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Mt. Pleasant History
BIRTHS:
Isaiah Cox, son of Issiah and Henrietta James Cox, born June 5, 1859. The family had just arrived at Mount Pleasant, and was camped in a covered wagon, on the banks of Pleasant Creek.
Edward Dalley, son of Edward and Elsie Aldrich Dalley, born
July 27, 1859.
Mc Carl Johansen, son of Peter and Annie Christina Johansen,
born September 5, 1859.
Joseph Beck, son of Hans C. H. Beck and Maria Rasmussen
Beck, born September 8, 1859.
Cinthia Nielsen (Mrs. D. R. Fitger), daughter of Fredrick and
Christina Nielsen, born August 15, 1859.
Sarah Jorgensen (Mrs. James Borg), daughter of Jens and
Christina Jorgensen, born September 18, 1859.
Monday, April 6, 2026
AUNT MARANDY ~~~ Written by Stanley Peterson
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| AUNT MARANDY |
This is a copy of a poem written by Stanley Peterson.
Folks call her Aunt Marandy and to them she's very dear,
Because she's worked and slave for them for many many a year.
No sacrifice too great for her, no duty will she shun,
She'll keep on trying day and night, until the job is done.
She's raised a family of her own, of them she's very proud,
Like all good mothers of the town, she'll praise them right out loud.
And then because of her ministrations, there are so many others
Who worship and adore her so and gladly call her mother.
She's cooked and darned and scrubbed so much, til not she cannot see,
But yet ambition drives her on, content she will not be
You'll find her busy, unafraid, a quilting every day
Until each grandchild has a quilt to keep the cold away.
And there she sits all soul alone, her hair a turning grey,
Her friend so rarely visit her and none with her will stay.
And still she keeps a plugging on, a doing all she can,
She'll keep on striving to the end, dependent on no man.
Her love of God and man and beast is, oh, so very real,
Her place in heaven on God's right hand, from her no one can steal.
And when her years upon this earth have been awhile suspended,
Her noble spirit with that of God will be completely blended.
Sunday, April 5, 2026
Saturday, April 4, 2026
NORTH SANPETE HIGH SCHOOL 1916 (from our archives)
1. Beulah Anderson Neal
2. Melba Aldrich
3. Mildred Allred
4. Claire Anderson
5. Odessa Allred
6. Myra Anderson
7. Opal Allen
8. Ursel Aiken
9. Carel Stewart
10.
11.
12. Wyroa Bennel
13. Lola Brady
14. Reese Bench
15. Erwin Bohne
16. Merl Beckstrom
17. James Bills
18. Elmira Barton
19. Virband Beck
20.
21. Berl Bramstead
22. Frank Brady
23. Pat Barney
24.
25. Warner Christensen
26. Clifford Christensen
27. Marie Christensen
28. Gertrude ?
29.
30. Arthur Clark
31. George Cluff
32. Verona Cox
33. Alfred Cherry
34. Er Christiansen
35. Anna Clemenson
36. Evan Cox
37. Harold Cox (died Oct. 1918)
38. Harold Christensen
39. Stanley Cox
40. Roscoe Cox
41. Conda Carlston
42. Georgia Christensen
43. Dott Christensen
44. Calvin Christensen
45. Mae Clemenson
46. Blanche Dage
47. Idella Dahl
48.
49. Gladys Ericksen
50. Ethel Ericksen
51. Eva Ericksen
52. Kate Ericksen
53. Ina Ericksen
54. Lavern Frantsen
55. Eva Farnsworth Garlic
56. Maggie Frandsen
57. Austin Frandsen
58. Ruby Graham
59. Lutora Gunderson
60.
61. Clifton Graham
62.
63. Rachel Gunderson
64. Alta Gunderson Monson
65. Douglas Gunderson
66. Laban Gunderson
67.
68. Retella Gunderson
69. Ada Gunderson
70. Vera Hasler
71. Clarence Hansen
72. Leon Howell
73. Orlando Hansen
74. Hortense Hurst
75. Coquella Jones
76. Seymour Jensen
77. Pearl Johansen
78. Eula Jorgensen
79. Rhoda Jorgensen
80.
81. Margaret Johnson
82. Cloy Justensen
83. Morris Jensen
84. Arthur Jorgensen (died Oct 1918)
85. Alta Justensen
86. Tarza Justensen
87. Marilda Jones Riggs
88. Mervilla Jones
89. Goldie Jensen
90. Vida Knudsen
91. Russell Larsen
92. Thelma Larsen
93. Ferl Larsen
94. Helen Larsen
95. Opal Larsen Scovil
96. Merl Lee
97. Petra Larsen
98. Croft Larsen
99. Tressa Lindquist
100. Glen Miner
101. Glen Matsen
102. Nellie Madsen
103. Fanny Monsen
104. Paul Monsen
105. Edith Madsen Mower
106. Harold Mower
107. Laurel Miner
108. Elva Madsen
109. Bert Madsen
110. Bruce Madsen
111. Ruth Monsen
112. Vanza Nielsen
113. Nathaniel Nielsen
114. Helen Nelsen
115. Emil Nielsen
116. Goldie Nielsen
117.
118. Ed Olsen
119. Rhoda Olsen
120. Loren Petersen
121.
122. Leslie Porter
123. Lenard Petersen
124. Stanley Petersen
125. Alden Petersen
126.
127. Vesta Rasmussen Murphy
128. Verda Rasmussen
129.
130. Francis Rasmussen
131. Erla Rasmussen
132. Alice Rowe
133. Chesley Seely
134. Elva Sorensen
135.
136. Eva Simpson
137. Glen Scovil
138. Vao Scofield
139. Claren Scofield
140.
141.
142.
143.
144.
145. Golden Sanderson
146. Ernest Staker
147. Winfred Stewart
148. Dessa Spencer
149. Delma Spencer
150. Ruel Seely
151. Ivan Sanderson
152. Holly Scofield
153. Everett Strait
154. Della Seely
155.
156.
157.
158.
159.
160. Hilden Tucker
161. Kenneth Thayne
162. Willis Tidwell
163. Emma Watson
164. Aurel Winkler
165. Martel Winkler
166. Owen Winkler
167. Martie Whitbeck
168. Claude Wheelock
(top left-hand corner is Loyal Graham, who was the first male from Milburn)
Faculty: Principal, P. M. Nielsen; G.L. Baron; J.M. Boyden; M.N. Thurman
Donated by Betty and Lois Gunderson
Friday, April 3, 2026
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Thursday, April 2, 2026
Wednesday, April 1, 2026
JOSEPH PAGE AND ALICE MILLS PAGE ~ELIZABETH (sisters) ~~~ PIONEERS OF THE MONTH ~~~ APRIL 2026
Joseph Page & Elizabeth ~Alice Mills
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Joseph Page, born Feb 6, 1830 to Daniel Page and Mary Sockwell in New Jersey, migrated to the west after joining the church. He and his family arrived in Nauvoo just as the saints were being expelled so they came by wagon to Utah. In 1862 he was sent to Florence, Nebraska to help immigrants come to Utah. In 1863 he married Elizabeth Mills to whom three children were born before her death in 1869. Joseph asked her younger sister Alice to take care of his three children and they were married that same year. Alice eventually had ten children.
Alice, born Jan 2, 1847 to Thomas Mills and Alice Allen in England, was converted in England with her family and then baptized aboard the ship as they crossed the Atlantic Ocean. She enjoyed seeing a whale, not far from the ship, spout water.
Joseph was one of the first school teachers in Mount Pleasant. He had a good voice and people would walk for miles to hear him sing. He was elected mayor of Mt. Pleasant in 1870; a position he held for ten to fifteen years.*
In 1873, he was appointed postmaster for Mount Pleasant which position he held for twelve to fifteen years.* His wife assisted him in the post office when he was gone with his freighting business. During his appointment as postmaster, some money sent through the mail was lost, and he was accused of stealing it. In court, he was promised that his sentence would be easier if he admitted to stealing it. He told them he had not taken the money. He had to sell a good share of his large herd of sheep to pay the attorney fees. When the new postmaster was installed, a large table that was fastened to the wall was moved and the envelope of money found.
During the Black Hawk War in 1867 Joseph was a Commissioned Regimental Adjutant with the rank of Major in the 1st Regiment Cavalry. While making a trip to Nevada in 1871, he was ambushed and shot through the knee. His leg was crippled the rest of his life permanently bent at the knee. He got around on a wooden leg strapped to his leg and waist. He turned to bee keeping and raising orchards to provide for his family.
While living on a ranch in Orangeville, Alice helped care for over a 100 hogs. She had many friends in Orangeville and served as secretary in the Relief Society for many years. Joseph died in 1911 and she followed in 1920.
*Family histories vary on time.
Source:
History of Joseph Page written by his granddaughter Elizabeth Pearl Preston Redmond.
Alice Mills Page
Contributed By
Alice Mills, daughter of Thomas and Alice Allen Mills was born January 2, l847 at Radcliff, Lancashire, England.
Through the Mormon Elders, her father and family were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and shortly after Alice was 8 years old, they started for Zion, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. When they were a few days out Alice was baptized on board the ship.
While on the ocean, Alice saw a whale spouting water not far from the ship. They were delayed in sailing by stormy weather and after a month on the water they landed at New York, they settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania where they lived for some time. While here the children would gather walnuts by the bushel from the woods and store them for winter use.
Alice’s father was very industrious and desired the children to be the same, so he required the girls to knit so many rounds on a stocking every day.
They moved to Alton, Illinois and while living here Alice’s brother Willie was very ill and her father went to get some Mormon Elders to administer to him. He had to run all the way as the Elders were leaving that day and he was afraid they would be gone before he could get there. He arrived just in time, but in doing so he over did himself and never recovered.
His death was a very heavy blow to the family as they were left to provide for themselves as well as earn money enough to migrate to Utah. While there Alice worked at a boarding school (a girls’ seminary) as a nurse maid for two lady teachers who taught her in the evenings.
Later they moved to Council B1uffs, Iowa, always getting a little closer to Utah. From Council Bluffs the family started on their journey across the plains in l86l in a wagon with ox team. I have heard mother tell how the young folks would gather around the camp fire, sing songs and enjoy themselves until bedtime.
After reaching Salt Lake City they lived there for awhile then moved to Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah. Here Alice became acquainted with Joseph Page who married her sister Elizabeth. After three children were born to them his wife died and later he married Alice. Joseph was the mayor of Mt. Pleasant and postmaster for fifteen years. He also taught school eighteen years and Alice assisted him, she was also assistant postmaster and did the business at the office while Joseph freighted with an ox team, which consisted of three yoke of oxen and two wagons, to a mining camp in Nevada.
While he was freighting, the Black Hawk and Indian War broke out and he enlisted in the Utah militia. He was made adjutant general with the rank of major. During this war, he was shot through the left knee crushing the bone. He was taken home and as there was no doctor nearer than Salt Lake City. Alice had to take care of him until the doctor arrived from Salt Lake City, a distance of over one hundred miles, by ox team.
When Dr. Anderson arrived he said there was no use of doing anything for him as the bone was so badly shattered and the leg was swollen so badly, but Alice being so determined to do all that could be done to save him. She wanted the doctor to dress it and she took care of him. Finally through their faith and prayers after one and a half years he was able to get out of bed though the leg was bent straight back from the knee leaving him a cripple for life.
Alice became the mother of ten children in Mount Pleasant. She had many friends and was loved and respected by all who knew her. When her youngest child was 6 months old she with her husband and family moved to Orangeville, Emery County, Utah. Soon after arriving in Orangeville their next to the youngest child died.
While living in Orangeville she made many friends and was secretary of the Relief Society for many years. After living in Orangeville, some years her husband bought a ranch ten miles east of that place on Huntington Creek, and during the winter months the children attended school at Orangeville.
While living here they had a herd of over 100 hogs. One day 6 or 7 of these hogs had got into the granary under which was a potato cellar. They had gone down a dozen stairs to get into the cellar when Alice found them. Joseph wasn’t able to get them out on account of his leg, so Alice coaxed them and tried to get them out every way they could but finally could see they would stay there until they had eaten all of the potatoes. So she carried 30 bushel of them up and put them in a bin in the granary above the cellar. When the hogs got hungry enough they walked up the steps and came out. Joseph thought Alice had left the door open but the next day he saw one of the hogs climb over a tight pole fence which was around the granary and stand on its hind legs with its front ones against the wall while with its teeth it pulled the spike out of the staple which held the door shut. Then he knew Alice hadn’t left the door open.
When the Uintah Indian reservation was opened in 1906, Alice and her husband and family moved to Roosevelt where she with her husband went into the bee business.
Four years later her husband died at the age of 8l leaving Alice to finish life’s journey alone. Nine years later she had an attack of the influenza from which she never recovered and on the September 13, 1920, she died at the age of 73 years.
This history written by her daughter Lorana Page Anderson
Alice Mills Page
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Alice Mills, daughter of Thomas and Alice Allen Mills was born January 2, l847 at Radcliff, Lancashire, England.
Through the Mormon Elders, her father and family were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and shortly after Alice was 8 years old, they started for Zion, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. When they were a few days out Alice was baptized on board the ship.
While on the ocean, Alice saw a whale spouting water not far from the ship. They were delayed in sailing by stormy weather and after a month on the water they landed at New York, they settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania where they lived for some time. While here the children would gather walnuts by the bushel from the woods and store them for winter use.
Alice’s father was very industrious and desired the children to be the same, so he required the girls to knit so many rounds on a stocking every day.
They moved to Alton, Illinois and while living here Alice’s brother Willie was very ill and her father went to get some Mormon Elders to administer to him. He had to run all the way as the Elders were leaving that day and he was afraid they would be gone before he could get there. He arrived just in time, but in doing so he over did himself and never recovered.
His death was a very heavy blow to the family as they were left to provide for themselves as well as earn money enough to migrate to Utah. While there Alice worked at a boarding school (a girls’ seminary) as a nurse maid for two lady teachers who taught her in the evenings.
Later they moved to Council B1uffs, Iowa, always getting a little closer to Utah. From Council Bluffs the family started on their journey across the plains in l86l in a wagon with ox team. I have heard mother tell how the young folks would gather around the camp fire, sing songs and enjoy themselves until bedtime.
After reaching Salt Lake City they lived there for awhile then moved to Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah. Here Alice became acquainted with Joseph Page who married her sister Elizabeth. After three children were born to them his wife died and later he married Alice. Joseph was the mayor of Mt. Pleasant and postmaster for fifteen years. He also taught school eighteen years and Alice assisted him, she was also assistant postmaster and did the business at the office while Joseph freighted with an ox team, which consisted of three yoke of oxen and two wagons, to a mining camp in Nevada.
While he was freighting, the Black Hawk and Indian War broke out and he enlisted in the Utah militia. He was made adjutant general with the rank of major. During this war, he was shot through the left knee crushing the bone. He was taken home and as there was no doctor nearer than Salt Lake City. Alice had to take care of him until the doctor arrived from Salt Lake City, a distance of over one hundred miles, by ox team.
When Dr. Anderson arrived he said there was no use of doing anything for him as the bone was so badly shattered and the leg was swollen so badly, but Alice being so determined to do all that could be done to save him. She wanted the doctor to dress it and she took care of him. Finally through their faith and prayers after one and a half years he was able to get out of bed though the leg was bent straight back from the knee leaving him a cripple for life.
Alice became the mother of ten children in Mount Pleasant. She had many friends and was loved and respected by all who knew her. When her youngest child was 6 months old she with her husband and family moved to Orangeville, Emery County, Utah. Soon after arriving in Orangeville their next to the youngest child died.
While living in Orangeville she made many friends and was secretary of the Relief Society for many years. After living in Orangeville, some years her husband bought a ranch ten miles east of that place on Huntington Creek, and during the winter months the children attended school at Orangeville.
While living here they had a herd of over 100 hogs. One day 6 or 7 of these hogs had got into the granary under which was a potato cellar. They had gone down a dozen stairs to get into the cellar when Alice found them. Joseph wasn’t able to get them out on account of his leg, so Alice coaxed them and tried to get them out every way they could but finally could see they would stay there until they had eaten all of the potatoes. So she carried 30 bushel of them up and put them in a bin in the granary above the cellar. When the hogs got hungry enough they walked up the steps and came out. Joseph thought Alice had left the door open but the next day he saw one of the hogs climb over a tight pole fence which was around the granary and stand on its hind legs with its front ones against the wall while with its teeth it pulled the spike out of the staple which held the door shut. Then he knew Alice hadn’t left the door open.
When the Uintah Indian reservation was opened in 1906, Alice and her husband and family moved to Roosevelt where she with her husband went into the bee business.
Four years later her husband died at the age of 8l leaving Alice to finish life’s journey alone. Nine years later she had an attack of the influenza from which she never recovered and on the September 13, 1920, she died at the age of 73 years.
This history written by her daughter Lorana Page Anderson
Alice Mills Page
Contributed By
Alice Mills, daughter of Thomas and Alice Allen Mills was born January 2, l847 at Radcliff, Lancashire, England.
Through the Mormon Elders, her father and family were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and shortly after Alice was 8 years old, they started for Zion, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. When they were a few days out Alice was baptized on board the ship.
While on the ocean, Alice saw a whale spouting water not far from the ship. They were delayed in sailing by stormy weather and after a month on the water they landed at New York, they settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania where they lived for some time. While here the children would gather walnuts by the bushel from the woods and store them for winter use.
Alice’s father was very industrious and desired the children to be the same, so he required the girls to knit so many rounds on a stocking every day.
They moved to Alton, Illinois and while living here Alice’s brother Willie was very ill and her father went to get some Mormon Elders to administer to him. He had to run all the way as the Elders were leaving that day and he was afraid they would be gone before he could get there. He arrived just in time, but in doing so he over did himself and never recovered.
His death was a very heavy blow to the family as they were left to provide for themselves as well as earn money enough to migrate to Utah. While there Alice worked at a boarding school (a girls’ seminary) as a nurse maid for two lady teachers who taught her in the evenings.
Later they moved to Council B1uffs, Iowa, always getting a little closer to Utah. From Council Bluffs the family started on their journey across the plains in l86l in a wagon with ox team. I have heard mother tell how the young folks would gather around the camp fire, sing songs and enjoy themselves until bedtime.
After reaching Salt Lake City they lived there for awhile then moved to Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah. Here Alice became acquainted with Joseph Page who married her sister Elizabeth. After three children were born to them his wife died and later he married Alice. Joseph was the mayor of Mt. Pleasant and postmaster for fifteen years. He also taught school eighteen years and Alice assisted him, she was also assistant postmaster and did the business at the office while Joseph freighted with an ox team, which consisted of three yoke of oxen and two wagons, to a mining camp in Nevada.
While he was freighting, the Black Hawk and Indian War broke out and he enlisted in the Utah militia. He was made adjutant general with the rank of major. During this war, he was shot through the left knee crushing the bone. He was taken home and as there was no doctor nearer than Salt Lake City. Alice had to take care of him until the doctor arrived from Salt Lake City, a distance of over one hundred miles, by ox team.
When Dr. Anderson arrived he said there was no use of doing anything for him as the bone was so badly shattered and the leg was swollen so badly, but Alice being so determined to do all that could be done to save him. She wanted the doctor to dress it and she took care of him. Finally through their faith and prayers after one and a half years he was able to get out of bed though the leg was bent straight back from the knee leaving him a cripple for life.
Alice became the mother of ten children in Mount Pleasant. She had many friends and was loved and respected by all who knew her. When her youngest child was 6 months old she with her husband and family moved to Orangeville, Emery County, Utah. Soon after arriving in Orangeville their next to the youngest child died.
While living in Orangeville she made many friends and was secretary of the Relief Society for many years. After living in Orangeville, some years her husband bought a ranch ten miles east of that place on Huntington Creek, and during the winter months the children attended school at Orangeville.
While living here they had a herd of over 100 hogs. One day 6 or 7 of these hogs had got into the granary under which was a potato cellar. They had gone down a dozen stairs to get into the cellar when Alice found them. Joseph wasn’t able to get them out on account of his leg, so Alice coaxed them and tried to get them out every way they could but finally could see they would stay there until they had eaten all of the potatoes. So she carried 30 bushel of them up and put them in a bin in the granary above the cellar. When the hogs got hungry enough they walked up the steps and came out. Joseph thought Alice had left the door open but the next day he saw one of the hogs climb over a tight pole fence which was around the granary and stand on its hind legs with its front ones against the wall while with its teeth it pulled the spike out of the staple which held the door shut. Then he knew Alice hadn’t left the door open.
When the Uintah Indian reservation was opened in 1906, Alice and her husband and family moved to Roosevelt where she with her husband went into the bee business.
Four years later her husband died at the age of 8l leaving Alice to finish life’s journey alone. Nine years later she had an attack of the influenza from which she never recovered and on the September 13, 1920, she died at the age of 73 years.
This history written by her daughter Lorana Page Anderson
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
HISTORY OF MADS CHRISTIAN AND MARIANE JENSEN GJETTRUP ~~~(from our archives)
Wandering the Cemetery on Memorial Day I ran onto these graves. GJETTRUP
A name I wasn't familiar with. And so I did some research and I found this wonderful history.
Enjoy
Posted 10 Nov 2012 by Trini
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