Alfred John Bateman and Clara May Hess Timeline

—compiled by Ron Bateman

Unless otherwise noted, all births recorded are children of Alfred John and Clara May Hess Bateman.

1895, 14 February Alfred John Bateman and Clara May Hess are married.
      2 December Alfred Hess Bateman is born in Bloomington, Idaho.
1897, 12 September George Monroe Bateman is born in Bloomington, Idaho.
1900, 22 March LeRoy Bateman is born in Bloomington, Idaho.
1901, 1 October Florence Harris, wife of George M. Bateman is born in Lago, Idaho.
1902, 4 March Idella Van Orden, wife of Alfred Hess Bateman, is born in Lewiston, Utah to Peter Van Orden and ?.
      14 March Harold Claude Bateman is born in Bloomington, Idaho.
1907, Spring John purchases a place in Paris located on Canyon Street South of Main street.
      14 October Russell Arthur Bateman is born in Paris, Idaho.
1909, 14 December Lucile Clara is born in Paris, Idaho.
      14 December Russell Arthur Bateman dies in Paris, Idaho on the same day his sister Lucile is born.
1911 A new home is finally completed west of the old home. John owns 100 acres of meadow and fifteen more at the field.
1912, 29 January Thelma Lareta is born in Paris, Idaho.
1916 John purchases a new black Model T Ford and proudly drove it home, but almost knocks down the buggy shed.
1917, 2 August Alfred joins the 145th FA Utah National Guard and serves in Bordeaux, France (mustered out of the Army, 28 January 1919).
      24 August Othel is born in Paris, Idaho.
1918, 12 September George M. registers in the first universal draft for World War I.
      15 October George is a private, but because of college and previous military training, he is assigned to the Student Army Training Corps unit located on the Utah State Campus. Influenza soon struck the camp and George M. is one of the first down with a high fever.
1919, 18 April Rao Henry is born in Paris, Idaho.
1920 John and Clara purchase a home on First South in Logan near the old Brigham Young College (now Logan High School) and moves several of the family cows and the furniture from Paris, Idaho. Late in July, John sells the Logan property and moves back to Paris.
1922, 24 May George Monroe Bateman marries Florence Harris.
1923, 14 March Alfred Hess Bateman marries Idella Van Orden. John sells his sixteen acre farm and hay meadow to Arthur Hess and moves his family to Logan, Utah permanently.
1925, 4 May LeRoy Bateman marries Alice Hall in Rigby, Idaho. Their marriage is later solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple.
      21 October Harold Claude Bateman marries Charlotte Johnson.
1928, 22 November Lucile Clara marries George Elmer Johnson in the Logan Temple by Apostle James E. Talmage.
1931, 16 July Thelma Lareta marries Charles B. Leatham.
1938, 3 November Othel marries Morris Jones in the Logan Temple.
1943, 15 May Rao Henry marries Phyllis Ruth Parrish in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1945 Dr. George M. Bateman is called as bishop of the Tempe First Ward. He serves until 1949.
1954?, 2 June Harold C. Bateman receives his doctorate of education.
1955, 14 February Alfred John Bateman and Clara May Hess celebrate their 60th Wedding Anniversary. They live in Bloomington, Idaho the first seven years of their marriage, followed by twenty-three years in Paris, Idaho and 33 years in Logan, Utah as of 1955. They have eight living children, twenty-six grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren at the time of their golden anniversary.
1958, 11 March Clara May Hess Bateman passes away at age 82 in Logan Utah of a stroke. She is buried in Wellsville, Utah on Saturday 15 March.
1961, 7 March Alfred John Bateman dies at age 86 in Provo, Utah of pneumonia. He is buried in Wellsville, Utah on 11 March.
1966, 3 April Norman Maughn, Lucile’s second husband, dies.
1967, 9 June Rao and Phyllis Bateman are endowed and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.
1972, 26 February Dr. George Monroe Bateman passes away at age 72 in Mesa, Arizona.
      23 May Mary Alice Hall Bateman, wife of LeRoy aged 65, dies in Blackfoot, Idaho.
1973, 14 March Alfred Hess and Idella Van Orden Bateman celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
1975, 21 October Harold Claude and Charlotte Johnson Bateman celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
1977, 20 November Alfred Hess Bateman dies at age 82 in St. George, Utah.
1981, 16 July Thelma Lareta and Charles B. Leatham celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
1984, 30 May Charles B. Leatham dies.
1985, 11 March Rao H. Bateman dies at age 65 in Ibapah, Utah.
      6 April LeRoy Bateman dies at age 85 in Blackfoot, Idaho.
      30 July Idella Van Orden Bateman dies at age 83 in St. George, Utah.
1988, 3 November Othel and Morris Jones celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
1992, 14 March Dr. Harold C. Bateman dies at age 90 in Ogden, Utah on his birthday.
1995, 2 December Charlotte Johnson Bateman, wife of Harold C. Bateman dies.
1996, 21 May Alfred Van Orden, son of Alfred Hess and Idella Van Orden Bateman) and Afton Jones celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.
      5 December Lucile Bateman Johnson Maughn Roundy passes away.
2000, 20 June Ivo L. Borg, second husband of Thelma Bateman Leatham Borg, passes away at age 88 in Wellsville, Utah just three days shy of his birthday.
      24 July Morris John Jones, husband of Othel, passes away at age 85 in Bountiful, Utah.
2001, 19 November Othel Bateman Jones dies in Salt Lake City, Utah.
2003, 19 June Bill Barker and Diane, daughter of George and Lucile Bateman Johnson, celebrate their 50 wedding anniversary.
      29 June Thelma Leatham Bateman dies at age 91 in Ogden, Utah.
2004, 20 March Russell Rulon, son of Alfred Hess and Idella Van Orden Bateman, and Myrna Gaye Barton Bateman celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary.