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BEAUTIFUL BUILDING AND RANKS HIGH AMONGST EDUCATIONAL CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS.
WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD WE WENT TO SANTA MONICA TO LIVE AS MY DEAR MOTHER’S HEALTH
WAS NOT SO GOOD. MY MOTHER WAS A VERY HANDSOME AND WONDERFULLY WELL EDUCATED
WOMAN, HAVING ATTENDED THE BEST SCHOOLS IN LONDON AND EDINBURGH. SHE TAUGHT ME TO
READ AND WRITE AS THERE WERE NO SCHOOLS NEAR WHERE WE LIVED WHEN I WAS SIX YEARS
OLD.
WE LEFT SANTA MONICA WHEN I WAS 16 YEARS OLD AND WENT TO OLD MEXICO TO LIVE. WE WERE
VERY HAPPY THERE. I LEARNED TO SPEAK SPANISH THERE. MY FATHER WAS ABLE TO BE WITH US
WHICH MADE US SO HAPPY. WHEN I WAS 18 YEARS OLD I HAD TYPHOID FEVER AND HAD TO LEARN
TO WALK OVER AGAIN, I FELT SO SILLY NOT BEING ABLE TO WALK.
ON APRIL 6, 1900 I MARRIED A GANG CHILDHOOD PLAYMATE, HE WAS 6 YEARS OLD WHEN WE
FIRST MET. WE WERE VERY HAPPY DURING THE TEN SHORT YEARS THAT MY HUSBAND LIVED. HE
WAS A NATIVE OF SCOTLAND AND WHEN I WAS CONVERTED I HAD HIS WORK DONE FOR HIM IN THE
TEMPLE, AND ALSO HAD ALL OUR CHILDREN WHO HAD DIED IN INFANCY SEALED TO US.
THE MOST TERRIFYING EVENT IN MY LIFE WAS THE EARTHQUAKE AND FIRE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN
1906. THAT WAS SIMPLY AWFUL AND THE AWFUL SCENES OF HORROR AND DESTRUCTION WILL
REMAIN WITH ME AS LONG AS I LIVE.”
TYPED BY GRAND DAUGHTER, WINNIFRED ELIZABETH CORSON SLAYDEN
SHE BECAME A NATURALIZED U. S. CITIZEN ON OCTOBER 22, 1943.
BURIED JULY 3, 1955 IN HURRICANE, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH.
DIFFERENT FAMILY SOURCES HAVE LISTED SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT DATES FOR THE CHILDREN. THE
COMPILER HAS ATTEMPTED TO REFLECT THIS IN THE NOTES.
On 6 Apr 1900 when WINIFRED ELSWOOD was 20, she married CLEMENT GRAHAM CORSON 62, son
of WILLIAM REID CORSON & GRACE MCMONOUS, in CHALCHIHUITAS, ZACATECAS, MEXICO. Born on
25 Jan 1875 in GLASGOW, SCOTLAND. CLEMENT GRAHAM died in PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, on 28
Oct 1912; he was 37. Occupation: MECHANICAL ENGINEER.
BURIED 10/30/1912 IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.
A GRAND DAUGHTER LISTS THE BIRTH YEAR AS 1879.
They had the following children:
462 i. JEAN FRANCESCA GRAHAM (1904-1907)
463 ii. MALCOLM ELLSWOOD REID (1906-1987)
464 iii. ALEXANDER JOHN (1907-1908)
465 iv. MARGARET ELIZABETH (1909-1987)
466 v. STANLEY ANDREW MCMONOUS (1910-1977)
467 vi. DAVID CAMPBELL (1912-2000)
On November 4, 1922 she married James C. Sanford in Los Angeles, California.
256. OLGA ELSWOOD CHAFFEY (ELSWOOD5, GEORGE4, BENJAMIN3, BENJAMIN2, RICHARD1). 39
Born on 7 Oct 1880 in BROCKVILLE, CANADA. OLGA ELSWOOD died in ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA, on 27
Dec 1965; she was 85.
SHE WAS A CO-ADOPTING PARENT WITH HER SISTER MOIRA OF ELSWOOD C. CHAFFEY 62
BECAME A NATURALIZED U.S. CITIZEN SEPTEMBER 21, 1932. 63
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