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Thomas Ullyot (1854 ~ 1925)

6.2.7. Seventh child of Mary Elford and Thomas Ullyot, Thomas Ullyot, was born March 27, 1854, in Oshawa, E. Whitby Twp., Ontario Co., Can. W.

He married Ida Firmingham, daughter of William Firmingham and Jane Liscom, August 20, 1874, in Pickering, Ontario.

Thomas Ullyot died September 17, 1925, aged 71 years and Ida Firmingham Ullyot died May 20, 1931 in Langdon, Cavalier Co., North Dakota, U.S. and is interred at

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Thomas Ullyot

March 27, 1854 ~ September 17, 1925

The funeral of Thomas Ullyot, who died suddenly of apoplexy last Thursday morning, while on a visit to the post office, was held on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Methodist Episcopal church in Langdon and was largely attended by neighbors and friends. The building was unable to accommodate all who came to pay their respects to the memory of their departed friend and neighbor. The services were conducted by the pastor, Rev. E. E. Duden, assisted by Rev. W. C. Faucette of the Presbyterian church, and appropriate music was rendered by the choir. The Masonic order attended the services n a body and escorted the remains to their final resting place in the Harvey cemetery, where they were interred with full Masonic honors. The pallbearers were Robert Murie, Charles Chisholm, Alex McDonald, Walker Hamilton, Harry Dunford and Arthur Gamble, all neighbors of pioneer days.

Thomas Ullyot was born at South Oshawa, Ontario, March 27, 1854. When a young man twenty eight years of age he went west to Manitoba, and had made his home there but a few months, when he came across the line to Cavalier County and established his home in what is now Harvey township. This was in the year 1883. Mr. Ullyot exercised all of his rights, taking up a homestead, tree claim and pre-emption, and later added to his holdings until he had a farm of 700 acres. In 1919 he decided to retire and sold 500 acres of land to Simon Schefter. The balance was rented. The same year he purchased a ranch in the vicinity of Brownsville, Texas, and since that time Mr. and Mrs. Ullyot had spent their winters at Brownsville, while directing the development work on the ranch. They continued to spend their summers months here, while Mr. Ullyot helped to direct the work on the land he still owned in Harvey township.

Mr. Ullyot was considered to be one of Cavalier county's best farmers. He was always known as a very good manager, and, above all else, a good neighbor. While he never took a particularly active interest in politics and never aspired to a political office, his judgment was highly appraised by his neighbors in school and township matters. His congenial disposition was given room for expansion in the several fraternal orders with which he became affiliated, and at the time of his death he still retained membership in all of the Masonic bodies represented in Langdon and took an active interest in their affairs.

Mr. Ullyot was a son of Thomas and Mary Ullyot and was the eighth in a family of six boys and seven girls. Mary Jane Moore, who came from Pettapiece, Man., to attend the funeral, and Mrs. Elizabeth Skinner of Langdon, are the only surviving members of this large family, in which seven deaths have occurred with a period of one year. William Ullyot died in September of last year, Isaac the following October, Mrs. Esther Kirkpatrick in January of this year, George in February, and his wife in June. George Skinner, husband of Elizabeth Ullyot, passed away in July, 1924.

Thomas Ullyot was married August 20, 1876, at Pickering, Ont., to Miss Ida Firmingham, the widow who survives. No children were born to them, and she is left alone to mourn the loss in our neighborhood. Cavalier County Republican, Sept. 24, 1925.

Ida Firmingham Ullyot

June 29, 1859 ~ May 21, 1931

Death took two well-known Langdon women during the past week. Mrs. Thomas Ullyot died at her home in Langdon Thursday morning of last week and Mrs. Anton C. Formo died at the family home Monday afternoon.

Mrs. Ullyot was one of the pioneer women of the community, having come to Harvey Township with her husband in 1883 and to Langdon in 1919.

Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas Ullyot, a resident of Cavalier County since 1883, who died at her home in Langdon Thursday morning, May 21, 1931, at the age of 72 years, were held in the Langdon auditorium Sunday afternoon, May 24, under the direction of a group of Christian workers with whom the deceased had been identified for a number of years. The funeral sermon was delivered by Miss Mary Spiers of Fordville and a group of Cando ladies sang several sacred numbers. The services were largely attended by neighbors and friends.

The committal services at the grave in Harvey Cemetery, where the remains were deposited beside those of her husband, who passed away September 17, 1925, were conducted by Miss Alida Anderson of Cando. The pall-bearers were James Gordon, Arthur Gamble, J. A. Balgaard, Nicholas Gautsche, Robert Murie and Thomas Deveney, all of Langdon.

Mrs. Ullyot had been in failing health for more than two years, having suffered a paralytic stroke in September, 1928. The immediate cause of her death was heart disease, with which she was stricken five days before her death.

Ida Firmingham was born at Pickering, Ont., June 29, 1859, and was married to Thomas Ullyot in her eighteenth year. The young people came west to Manitoba, where they remained only a few months, before taking up homestead in Harvey Township, Cavalier County, which was the family home continuously until 1919, the year that they retired and moved to Langdon to enjoy the fruits of their pioneer labors. Since the death of Mr. Ullyot in 1925, the widow had lived alone at the family residence in Langdon, they having no children.

Surviving relatives are two sisters and a brother as follows: Mrs. Henry Ellis of Concrete, North Dakota; Mrs. W. Stephens of Toronto, Ont.; Henry Firmingham of Toronto. Cavalier County Republican, May 28, 1931.