Post by *Marjorie on Sept 8, 2020 13:53:24 GMT -7
Alexander Crosby
13 January 1895 – Starr, Juab, Utah
30 July 1956 - Grand Canyon, Coconino, Arizona
Alexander is youngest of 10 children of Robert Philip Crosbie and Helen Spowart. His parents were born in Scotland and they came to the United States because of their religion beliefs as members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In August of 1874 when they arrived in Almy, Uinta, Wyoming where they lived for a few years. Alexander had three brothers born in Almy and they are John, Robert, and George. Two of the three died in infancy. By 1882 the family is living between Starr and Leamington, Utah. His father Robert is working for the railroad and remains in Leamington for a few years. In 1892 Alexander’s older sister Kate is married in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1895 Alexander is born in Starr, Utah which is located between Santquinn and Nephi, Utah. The Starr community name was changed and now known as Mona. Sometime between 1895 to 1900 the family has moved to Ogden, Utah to be closer to their father’s Uncle’s John Francis Crosbie and James Francis Crosbie. His Grandfather Thomas Spowart passes away in 1899 in Ogden also.
The family live on Wall Street. Their father Robert works for the railroad as a section foreman. The Crosbie children sang at church activities. Alexander’s mother Helen’s two sisters Jean and husband James Sneddon and Christina and her husband James H. Bowns moved to Carbon County, Utah for work. So within a short period of time the Crosbie family has moved to Sunnyside, Carbon, Utah and Alexander's father Robert Philip was over the crew laying track for the Utah Fuel Company. Sunnyside became the major supplier of coal coke in the intermountain region. The Rio Grande Western also owned the Utah Fuel Company, which owned the new Sunnyside mines, and these same interests organized the Carbon County Railway on November 20, 1899. Sunnyside Mine was producing very large amounts of coal coke and most all if not all of it being shipped to the copper smelters at Anaconda, Montana.
Robert Philip Crosbie family moved from Almy, Wyoming to Leamington, Utah and Mona, Utah 145 miles apart.
Mona, Utah to Ogden, Utah 113 miles between 1895 to 1900.
1900 – Ogden Ward 1, Ogden, Weber, Utah