HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Hamilton Elementary 4th Grade ~~ Mina Hasler Teacher ~~~ from Boyden Files

Orange Seely Home In Mt. Pleasant ~~~ by Sarah Rasmussen Anderson

Orange Seely Home In Mt. Pleasant   ~~~ by Sarah Rasmussen Anderson 

I was raised in the Orange Seely Home in Mt. Pleasant.Uncle Orange built the house.  It was located at the corner of 5th West and Main Street.The walls were 2 feet thick, and the rooms 20 by 20ft. When Uncle Orange moved over to Castle Dale, he sold the home to his parents J. W. Seely and Clarissa Jane Wilcox Seely who lived in a log cabin with a thatched roof.

After J. W. died, his wife Clarissa Jane needed someone to help her and so my grandma, Miranda Seely Peel Oman, who was her daughter, went to live with her as my grandfather Chris Peel had also died.

Grandma took care of her mother for eight years, and when Clarissa Jane died, the brothers and sisters all voted for the house to go to her (Miranda), as she was a widow and needed a place to live.  Then when my grandmother got older, she asked my mother (Jennie Peel Rasmussen) to move in to be with her in her later years. But my mother was killed in a car accident, so that changed things and Uncle Fred Peel got the house.

In due time, Fred found it necessary to sell the house, and some time after that the new owners razed it to make room for a commercial establishment. 

My uncle Azel Peel told me how he shed tears every day when he'd pass by and see how that well-built home had been destroyed.  And I have cried many times because that was my home too.  The big locust tree that grew by the home was a seedling brought across the plains and planted there.  It was destroyed and cut down.  Some townspeople begged the owners not to cut the tree down as it was a landmark, but they did anyway.  

Taken from "A legacy of Love" Justice Azel Seelye Family Organization ~ February 1995

FROM our Obituary Files ~~~ Johnson, Anderson, Rosenlof, Madsen,Neilson, Coates

Mt. Pleasant Photos From Our Archives

Hamilton Elementary

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James Jensen Wines and Liquors 

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Lundberg Block 

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Main Street Looking East 

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Sanpete County Coop
(the gentile store)
In 1866, Mormons were ordered not to buy at Gentile stores.
By 1868, signs printed with "Holiness to the Lord" above a drawing of an All-Seeing Eye were hung over the front doors of all Mormon businesses, "

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Safeway Sore on the North Side 

Do You Remember When? ~~~ Submitted by Larry Staker

Johnny Carson and Dragnet 

From Our Archives......7 Utah Service Men Slain, Two Taken Captive, Six Listed Hurt

F2 Tornado bypasses Manti, Utah Temple

Home of Soren Christian Christensen and his second wife Maren Katrine Jensen ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Fourth of July Breakfast ~~~ David L. Peterson

The Bates Haunt in Taylorsville

HOW TO GET RID OF OLD PEOPLE ~~~ Submitted by Larry Staker

HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS?

A BRAND NEW MADSEN BOOK IS IN THE WORKS !

Researched and written by David R. Gunderson

This Keepsake Family History  records the history of Mt. Pleasant, the Madsen Family that settled here and their many accomplishments. 

It is planned to be in print by Christmas.

If you are interested you can contact:

W. Kent Madsen 

1621 Venus Circle

Richland WA   99352

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(509) 302-7545

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wkmadsen@ msn.com 

Please Help

Thanks to all who supported our Yard Sale.

We still need more funds to honor our Pioneers.

PLEASE HELP

       

Home of Henning Peel ~~~Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 Mountain Meadows massacre

In September 1857, local militia and Indian allies in southern Utah murdered about 120 emigrants who were traveling by wagon to California. The dead included men, women and children, and the perpetrators were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The site was 35 miles southwest of Cedar City.

It wasn’t until 1875 that John D. Lee was tried for his part in the massacre. While an estimated 40 to 50 men participated in the massacre, Lee was the only one to ever go to trial. Although the first trial ended in a mistrial, a second in 1877 found him guilty.

Lee was executed at the site of the massacre. He sat on his coffin to pose for a photo. A Smithsonian article states, “an hour before noon, he shook hands with the men around him, removed his coat and hat and faced the five men of the firing party. ‘Let them shoot the balls through my heart!’ Lee shouted. ‘Don’t let them mangle my body!’

“On U.S. Marshal William Nelson’s command, shots rang out in the ravine where so many shots had rung out 20 years before, and Lee fell back onto his coffin, dead.”

Mormon Battalion

Tracy Kathleen Madsen Johansen Has Passed On

Tracy Kathleen Madsen Johansen

1/5/1966 ~ 10/11/2019


Tracy Kathleen Madsen Johansen, 53 of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, passed away October 11, 2019. Born January 5, 1966 in Gunnison, Utah to John Clyde Madsen and Leslie Kathleen Conner Madsen. Married Steven Earle Johansen March 9, 1984 in Sterling, Utah. She is the mother of Jaclyn (Jeff) Lewis and Justin (Josee) Johansen. Funeral services will be held Saturday October 19, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. in the Mt. Pleasant North Stake Center. Viewings will be held Friday October 18, 2019 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 – 10:30 a.m. prior to services both at the North Stake Center. Interment in the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery under the care of Rasmussen.

Halloween Folklore ~ Escalante Petrified (and Cursed) Forest ~~~ White Lady Ghost ~ Red Lady Ghost

PHOTO: IrinaK/Shutterstock

Escalante Petrified (and Cursed) Forest

WHERE: Utah

Escalante Petrified Forest is a beautiful state park. Thousands of visitors come to marvel at its 150-million-year-old wood–and then occasionally take a piece home. That’s when they discover that this petrified wood has pretty strong opinions about being moved. Rangers say that tourists often mail back the wood they stole claiming they’ve been plagued by bad luck and hope that returning the “souvenirs” will make it stop. https://www.fodors.com/news/photos/the-most-disturbing-urban-legend-from-every-state-in-america

     

A White Lady is a type of female ghost, dressed in all white reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy. While White Lady legends are found in many countries around the world, they are most prominent in parts of the United States, Ireland and Great Britain. Common to many of these legends is the theme of loss of a daughter, husband or father and a sense of purity before death (as opposed to the Lady in Red (ghost).

And Both Were Last Seen Here:

From Our Obituary Files ~~~ Simpson, Jessen, McArthur, Syndergaard, Laursen, Candland

PIONEER POEMS BY LARUE SEELY

Larue Draper Seely Brotherson 

LARUE SEELY was asked to write two poems for the DAUGHTERS OF PIONEERS.

Autobiography and Journals of CHRISTIAN NIELSEN LUND Sr. ~~~~ 1916

Home of Charles Hampshire and his first wife, Elizabeth West ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

1959 CENTENNIAL PIONEER DAY COMMITTEE

In Retrospection

This History is taken from the book "The Family History of William Bristol, Ane Marie Sophie Clausen, Joseph Cambron, and their Descendants ...... Written by Pat L. Sagers. 

Annie Marie Sophie Clausen Bristol Cambron Rambo

Eisenhower said at the end of the war, ~~~ Submitted by Larry Staker

 Eisenhower said at the end of the war, "Take pictures of the dead Holocaust Jewish people, a generation or two will never believe it happened"!!!

 We now have 2 generations who never entered the military, who have no idea how fortunate they are to live in a free country.  A country who is not speaking German because of the sacrifices these young men & women made so we are a free country. I say this to my own children and grandchildren who have no idea how patriotic us old timers feel and will never forget

This is one email with proof of history you'll probably never see in our children's school books today. Share it please, pictures worth a 1,000 words.  Remember what Eisenhower said at the end of the war, "Take pictures of the dead Holocaust Jewish people, a generation or two will never believe it happened"!!!

Returning the troops home after WWII was a daunting task....

 The Magic Carpet that flew everyone home.

 In 1939, there were 334,000 servicemen, not counting the Coast Guard.

In 1945, there were over 12 million, including the Coast Guard

At the end of the war, over 8 million of these men and women were scattered overseas in Europe, the Pacific and Asia.

 Shipping them out wasn't a particular problem but getting them home was a massive logistical headache.

Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall had already established committees to address the issue in 1943.

 

Soldiers returning home on the USS General Harry Taylor in August 1945.

When Germany fell in May 1945, the US. Navy was still busy fighting in the Pacific and couldn't assist.

The job of transporting 3 million men home fell to the Army and the Merchant Marine.

300 Victory and Liberty cargo ships were converted to troop transports for the task.

During the war, 148,000 troops crossed the Atlantic west to east each month; the rush home ramped this up to 435,000 a month over 14 months

 

Hammocks crammed into available spaces aboard the USS Intrepid

 In October 1945, with the war in Asia also over, the Navy started chipping in, converting all available vessels to transport duty.

On smaller ships like destroyers, capable of carrying perhaps 300 men, soldiers were told to hang their hammocks in whatever nook and cranny they could find. 

Carriers were particularly useful, as their large open hangar decks could house 3,000 or more troops in relative comfort, with bunks, sometimes in stacks of five welded or bolted in place.

 

Bunks aboard the Army transport SS Pennant

The Navy wasn't picky, though: cruisers, battleships, hospital ships, even LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) were packed full of men yearning for home.

Two British ocean liners under American control, the RMS Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, had already served as troop transports before and continued to do so during the operation, each capable of carrying up to 15,000 people at a time, though their normal, peacetime capacity was less than 2,200. 

Twenty-nine ships were dedicated to transporting war brides: women married to American soldiers during the war.

 

Troops performing a lifeboat drill on board the Queen Mary in December 1944, before Operation Magic Carpet

The Japanese surrender in August 1945 came none too soon, but it put an extra burden on Operation Magic Carpet.

The war in Asia had been expected to go well into 1946 and the Navy and the War Shipping Administration were hard-pressed to bring home all the soldiers who now had to get home earlier than anticipated.

The transports carrying them also had to collect numerous POWs from recently liberated Japanese camps, many of whom suffered from malnutrition and illness.

 

U.S. soldiers recently liberated from Japanese POW camps

The time to get home depended a lot on the circumstances. USS Lake Champlain, a brand new Essex-class carrier that arrived too

late for the war, could cross the Atlantic and take 3,300 troops home a little under 4 days and 8 hours.

Meanwhile, troops going home from Australia or India would sometimes spend months on slower vessels.


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                Hangar of the USS Wasp during the operation

There was enormous pressure on the operation to bring home as many men as possible by Christmas 1945.

Thereforena sub-operation, Operation Santa Claus, was dedicated to the purpose.

Due to storms at sea and an overabundance of soldiers eligible for return home, however, Santa Claus could only return a fraction in time and still not quite home but at least to American soil.

The nation's transportation network was overloaded, trains heading west from the East Coast were on average 6 hours behind schedule and trains heading east from the West Coast were twice that late.

 

The crowded flight deck of the USS Saratoga.

The USS Saratoga transported home a total of 29,204 servicemen during Operation Magic Carpet, more than any other ship. Many freshly discharged men found themselves stuck in separation centers but faced an outpouring of love and friendliness from the locals. Many townsfolk took in freshly arrived troops and invited them to Christmas dinner in their homes.

Still others gave their train tickets to soldiers and still others organized quick parties at local train stations for men on layover.

A Los Angeles taxi driver took six soldiers all the way to Chicago; another took another carload of men to Manhattan, the Bronx, Pittsburgh, Long Island, Buffalo and New Hampshire.   Neither of the drivers accepted a fare beyond the cost of gas.

 

Overjoyed troops returning home on the battleship USS Texas

All in all, though, the Christmas deadline proved untenable. The last 29 troop transports, carrying some 200,000 men from the China-India-Burma theater, arrived to America in April 1946, bringing Operation Magic Carpet to an end, though an additional 127,000 soldiers still took until September to return home and finally lay down the burden of war.

   GOD BLESS THE GREAT GENERATION (Above) and the Generations that have served this Great Nation since WW II !

A Veteran-whether active duty, retired, served one hitch, or reservist is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The Government of the United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including their life." That is honor, and there are too many people in this country who no longer understand it -Author unknown.

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Home of Charles Washington Averett Sr. and wife Elizabeth Coates ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Identifying Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes

We are not sure what these two photos are.