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Email receved from Bobbi Gursin. | Driscoll (I152769)
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Emigration: Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1640' Peter W. Coldham, p.1 2 8 22 Mar-11 Apr 1635; The following passangers, having taken the oaths , a re to be embarked in the 'Planter', Mr. Nicholas Travice, bound fro m Lond on to New England.; 'With certificate from St. Albans parish, Hert s.; Tho mas Olney, shoemaker 35, Marie Olney 30, Thomas Olney 3, Epenetu s Olney | Olney, Thomas (I30064)
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Emily and Grant were five months apart in age and from Emily's birth s h e had been Grant's next-door neighbor. They were among the most promine n t young orators in Salt Lake society in the 1870s, both connected wit h th e "Wasatch Literary Association", and Grant was a counselor to Emily 's br other in the 13th Ward YMMIA presidency. The marriage of Grant an d Emil y was expected by all who knew them. However, Emily then announce d public ly her opposition to polygamy. This caused a falling-out betwee n Grant an d Emily.
Emily was a full-sister of Briant H. Wells, who was a Major General in t h e United States Army. Another of her brothers, Heber M. Wells, later t h e first governor of the state of Utah, stayed with her for part of th e ti me of her exile in Manassa, Colorado
Emily attended the University of Deseret. For a time she was a school te a cher. In 1883, Grant asked Emily to marry him, which considering she h a d not renounced her dislike for polygamy and he was already married t o Lu cy was in many ways a very daring move on his part. She initially de cline d his request. Emily had a change of heart and she and Grant marrie d on M ay 27, 1884. Since the Edmunds Act had been enacted in 1882, the s ituatio n of Mormon polygamists was far worse than it had been a decade e arlier w hen Emily had first renounced polygamy. To avoid Grant having t o go to pr ison on charges of unlawful cohabitation, Emily went to Englan d to live a t the LDS mission home to have her first Child. She returne d to the Unite d States 16 months later and moved between multiple locati ons in Utah Ter ritory and Idaho to avoid capture.
In 1889, to avoid being forced to testify in pending unlawful cohabitati o n charges against her husband, Emily went to Manassa, Colorado, where s h e stayed for a year and a half. Grant accompanied her on the train-rid e f rom Pueblo to Manassa, having been on a different train on the previo us p art of the journey to avoid arrest. Grant stayed two weeks, settin g up fo r Emily the most comfortable house in the town, and leaving hi s m other t o help Emily. She remained in Manassa until March 1891 when s he returne d to Salt Lake City.
Emily and Grant were the parents of four daughters and a son. The son, D a niel Wells Grant, died while he was still a Child. Emily's last Child w a s born in 1899 when she was 42, the same year Grant pleaded guilty to u nl awful cohabitation and paid a $100 fine.
Emily accompanied Grant when he served as mission president in England , b ringing her four daughters plus two of Lucy's daughters. Due to thei r dau ghters' presence, the Grants relocated the mission home to a more r espect able part of Liverpool.
Emily developed stomach cancer in 1907 which caused her death in 1908 . A t the time of her death she was considered one of the most prominen t wome n in Salt Lake City. | Harris Wells, Emily (I88102)
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Emily Ann Giles: born March 23, 1867, daughter of Joseph Sinker and Sar a h Huntsman Giles, in Fillmore, Utah. She was a nurse and a homemaker. S h e married David McKee October 14, 1887, and lived on Main Street in Hol de n, Millard County, Utah. She raised a large family and worked in the R eli ef Society. She was kind and very considerate of everyone and had man y fr iends. She died April 15, 1942 in Holden, Utah and is buried in th e Holde n Cemetery. | Giles, Emily Ann (I228)
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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusett s . She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but onl y fo r one year. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively involved in s tat e and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her brothe r, A ustin, who attended law school and became an attorney, lived next do or wi th his wife, Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, al so liv ed at home, and she and Austin were intellectual companions for Di ckinso n during her lifetime.
Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of s e venteenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revela ti on and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town, which encourage d a C alvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.
She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as we l l as John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of he r c ontemporary Walt Whitman by rumors of its disgracefulness, the two po et s are now connected by the distinguished place they hold as the founde r s of a uniquely American poetic voice. While Dickinson was extremely pr ol ific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, sh e wa s not publicly recognized during her lifetime. The first volume of h er wo rk was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955. She die d in A mherst in 1886.
Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound volume s o f nearly 1,800 poems, or “fascicles” as they are sometimes called. Di ckin son assembled these booklets by folding and sewing five or six sheet s o f stationery paper and copying what seem to be final versions of poem s. T he handwritten poems show a variety of dash-like marks of various si zes a nd directions (some are even vertical). The poems were initially un boun d and published according to the aesthetics of her many early editor s, wh o removed her annotations. The current standard version of her poem s repl aces her dashes with an en-dash, which is a closer typographical a pproxim ation to her intention. The original order of the poems was not r estore d until 1981, when Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence o f the pa per itself to restore her intended order, relying on smudge mark s, needl e punctures, and other clues to reassemble the packets. Since th en, man y critics have argued that there is a thematic unity in these sma ll colle ctions, rather than their order being simply chronological or co nvenient . The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson (Belknap Press, 1981 ) is the on ly volume that keeps the order intact. | Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth (I97402)
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Emma went by her middle name "Ruby". | Nielson, Ruby Emma (I17306)
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Engineer Purtell and Fireman Spidell Meet Sudden Death in Wreck.
Engine of fast mail rolls down embankment.
Believed that the Engine Men jumped to avoid harm and were crushed in t h e rolling wreckage. Both men were prominent citizens of Pocatello.
Pocatello, Oct. 22 – (Special)—No. 1, the Oregon Short Line westwound fa s t mail, was wrecked four miles east of McCammon at 3:20 today and Engin ee r Edward Purtell and his fireman, Paul Spidell, both of Pocatello, wer e i nstantly killed. The engine climbed the rail on a curve that had bee n fil led in with dirt by the track forces and went down the embankment 2 0 feet , taking the mail, baggage and buffet cars with it.
It is believed that Purtell and his fireman jumped and were buried und e r the wreckage. Two mail clerks and the express messenger were slightl y b ruised but were able to take part in the work of transfee. No passeng er s were injured, as the remainder of the equipment stayed on the track.
There is much grief expressed here over the death of Purtell. For 19 yea r s he has been in the service of the Short Line and was highly respecte d . He leaves a wife and three young children to mourn his loss and the y ha ve the sympathy of the entire community. | Spidell, Paul Clifford (I165103)
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England, Marriages, 1538-1973, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearc h . org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NKTH-TLN: accessed 21 Jan 2013), James Greaves and J an e Caddick,; citing Saint Nicholas,Liverpool,Lancashire,England, refere nce ; FHL microfilm 93839, 93840, 93841.
Marriage: 12 Apr 1807 St Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
James Greaves - (X), Cordwainer of Liverpool
Jane Caddick - (X), Spinister of same Parish
Witness: Edward Coventry; James Anderton
Married by Banns by: John Pulford Curate
Register: Marriages 1807, Page 458, Entry 96
Source: LDS Film 93839 | Family: James Greaves / Jane Caddick (F1901)
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Enlistment:
Event Type Military Service
Event Date 03 Jun 1942
Event Place Ft Douglas, Utah, United States
Name Ferron G Whipple
Marital Status Single, without dependents
Term of Enlistment Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emerg e ncy, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or oth er wise according to law
Race White
Citizenship Status citizen
Birth Year 1912
Birthplace UTAH
Education Level 4 years of high school
Civilian Occupation Semiskilled mechanics and repairmen, motor vehicles
Military Rank Private
Army Branch Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Army Component Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source Reference Civil Life
Serial Number 39026682
Affiliate ARC Identifier 1263923
Box Film Number 13836.149 | Whipple, Ferron George (I17157)
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Entertainment Magnate and Film Pioneer. Most remembered for creating Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and a host of other cartoon characters. He has won 32 Oscars, more than any other person, for his extraordinary achievements in films. Born Walter Elias Disney, the son of Elias and Flora Disney in Chicago, Illinois. His father's ancestors had come to America from Kilkenny, Ireland, seeking to escape from religious persecution. His father was always seeking success in many occupations but always finding failure, and the Disney family was always poor. Walt found that he could escape his father's harsh discipline by drawing, and in 1917, when he was 16 years old, he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps. When he was mustered out at the end of World War I, he set up shop as a commercial artist in Kansas City, Missouri. There he discovered the world of animation, and Walt took to it. Moving to Los Angeles in 1923 to be with his more successful brother, Roy, Walt began drawing commercially, making a modest living by drawing for the Alice series of cartoons, about a live action girl who travels to the world of animated cartoon animals. In 1927, his first really successful commercial cartoon, featuring Oswald the Rabbit, became a success, but Walt lost the rights to the character when sued by his distributor. From then on, Walt insisted on owning the distribution rights to his creations. In 1928, Walt created Mickey Mouse. His third Mickey Mouse film, "Steamboat Willie," was the first cartoon to use synchronized sound and became an overnight success. Walt was the voice of Mickey for the first ten years of the cartoon. In 1934, Disney pioneered the first full length cartoon movie, "Snow White", and again, critics were overcome by the sheer popular response of the public to the movie. In 1950, he produced his first live-action film, "Treasure Island," and in 1955, he opened his first theme park, Disneyland. Prior to his death in 1966 in Los Angeles, California, of lung cancer, he began work on his latest theme park in Orlando, Florida: Walt Disney's World. His brother, Roy, the business genius behind the scenes, continued to run the company, and decades after Walt's death, the Disney empire is still financially strong and keeping to Walt's legacy. Shortly after Walt's death, the Disney Company executive board was shown a short film that Walt made just before his death, where he addressed each board member by name, telling him what he expected of him, and ending the film by saying "I'll be seeing you." Walt Disney was one of the few Americans to be honored with a US postage stamp issued less than two years after his death (the US Postal Service prefers to issue stamps at least ten years after a person has died; an exception is made for US presidents), when a 6 cent stamp was issued in September 1968 in his honor. | Disney, Walter Elias (I97071)
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Ephraim Penrod 1866-1935
Of all the Penrod brothers who founded Pinetop, none lived there longe r o r left a stronger imprint than Ephraim, known as Eph. He arrived ther e i n 1888 and remained until his death on May 10, 1935, except for a yea r wh en he worked in the mines at Clifton and one winter in Globe. Most o f hi s adult life he was a merchant and he also farmed and ran a herd o f cows . In the early days it was often necessary to dabble in many thing s to ma ke a living. Eph's granddaughter says he tried a number of profes sions, s uch as selling wild horses, prospecting, running a mill, and hau ling frei ght from Holbrook. She also states that Eph was a self-made man , as schoo ling in his day was almost unobtainable.
Ephraim Penrod was the seventh child of William Lewis Penrod and Polly A n n Penrod. He was born September 17, 1866 at Payson, Utah, and came to A ri zona with his parents at the age of twelve. Shortly before he turned n ine teen he married Vilate Whipple of Show Low. The date was July 17, 188 5. T hey had two children, Lee and Bessie. Then Violate was taken by deat h o n July 9, 1891.
Eph met Mary Jane Hansen of Woodland, daughter of Hans Hansen Sr., and t h ey were married on November 21, 1892 at Pinetop. To this union were bo r n ten children as follows: Elmer, Grace, Archie Hans Othello, William , Ma ry Jane, Viola Irene, Reuben Buster, Beatrice, and Galdys Elmina. Ge ral d Penrod, prominent and popular resident of Pinetop today, is a grand son.
Eph and his family once had a strange adventure. Coming home from Clift o n in a covered wagon, they were held up at a point on the road by despe ra dos who had guns and demanded their horses and money. At a crucial poi nt , the oldest son Elmer stuck his head out of the wagon and said, "Howd y F loyd." It happened Elmer had gone to school with the son of one of th e wo uld be robbers and he had come along. The men then offered Eph almos t any thing if he wouldn't tell the sheriff, and they went their way empt y hand ed.
Eph was described as having black lashes and brows which emphasized danc i ng blue eyes. He was rather a small man and wore a heavy mustache, an d h e had considerable charm. He had a large posterity.
Courtesy of Delbert Adair Jr.
Penrod Family History, Volume I | Penrod, Ephriam (I160379)
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Esek Hopkins was the first commander of the U.S. Navy.
He was born in what is now Scituate, Rhode Island, on 26 April 1718. H i s brother, Stephen Hopkins, was a member of the Naval Committee of th e Co ntinental Congress.
Prior to the American Revolution, Hopkins was a sea captain and mercha n t adventurer. He commanded a privateer in the French and Indian War (17 54 -1760). He was appointed a captain at the start of the American Revolu tio n, and brigadier general in the Rhode Island forces.
On 5 November 1775, the Naval Committee appointed him Commander in Chi e f of the Continental Navy’s fleet, consisting of eight merchant ships t ha t had been altered as men of war in Philadelphia. On 5 January 1776, t h e Naval Committee issued sailing orders to Hopkins to proceed, if win d an d weather permitted, to Chesapeake Bay and engage the British fleet . If s uccessful, he was to sail to Rhode Island and attack the British f orces t here. The fleet assembled in the Delaware River, but the missio n was dela yed due to ice until 17 February, at which time he sailed fo r Nassau in t he Bahamas.
Hopkins’ fleet made an attack on a British colony in Nassau on 17 Februa r y 1776. The effort was successful and resulted in the capture of a lar g e number of guns and ammunition, as well the capture of the Governor a n d Lieutenant Governor, whom he took prisoner. This was the first amphib io us assault by the U.S. Marines and Sailors landed in “a bold stroke, w ort hy of an older and better trained service,” The fleet captured two Br itis h vessels, but failed to capture a third (Glasgow). John Hancock, Pr eside nt of the Continental Congress, wrote Hopkins: “I beg leave to cong ratula te you on the success of your Expedition. Your account of the spir it an d bravery shown by the men affords them [Congress] the greatest sat isfact ion . . .”
Nonetheless, Hopkins received harsh criticism for his failure to captu r e Glasgow, and he was also accused of disobedience to orders. He was de fe nded by John Adams, but was nonetheless censured by Congress on 16 Aug us t 1776, suspended on 26 March 1777, and was dismissed from the Nav y o n 2 January 1778. He continued to serve on the Rhode Island General A ssem bly through 1786.
Hopkins died on the farm on which he retired in Providence, Rhode Islan d , on 26 February 1802. | Hopkins, Commodore Esek (I31086)
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Esla appears in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle as the son of Gewis and a desc e ndant of Woden. He is also identified as the father of Elesa, the fath e r of Cerdic of Wessex who invaded Britain in 495 and founded the kingd o m of Wessex.
Cerdic, first king of the West Saxons (519–534), is recorded as descend e d from Woden. This mythical descent is set out in the Anglo-Saxon Chron ic le: | Esla King of West Saxons (I14767)
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Esther Smith, the only daughter of Lieut. Elisha Smith & Elizabeth Wheel o ck, born of record Nov. 24, 1702 at Windham, Conn. and died at Windha m Oc t. 10, 1737
On Oct. 20, 1719 at Windham, Esther married as his first wife, Dea. Eben e zer Wales, Esq., son of Dea. Nathaniel Wales & Susanna Blake, born Jun e 2 5, 1696 at Milton, Mass. (bapt. there June 28). He died at Union, Con n. A pr. 12, 1776 Esther & Ebenezer had ten children at Windham who are o utlin ed in their father's memorial. | Smith, Esther (I52431)
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Esther was 63 yrs, 3 mo, 13 days old when she died. She was the matriar c h of the family and everyone turned to her whenever they needed anythi n g and she was always there for all of them. She loved her flowers and y ar d and spent many hours caring for it. She also loved to paint and we a lwa ys joked that her house should be warm for all the coats of paint i t ha d in it.
Died at home from wounds and car exhaust in their garage | Morava, Esther Vivian (I161380)
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Eugène Leopold Claudi Magnussen, 29.9.1849-8.7.1919, engineer. Born in Å l borg, died on board a ship on the Danube near Sulina, buried in Sulin a . M spent his childhood in Jelling and in Husum and completed his schoo li ng in Copenhagen, to which the family moved after being displaced by t h e German occupation of Jutland. In 1868 he became a student at the Metr op olitan School, in 1875 a cand.polyt. in engineering. That same summer , h e received an offer from the Holstein-born chief engineer Kühl at th e Eur opean Danube Commission, who knew Ms family, for employment as a su b-engi neer at the commission and accepted this. The Commission set up a t the Pe ace of Paris in 1856 was responsible for ensuring that the Danub e was nav igable from the mouth up to Isaktcha and to have the necessar y work carri ed out. M.'s work became a special preparatory work for secu ring the entr ance from the Black Sea, here, near the mouth of the Danube , were large , ever-increasing sandbars, and he carried out his work wit h skill and pu nctuality. M. spoke the world languages and also mastere d several south ern European languages. In 1908, M. became chief enginee r with the specia l task of securing and maintaining the regulation tha t made it possible f or large steamers to go up to Braila. It hit him har d when World War II c aused the Dardanelles to close and shipping ceased , however, M. remaine d in his post until the Russians after the revoluti on occupied the city f ounded by the commission Sulina. In 1917 he travel ed to Denmark, but in 1 918, the year before his death, received a reques t from the commission t o return to Sulina. - A brother spoke the world l anguages and also mast ered several southern European languages. In 190 8, M. became chief engine er with the special task of securing and mainta ining the regulation tha t made it possible for large steamers to go up t o Braila. It hit him har d when World War II caused the Dardanelles to cl ose and shipping ceased , however, M. remained in his post until the Russ ians after the revolutio n occupied the city founded by the commission Su lina. In 1917 he travele d to Denmark, but in 1918, the year before his d eath, received a reques t from the commission to return to Sulina. - A br other spoke the world la nguages and also mastered several southern Eur opean languages. In 1908 , M. became chief engineer with the special tas k of securing and maintain ing the regulation that made it possible for l arge steamers to go up to B raila. It hit him hard when World War II caus ed the Dardanelles to clos e and shipping ceased, however, M. remained i n his post until the Russian s after the revolution occupied the city fou nded by the commission Sulina . In 1917 he traveled to Denmark, but in 19 18, the year before his death , received a request from the commission t o return to Sulina. - A brothe r remained in his post, however, until th e Russians after the revolutio n occupied the city founded by the Commiss ion Sulina. In 1917 he travele d to Denmark, but in 1918, the year befor e his death, received a reques t from the commission to return to Sulina . - A brother remained in his po st, however, until the Russians after th e revolution occupied the city fo unded by the Commission Sulina. In 191 7 he traveled to Denmark, but in 19 18, the year before his death, receiv ed a request from the commission t o return to Sulina. - A brotherJohanne s Julius Claudi Magnussen, born 11. 6.1848, died 23.5.1906, became studen t 1869, cand.phil. 1875, and mag.art . in English 1889. After working fo r Store Nordiske in China 1870-75, h e was a language teacher, high schoo l principal and music critic. He publ ished English textbooks and transla ted from English and German, among oth ers. Dickens and Schiller. M. wa s the father of Julius M.
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Parents: teacher in Ålborg, later second teacher in Husum, after 1864 he a d teacher at Schneekloth's school in Copenhagen, last class lottery col le ctor sst., Julius Carl Leopold M. (1823-1902) and Johanne Cecilie Clau d i (1822-1907). Married 4.3.1884 in Assens to Emma Caroline Steenberg, b or n 4.1.1863 in Viby near Århus, died 11.6.1949 in Espergærde, Egebæksva n g sg., D. By first lieutenant of the infantry reserve, later organis t i n Assens Vilhelm Albinus S. (1818- 78) and Frederikke Louise Charlott e Fr iis (1827-1914). | Magnussen, Eugen Leopold Claudi (I35659)
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EUNICE EMMA HOLBROOK HUNTSMAN
By Stella Day, granddaughter
(husband, Gabriel Riley Huntsman)
Eunice Holbrook was born April 16, 1838, in Caldwell County, Missouri, d a ughter of Chandler and Eunice Dunning Holbrook. The Chandler Holbrook f am ily had been moving with the Mormons since the early days of the Churc h . They had joined the L.D.S. Church Jan. 14, 1833. The had moved form N e w York to Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, when the mob violence bro k e out and forced them to move farther West. In each state they bought l an d and built homes but had to leave them with little or no remuneration . T wo older brothers of Eunice, Joseph Hyrum and Orson Chandler, were bo rn i n Nauvoo, a lovely eight-roomed home on a farm. The only home in whi ch th e family had lived long enough to add two children to the family.
From the diary of Joseph Holbrook, older brother of Chandler, we learn t h at Chandler, wife and children, left Nauvoo in a wagon drawn by oxen a n d cows, leaving a comfortable eight-roomed home surrounded by 160 acre s o f rich farm land. They were forced to sell it all including the furni ture , for $200.00. It was a mere pittance of what the home was worth bu t th e mob said “$200.00 or nothing”.
In 1846 a company under the direction of Newell Knight, Joseph Holbroo k a nd Mr. Mikesell were the first that left for the West. Messengers fro m Br igham Young overtook this company telling them not to cross the moun tain s owing to the lateness of the season but to remain with the friendl y Paw nee Indians at their village until they received further work fro m Brigha m Young. A strong bond of friendship grew between these people a nd the fr iendly Pawnee Indians.
From Chandlers Diary: “The winter weather was cold and the going was slo w ”. Later that fall (1846) a council of this company’s leaders decided t ha t it is indispensable necessary that some of the brethren return Eas t t o the settlements to secure corn and wheat for meal and flour for th e win ter, while the others explore the country west as far as the Fort L aramie .” Chandler, Dwight Harding (husband of Chandler’s sister, Phoebe) , retur ned to the settlements for food while Joseph and others did the e xploring .
From Chandler’s Diary: “At Winter Quarters we found much sickness, inclu d ing Truman Angel and the others of out Angel relatives (cousins).” The y c ontinued on their journey to the settlements and by December, throug h wor king, bartering and purchasing, they secured their loads of supplie s. I n bartering, Chandler had exchanged two feather beds and a rifle fo r food . In January they arrived back at the “Running Waters” which was f rozen o ver. They attempted to draw their wagons over the rough ice by ha nd, bu t after a short distance they attached a long chain to the wagon t ongue a nd the other end to the oxen. “We had not gone far when the ice b roke an d the oxen were in three feet of icy water, and the wheels of th e wagon e ven deeper.” Joseph, who had returned from exploring, came in s earch of t hem and helped them carry most of the load of food over on the ir backs. T hey finally got the oxen out one by one and the wagon too, bu t the next d ay one of Chandler’s cows died from exposure to the icy wate rs.
The provisions were divided equally between Joseph, Chandler and the Dwi g ht Harding families. The corn and wheat were ground into flour and mea l a t a mill erected by Newell Knight in Ponca Village. Newell died i n a fe w days later, January 10, 1847. Just before his death he had bapti zed Eun ice into the Church, (two older brothers and two sisters were alr eady mem bers.)
Chandler mentions there were buffalo, deer, antelope, wild turkeys, gees e , ducks, and prairie chickens in abundance along their journey, which h el ped in the food supply.
Eunice was just ten years old when they crossed the plains; she was ve r y beautiful with long black hair, large brown eyes and a lovely skin. S h e was full of spirit and loved to run and play with the other children . S he was a swift runner and could out-distance any of her playmates – w as q uick to learn new games and always eager to try something different.
She was taught to sew, cook, knit, spin, car and weave, as well as to cr o chet and embroider, by her mother who was one of the most skilled wome n i n the church. She played the accordion, had a lovely contralto voic e an d was in all of the theatricals and musicals in the early days of Sa lt La ke, Bountiful and Fillmore.
The first settlers had been in Salt Lake just a year when chandler and J o seph Holbrook arrived, together with Dwight Harding and family (for th e t wo brothers and sister, Phoebe, wanted to stay together). They live d in S alt Lake for two years, when another son, Lafayette was born to Ch andle r and Eunice Sept. 7, 1850. The three families all moved north on f arms t o what is now Bountiful. Here Chandler had just built his fifth ho me whe n Brigham Young sent for him to join the Anson Call Company and g o sout h to locate a Capitol of the Territory. Chandler did not take hi s famil y as he hoped to come back to Bountiful after he had helped to su rvey th e new site for the Capitol. However as he was the only surveyor a vailable , President Young asked him to return to Bountiful and bring hi s family t o Fillmore. Eunice helped the family build a new home, which w as at leas t their sixth since joining the Mormon Church. They could hav e stayed i n any of the homes they had built if they only renounced thei r religion b ut this they steadfastly refused to do.
The Holbrook’s lived in the old fort for the first years in Fillmore a n d later built a brick home with a large rock barn which was the stoppi n g place for the Pony Express Riders. There was plenty of work to do an d E unice was quick to help, always ready to do her part and more. She ma ture d early and was very poplar with the young people of Fillmore. Man y youn g men courted her by one who was eight years her senior, finally c onvince d her to marry him. On Nov. 29, 1855 Eunice and Gabriel Huntsma n were mar ried, but did not receive their temple endowments until Apri l 1, 1857 a s the trip to Salt Lake to the Endowment House took about tw o weeks. (Yea rs afterwards when a granddaughter of Eunice (Anna Stenons ) was travelin g by train to New York, she met a man who had courted Euni ce and althoug h he never won her he could not forget her, even at sevent y-five years o f age he said, “How I loved that little brown-eyed beauty! ”
A few days less than a year after Gabriel and Eunice were married, on No v . 1, 1856 Gabriel Riley was born in the Southwest corner of the old Fil lm ore Fort, where Gabriel and Eunice built their first home.
The next May 1857, Gabriel was sent on a mission to the Eastern States . H e pushed a handcart all the way across the plains in order to be abl e t o barter hides for goods to send back with the Saints who were leavin g fo r Utah. It was lucky for Eunice that her folks would help her whil e Gabri el was on a mission, since she was just past eighteen years old a nd ha d a six-month-old baby. All of Eunice’s brothers and sisters (Josep h Hyru m, Orson Chandler, Diana and Miria) were married and just a brothe r, Lafe , six years old was at home. Lafayette was born Sept. 7, 1850 i n Salt Lak e before Chandler was called by Brigham Young to help settle F illmore. “L afy”, as Eunice always called her baby brother, just adored l ittle Riley , and was like a big brother to him all of his life. (My fath er has tol d this writer that he never made a decision as a young man, wi thout firs t consulting Lafe).
Although Eunice was small – about five feet, two inches and weighed 10 5 p ounds, she was exceptionally healthy and energetic, never seeming t o tir e and always accomplishing the almost impossible. Gabriel was a mer chan t and a cattleman and when he returned from his mission he brought g ood f or his store with him. In 1871 Gabriel and Eunice built a large gab le hom e that contained 24 rooms and a basement, in one room of the basem ent th e vegetables, canned fruits, cured meats and other foods were stor ed. I n the other room were cupboards with screened doors for keeping mil k, egg s, cheese, and butter away from insects. The home later became a h otel fo r the traveling public, and their large red barn was filled wit h stalls f or the care of the horses used by the travelers, since all tra veling wa s done on horseback, in buggies and wagons.
Gabriel raised an excellent garden, for supplying the hotel with fresh v e getables. He owned many orchards throughout Fillmore, which furnished f ru it for both winter and summer. He raised hogs, sheep, cattle, and chic ken s to use as meat, since there were very few groceries to be purchase d i n the stores.
Just after Gabriel contracted to have his big home built, he was calle d o n a second mission to Canada. Eunice had a shrewd head for business , so b etween her and Hans Hanson, the carpenter who had contracted to bu ild th e home, Gabriel had no doubt but that every thing would be done pe rfectly . The three oldest children were able to help with the chores an d Eunice’ s father and brothers helped her all of the time. Each child wa s taught t o do his share of the work, as it all had to be done by hand a s there wer e few tools in those days, and work had to be done the hard w ay.
Gabriel often played his accordion or harmonica for dances and Eunice wo u ld wrap up the baby (she always had one, eleven of them in all), and at te nded the dances with Gabriel as she delighted in dancing and the men a lwa ys chose her as a partner, as she fairly gloated around the hall. (Th ey d anced in the Assembly Room of the Old State House). Mother always br eas t fed their babies in those days, which made it obligatory to take th e ba bies wherever the mothers went.
Eunice and Gabriel had many friends through out the state who came to vi s it them. The attic of the big house was made into a big family room whe r e beds could be made on the floor for the children and the attic was al wa ys filled with visiting families, especially at conference time, sinc e i t was difficult to travel people always stayed a week in order to ge t the ir visiting done, as it might be six months before they came again.
Whenever the President of the Church or any of the Church Authorities ca m e to Fillmore they stayed with the Gabriel Huntsman’s for both Gabrie l an d Eunice were excellent hosts, and Eunice was an exceptionally goo d cook . Brigham Young tells of the delicious meals he ate at the Huntsma n Hote l when he stopped over on his way to St. George to his winter home .
In 1901, Eunice was chosen Semi-Centennial Queen for Fillmore’s fiftie t h Anniversary Celebration. Here daughter, Edith, who was an expert dres sm aker, made her a white satin appliquéd gown for the occasion, and sh e wor e an exquisite hand embroidered shawl as a wrap, and really looke d as bea utiful as any queen, as she sat on her throne on a beautiful flo at.
In 1904 Eunice and three of her daughters, Edith, Josephine Peal, and Ev a , all traveled by Pullman to attend the Louisiana Purchase Exposition . I t was Eunice’s first Pullman and she couldn’t get over traveling in s uc h luxury. She said she little dreamed that she would ever skim over th e p lains when she was crossing the plains as young girl when she walke d mos t of the way. She visited her old birthplace in Missouri by was no t impre ssed, she remarked, “We should thank those mobs for driving us fr om the c yclones that sweep Missouri”.
Two years after returning from Missouri, Eunice contracted Pneumonia a n d died, June 6, 1906, leaving a broken-hearted husband and family, wh o ad ored her. Their darling mother was their ideal. She was so filled wi th en ergy and enthusiasm that she never ceased to amaze them. She was st ill ve ry beautiful—her hair was scarcely touched with grey. She still ha d her t rim figure in spite of eleven children, and her skin would have m ade an y young girl happy it was so soft and free from wrinkles. She alwa ys too k care not to get sunburned for she adored a “peaches and cream” c omplexi on. She was so well preserved that she looked much younger than h er year s – her laughing brown eyes so full of happiness and the zest fo r living . Gabriel lived just a little over a year after her death. He pa ssed awa y August 5, 1907 and left a small fortune for his eight living c hildren , who were: Gabriel Riley, Orson Henry, Mary Eunice, Joseph Alonz o, Hyru m Franklin, Heber chandler, Lafayette Erasmus, Edith, Josephine P earl, Ev a and Allen Green Camel. (Joseph Alonzo was accidentally shot i n a huntin g party. Heber Chandler was killed when thrown from a horse an d Hyrum Fra nklin died of Diphtheria, all before mother’s death).
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EUNICE EMMA HOLBROOK HUNTSMAN
By
Stella Day, granddaughter
Eunice Holbrook was born April 16, 1838 in Caldwell County, Missouri t o C handler and Eunice Dunning Holbrook. The family had joined the LDS Ch urc h in 1833 and had moved from New York to Ohio, Illinois, Iowa and Mis sour i where mob violence broke out and forced them to move farther west.
When they crossed the plains in 1846 in the company of Newell Knight, Eu n ice was ten years old. They spent the winter in a friendly Pawnee Indi a n village since it was too late in the season to begin their journey.
The families of Chandler Holbrook, his brother Joseph and Dwight Hardi n g all traveled together and arrived in Salt Lake in 1848 where they liv e d for two years before moving into farms near Bountiful. Here Chandle r re ceived a call from Brigham Young to join the Anson Call Company an d go so uth to locate a capitol of the Territory. They lived in the old f ort duri ng their first years in Fillmore, then built a brick home wit h a large ro ck barn which was the stopping place for Pony Express riders .
Eunice learned to sew, knit, cook, spin, card and weave as well as to cr o chet and embroider. She played the accordion, had a lovely contralto vo ic e and was in theatricals and musicals in the early days of Salt Lake , Bou ntiful and Fillmore. She was very popular with the young people an d man y young men courted her. But she married Gabriel Huntsman, eight ye ars he r senior, in 1855 when she was seventeen.
Although Eunice was only five foot two and weighted l05 pounds, she wa s v ery healthy and energetic. Gabriel went on a second mission to Canad a lea ving Eunice with seven children. The three older children helped wi th th e chores and Eunice’s father and brother helped, too.
Gabriel had built a large brick home, hotel and store combined. Whenev e r church authorities traveled through Fillmore, they stayed at the Hunt sm an Hotel. Eunice was an exceptionally good cook Brigham Young mentione d h er delicious meals on his way to his winter home in St. George.
In 1901 Eunice was chosen Semi-Annual Queen for Fillmore’s fiftieth anni v ersary celebration. In 1904 she and three of her daughters went by Pull ma n to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. When [what] a thrill to skim o ve r the plains that she had mostly walked across as a girl.
Two years later Eunice contracted Pneumonia and died June 6, 1906 leavi n g eight of her eleven children and a broken-hearted husband, all of wh o m adored her. | Holbrook, Eunice Emma (I16125)
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Eve Is the Mother of all the living human family, Companion of Adam; s h e and Adam are the nobel parents of all the people of this Earth. | Eve (I15167)
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Exceptionally musically talented. At 12 years of age she played the org a n for the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. At 16 she played for t h e Episcopal church in Philadelphia, New Castle, Deleware. At age 21 s h e was married and moved to Utah and taught vocal and instrumental musi c i n St. George schools. She was also active in dramatics. She playe d th e Queen in Queen Esther in New Jersey. Also played a leading part i n Und er the Palms. She was known as the primadonna of Camden, New Jerse y. Th ere is a picture of her that we hope to post. | Terry, Amanda Rachael (I148281)
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Executed by his own brother-in-law in 866. | Udalriching, William (I16812)
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Extract of Birth Entry. No.3773/13 | Dell, William Bramwell (I100477)
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Extract of Death Entry No.13137/83 Certified by John M. Winter | Winter, Alfred John Thomas (I100646)
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Family Bible in possession of James White Sr.
Marriage: Copy of Marriage License in the possession of Dayle White. | White, James (I5052)
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Family record book of Frank White and his father Charles William Ches s e l White, now in the possession of Frank White.
TIB cards on all Temple work in the possession of Frank White. | White, George (I6524)
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Family record book of Frank White and his father Charles William Ches s e l White, now in the possession of Frank White.
TIB cards on all Temple work in the possession of Frank White. | White, Mary Ann (I6525)
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Family record book of Frank White and his father Charles William Ches s e l White, now in the possession of Frank White. | White, James (I6526)
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Family record book of Frank White and his father Charles William Ches s e l White, now in the possession of Frank White. | White, James (I6533)
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Family Records
Salt Lake Sealings, 25261 pt 1, p 244
Occupation: Farmer, Cattleman
Pioneer
John G. Holman Company (1868) Age at departure: 52
About 650 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it beg a n i t s journey from the outfitting post at Benton, Wyoming.
Burial: Salt Lake City Cemetery plot: I_13_10_1W
History: They left England 20 June or 20 May 1868, sailing on the pack e t ship "Emerald Isle" over 8 weeks on the Atlantic. Aunt Nancy bore a b ab y girl on the ship, who they named "Emerald." They were with over 80 0 LD S Saints on board. 37 people died. He was a presiding Elder in Magn a (the n Pleasant Green) Utah and was Branch President up to the time h e died. A fter that time, the branch became a Ward. The history of Pleasa nt Green W ard reported: in 1877 a branch organization was effected wit h John Hirs t as presiding Elder and the same year an adobe meeting hous e was built , which served the branch and later the ward, until 1897, whe n it was rep laced by a substantial brick chapel. Elder Hirst died Set. 7 , 1878 and wa s succeeded as presiding Elder by Lehi Nephi Hardman (who b ecame bishop w hen the ward was created as part of the Salt Lake Stake o n Oct. 1, 1882 . It became part of Pioneer Stake on 1904.) | Hirst, John (I108)
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Father: Niels Jensen
Mother: Ane Margrethe Nielsen
Born: 13 Nov 1906 in Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Blessed: 17 Mar 1907 by Elder Francis Jensen
Baptized: 13 Nov 1914 in Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark by Elder Heber C. Johns o n
Confirmed: 13 Nov 1914 by Elder Heber C. Johnson
Married to Claude Alexis Malan on 15 December 1926 in the Salt Lake Temp l e in Salt Lake City, Utah by Apostle George F. Richards
Endowed and sealed to husband Claude Alexis Malan on 15 December 192 6 i n the Salt Lake Temple
Patriarchal blessing by Harrison Sperry
Important Events:
Education: Fjordsgades Elementary and Highschool in Aarhus Denmark gradu a ted in 1923. In June 1953 I attended Leadership week at Brigham Young U ni versity took classes in Genealogy, Leadership and Puppetry also attend e d lectures given by Cleon Scousen on “The first 2000 years” later publi sh ed by him. A wonderful experience. Have attended several Leadership we ek s here in Ogden taken a number of different classes. Also attended cla sse s in “Doc.& Cov.” At BYU Center in Ogden, given by Dr. Hyrum Andrus . Too k classes at BYU Center adult education in genealogical research du ring f all, winter and spring quarters with credits earned in Fund.Record .Keep.R es,Res.Proced.Eval.Evid. 1960-61 teachers Victor Wheeler and Dere k Harlan d.
Employment: After graduating from Highschool I worked in a “Kiosk” in Aa r hus. A place where magazines, newspapers, stamps and telegrams are sol d . Then I clerked in a shoestore owned by Anthon Höegh and located in St ud sgade. Next I worked in the office of a shoe manufacturer and wholesal e r by the name of Timm, located on Kystvejen also in Aarhus. After comi n g to Salt Lake City I did housework for a year and a half in the hom e o f Frederick U. Leonard. Took care of a 17 room house, cooked three me al s a day for 8 people and took care of two children in the family. Thei r h ome was at 941 East 5th South, Salt Lake City. After leaving this jo b I c lerked at ZCMI for awhile till I got married.
Church Activities: As a teenager I was secretary in Sundayschool and ass i stant organist in Aarhus Branch, Denmark. In 1943 I started working a s ch oral director in Primary in Highland Ward, Mr. Ogden Stake. Later wa s mad e counselor in the 33rd Ward Primary, Mt. Ogden Stake. Worked toget her wi th Mabel Burgenar, President, Lois Glenn, Counselor, Dolores Hunte r, Secr etary. In Dec. 1949 I was set apart as President of this same Pri mary. Fo r counselors I had Lois Glenn and Ada Wilbur with Dolores Hunte r as Secre tary. In May 1950 I was called to be Stake Primary President o f the Moun t Ogden Stake, which position I held until the stake was divid ed in 1953 , at which time I was set apart as President of the East Ogde n Stake Prim ary. This position I help until released because of ill heal th in Oct. 19 55. Since then I was Visiting teacher Topic teacher for on e year and Sund ayschool teacher for a teenage group of boys and girls fo r three years i n the 43rd Ward, East Ogden Stake. During winter months o f 1959 I taugh t a genealogical class in this same ward and during winte r taught a Stak e genealogical class for 33rd and 43rd wards. At presen t I am in my seven th year as Relief Society visiting teacher. Have bee n and still am secret ary for the Ward genealogical committee. Started th is job in...
In 1952 I started to do genealogical research on my own genealogy. The n i n 1966 I passed the accreditation test for the Genealogical Society o f th e Church and started to do Danish research for other people. I am st ill a n accredited researcher here in 1980 and still do research for patr ons. I t has been most interesting and rewarding to help others find thei r ances tors and get their ordinance work done, especially, when you se e how grat eful they are for the work I have done, so they can have a rec ord of thei r ancestors. I have taught genealogical classes off and on du ring these m any years and have just started another last Sunday Oct. 19 , 1980, durin g Sundayschool hour. We are now meeting for all Sunday meet ings from 9 a m till 12 noon. A program started throughout the Church thi s year. This s ummer I was asked to set up a booth about Denmark, Genealo gy and family m emorabilia at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City for the f irst “World Conf erence on Records” Aug. 12-15, 1980. It was a lot of wor k but members o f my family helped as did people from the East Ogden Stak e. It was a Stak e sponsored project. Thousands of people stopped by to s ee my display an d ask questions about Danish research and Denmark and it s people and cust oms. It was a wonderful experience. Details about the C onference are in m y Journal. | Malan, Claude Alexis (I21817)
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Father: Niels Jensen
Mother: Ane Margrethe Nielsen
Born: 13 Nov 1906 in Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Blessed: 17 Mar 1907 by Elder Francis Jensen
Baptized: 13 Nov 1914 in Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark by Elder Heber C. Johns o n
Confirmed: 13 Nov 1914 by Elder Heber C. Johnson
Married to Claude Alexis Malan on 15 December 1926 in the Salt Lake Temp l e in Salt Lake City, Utah by Apostle George F. Richards
Endowed and sealed to husband Claude Alexis Malan on 15 December 192 6 i n the Salt Lake Temple
Patriarchal blessing by Harrison Sperry
Important Events:
Education: Fjordsgades Elementary and Highschool in Aarhus Denmark gradu a ted in 1923. In June 1953 I attended Leadership week at Brigham Young U ni versity took classes in Genealogy, Leadership and Puppetry also attend e d lectures given by Cleon Scousen on “The first 2000 years” later publi sh ed by him. A wonderful experience. Have attended several Leadership we ek s here in Ogden taken a number of different classes. Also attended cla sse s in “Doc.& Cov.” At BYU Center in Ogden, given by Dr. Hyrum Andrus . Too k classes at BYU Center adult education in genealogical research du ring f all, winter and spring quarters with credits earned in Fund.Record .Keep.R es,Res.Proced.Eval.Evid. 1960-61 teachers Victor Wheeler and Dere k Harlan d.
Employment: After graduating from Highschool I worked in a “Kiosk” in Aa r hus. A place where magazines, newspapers, stamps and telegrams are sol d . Then I clerked in a shoestore owned by Anthon Höegh and located in St ud sgade. Next I worked in the office of a shoe manufacturer and wholesal e r by the name of Timm, located on Kystvejen also in Aarhus. After comi n g to Salt Lake City I did housework for a year and a half in the hom e o f Frederick U. Leonard. Took care of a 17 room house, cooked three me al s a day for 8 people and took care of two children in the family. Thei r h ome was at 941 East 5th South, Salt Lake City. After leaving this jo b I c lerked at ZCMI for awhile till I got married.
Church Activities: As a teenager I was secretary in Sundayschool and ass i stant organist in Aarhus Branch, Denmark. In 1943 I started working a s ch oral director in Primary in Highland Ward, Mr. Ogden Stake. Later wa s mad e counselor in the 33rd Ward Primary, Mt. Ogden Stake. Worked toget her wi th Mabel Burgenar, President, Lois Glenn, Counselor, Dolores Hunte r, Secr etary. In Dec. 1949 I was set apart as President of this same Pri mary. Fo r counselors I had Lois Glenn and Ada Wilbur with Dolores Hunte r as Secre tary. In May 1950 I was called to be Stake Primary President o f the Moun t Ogden Stake, which position I held until the stake was divid ed in 1953 , at which time I was set apart as President of the East Ogde n Stake Prim ary. This position I help until released because of ill heal th in Oct. 19 55. Since then I was Visiting teacher Topic teacher for on e year and Sund ayschool teacher for a teenage group of boys and girls fo r three years i n the 43rd Ward, East Ogden Stake. During winter months o f 1959 I taugh t a genealogical class in this same ward and during winte r taught a Stak e genealogical class for 33rd and 43rd wards. At presen t I am in my seven th year as Relief Society visiting teacher. Have bee n and still am secret ary for the Ward genealogical committee. Started th is job in...
In 1952 I started to do genealogical research on my own genealogy. The n i n 1966 I passed the accreditation test for the Genealogical Society o f th e Church and started to do Danish research for other people. I am st ill a n accredited researcher here in 1980 and still do research for patr ons. I t has been most interesting and rewarding to help others find thei r ances tors and get their ordinance work done, especially, when you se e how grat eful they are for the work I have done, so they can have a rec ord of thei r ancestors. I have taught genealogical classes off and on du ring these m any years and have just started another last Sunday Oct. 19 , 1980, durin g Sundayschool hour. We are now meeting for all Sunday meet ings from 9 a m till 12 noon. A program started throughout the Church thi s year. This s ummer I was asked to set up a booth about Denmark, Genealo gy and family m emorabilia at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City for the f irst “World Conf erence on Records” Aug. 12-15, 1980. It was a lot of wor k but members o f my family helped as did people from the East Ogden Stak e. It was a Stak e sponsored project. Thousands of people stopped by to s ee my display an d ask questions about Danish research and Denmark and it s people and cust oms. It was a wonderful experience. Details about the C onference are in m y Journal. | Jensen, Asta Margrethe (I21850)
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First Lieutenant under Captain Joseph Parsons at Newcastle in the Revolu t ionary War. | Seavey, Lieutenant William (I98108)
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First wife of J. Pierpont Morgan.
Not long after he arrived in New York, John Pierpont Morgan ("J.P. Morga n " fell in love with Amelia Sturges (nickname, Memie). She was the daugh te r of Jonathan Sturges, a well-known merchant and patron of the arts. I n 1 859 Memie and her parents decided to embark upon a "grand tour". Pier pon t drew-up a travel itinerary for them. He later joined them in Londo n (a t the end of their tour), and he began seeing Memie every day for th e nex t two weeks, and then escorted her family back across the Atlantic . In th e spring of 1860 she agreed to marry him, but early the followin g winter , she came-down with a severe cough which simply did not go away . They we re married on October 7, 1861 (having refused to postpone the w edding), a nd the couple went to the Mediterranean for a honeymoon cure . In Paris, l ung specialists diagnosed Memie's illness as tuberculosis . She wrote to h er mother: "I wish you could see his loving devoted car e of me, he spare s nothing for my comfort and improvement." Despite hi s attentions, a mer e 4 months after their wedding, Memie died (Februar y 1862). Pierpont wa s but twenty-four years old. | Sturges, Amelia (I100581)
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FLORA "B" DUNCAN LABRUM (1891 – 1964) LIFE SKETC H
Flora was born on 6 April 1890, in Meadow, Millard County, Utah. She w a s the fifth child of James and Anna Judith Beckstrand Duncan .
Her grandfather, James Duncan, was one of the first settlers in Meadow . F lora attended elementary school in Meadow .
She married Percy Lee Labrum on 8 November 1912, in the Salt Lake Templ e .
They were the parents of two sons: Theron Lee, born 9 December 1914, i n S alt Lake City, and Dean James, born 12 November v 1928, in Nampa, Ida ho . Dean died on 17 February 2003, in St. George, Washington County, Uta h .
Flora's son, Theron, records the following memories: "Mother was very st r ict and took pride in her home. This I particularly recall as she ha d m e come in and dust all the baseboards, mop the floor and wash the dis hes . We always had a lot of company and great Sunday dinners. At these g athe rings, we had to wear shirt, tie and coat. ”
“Her favorite time of year was Christmas. Far in advance she enjoyed pre p aring gifts for the family, friends and neighbors. Always on Christma s Ev e we would deliver these gifts. One Christmas Eve with the car loade d wit h gifts, we attended a gathering at the Nampa 2nd Ward. We intende d to ma ke our deliveries after the church service. When we went out to t he car , it had been broken into and all the gifts had been taken. Mothe r was s o upset because there was no time to replace the stolen article s .
“Mother permitted no beer or alcoholic beverages in our home. Grandma us e d to come and stay for a few weeks and those who knew her will recall t h e problem she had with her stomach. It was either her doctor or a frie n d who quoted to her from 1 Timothy chapter 5, verse 23, 'Drink no long e r water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often i nf irmities.' So when Grandma came to visit, there was placed a crock o f rai sins to ferment by the kitchen stove. On one occasion my father , a bishop , had his counselors in for the bishop's meeting and during th e meeting o ne of them asked father about the delicious smell coming fro m the kitchen . As I recall, the response had something to do with baking . "
Flora died on 3 September 1964, at Pocatello, Bannock County, Idaho .
Source: Our Beckstrand Heritage Compiled by Sue Anne Beckstrand Thomps o n 2003 Logan, Utah | Duncan, Flora B (I4919)
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FLORA CALL DISNEY ~
was the wife of Elias Charles Disney. She is the mother of Walt Disney, (Walter Elias Disney). Her other children were Herbert Arthur Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney, Roy Oliver Disney and Ruth Flora Disney .
Elias Charles Disney and his wife Flora Call Disney are entombed within the Great Mausoleum in the Sanctuary of Truth in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, California.
Walt Disney and his family are remembered in a beautiful private garden in another location in this same Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, California. Other family is in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale and the Hollywood Hills
Flora was born in Steuben, Ohio, the daughter of Henrietta (née Gross) (1837–1910) and Charles Call (1823–1890), who were neighbors of Kepple Elias Disney and Mary Disney, parents of Elias Charles Disney, her husband. She was of German and English descent .
She was a devoted and loving wife to Elias Charles and she raised their children affirming the strict Christian values she and Elias wanted to instill in each one of their children.
The many moves Elias often needed to make were accepted by Flora because she believed each move was intended to make their family closer and hopefully more financially sound, and she wanted their children to experi enc e other regions of the country. Flora fortunately was a very calm presence to Elias and each one of their children.
It was Flora who seemed to temper the strict and rigid disposition of Elias and she calmed him when he did seem less tolerable when he was fraught with disciplinary actions with their children. To be certain, Elias loved his family and he was likely under pressure due to financial problems! Flora really enjoyed reading stories daily and even often playing ga me s with their children.
In Marceline, Missouri, when the Disney Family owned a small farm, Flora always made certain the children had good meals, warm clothes in the colder months, and that they spent time outside playing and learning about the various farm animals on their farm. Walt was first exposed to all sorts of farm animals that most likely ingrained in his heart his deep love for animals as he would later portray in so many of his beloved animated and true-life films! In later years Walt would often reminiscence about the good times on the farm in Marceline and about the many animals he loved and that his parents wanted him to respect and to enjoy and to love!
It was in Marceline when Elias bought Flora her first sewing machine. She was quite a seamstress and she made most of the clothes for the children. She liked red and blue threads and used a lot of these colors on her new leg-powered sewing machine!
When the Disney's lived in Kansas City, Missouri, Flora always made sure each child had a good sack lunch for school and when Walt and Roy delivered newspapers for Elias early each morning and again after school, Flora saw to it that the boys were dressed properly with extra layers of clothes in the cold bitter winters and that they had good food to eat.
Flora always did her best to see that the children knew that their birthdays were special even though it was seldom an experience for Flora to be able to have enough eggs to bake cakes. She would spread "extra butter" on a fresh slice of home baked bread and make this a special gift for each one of their birthdays.
She and Elias were quite happy when the family moved to Kansas City. She encouraged each of their children to be excited about each new day and to dream about the future. Flora felt things were more stable for her f amily in Kansas City as they were all working!
Sons Raymond Arnold Disney and Roy Oliver Disney were bank tellers at the First National Bank in downtown Kansas City, Missouri at the same time Walt opened his first animation studio he called Laugh-O-gram Studio located at 31st and Forest Avenue. This original building remains today, albeit in disrepair, and hopefully will be fully restored! A most concerted effort is in place to renew this building!
Raymond Arnold Disney's son who is Charles Elias Disney was named after his grandfather Elias Charles Disney. Elias only saw Charles Elias for a short time before he passed away on his grandsons first birthday on September 13, 1941.
After several years in Kansas City, Flora and Elias moved to Oregon to be with their son Herbert Arthur Disney and his family, and then they moved to California at the insistence of Walt and Roy.
After the success of their milestone feature animated film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1938, Walt and Roy presented their parents with a new home in North Hollywood, near the Disney studios in Burbank, California. Less than a month after moving in, Flora complained to Walt and Roy of problems with the gas furnace in her new home. Studio repairmen were sent to the house twice, but the problem was obviously not adequately fixed. Flora wrote a letter to her daughter Ruth describing their wonderful new home, the beautiful California weather, and how very happy she and Elias were to be close to Walt and Roy, but again complaining of the fumes from the furnace.
Flora passed from this life on Saturday, November 26, 1938 (two days after Thanksgiving) as the result of asphyxiation caused by the fumes. On Thanksgiving day Flora and Elias had enjoyed a lovely dinner with Walt and Lillian and Roy and Edna in Walt's home. The loss of his Mother plagued Walt Disney with much deep grief for the rest of his life. Walt felt personally responsible for the furnace not being repaired properly. It was Roy Oliver Disney who comforted and reassured both Walt and Elias and the rest of the family that "the tragic and very sad loss of Flora was no one's fault!"
Walt and his siblings thought about their beloved Mother for the rest of their lives! Flora was a woman of strong Christian character and her family was everything to her. And she was everything to them!
"May Flora Call Disney Rest In Peace." Amen. | Call, Flora (I97061)
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Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), known as “The Lady With the Lamp,” w a s a British nurse, social reformer and statistician best known as the f ou nder of modern nursing. Her experiences as a nurse during the Crimea n Wa r were foundational in her views about sanitation. She established S t. Th omas’ Hospital and the Nightingale Training School for Nurses in 18 60. He r efforts to reform healthcare greatly influenced the quality of c are i n the 19 and 20 centuries.
Florence Nightingale: Early Life
Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820, in Florence, Italy to Fra n ces Nightingale and William Shore Nightingale. She was the younger of t w o children. Nightingale’s affluent British family belonged to elite soc ia l circles. Her mother, Frances, hailed from a family of merchants an d too k pride in socializing with people of prominent social standing. De spit e her mother’s interest in social climbing, Florence herself was rep orted ly awkward in social situations. She preferred to avoid being the c ente r of attention whenever possible. Strong-willed, Florence often butt ed he ads with her mother, whom she viewed as overly controlling. Still , like m any daughters, she was eager to please her mother. “I think I a m got some thing more good-natured and complying,” Florence wrote in he r own defense , concerning the mother-daughter relationship.
Florence’s father was William Shore Nightingale, a wealthy landowner w h o had inherited two estates—one at Lea Hurst, Derbyshire, and the othe r i n Hampshire, Embley Park—when Florence was five years old. Florence w as r aised on the family estate at Lea Hurst, where her father provided h er wi th a classical education, including studies in German, French and I talian .
From a very young age, Florence Nightingale was active in philanthropy , m inistering to the ill and poor people in the village neighboring he r fami ly’s estate. By the time she was 16 years old, it was clear to he r that n ursing was her calling. She believed it to be her divine purpose .
When Nightingale approached her parents and told them about her ambitio n s to become a nurse, they were not pleased. In fact, her parents forba d e her to pursue nursing. During the Victorian Era, a young lady of Nigh ti ngale’s social stature was expected to marry a man of means—not tak e u p a job that was viewed as lowly menial labor by the upper social cla sses . When Nightingale was 17 years old, she refused a marriage proposa l fro m a “suitable” gentleman, Richard Monckton Milnes. Nightingale expl aine d her reason for turning him down, saying that while he stimulated h er in tellectually and romantically, her “moral…active nature…requires sa tisfac tion, and that would not find it in this life.” Determined to purs ue he r true calling despite her parents’ objections, in 1844, Nightingal e enro lled as a nursing student at the Lutheran Hospital of Pastor Flied ner i n Kaiserwerth, Germany.
Florence Nightingale and Nursing
In the early 1850s, Nightingale returned to London, where she took a nur s ing job in a Middlesex hospital for ailing governesses. Her performanc e t here so impressed her employer that Nightingale was promoted to super inte ndent within just a year of being hired. The position proved challen gin g as Nightingale grappled with a cholera outbreak and unsanitary cond itio ns conducive to the rapid spread of the disease. Nightingale made i t he r mission to improve hygiene practices, significantly lowering the d eat h rate at the hospital in the process. The hard work took a toll on h er h ealth. She had just barely recovered when the biggest challenge of h er nu rsing career presented itself.
Florence Nightingale and the Crimean War
In October of 1853, the Crimean War broke out. The British Empire wa s a t war against the Russian Empire for control of the Ottoman Empire. T hous ands of British soldiers were sent to the Black Sea, where supplie s quick ly dwindled. By 1854, no fewer than 18,000 soldiers had been admi tted int o military hospitals.
At the time, there were no female nurses stationed at hospitals in the C r imea. The poor reputation of past female nurses had led the war offic e t o avoid hiring more. But, after the Battle of Alma, England was in a n upr oar about the neglect of their ill and injured soldiers, who not on ly lac ked sufficient medical attention due to hospitals being horribly u ndersta ffed, but also languished in appallingly unsanitary and inhuman e conditio ns.
In late 1854, Nightingale received a letter from Secretary of War Sidn e y Herbert, asking her to organize a corps of nurses to tend to the sic k a nd fallen soldiers in the Crimea. Nightingale rose to her calling. Sh e qu ickly assembled a team of 34 nurses from a variety of religious orde rs an d sailed with them to the Crimea just a few days later.
Although they had been warned of the horrid conditions there, nothing co u ld have prepared Nightingale and her nurses for what they saw when the y a rrived at Scutari, the British base hospital in Constantinople. The h ospi tal sat on top of a large cesspool, which contaminated the water an d th e hospital building itself. Patients lay on in their own excrement o n str etchers strewn throughout the hallways. Rodents and bugs scurried p ast th em. The most basic supplies, such as bandages and soap, grew incre asingl y scarce as the number of ill and wounded steadily increased. Eve n wate r needed to be rationed. More soldiers were dying from infectiou s disease s like typhoid and cholera than from injuries incurred in battl e.
The no-nonsense Nightingale quickly set to work. She procured hundred s o f scrub brushes and asked the least infirm patients to scrub the insi de o f the hospital from floor to ceiling. Nightingale herself spent ever y wak ing minute caring for the soldiers. In the evenings she moved throu gh th e dark hallways carrying a lamp while making her rounds, ministerin g to p atient after patient. The soldiers, who were both moved and comfor ted b y her endless supply of compassion, took to calling her “the Lady w ith th e Lamp.” Others simply called her “the Angel of the Crimea.” Her w ork red uced the hospital’s death rate by two-thirds.
In additional to vastly improving the sanitary conditions of the hospita l , Nightingale created a number of patient services that contributed t o im proving the quality of their hospital stay. She instituted the creat ion o f an “invalid’s kitchen” where appealing food for patients with spe cial d ietary requirements was cooked. She established a laundry so tha t patient s would have clean linens. She also instituted a classroom an d a librar y for patients’ intellectual stimulation and entertainment. Ba sed on he r observations in the Crimea, Nightingale wrote Notes on Matter s Affectin g the Health, Efficiency and Hospital Administration of the Br itish Army , an 830-page report analyzing her experience and proposing re forms for o ther military hospitals operating under poor conditions. Th e book would s park a total restructuring of the War Office’s administrat ive department , including the establishment of a Royal Commission for th e Health of th e Army in 1857.
Nightingale remained at Scutari for a year and a half. She left in the s u mmer of 1856, once the Crimean conflict was resolved, and returned to h e r childhood home at Lea Hurst. To her surprise she was met with a hero ’ s welcome, which the humble nurse did her best to avoid. The Queen rewa rd ed Nightingale’s work by presenting her with an engraved brooch that c am e to be known as the “Nightingale Jewel” and by granting her a prize o f $ 250,000 from the British government.
Florence Nightingale, Statistician
With the support of Queen Victoria, Nightingale helped create a Royal Co m mission into the health of the army. It employed leading statistician s o f the day, William Farr and John Sutherland, to analyze army mortalit y da ta, and what they found was horrifying: 16,000 of the 18,000 death s wer e from preventable diseases—not battle. But it was Nightingale’s ab ilit y to translate this data into a new visual format that really cause d a se nsation. Her polar area diagram, now known as a “Nightingale Ros e Diagram ,” showed how the Sanitary Commission’s work decreased the deat h rate an d made the complicated data accessible to all, inspiring new st andards fo r sanitation in the army and beyond. She became the first fema le member o f the Royal Statistical Society and was named an honorary mem ber of the A merican Statistical Association.
Florence Nightingale’s Impact on Nursing
Nightingale decided to use the money to further her cause. In 1860, sh e f unded the establishment of St. Thomas’ Hospital, and within it, the N ight ingale Training School for Nurses. Nightingale became a figure of pu bli c admiration. Poems, songs and plays were written and dedicated in th e he roine’s honor. Young women aspired to be like her. Eager to follow h er ex ample, even women from the wealthy upper classes started enrollin g at th e training school. Thanks to Nightingale, nursing was no longer f rowned u pon by the upper classes; it had, in fact, come to be viewed a s an honora ble vocation.
While at Scutari, Nightingale had contracted “Crimean fever” and would n e ver fully recover. By the time she was 38 years old, she was homeboun d an d bedridden, and would be so for the remainder of her life. Fiercel y dete rmined and dedicated as ever to improving health care and alleviat ing pat ients’ suffering, Nightingale continued her work from her bed.
Residing in Mayfair, she remained an authority and advocate of health ca r e reform, interviewing politicians and welcoming distinguished visitor s f rom her bed. In 1859, she published Notes on Hospitals, which focuse d o n how to properly run civilian hospitals.
Throughout the U.S. Civil War, she was frequently consulted about ho w t o best manage field hospitals. Nightingale also served as an authorit y o n public sanitation issues in India for both the military and civilia ns , although she had never been to India herself.
In 1908, at the age of 88, she was conferred the merit of honor by Kin g E dward. In May of 1910, she received a congratulatory message from Kin g Ge orge on her 90th birthday.
Florence Nightingale: Death and Legacy
In August 1910, Florence Nightingale fell ill, but seemed to recover a n d was reportedly in good spirits. A week later, on the evening of Frida y , August 12, 1910, she developed an array of troubling symptoms. She di e d unexpectedly at 2 p.m. the following day, Saturday, August 13, 1910 , a t her home in London.
Characteristically, she had expressed the desire that her funeral be a q u iet and modest affair, despite the public’s desire to honor Nightingale —w ho tirelessly devoted her life to preventing disease and ensuring saf e an d compassionate treatment for the poor and the suffering. Respectin g he r last wishes, her relatives turned down a national funeral. The “La dy wi th the Lamp” was laid to rest in Hampshire, England.
The Florence Nightingale Museum, which sits at the site of the origina l N ightingale Training School for Nurses, houses more than 2,000 artifac ts c ommemorating the life and career of the “Angel of the Crimea.” To th is da y, Florence Nightingale is broadly acknowledged and revered as th e pionee r of modern nursing. | Nightingale, Florence (I95683)
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For some time I have been thinking about and would like to write a litt l e about what I remember about my paternal grandfather Anthon F. Andreas en . I knew Grandpa probably better than most of the grandchildren so tha t i s why I wanted to write a little about him .
My father, Elmer Andreasen, who was the only son, wrote a short histo r y of his father, and my Aunt Martha, one of four daughters also wrot e a h istory of her father. Both of the histories are interesting but als o ar e very different, enough so a person wonders if they are talking abo ut th e same person. I think this may say more about the writer than abou t th e subject they are writing about. I am sure that the impressions an d reme mbrances that I have of Grandpa will probably tell as much about m e as th ey do about him.
Grandpa was born in Denmark in 1876, the year of Custer’s Last Stan d . When his family moved from Denmark, they settled in Ogden Valley in t h e town of Eden. He had a Shire stallion while he lived in Eden. He cont in ued to live in Eden for quite a few years after he was married and the n h e moved to Farr West. His old farm is on the old highway that goes pa st S mith and Edwards. An old shed is all that remain of the buildings th ey ha d when they lived there.
Grandpa was 60 years old when I was born so my remembrances are of h i s older life. He had a gray horse named “Cap” as long as I could rememb er . It was his pride and joy.
Grandpa was a difficult person to get to know. I used to work in th e f ields with him while I was growing up. I think he liked me but he wa s no t one to express how he felt about people. I remember he went to se e me o ff, with my folks, when I went into the service [in December 1954] . He ha d a bit of advice he gave me as I left, it was part of a poem I t hink bu t the line I remember was “learn to labor and to wait” which whe n I thin k about it, is pretty good advice for someone going out to conqu er the wo rld. I didn’t realize until years later how significant it wa s for Grandp a to see me off. He didn’t do that sort of thing for very ma ny people tha t I know of and that is one reason that I think he liked m e even thoug h I used to wonder because of some of the things he would sa y .
As long as I can remember Grandpa was hard of hearing. He could sti l l hear until I was 8 - 10 years of age (1946-1948) but when he was in h i s late 60’s he got sick and lost almost all of his hearing. After tha t h e couldn’t really associate with others. When everyone would talk a t onc e he couldn’t hear what was being said. That made it hard for him t o soci alize and caused some people to not like him. I think one of the r eason s he seemed anti-social or aloof was because he had such a difficul t tim e hearing what was being said.
From then on he had to wear a hearing aid to hear anything at all. H i s hearing aid sat in his pocket and the amplifier was attached to his e ar . The background noise from the hearing aid used to be irritating to h im , so he only used it when he needed too. Most of the time when he wa s wor king in the field, he would take the hearing aid out of his ear an d put i t in his pocket. If Grandpa didn’t want to hear someone, especial ly Grand ma, he would turn off his hearing aid. That would make Grandma a ngry .
He was quite a handsome young man and probably got a little spoiled b e cause he was the only boy with several sisters. He did have a half-brot he r, Charlie Jensen, by his mother’s first marriage, who was nine year s old er than he was.
He served a mission to Denmark for the L.D.S. Church when he was in h i s 20’s.
Grandpa married my grandmother when he was about 30 years old and s h e was 20. They made quite an attractive couple. Aunt Martha told me th a t she thought theirs was a marriage made in heaven. From what I saw whi l e I knew them it was anything but. I thought it was a marriage of two v er y different people. I can’t remember of them ever going anywhere or do in g anything together just for fun. Seems to me they argued more than th e y did anything else. Grandma loved to go visit people and had friends e ve rywhere, Grandpa did not share this at all. I remember Grandma tellin g m e that one of the big dreams of her life was to retire from the far m an d travel, but when she told this to Grandpa he wanted nothing to d o wit h it. I know this was a frustrating thing to her but I often wonder ed wh y they never talked of such a thing until they were old enough to r etire .
Grandpa, helped build the road down Ogden Canyon from Huntsville to 1 2 th Street in Ogden. He had a team of horses so they paid him more. He a ls o had a scraper that he used to help build the road .
Note: We had a neighbor who’s father, Charlie Thurston ,
came to live with him. He had worked on the road with Grandpa Anthon a n d he told us a little about what they did. He told us that years late r h e saw President McKay sitting and he went up to him and slapped him o n th e knee and said, “Dady….” President McKay said that it had been a lo ng ti me since he had heard that.
Grandpa was the builder in our family. He built everything with han d t ools, mainly a hammer and hand saw. When I was sixteen he bought a ci rcul ar saw from Sears. I think that was the only power tool he ever owne d .
He was always building or remodeling something. Thanks to him we h a d a house. Grandpa would only build in the fall and the spring when al l t he farm work was done. When spring came he would stop building so h e coul d be out in the fields.
He helped my Dad build the out buildings on our farm. He was the on e w ho remodeled and added two rooms and a bathroom onto the two room hou s e I grew up in. He was pretty good at taking some old materials and mak in g something serviceable out of it, not necessarily pretty but usuall y ser viceable. He wasn’t bothered by building codes. The foundation unde r th e addition he put on our house was only about 8 inches wide and I do n’t t hink it was even a foot deep. I didn’t realize until years after wh y th e doors didn’t work and the floor slanted. No thought of putting foo ting s down below the frost line or any of the practices that are require d tod ay.
When I was a little kid the old plaster in our kitchen fell off the c e iling, it was a miracle it didn’t kill Mary Lou who was a baby at the t im e. Grandpa was the one who redid the plaster .
Grandpa built houses with old materials. In 1924 the red brick hous e h e and his family lived in was destroyed by fire, he built another hou se f or them. He also built the house he and Grandma lived in, the one ca lle d “the Gingerbread house”, when he was 75 years old. He mixed by hand , i n an old wheelbarrow, all of the concrete that went into the house. H e us ed whatever materials he could get his hands on. Some of the lumbe r and i tems had been used before, the rest he bought .
He was always a faithful church goer but he did not instill in al l o f his children the same values that he had. They did not live lives o f fu ll activity in the Mormon Church like Grandpa thought they should . I thin k his family was a big disappointment to him and perhaps one o f the reaso ns he used to loose himself in his farm work. I have wondere d if the Chur ch had the emphasis on families that they do now if thing s would have bee n any different, Grandpa being the faithful obedient per son he was .
Grandpa did have a temper and sometimes it went wild. His way of show i ng love for his family was to do “To Do Lists” that would help them. Gr an dpa was a good example to others, he led a clean life, he worked har d an d people respected him for the kind of person he was.
Once when Grandma was on her way home from Utah, she picked up a hitc h hiker and brought him home to stay. Grandpa was very concerned about wh a t could happen to her.
Grandpa was a quite a preacher. I heard him at a Sacrament meeting wh e n he gave a right smart sermon. I was impressed. My Dad said his Dad al wa ys felt good when he was asked to speak. Grandpa used to read a lot an d w as well versed in Church Doctrine. He would speak with no notes. The y di d not have the block program, as a result there was no time limit fo r Sac rament Meeting. If he wasn’t asked to talk and was asked to pray i t woul d be a 15 minute prayer. He was invited to speak at funerals and o ther me etings. There were three guys called upon, back then, to preach a t funera ls, Elton Hatch, Leland Woodbury and Grandpa .
My Dad used to talk about the way his father used to enjoy speaking b u t he (my Dad) thoroughly disliked it. I sometimes wonder why someone w h o didn’t talk to people much would enjoy talking before a congregatio n bu t I think part of it was because hearing and listening to others wa s no t a factor when you are the speaker. Another thing, it is quite diff eren t to be able to prepare and organize your thoughts ahead of time tha n t o be a spontaneous conversationalist .
When Grandpa lived in Farr West, he was drafted during the 1st Worl d W ar. They signed the peace treaty before he served .
In 1920 Grandpa moved from Farr West to Idaho. My Dad said that he ca m e to Idaho to get rich. Grandpa grew hay, grain and potatoes (everyon e gr ew potatoes back then). He had milk cows, one riding horse and sever al te ams over the years. Grandpa owned a gray horse team. When they die d he br ought another gray team. He never owned a tractor. His last tea m he boug ht a brown horse team.
Grandpa was a hard worker and expected others to work hard too. My D a d worked pretty close with Grandpa. He thought my dad was kind of laz y be cause he liked to go fishing and do things with his horses and othe r thin gs.
Edward Johnson, a grandson, lived with Grandpa and Grandma for sever a l years. As he got older he fell into disfavor with grandpa partly beca us e he didn’t come and help in the fields like Grandpa thought he ough t too .
Grandpa struggled with farming. He was known as the “Weed King” in Vi e w. One year the threshers cut his beans but refused to thresh them beca us e of the red root weeds in them. Grandpa went through his beans by han d a nd took out all the red roots so they could be threshed. This was i n th e days before combines.
He struggled with knowing when to sell his crop. Sometimes he misse d t he best price because he was hoping for a little more. Farmers were p oor . They scrabbled for a living. During the depression he almost lost h is f arm. My Dad sold his little band of sheep and used the money to sav e th e farm. He was given half of the farm to pay back the money .
One year Grandpa hired three guys from Utah to help him pick potatoe s . One of them said his name was Ted Williams. One night they took his s ad dle and other stuff including a tap and die set and left. He never rep ort ed it. They got away “scott free” .
Grandpa was always out in the fields working. When the relatives wou l d come from Utah he wouldn’t come in from the fields to visit, he alwa y s claimed to be too busy.
He farmed his farm well past the age when most people retire. Whe n h e was 82 years old he had an accident when he was plowing the plow ti ppe d over in the mud, he broke his hip and crawled to the house. He wa s take n to the old Burley Hospital. My classmate who was a nurse took ca re of h im. She said he was hard to work with. He told her, “No young whi per snap per is goin’ take my pants down”. Grandpa rarely went to doctor s .
He recovered enough to run his farm for a few more years before he so l d it to Jess Searle and sat down to wait to die .
If something had happened to Grandma before he died, someone would ha v e gotten some cheap dogs. He hated those things. They were miniature bl oo d Pomeranian and Maltese that she raise to sell. They were all over th e h ouse and porch and some of them were in the bottom kitchen drawers wh er e they raised their litters.
Grandpa, Anthon Fredrick Andreasen, died September 29, 1965 when he w a s 89 years old.
Grandpa is part of all of us. There is some of him in me, some of i t i s good and some of it is bad. Our Ancestors are our Ancestors and w e nee d to appreciate them for what they did .
Written by Frederick James Andreasen 1980's ,
added to in 1999 and June 2017
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Forth Son of Judah
Genesis 46:12
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Found on Find A Grave: Uncle Austin Bennett was born in Bedford Co., T N , Dec. 11, 1814, and departed this life at his home near Sexson, Jul . 8 , 1896 in his 82d year. He was the oldest resident in Ash Grove and o ne o f the oldest in Shelby county. He came to Shelby county, IL in Nov 1 832 , and has been a resident of Shelby county 64 consecutive years. He w as f irst married to Angeline Storm in 1837. To them were born four boy s and t wo girls - three boys and one girl survive. His wife died in 1854 . He wa s married a second time to Jane Aldridge in 1855. To them were bo rn fou r children, all of whom are living. He united with the Christian c hurch u nder the ministry of Uncle Jacky Storm in 1845 at Ash Grove and r emaine d a faithful member of that church till death. He was a faithful c hristia n, an effectionate husband and father, a good citizen, highly res pected b y all who knew him. He leaves his sorrowing wife and eight child ren, 23 g randchildren and 13 great grandchildren, besides many friends t o mourn hi s death. The funeral services were held at Ash Grove church co nducted b y Rev. A. H. Harrell in the presence of a large assembly of rel atives an d friends; the remains were buried in Ash Grove cemetery. - She lbyville D emocrat - 16 Jul 1896 | Bennett, Austin Bell (I5978)
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Frances Ford Seymour (April 4, 1908 – April 14, 1950) was a Canadian-bo r n American socialite, the second wife of actor Henry Fonda, and the mot he r of actors Jane Fonda and Peter Fonda. Born in Brockville, Ontario, C ana da, she was a daughter of Eugene Ford Seymour and Sophie Mildred (né e Bow er; July 13, 1886 – April 15, 1974). According to daughter Jane Fon da, me dical records revealed that Seymour was a victim of recurrent sexu al abus e in her childhood.
Marriages
On January 10, 1931, she married George Tuttle Brokaw, a millionaire law y er and sportsman, whose previous marriage, to Clare Boothe Luce, had en de d in divorce. They had one child, Frances de Villers Brokaw (October 1 0 , 1931 – March 10, 2008, known as "Pan").
A year after George Tuttle Brokaw died, she married actor Henry Fond a o n September 16, 1936, at Christ Church, New York City. She had met Fo nd a at Denham Studios in England on the set of the film Wings of the Mor nin g. The couple had two children, actress Jane (born December 21, 1937 ) an d actor Peter (February 23, 1940 – August 16, 2019), but their marri age w as troubled. In 1949, when Fonda told Brokaw he wanted a divorce s o he co uld marry his 20-year-old mistress, the devastated Brokaw spirale d into i ncreasing mental instability and entered a psychiatric hospita l for treat ment. Four months later, at age 42, she committed suicide b y slitting he r throat with a stolen razor blade 10 days after her 42nd b irthday, whil e she was a patient at Craig House, a sanatorium in Beacon , New York. E x husband Henry Fonda refused to discuss her suicide with h is children, w ho didn't learn the truth for years.
She is buried in Ogdensburg Cemetery, Ogdensburg, New York.
Actress. A New York Socialite and descendant of Massachusetts Governor S a muel Adams, and the second President of the United States John Adams. M ar ried for a time to actor/producer Henry Fonda, with whom she had two k ids , Jane and Peter Fonda, also to become screen stars. (bio by: MC) | Seymour, Frances Ford (I115727)
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Frank was killed by a bull.
Courtship of Franklin Fredrick Ballif and Amy Florence Chadwick
Frank wrote: Our courtship was done mostly in a white top buggy in the w i nter which had a one horse shay, called a cutter. One cold winter da y o r night I went to Preston and got Amy who was going to school there a nd t ook her to Franklin to a dance. The weather was twenty below zero. J ust b efore we go down the hill to the mill, there was a culvert over a d itch a nd one of the runners went off the culvert and we tipped out of th e sleig h, quilts and all, and there we lay together. Well we soon got u p and go t fixed in the sleigh and I say 'well, where did you lay last. ' Had a nic e time at the dance. Then on our way home just east of the li ttle mountai n Amy shook herself and said 'my it’s cold.' So I put my ar m around her a nd held the quilt, and she said ‘aint you fraid of runnin g into a snow dr ift?’ I said ‘why, do you want me to drive with both han ds’ and she sai d ‘I'd rather.’ So I drove the rest of the way to Presto n with both hand s and we never hardly spoke a word until we got there. T he night she prom ised to be mine I asked her if I couldn’t have a kiss a nd she said she wo uld rather give the first one over the alter, so I sai d very well. So th e first kiss was in the Logan Temple. Maybe you thin k that was pretty dr y courting, but I enjoyed all our courtship. | Ballif, Franklin Frederick (I129644)
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Fred was born in Mendon Massachusetts and lived at the corner of North S t reet and Route 16 in that tiny town. He attended the school across th e st reet and graduated in 1948. He and his friend Herbert "Jumbo" Johnso n bot h worked together at the Hopedale Airport to help after the 1938 hu rrican e. It was during the Depression and nobody had any money so they b oth wor ked in exchange for flying lessons in a crop duster. This was ho w they la ter came to join the air force. "Jumbo" retired after 21 year s and becam e an electrical contractor. Fred continued on for another 7 y ears and ret ired in 1977. Fred married Barbara in Hawaii in 1952 at Hick am AFB, resta tioned at Bolling AFB where Steven was born, then restation ed at Otis AF B with his new family and three children.
Fred abandoned his wife and three children in 1960, Steven 5 years, Kat h y 3 years, and Karen 6 months. This caused them pain, suffering and dif fi cult financial hardships and times, and difficulty in school.
Fred enlisted in the air force in 1948 after school graduation. Fred w a s an airman instrumentation specialist making $98 per month. In 1952 Fr e d married my mother Barbara at Hickam AFB Hawaii by a justice of the pe ac e with no celebration. They had three children, the first pregnancy w a s a miscarriage. While stationed at Otis AFB in 1957 he was offered a j o b with TWA for $450 per month to start, but he turned it down. Barbar a wa nted him to take the job with TWA because they were broke. Instead , Fre d applied for an extension to go back to Hawaii. Freds' pay was $9 8 mont h without BAQ basic allowance for quarters. At this point as the y were li ving at Seacoast Shores. Fred had spent all their tax refund mo ney, $20 0 ($1800 today) on a gun. The gun was a Ned Buntline Special, wh ich he ga ve to a buddy as a gift. Barbara was borrowing money from her b rother an d relatives to support the family. Fred did not reenlist in th e air forc e but extended his time one year at a time. Fights between m y mother an d father broke out. Finally, Fred decided to re-enlist for an other year i n Hawaii and abandoned Barbara and his three children, Steve , Kathy and K aren. Barbara asked Fred to send money support for his thre e children. H e agreed but instead employed friends to spy on her her fo r evidence agai nst her claims. Barbara filed for divorce for abandonment . Barbara's' mot her was an Italian immigrant. When she found out about B arbara's' divorc e and Fred abandoning the family, and that she further i ntended to marr y another man she committed suicide, 1962. Fred managed t o escape any chi ld support but his commander ordered, that money in th e amount of $18 pe r month be withheld from his pay and sent to his wif e for support. Barbar a remarried in 1962 and Fred was not heard from aga in until he remarrie d in 1964. The children needed help with medical car e and glasses for rea ding in school. None of those needs were fulfilled . Fred and Barbara arra nged to have visitation in lieu of child support . Fred was able to narro w his visitation down to 2 times between 1964 an d 1968. Fred was particul arly outraged at having to pay my one dental bi ll for $14 dollars in 196 8 in Milford, Mass from John Votolato DDS. Tha t was the only bill he eve r paid. Some other bills were paid by the USA F dependant plan. Barbara de manded that Fred resume with visitations. Fr ed told her he only wanted t o visit his son and not the girls. Barbara's ' second husband Richard, tol d him that "if he wasn’t going to visit wit h Kathy and Karen that he wasn 't going to visit with his son." Fred agre ed to that but he stopped visit ing. Fred's' parents were upset and decid ed to "do the visitations" in hi s place because Fred didn't want to visi t anymore .
Through the years I made several attempts to visit him and my half siste r , Robin. He would not agree to me staying there but allowed me to commu ni cate with her. She had divorced her first husband after six months the n r emarried a man in Pennsylvania. She had two children, maybe a third . Duri ng this time my sisters had attempted to contact her and she did n ot resp ond. | Grant, Frederick Joseph (I121336)
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From "Pawtucket Past and Present" written by Walton Advertising Co., Bos t on, Mass., 1917 Pg 34-35
"Of Nathaniel, who was active in the defence of Pawtucket against the In d ians, are told many tales concerning his marvellous strength. He is sa i d to have lifted "a forge hammer weighing 500 pounds, together with sev e n men thereon." At another time he (on his hands and knees) lifted upo n h is back timber judged to weigh 3,000 pounds. Still another story wil l bea r repeating. They say that in Captain Nathaniel Jenk's time a hig h boar d fence with great gates was built across the western abutment o f Pawtuck et bridge to protect the town against the spread of smallpox fr om Boston . A stranger came to Captain Jenks on a dark night, and asked t hat he mig ht take his horse through the gate. Captain Jenks, who was kee per of th e gate, refused the request, and told the stranger that he coul d not be a dmitted, as the bridge was up. The man said he rode from the e ast to th e fence, and that he did not discover that the bridge had bee n taken up . He and his horse had come over the Falls on a single string- piece, 14 i nches wide and 40 feet long, and 20 feet above the Falls."
Pg 34. Nathaniel attained the rank of major in military service.
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Nathaniel Miller JENKS, Major of the Colony, born Jan 29, 1662, Pawtucke t , Providence, RI, m. Nov 4,1686, in Swansea, Bristol, MA, Hannah BOSWOR TH , born Nov 5,1663, Swansea, MA,
(daughter of Jonathan Bosworth and Hannah Howland), d. 1723, Providenc e , Providence, RI. Nathaniel d. Aug 11, 1723, Providence, RI. Hannah Bos wo rth’s parents came over on the Mayflower. | Jenckes, Nathaniel (I975)
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