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Melonie Louis “M.L.” Vial

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M.L. Vial Jeweler – August, 30, 1902

Louis first came to Weiser in 1891, and located his shop in the upper story of the Sommer & Gorrie building in Old Town; he was just across the hall from the Signal Office.

After the Hotel Weiser was built to the west in new town, he moved into that building.

In 1892, a year later, he bought the lot from which he has just moved and put up a small store, which he afterward enlarged and improved with a better front; later he built the neat residence which which he occupies on Main Street.

Last spring he bought this lot on which his new building stands and this fall built the structure which he has just moved into, and as his business will no doubt continue to grow, we can look for the building to expand and grow pretentious likewise.

From The Weiser Semi-Weekly Signal – Nov 9, 1899 – Page 3

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1910 census – shows M.L., his wife and two daughters (wife Clara and daughters Irma and Clara) living in Weiser. They had previously lost a 7-month-old son before these girls were born.

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M.L. Vial Home – 2024

They lived at a home at 323 Main Street.

1920 census – the family still lived at 323 Main Street, Weiser.

Between1927 and 1930 M.L. was divorced and moved to Clovis New Mexico, where he opened a jewelry store and remarried.

1930 census – his wife Clara (divorced) and their daughter Clara (Lawson), who was married to a Charles Lawson, lived at the Main Street home. The daughter Clara was an optometrist.

1930 – Clovis New Mexico newspaper, Mr. Vial has passed on and his daughter and second wife are fighting over who should get the insurance.

From Lois Hill Titus

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Jeweler Succumbs To Month Illness

M.L. Vial, 68, a Clovis jeweler, passed away at the Baptist hospital here early Friday morning after an illness of nearly a month.

No funeral services were held here, but the body was sent today to Cassville, Mo., his old home, for interment.

Vial came to Clovis from Weiser, Idaho, last November and opened a jewelry and music goods business at 504 Main Street. He had been in business in Idaho for more than forty years before coming to Clovis.

He is survived by a widow here, and by four adult sons and daughters, none of whom live here.

From Clovis News-Journal -Clovis, New Mexico – Sat, May 31, 1930 – Page 1

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Daughter and Second Wife Scrap Over Insurance of Louis Vial

An unusual suit to determine whether the daughter of a former wife or the widow by a second marriage is entitled to $2,900 of insurance on the life of Louis Vial was filed in the U.S. District Court here today. The defendants, Lula Vial, widow of the insured, and Clara Vial, daughter by his first marriage, made adverse claims to the $2,900 of insurance, along with the cash dividends and interest, amounting to $36.45.

The title of the suit is the Mutual Life Insurance Company vs. Lula Vial and Clara Vial. The plaintiff asks that the court require the defendants to interplead their claims and determine their rights as to the insurance policy.

INSURANCE TO FIRST WIFE

The decree of divorce granted to Clara Vial (first wife) from M. Louis Vial on the grounds of willful desertion on September 7, 1927, shows that Mr. Vial’s first wife received property in Weiser, Idaho, together with a $2,500 insurance policy with the Des Moines Life Insurance Company and a $1,000 policy with the Woodmen of the World. It appears that Mr. Vial operated a store in Weiser, Idaho, before moving to New Mexico.

From Santa Fe New Mexican – Sat, October 18, 1930

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