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Thomas Nelson Fenton

9 Sep 1886 – 15 Aug 1973

Birth9 Sep 1886
Death15 Aug 1973
CemeteryPleasant Grove City Cemetery
Pleasant Grove , Utah County , Utah , USA
Added bySRBentz on 03 Nov 2009
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106930

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Son of Nelson T. Fenton and Mary Ann West Married Ethel Walker, married Nov. 30, 1910, in the Salt Lake City temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Married Ethel B. Drysdale, married January 10, 1935, in the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah I, Thomas Nelson Fenton, am the son of Nelson T. Fenton and Mary Ann West; being born Sept. 9, 1886, in Pleasant Grove, Utah. As a boy I attended the Pleasant Grove District School, graduating from the eighth grade in June 1904. I went to the same school during the winter term of 1904 and 1905, and then intended to go to the University of Utah but came down with typhoid fever. During my boyhood, I worked with my Father on the farm where we grew various crops and fruits. In the summer of 1906 I worked for the A.S.L.R.R. Co. in the car shops in Salt Lake City. Dec. 22, 1906, I left for a mission to Australia where I labored as a missionary in New South Wales, Western Australia, and Queensland until June 9, 1909, when I was released to return home. Thereafter, I worked on the farm and at several other jobs. Then I married Ethel Walker of Lindon on Nov. 30, 1910, in the Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. they have 5 children. After our marriage I worked at several jobs; I was a railroad Inspector for a year; worked for the S.P.L.A. and S.L. R. R. and was a yard-clerk, carpenter on the B and B and a locomotive mechanic until in August 1914 when I left the railroad and went to work for the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. at the Elsinore Factory. When the Lynndyl Branch of Leamington ward was organized I was set apart as Presiding Elder- when we moved to Sevier County. I presided over the Austin Branch of Monroe North Ward until Arthur Livingstone was set apart as the second counselor of Monroe North Ward and I was sustained as the superintendent of the Sunday School. I worked in this capacity on Dec. 20, 1919, when we moved back to Pleasant Grove. Other employment consisted of being an inspector for the National Canners for one season, Inspector and Sealer of Weights and Measures for the State of Utah from 1921 to 1925; worked for the Pleasant Grove Canning Co. until 1943 when I was employed as a carpenter for the Columbia Steel Co. which later became Geneva Division of the U.S. Steel Co. and still alter became Sclae Inspector for the company where I am presently employed. Other later Church activities have been: Sunday School teacher, Superintendent of the First Ward Sunday School, Ward Chorister, Teacher of the High Priest's Quorum, served on the Timpanogos Stake High Council for fifteen years under Wilford W. Warnick; President of the First Ward Y.M.M.I.A.; filled a two-year stake mission and am still teaching a Gospel Message class in the Sunday School. I hope to continue active in the church and be happy in such work as it comes- so long as I am permitted to live. The greatest sorrow of my life was when my dear wife Wthel, passed away July 26, 1932. Later I married a good L.D. S. woman, (a widow) Ethel B. Drysdale who well well-liked by all who knew her; she has been a good wife and mother to my children. We were married in the Salt Lake Temple by President George F. Richards- on Jan. 10, 1935. By Thomas Nelson Fenton

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