Olive Sanders McCandless

1892 - 1937  (44 years)

• Name	Olive Sanders McCandless  [1, 2]
  Born	29 Jul 1892	Greensboro, Guilford, North Carolina   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	05 Jan 1937	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
  Person ID	I6223	Grow
  Last Modified	24 Apr 2012

  
  

  Family	Lewis Harrison Dobbs,   b. 29 Jan 1890, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah ,   d. 13 Dec 1925, Dividend, Utah, Utah  (Age 35 years)
  Married	02 Oct 1911	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
  Children	1. Alaine Hazel Dobbs,   b. 26 Mar 1914, Lehi, Utah, Utah ,   d. 02 Feb 1994, Danville, Contra Costa, California  (Age 79 years)   2. Infant Dobbs,   b. 24 Jul 1916, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah ,   d. 24 Jul 1916, Salt Lake City, Utah - Stillborn  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2012
  Family ID	F1847	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Married - 02 Oct 1911 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Died - 05 Jan 1937 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos

  Olive Sandra McCandless Submitted to ancestry.com by Joseph K. Seely

  
  

• Notes

  OLIVE McCandless, married Louis Dobbs of Bingham., She came to Bingham to visit with her sister and decided to go to work while there and worked at the McDonald Boarding House for a time. She met Lou at a dance in Lower Bingham and later married him. They had two children a girl and a boy,. The boy died at birth., They lived in Bingham until the early twenties when they moved to Dividend Utah. Lou died and Olive married again. Alaine trained for a nurse and made a career of it. Olive died in a Salt Lake Hospital, and is buried in mount Olive Cementery in Salt Lake. Before leaving Bingham they moved into a house they had bought and was cleaning up the place, there was a heater in one room filled with trash and Olive lighted it and a bullet exploded and put out one eye. Lou while working at the Highland Boy Mine caught his hand in the machinery that hoisted the elevator that hauled the men from one level to the other in the mine. He knew that if he didn't get it out that the men would be killed. He finally got it out tearing most of the flesh from his hand doing so. He got it stopped in time to save the mens lives but spent a long time in the hospital having grafting and one thing after another on his hand. Lou grew up in Highland Boy and he was well liked by all who knew him. Alaine was married and divorced and then married Larry Schwan of Salt Lake. They had three children. He died. She has never married again. Olive McCandless is the daughter of Jame Gary and Martisha Louise McCandless, she was born in Stokes Col N.C., 30 July 1891. She came to Utah with her parents May 1893 and lived in Lehi until going to Bingham. Submitted to familysearch by Sandy Hardinger.

  
  

• Sources

  [S83] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 on roll 323 (Chicago City.Original data - United States;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Precinct 10, Salt Lake, Utah; Roll: T625_1865; Page: 6A; Enumeration District: 65; Image: . Birth date: abt 1892 Birth place: North Carolina Residence date: 1920 Residence place: Precinct 10, Salt Lake, Utah [S90] Public Member Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees.