Entries by Jeff Westover

The Topaz Yearbooks

A couple of weeks ago we discussed the discovery of a picture of my grandfather (Leon A. Westover > Arnold Westover > William Ruthven Westover) at Topaz, Utah where the government had set up internment centers for Japanese Americans during World War II. He and my grandmother (Maurine R. Westover) taught school there. Today we […]

The Small World of the 1800s

Over the weekend on Facebook I posted a quote from the Journals of Albert Smith. Even though I have tried to keep things here so far focused on those directly related to William and Ruth so as to engage as many family members as we can I cannot keep from sharing those things I’m seeing […]

Electa’s Letter

With this post announcing the video about Mother Electa Beal Westover it was quite exciting to me to announce the availability of a PDF copy of a letter Electa wrote in 1880 to William Ruthven Westover, her grandson. That PDF is now part of the document archives here. In 1880 William would have been 19 […]

Mother Electa

Having just added Electa Beal Westover’s profile to the site we felt this was a good time as well to debut a video that can be shared about her. Electa is a key individual in the story of several generations of 20th century Westovers. Her sweeping tale is caught up in the migration of Latter-day […]