Individual Details

Grant WELCH

(Jul 1890 - 15 Aug 1944)

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ID: I1332
Name: Grant Welch
Surname: Welch
Given Name: Grant
Sex: M
Birth: 4 Jul 1890 in Saquach Valley, Salt Lake, Utah
Death: 15 Aug 1944 in Tonopah, Nye, Nevada
Burial: 18 Aug 1944 Tonopah, Nye, Nevada
Ancestral File #: 2K9F-WL
_UID: 8867BBA41DDDD4118187E8052B52F616ABB9
Census: 25 Apr 1910 Sharp, Nye, Nevada 1
Event: Homestead Entry Original Land Records 26 Aug 1920 , Nye, Nevada2
Census: 16 Apr 1930 Sharpe, Nye, Nevada 3
Event: Civilian Draft Registration World War I , Nye, Nevada 4
Note:
Grant had a car and registered it in 1918 in the town of Sharp, Nevada

Grant Welch and Albert Ashley Carpenter were sent to prison in 1908for Castrating a bull in Nye County Nevada
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Change Date: 1 Mar 2005 at 13:06:46

Marriage 1 Stella Mae Garrett b: 6 Jun 1894 in Hiko, Lincoln, Nevada
Married: 14 Jun 1911 in Troy, Nye, Nevada
Children
Hubert Grant Welch b: 26 Jul 1912 in Pioche, Lincoln, Nevada
Edna Mae Welch b: 29 May 1916 in Pioche, Lincoln, Nevada
Earl Welch b: 1918 in Pine Creek Ranch, Nye, Nevada
Gladys Irene Welch b: 14 Feb 1920 in Ely, White Pine, Nevada

Marriage 2 Mary DeHaven b: 29 Dec 1894 in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho
Married: 10 Dec 1926 in Ely,White Pine , Nevada
Children
Rosemary Welch b: Oct 1927 in Sharpe, Nye, Nevada
Living Welch

Repository:
Name: Bureau of Land Management
7450 Boston Boulevard
Springfield, VA 22153-3121

Title: Land Office Records
Author: Bureau of Land Management
Page: Accession/Serial #: 769857 BLM Serial #: NVCC 0009604
Note: Names
Patentee: GRANT WELCH

Survey
State: NEVADA
Acres: 33.13
Metes/Bounds: Yes

Title Transfer
Issue Date: 8/26/1920
Land Office: Carson City
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: Yes
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)

Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 09604
Misc. Doc. Nr.: 0
Accession/Serial Nr.: 769857
BLM Serial Nr.: NVCC 0009604

Obituary in Nevada State Journal, Reno, NV, Thursday, August 17, 1944;image at ancestry.com:
"County Official in Nye Succumbs
Grant Welch, long term Nye county commissioner, died in TonapahTuesday of terminal pneumonia. He had been seriously ill for sometime.
Mr. Welch, a native of Virginia City, Mont., and 55 years of age, hadbeen a resident of Nye county for 51 years and had been a rancheruntil moving to Tonapah five years ago.
He was elected to the county office in 1940 and had filed forre-election this year. He was to have been opposed by O. H. Smith,Republican, in the November general election.
He owned the Bryan apartments in Tonapah and held the mail contractbetween the post office and depot. He was a member of the Tonapahlodge of Elks.
Survivors are his widow, a son, Hubert Welch, and three daughters,Mrs. Edna Welch, and Misses Rosemary and Alice Welch.
Funeral services to be conducted Friday are in charge of the Elkslodge of Tonapah."

Events

BirthJul 1890Montana
Census1 Jun 1900Pahronagett Valley, Lincoln Co., NV, ED 78 Sh 1B; Grant Welch, son, born Jul 1890, 9, born MT father born MO mother born VT. [sic]
Census15 Apr 1910Sharp Precinct, Nye Co., NV, ED 54 Sh 3A; Grant Welch, son, 19 (1890-91), single, born MT father born MO mother born OH, laborer on ranch.
Marriage14 Jun 1911Troy, Nye Co., NV - Stella Mae GARRETT
Marriage10 Dec 1926Ely, White Pine Co., NV - Mary DEHAVEN
Death15 Aug 1944Tonapah, Nye Co., NV
Reference No6247

Families

SpouseStella Mae GARRETT (1894 - 1921)
ChildHubert Grant WELCH (1912 - 1989)
ChildEdna Mae WELCH (1916 - 1972)
ChildEarl WELCH (1918 - 1918)
ChildGladys Irene WELCH (1920 - 1937)
SpouseMary DEHAVEN (1894 - 1970)
ChildLiving
ChildLiving
FatherGreenberry B. WELCH (1852 - 1920)
MotherChristina Elizabeth OSWALT (1851 - 1927)
SiblingAlbert WELCH (1873 - 1955)
SiblingJacob Israel WELCH (1874 - 1953)
SiblingOlive WELCH (1878 - 1908)
SiblingCora WELCH (1880 - 1930)
SiblingCharles John WELCH (1882 - )
SiblingMabel WELCH (1886 - 1970)
SiblingFlorence WELCH (1893 - 1912)

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