[The following is a transcription of an audio tape provided by William O. Tolman to Sherry Hofhine Davis in 1977. Taken from Judson Tolman: Pioneer, Lumberman, Patriarch by E. Dennis Tolman, Second Edition, pages 75-78]. I am recording this for Sherry Davis. It is...
Of the many family values that make up the legacy of William Odell and Opal Adams Tolman, work is one of the bedrock principles that has been handed down the generations or more precisely work, work, work. (From the foreward of William Odell Tolman: Patriarch,...
Loraine Tolman Pace writes, “William gave hundreds (perhaps thousands) of talks in his life time and rarely wrote the complete text. He could speak for an hour with no more than five or six notes on the back of a program or envelope.” William followed...
Saturday, 24 Nov 1928: Elder Boley and myself have been reading to each other from a book by Elder Durrant. It is sure wonderful and I have began to think the world of Elder Boley. Some of the fellows have condemned him because he took that drink, but I believe he has...
William Odell Tolman was committed to the scouting program for his entire life despite a rocky beginning from his own experience as a young scout due to a revolving door of scout leaders in his youth. His vision of the scouting program and desire to help young men...
(Excerpt from William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 81-83, 101, 105). 1934: Times were really tough because we were going into the roughest years of the depression and jobs were scarce. It...
(Excerpt from William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 50-51). Saturday, 3 May 1930: A new Elder (Jules Gillette) came in today and we played a fast trick on him. The other three Elders Gurney,...
(Excerpts from William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 29-35). Monday, 3 Dec 1928: After class I got five hundred tracts from Brother Johnston and we stamped two hundred each and went out and...
(Excerpts from “William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher,” compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 19-24). I would like to record here a little detail about my call to go on a mission. It was unusual for a boy in our little ward to go...
(Excerpts from William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 11-16). 1924: I spent the next four years attending the Oakley Rural High School. When I started high school, the great desire that I had...
(Picture: William Odell Tolman about age ten holding his brother Wendell). (Contributed by Derek John Tolman. Excerpt from “William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher,” compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, page 9). When thinking about the...
(Picture: Emma, Naomi, Armenia, and William Tolman) (Excerpts from “William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher,” compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, page 2). My sister, Naomi, records the following in her life story: “I recall...
