Adopted daughter of Rachel Ann Cordon and her third husband, Alfred H. Brandow.
She supposedly married Charles Richard Cheal about 1914; they had one daughter, Ray Mary Cheal, stillborn 11 February 1915 at Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah.
Alvera was then pregnant with her second child in April of 1916. It turned out to be a tubal pregnancy which ruptured; the resulting hemorrhage was her cause of death.
Family lore, from a direct line family member, related that it was arranged to bury her in Brigham City; but, because she had not lived with Cheal for several weeks, living instead with her brother, Levi Cordon Ward at his home in Willard, that her family buried her at Willard with her mother and father.
Her family strongly disapproved of the Cheal relationship, and she was buried in her Mother and Father's lot at Willard the following day.
Years after Cheal's death in Ohio, a cenotaph stone was later placed in Brigham City and, in 1990, her small white marble stone was broken off the base and stolen from Willard. Her stone stood north of her father's and was engraved "Alvera LaPreve Brandow 1895-1916". It did not include the name Cheal, but during that period of time, I was merely making cemetery maps, not photographing or adding to the findagrave website. The main reason I remembered it is because the Willard Death Register read, "Died a child", which had been edited to read "Died in childbirth". No husband was listed.
Her burial was recorded in 1916, on the Death Register, as in "grave # 7"
Adopted daughter of Rachel Ann Cordon and her third husband, Alfred H. Brandow.
She supposedly married Charles Richard Cheal about 1914; they had one daughter, Ray Mary Cheal, stillborn 11 February 1915 at Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah.
Alvera was then pregnant with her second child in April of 1916. It turned out to be a tubal pregnancy which ruptured; the resulting hemorrhage was her cause of death.
Family lore, from a direct line family member, related that it was arranged to bury her in Brigham City; but, because she had not lived with Cheal for several weeks, living instead with her brother, Levi Cordon Ward at his home in Willard, that her family buried her at Willard with her mother and father.
Her family strongly disapproved of the Cheal relationship, and she was buried in her Mother and Father's lot at Willard the following day.
Years after Cheal's death in Ohio, a cenotaph stone was later placed in Brigham City and, in 1990, her small white marble stone was broken off the base and stolen from Willard. Her stone stood north of her father's and was engraved "Alvera LaPreve Brandow 1895-1916". It did not include the name Cheal, but during that period of time, I was merely making cemetery maps, not photographing or adding to the findagrave website. The main reason I remembered it is because the Willard Death Register read, "Died a child", which had been edited to read "Died in childbirth". No husband was listed.
Her burial was recorded in 1916, on the Death Register, as in "grave # 7"
Inscription
ALVERA LaPREVE BRANDOW
Gravesite Details
Original white marble stone was in place in 1990; now broken off base & missing-Married name of CHEAL was not inscribed; death recorded as "died a child" should have read "died in childbirth".
Family Members
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George Alfred Ward
1862–1898
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William Edwin Ward
1863–1863
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Emma Ann Ward Woodland
1865–1943
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Richard Welton Ward
1867–1892
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Orville Henry Ward
1868–1945
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Edward Alonzo Ward
1870–1940
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Albert Trulock Ward
1872–1954
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Levi Cordon Ward
1875–1930
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Rachel Adelaide Ward Shaw
1877–1957
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William Theodore Herold
1880–1948
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Charles Sampson Herold
1881–1918
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Rosabel Herold Thompson
1885–1917
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