BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Thomas Stradling, Jr. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Thomas Stradling, Jr. was born on February 26, 1865 [rarely, Feb. 03, 1865] in Provo, Utah. His parents: William Stradling, Sr., and Sarah Yarnell Evans Stradling. [Sarah first married Richard Evans on September 23, 1844, and he died in 1855 in St. Louis, Missouri. Sarah second married William Stradling, Sr., becoming one of his three wives in 1864, in Provo, Utah.] Thomas Stradling, Jr., died on October 4, 1918. [Flu?] [We do not know if he married, or where he died.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Emma Stubbs. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ About 150 "oldtimers" gathered for the first Alumni Emeritus Banquet during commencement week of 1941. Diantha Billings Worsley, Emma Stubbs Taylor, Alice Smoot Newell, Mary E. Cluff Little, Charles Albert Glazier, and Samuel D. Moore, members of Brigham Young Academy's first classes in 1876-77, attended the banquet. ~ ~ ~ ~ Emma Stubbs was born on August 20, 1862 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Peter Stubbs and Elizabeth Dunn Stubbs. She married John Edwin Taylor on December 16, 1880, at the age of 17. She died on September 10, 1958 in Provo, Utah, at the age of 96. Interment, Provo City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Hannah Asenath [or Aseneth or Asenth] Stubbs. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. A centennarian, she was the last survivor of the 29. She is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Hannah Asenath Stubbs was born on April 16, 1864 in Provo, Utah. Her parents: Peter Stubbs and Elizabeth Dunn Stubbs. At the age of 21, Hannah married Edward L. [Latrielle] Jones on October 29, 1885 in Logan, Utah. Hannah Stubbs Jones died on May 1, 1964 in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 100. Interment, Provo City Cemetery. ~ ~ ~ ~ In connection with Brigham Young Academy Commencement in May of 1899, an Alumni Banquet was held at the Hotel Roberts in Provo with about two hundred people attending. Four alumni spoke about different periods of time in the life of the Academy. "Mrs. Hannah Stubbs Jones responded to the first toast, 'The Original 29.' She referred to the twenty-nine students with whom Dr. Maeser commenced the institution, away back in 1876. Mrs. Jones called them 'Homes-spun', for she said that they then had to weave and make their own clothing, and schooling was not for [as] advanced in those days as at the present time. She was pleased, however, to note the success which the 'original 29' had made in life. Most of them now had sons and daughters attending the academy." Source: Deseret Evening News, May 27, 1899. [The other three speakers: J. Golden Kimball, Newton Noyes, and George H. Brimhall.]

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. John J. Walton. BYA High School Class of 1878, Normal diploma, Friday, June 21, 1878. John J. Walton. Source: Deseret News, June 21, 1878. John J. Walton was one of five 1878 graduates, including Joseph B. Walton. John was one of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. ~ ~ ~ ~ John James Walton was born on February 7, 1858 in Alpine, Utah. His parents: Joseph Walton and Ann Thompson. He married Anna Catherine Bissell on July 1, 1880 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He died on May 22, 1931 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Interment, Salt Lake City Cemetery.

BY Academy High School Class in 1876. Andrew Watson. One of the original 29 students who registered on the first day of classes at Brigham Young Academy, January 3, 1876. He is also included on a list of 59 names of the earliest students of Brigham Young Academy, taken from a file in the BYU Archives, made by an unknown contemporary student. ~ ~ ~ ~ Andrew Allan Watson was born on December 22, 1862 in Provo, Utah. His parents: Andrew Watson and Jane or Jean Allan or Allen. He married Annie Shand on April 11, 1888 in Logan, Utah. He second married Annie Jane Parks McConnell on September 20, 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Andrew Watson died on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1908, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. Interment, Magrath, Alberta, Canada.