirming her birth in 1849.
Eliza's family moved to Ogden, Utah in 1852 when she was about three years old, then in about 1862, at the age of thirteen, the family moved to Madison County, Montana where she met and married Isaac LUCKEY in about 1865. In 1865 or 66, Isaac and Eliza moved to California to the Sacramento Valley, where they took up a homestead in Denverton, Solano County, California. Land records for Denverton Township show Isaac LUCKY as a farmer with a 160 acre section in the southeast corner of the township. These same records show his name spelt Lucky, without the "e". The family farmed here for some 16 years, during which time they had eight children, Nellie Eleanor, born 29 Feb 1868, Minerva Jane, born 29 Jan 1870, William, born 26 May 1871, Annie, born 26 Mar 1873, John "Johnny", born 26 Apr 1875, James Thomas, born 7 Nov 1877, Lillie, born 18 Jun 1879 and Rose, born 29 Jul 1881. (Note The Luckey children may have been born in Rio Vista which is about ten miles east by south east of Denverton, which was quite a small town with a population in 1878 of about 54 families in the total Denverton Township.)
The 1870 Census for California, Solano County, Denverton Twp. shows Isaac (42) and Eliza (21) with two children, Nellie (2 yrs) and Minerva ( 5 mos). The 1880 Census for California, Solano County, Denverton shows Isaac T. (50) and Liza Jane (29) with seven children, Nelly (12 yrs), Manerva J. (10 yrs), William (9 yrs), Hannah (7 yrs), Johny (5 yrs), James T. (2 yrs) and Lilly (11 mos).
In 1882, the family began a long trek to Vernal, Uintah County, Utah. They drove a herd of cattle the 800 miles with several of the children helping out. Here in Vernal, they had four more children, George, born 18 Apr 1884, (Note the 1910 census shows George born in California?) Sylvia Laurel, born 2 Jul 1886, Edna Marie, born 13 Jan 1889 and Forest David, born 12 Jul 1894.
The 1900 Census for Utah, Uintah County, Vernal, shows Isaac (79 yrs) and Liza (54 yrs) with four children, Rose (18 yrs), Sylvia (15 yrs), Edna (11 yrs) and Forest (6 yrs).
They settled first in Stienaker Draw, later moving to a claim on Taylor Mountain and then back to Ashley Ward. Isaac Thomas LUCKEY died on 4 Nov 1904 and he was buried in the Vernal Memorial Cemetery on 6 Dec 1904. In the interim, several of the children had married.
Nellie Eleanor married William Swinford POWELL, son of Charles Kelly and Elizabeth Ann Ellington POWELL, on 1 Feb 1887 in Vernal. They had five children, Minnie Eleanor, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ann, John "Johnny" Asahel, William "Bud" Swinford and Nellie Elaine. Early in 1907, Eleanor and William S. POWELL were divorced and within the next thirty plus years, Eleanor had married four other husbands. She married John HARPER on 23 Aug 1907. John died 4 Jun 1910 in Jensen, Utah. She then married Francis "Frank" FAIRCHILD on 12 Sep 1910. The 1920 Census for Bernalillo, New Mexico shows Nellie and Francis. George Emery STONE was Nellie's husband some time during the late 1920's. He died and she then married Erastus "Doc" SAVAGE, a well-known veterinarian from Colorado in about 1930. Doc died in Deep Creek, Colorado on 12 Feb 1943. She was known to many of the grand children as "Grandma Savage" Her first husband William died in Jensen, Utah on 23 Jun 1923 and Nellie died in Vernal, Utah on 23 Nov 1952.
1910 Census for Utah, Uintah, Riverdale shows John Harper (55) and Nellie (41) with three children from her first marriage, John, William and Nellie Powell. 1920 Census for New Mexico, Sandoval, Bernilillo shows Francis FAIRCHILD (71) and Nellie (51). 1930 Census for Colorado, Routt, Steamboat Springs shows Erastus SAVAGE (68) and Nellie (58).
Minerva Jane married James Samuel MILLER, son of Samuel Robert and Patrina Christine Larson MILLER on 25 Mar 1887 in Salt Lake City. They had eleven children, James Samuel, Leroy, Agnes May, Jesse Lawrence, Ethel, Guy, Aaron Parley, John LaVere, Alford, Goldie Louise and Minerva Jane. The family is shown in Starr Valley, Wyoming in the 1900 Census and in Jackknife, Idaho in the 1910 Census. Minerva died 3 Jun 1914 in Freedom, Wyoming and James remarried an Alice "Allie" SHAW and is shown in the 1930 Census in Jackknife with two of his children from Minerva and one child of Alice's from her previous marriage. James died in Freedom, Wyoming on 21 Oct 1944.
William married Sarah Ann JOHNSON, daughter of Snellen Marion and Sarah Hunt Greer JOHNSON on 30 Dec 1895 in Evanston, Wyoming. They had six children, Vivian W., James H., Lester, Marion G., Sarah A. and Afton. Of interest, there is two 1930 censuses for this family, the first in Lonetree, Wyoming, taken 30 April and showing William and Sarah and six children, and number two in the Wyoming State Training School in Fremont, Wyoming, taken 30 April and showing Sarah and five children. (No William or James). No death date is available for William. Sarah died in Evanston, Wyoming on 31 Jan 1953.
Annie Luckey married Christian A. STRASSER in Dry Fork, Utah on 1 Jan 1893. From the 1900 census, they had four children, Clarence A., Arthur, Rosa and Dewey G. It appears that Annie died sometime prior to 1910. Christian took the children and moved to Delta, Colorado, placing the two youngest, Rosa (12) and George Dewey (10) in the home of Benjamin and Mary LAYCOCK in Delta. Clarence became a hired hand on the ranch of Wilbur WEBB. In about 1920, Christian married a Mary H. (LNU). (Mary had immigrated to America from England in 1919 and she and Christian had just married.) The 1920 Census shows Christian A. (52) and Mary H. (40) and Christian's fourth child from Annie, Dewey G. (20).
Rose married Joseph Nathaniel WALKER, son of James Nathaniel and Rosanna Francis Eskelson WALKER on 16 Jun 1902 in Vernal. They had three children, Joseph Darrel, Ilta Rose and Voyne Oden. Rose died in a rest home in Roosevelt, Utah at the age of 97 on 18 Nov 1978. Joseph died 23 Feb 1946 in Roosevelt, Utah.
As for the balance of the children, John "Johnny" LUCKEY moved to Starr Valley, Wyoming prior to 1900, purchased a ranch and then died in Wyoming sometime before 1910. He never married.
From his obituary, James Thomas LUCKEY spent considerable time in the area of Soda Springs and Swan Valley, Idaho, and Starr Valley Wyoming, before moving to Colorado sometime prior to 1920. The 1910 census for Oxford, Idaho, shows him living with a "housekeeper", Hannah KENT, however it shows James as single and Hannah as married with two living children. He is shown as single and operating a boarding house and/or hotel in the 1920 census for Denver, Colorado. In about 1922, he married a widow, Mary J. (LNU) with two daughters, Lillie and Dorothy and settled in Arvada, Colorado. James died 11 March 1931 in Denver, Colorado. His wife Mary's death date in unknown.
Lillie Marion's life is a real quandary. She moved to Southern California, and then apparently married a SMITH and then a SOLIVAN. (There is a Marion SMITH mentioned as a sister in the obituary of James T. LUCKEY in Mar 1931 and a Marian SOLIVAN listed as a daughter in the obituary of Eliza Jane Taylor Luckey MORRIS seventeen years later, in May 1948.) To-date, no census information has been located.
It appears that George LUCKEY never married, though he lived to be about 64 years and died in Irwin, Idaho sometime before 1948.
Sylvia Laurel at the age of 16 went to Boise, Idaho where she finished high school and worked as a telephone operator. In about 1904, she traveled to her brother's homestead in Freedom, Wyoming where she met and married Jesse Benjamin BROMLEY on 30 May 1906. They had four children, Perry Deloss, Ted Clinton, Carl Dennis and Leo L. The family moved to Idaho Fall, Idaho prior to 1930 and spent the rest of their lives there. Sylvia died 23 Oct 1956 and her husband Jesse died 9 Mar 1962, both in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Edna Marie appears in the 1910 Census for Jerome, Idaho, working as a stenographer. Records show she worked as a Secretary/Stenographer in Boise, Idaho and Chicago, Illinois where she was employed by the "W.H. Miner Co." "Ted" as she was now known, became fast friends with the vice-president of the company, Mrs. Nettie M. GOLDSMITH. Moving from Chicago to New York City at the time when America was fast becoming involved into the entrance of World War I, she was selected to go to France to become secretary to the American in charge of France's Civilian Relief of the American Red Cross. She worked much too hard and long because of her energetic nature and by that fall, her health had broken and she was sent to the Riviera of Southern France to recuperate. Then as the War ended, she returned to America, to Los Angeles, California to regain her health. The 1920 Census shows Edna, age 30 as a boarder in the home of Eliza W. HARTMAN. Here she met and married Glenn David ROBERTSON, son of David Edward and Rhoda Emily Snell ROBERTSON on 10 Feb 1921 in Los Angeles, California. They had two children, Glenn David Jr. and Don Luckey. Edna died in Laguna Beach, California on 5 May 1971. Her husband Glenn remarried a Madelyn GALLEY in 1973 and he died 11 May 1982 in Los Angeles, California. ;
Forest David married Verna Marie CLARK, daughter of George Washington and Isabelle Foster CLARK on 27 May 1920 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. They had three daughters, Dorothy S., Eleanor M. and Betty R. Forest and Verna and their three children are all shown in the 1930 Census for Idaho Falls, Idaho. Then they were either divorced or Verna died and on 25 Aug 1946, Forest married Dora Ellenor LARKIN in Idaho Falls. Forest died 23 Aug 1959 in Boise, Idaho. His wife Verna's death date is unknown, Dora Eleanor died 2 Aug 1960 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Several years after Isaac's death, in about 1909, Eliza Jane packed up her belongings and with two of her sons, George A. and Forest D, in a one-horse buggy, headed for Starr Valley, Wyoming, where another of her son's, Johnny, had died leaving a homestead. She not only proved up on his homestead but also took up another homestead of 320 acres of land in the wilderness of Swan Valley, Idaho.
The 1910 Census for Idaho, Bingham, Higham shows Eliza J. (57) with two sons, George A. (26) and Forest D. (15). (This census shows Eliza widowed, with 12 children, 10 living, Annie and Johnny having died before 1910).
On 16 Jun 1917, Eliza married William "Billie" MORRIS in Freedom, Wyoming. William was born in Sussex, England in 1861 and first immigrated to Canada in 1907, then across the U.S. to Wyoming. In 1920, Billie and Eliza sold out their holdings and moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho where they spent the remainder of their lives.
The 1930 Census for Idaho, Bonneville, Idaho Falls shows William (67) and Eliza Morris (79).
Billie died 9 Apr 1946 and Eliza Jane died 18 May 1948 at the age of 98. They are both buried in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Sources
Taylor/Luckey Families by Shari Frank
Glenn Robertson Biography (Tawna Marsh & Don Robertson)
William S. & Nellie E. Powell Biography (Christine Hinkley)
Solano County Genealogical Society
US Federal Census 1850 to 1930
Obituary of Taylor, Eliza Jane
Obituary of Luckey, Nellie Eleanor
Obituary of Luckey, James Thomas
Obituary of Luckey, Rose
Obituary of Luckey, Sylvia Laurel
Obituary of Luckey, Edna Marie
Obituary of Powell, William Swinford
Uintah Basin Pioneers Builders of Uintah by DUP 1947
Ancestral File and IGI Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints
This is a work in progress and contains some information that may not be verified. Written by - Robert D Walker 1021 E Cambridge Rd Kaysville, UT 84037 reklaw2@comcast.net
history submitted by Bob Walker
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