Vesta Isabella Pettersson named for Vesta Isabell Dixon.
I have been doing some family history research and searching for names to submit to the temple for ordinances. I ran across a Vesta Isabell Dixon. This is very interesting because my mother's name is Vesta Isabella Pettersson Curtis. Vesta Dixon was born in August of 1898. I don't have the exact day. She died in 1906. I don't have the exact date there either. Normally the LDS Church does not require ordinances for an 8 year old. Since specific dates are not there Vesta Isabell is elligible for the ordinances. I am under the assumption that my mother was named after her full cousin Vesta Isabell Dixon. Daughter of Richard Dixon and Miriam Livsey. Miriam also died in 1906.
Vesta Isabell had a brother named Richard Samuel Dixon. Their father was killed in the Scofield Mine Disaster on May 1, 1900. Richard was not born until December 27, 1900 in Scofield. Their mother Miriam remarried on April 8, 1903. Miriam died in September 1906. Apparently after the death of Miriam, Richard Samuel went to live with his grandparents Thomas Livsey and Isabella Pilkington Livsey. He is listed with them on the 1910 census. Thomas Livsey died in 1912. I would assume that when he died Isabella Pilkington Livsey and Richard Samuel Dixon went to live with the Nicholas Peter Pettersson family. They are listed with that family on the 1920 census. Richard married March 22, 1920 in Salt Lake City to Vivian Davis. They both lived in Winter Quarters, Utah when they were married.
My mother always told me about Richard Dixon that lived with them but I don't her remember telling me that he was her full cousin. I do not remember her telling me that he had a sister named Vesta Isabell or that she was named after her. I am a bit overwhelmed by this discovery.