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Auroras and Earthquakes: Strange Companions

 

WIKI COMMONS 

 

It turns out that an Aurora Borealis was seen the same year that our pioneer 

ancestors settled in Mt. Pleasant.  It goes down in history as "The Carrington Event".

 

The Following comes From Wikipedia :

The Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, peaking from 1 to 2 September 1859 during solar cycle 10. It created strong auroral displays that were reported globally[1] and caused sparking and even fires in multiple telegraph stations. The geomagnetic storm was most likely the result of a coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun colliding with Earth's magnetosphere.[2]

The geomagnetic storm was associated with a very bright solar flare on 1 September 1859. It was observed and recorded independently by British astronomers Richard Christopher Carrington and Richard Hodgson—the first records of a solar flare.

A geomagnetic storm of this magnitude occurring today would cause widespread electrical disruptions, blackouts, and damage due to extended outages of the electrical power grid.[3][4][5]

Of particular interest is the display of aurora borealis along the top of the mountains.    

[Deseret Evening News; November 18, 1901]

Photographer

Aaron Lojewski 

Alaska

Auroras and Earthquakes: Strange Companions - USGS.gov

AT MT. PLEASANT
There Were Two Perceptible Shocks But No Damage

Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 14--This city was given a severe jolting last evening by the earthquake. No damage was done, but many citizens were badly scared as it is the first one to visit this section in many years. The tremor lasted fully ten seconds and was so severe that upper stories of buildings rocked and swayed very perceptibly. About ten minutes after the first shock a second one of a more lengthy, shivering nature, passed over the town, lasting for about twenty seconds. There was no distinct shock to this one, but the trembling was very plainly felt.



ELECTRICAL DISPLAY IN SANPETE
Weather Director L. H. Murdoch Tells Of Phenomena Witnessed During The Recent Earthquake In Southern Utah--
Rocks On Mountains Shattered By Electricity Or Seismic Disturbance


Weather Director L. H. Murdoch of the local weather office returned Saturday afternoon, from his trip to Manti where he inspected the local voluntary observation station. He brought back with him news of features connected with the late earthquake in Piute and Sevier counties, particularly, which are highly sensational and out of the usual run of seismic disturbances in this section. Mr. Murdoch learned that during the occurrence of the earthquake, there were electrical displays all along the ridges and crests of the mountains, in the shape of flashes of light suggestive of aurora borealis displays, the phenomenon continuing while the terrestrial disturbances were in operation. The electricity shot up into the air in great sheets, which though not very vivid, were bright enough to attract attention.
Moreover, Mr. Murdoch learned that rocks along the tops of the ridges and crests of the mountains had been not only dislodged, but torn and shattered either by the force of the earthquake, or by electricity, or both. He found the people of Sanpete, Sevier and Piute counties still very much frightened over the recent occurrence and scarcely knowing what was to come next.
[Deseret Evening News; November 18, 1901]


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EPHRAIM VISITED
Tremors Made Bottle Dance and Terrified Citizens

Ephraim, Nov. 14--A very severe earthquake shock was felt in this city last night. The shock commenced at just 9:40, and lasted about thirty seconds, but some of the scared citizens thought it lasted that many minutes. At H. P. Larsen's drug store and at the saloons it made the bottles on the shelves dance a jig. People in the drug store were afraid the house was coming down and ran for the street for safety. No damage resulted from the shock.
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POKER PLAYERS PRAYED
Earthquake In Southern Utah Scared Them
Threw Hands Into the Deck and Sent Up Earnest Supplication--Then Resumed the Game


James Long, superintendent of the June Bug group of mining properties in the Gold mountain country, is in Salt Lake. Mr. Long was at Kimberley a few days ago when the earthquake occurred. "That was the real center of the disturbance," said he yesterday, and it was no laughing matter, either. The first and severest shock was at 9:30 in the evening, and there were a number of smaller ones during the night. It was a regular upheaval, and had the houses been of brick they could not have stood. I was playing hearts with two others in the back room of a saloon at the time. The game was adjourned and we all ran out. I admit I ran, and I ran hard. I would have run farther, but I did not know where to run to. I am told on good authority that four men were engaged in a poker game at the time at Monroe, and that the meeting was at once resolved into the most enthusiastic prayer meeting ever held in southern Utah. Later they resumed the game."
[Salt Lake Tribune; November 18, 1901]


To read all accounts:
http://www.seis.utah.edu/lqthreat/nehrp_htm/1901sout/n1901so1.shtml#rs
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EARTHQUAKE LIGHTS  explained in Wikipedia

The lights are reported to appear while an earthquake is occurring, although there are reports of lights before or after earthquakes, such as reports concerning the 1975 Kalapana earthquake.^[5] They are reported to have shapes similar to those of the auroras, with a white to bluish hue, but occasionally they have been reported having a wider color spectrum. The luminosity is reported to be visible for several seconds, but has also been reported to last for tens of minutes. Accounts of viewable distance from the epicenter varies: in the 1930 Idu earthquake, lights were reported up to 70 miles (110 km) from the epicenter.^[6] Earthquake lights were reportedly spotted in Tianshui, Gansu, approximately 400 kilometres (250 mi) north-northeast of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake's epicenter.^[7]

During the 2003 Colima earthquake in Mexico, colorful lights were seen in the skies for the duration of the earthquake.^{[citation needed]} During the 2007 Peru earthquake lights were seen in the skies above the sea and filmed by many people.^[8] The phenomenon was also observed and caught on film during the 2009 L'Aquila^[9][10] and the 2010 Chile earthquakes.^[11] Video footage has also recorded this happening during the 9 April 2011 eruption of Sakurajima Volcano, Japan^{[citation needed]}. The phenomenon was also reported around the Amuri Earthquake in New Zealand, that occurred 1 September 1888. The lights were visible in the morning of 1 September in Reefton, and again on 8 September.^[12]

More recent appearances of the phenomenon, along with video footage of the incidents, happened in Sonoma County of California on August 24, 2014,^[13] and in Wellington New Zealand on November 14, 2016 where blue flashes like lightning were seen in the night sky, and recorded on several videos.^[14] In September 8, 2017, many people reported such sightings in Mexico City after a 8.2 magnitude earthquake with epicenter 460 miles (740 km) away, near Pijijiapan in the state of Chiapas.^[15]

Appearances of the earthquake light seem to occur when the quakes have a high magnitude, generally 5 or higher on the Richter scale.^[13] There have also been incidents of yellow, ball-shaped lights appearing before earthquakes.^[16]

Types[edit]

Earthquake lights may be classified into two different groups based on their time of appearance: (1) preseismic EQL, which generally occur a few seconds to up to a few weeks prior to an earthquake, and are generally observed closer to the epicenter and (2) coseismic EQL, which can occur either near the epicenter (“earthquake‐induced stress”), or at significant distances away from the epicenter during the passage of the seismic wavetrain, in particular during the passage of S waves (“wave‐induced stress”).^[17]

EQL during the lower magnitude aftershock series seem to be rare.^[17]

Simplified model of phole propagation within an interplate, orogenic tectonic setting in a subduction zone environment (i.e., Andean‐type). The vertical scale (topographic relief) is exaggerated for clarity. +, positive holes; e′, electrons.^[17]

Possible Explanations[edit]

Research into earthquake lights is ongoing; as such, several mechanisms have been proposed. Positive Holes is one such model.^[1]

Some models suggest the generation of EQLs involve the ionization of oxygen to oxygen anions by breaking of peroxy bonds in some types of rocks (dolomite, rhyolite, etc.) by the high stress before and during an earthquake.^[17] After the ionisation, the ions travel up through the cracks in the rocks. Once they reach the atmosphere these ions can ionise pockets of air, forming plasma that emits light.^[18] Lab experiments have validated that some rocks do ionise the oxygen in them when subjected to high stress levels. Research suggests that the angle of the fault is related to the likelihood of earthquake light generation, with subvertical (nearly vertical) faults in rifting environments having the most incidences of earthquake lights.^[19]

One hypothesis involves intense electric fields created piezoelectrically by tectonic movements of rocks containing quartz.^[20]

Another possible explanation is local disruption of the Earth's magnetic field and/or ionosphere in the region of tectonic stress, resulting in the observed glow effects either from ionospheric radiative recombination at lower altitudes and greater atmospheric pressure or as aurora. However, the effect is clearly not pronounced or notably observed at all earthquake events and is yet to be directly experimentally verified.^[21]

During the American Physical Society's 2014 March meeting, research was provided that gave a possible explanation for the reason why bright lights sometimes appear during an earthquake. The research stated that when two layers of the same material rub against each other, voltage is generated. The researcher, Professor Troy Shinbrot of Rutgers University, conducted lab experiments with different types of grains to mimic the crust of the earth and emulated the occurrence of earthquakes. "When the grains split open, they measured a positive voltage spike, and when the split closed, a negative spike." The crack allows the voltage to discharge into the air which then electrifies the air and creates a bright electrical light when it does so. According to the research provided, they have produced these voltage spikes every single time with every material tested. While the reason for such an occurrence was not provided, Professor Troy Shinbrot referenced the light to a phenomenon called triboluminescence. Researchers hope that by getting to the bottom of this phenomenon, it will provide more information that will allow seismologists to better predict earthquakes.^[22][23][24]

HAMILTON 5TH GRADE 1957-1958

 

L to R:

Top row

Sammy Madsen, Juanita Hill, David Strop, Anita Simons, Ron Jackson, Jerry Lee Sorensen, David Lee Unopolus 

Second row: 

Paul Squire,  Shauna Willcox, John Ross Seely, Alice Lynn Christensen, Vernadine Daniels, Richard Brotherson, Barbara Kay Stansfield, Tom Larsen

Third row

Linda Zabriskie, Marsden Allred, Ernest Brunger, Georgia Norman

Fourth row

Chris Madsen, Glenadene Daniels, Tyler Tuttle, Kathrene Rigby, Dennis Cloward, Michael Porter, Pearl Johnson, Bruce Larsen, Linda Mary Christensen, David Ream

Fifth row

Patricia Shelley, Alan Syndergaard, Ted Poulsen, Jennie Lynn Swensen, Dennis Terry, Gail Hansen, Chris Swensen, Larry Staker, Lena Marie Carr. 

Sixth row

Kathryn Shelley, Rex Christensen, Marilyn Shepherd, Paul Lund, Shirlene Allred, Arthur Candland, Sandra Seely

RIGBY PHOTOS

These are photos taken by my father, Wm. Neldon Rigby.  He had an old Brownie Camera.  It really did take some good pictures in its day.  Unfortunately, it

didn't add a caption.  If you can identify anyone in these photos, please let me know.  My father grew up in Oak Creek, Fairview, Milburn.  

 

Jacob and Ingaborg Christensen

 

Jacob and Ingaborg Christensen 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JACOB CHRISTENSEN AND FAMILY Copied by Karen Shelley Hacking Great Grandfather of Norman Shelley Jacob Christensen, son of Christen Petersen and Maren Thompsen, eldest of ten children, was born in Vennsyssel, Hjoring, Denmark, September 21, 1827. His father was the son of Peter Peterson and Mette Christensen. His father, Christen Peterson was born in Lendum, Jutland, Denmark and his mother Maren Thomsen was born in Hapstyert, Jutland Denmark. His boyhood days were typical of the times in which he lived. His parents earned their scanty living by fishing. Many times later in his life he told his children of the following incident that took place when he was a mere boy. He was employed by a certain woman to herd her cows. A part of his wages was to be his lunch. The woman, was not of a very generous nature and one night Jacob said to her, "My eyes must be getting very poor.” she replied, "Oh, how’s that my boy?" "Because", he said "I could hardly see any cheese on my bread today." When a young man he spent two years in the service of his king, as was customary. He served as a sailor and one day was ordered to climb up and repair the mast and while so doing he lost his balance and plunged headlong into the ocean. He was almost drowned, having gone down for the third time when he was rescued. Many times later in life he related this experience and said that drowning would be a most peaceful death. Jacob joined the L. D. S. church in his native land on Feb. 20, 1853 and was a traveling elder for the following two years. He married Inger Kristine Thomsen Jan. 19, 1855. She became the mother of nine children, the eldest being born in Denmark before immigration.

In 1857 they immigrated to the United States. A perpetual emigration fund came into being through the desires of the Church leaders to bring to this land those too poor to provide themselves with the transportation money which was needed. The provision of this act says: "Where as there are many good and worthy people who would gladly emigrate to this state if they were provided with the means." This fund provided money for the emigrant, who paid it back just as soon as he could, after getting settled in Zion.

 Jacob’s mother accompanied them to Omaha, Nebraska, where she died a short time later. They were compelled to stay here for two years, because of lack of funds to go further. Here, although he took whatever employment he could get at sawmills and adobe yards, they lived under the most trying circumstances. One time he was obliged to trade one shirt, of his meager supply of two, for a bushel of frozen turnips, which they boiled and then warmed up in tallow.

In the meantime his wife’s parents, Thomas C. and Else M. Olsen Jensen had disposed of their property in Denmark preparatory to immigrating to Utah. They joined Jacob and his wife at Omaha and then crossed the plains together with the Nesling Company. While crossing the plains Jacob and his good wife encountered a great misfortune. `Their only child died. The company halted and buried the little one by the wayside. Jacob, overcome with grief, threw himself across the newly made grave, declaring he could not go on and leave it. Grasping hold of him, his wife said, "Jacob, you’re not a child are you? This will not do, me must go on."

They located in Mt. Pleasant, and were among the first settlers in the fall of 1859, living in a dugout until the fort was build. Jacob helped to build the south wall of the fort, furnishing team, wagon and his own work. Homes were built against the inside walls of the fort where the settlers lived. By the fall of 1859 Mt. Pleasant had a population of 800 people.

The first ward was organized at Mt. Pleasant, July 9, 1859, by Elders George A. Smith and Amasa M. Lyman. William S. Seely was ordained bishop. Jacob Christensen became his first counselor. The Bishop and his counselors were looked upon as the leaders of the group. They were the superintendents, planners, confidant tribunal, directors, ecclesiastical tribunal, the leaders of the group, in fact the responsibility of the settlement rested upon their shoulders. They were all busy people those days, building homes, a fort, clearing and plowing land, planting crops, building fences, canals, fighting and guarding against Indians, harvesting crops, and a score of other jobs.

Thereafter, he devoted much of his time to the building up of this community. He was a shareholder in Mt. Pleasant’s first cooperative institution and organizer of the United Order here. He served as Counselor to Bishop William S. Seely for seven years and as president of the High Priest’s quorum for twenty—five years. January 14, 1865, he married Ingeborg Anderson, daughter of Christian and Karen Anderson. Ingeborg was the only daughter and the youngest of a family of four, born in Seiland, Denmark, April 28, 1846. Her father was a tailor, and Ingeborg had a comfortable childhood, attending the schools of the town until her parents accepted the Latter-day Saint Church and decided to leave their homeland for Utah, where her three brothers had already settled. This was in 1862. She spent her sixteenth birthday aboard a sailing vessel, crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The trip across the ocean was so miserable, it stood out in her memory as forty—six days of misery.

After landing in New York and crossing the plains by ox team, furnished. by' the church, she landed in Salt. Lake City. Her brothers met her and her parents here. She was offered a job in Salt Lake City by a family named Deckers. This seemed a blessing from heaven to her; now she could have a job to earn some money to help get some of those things so much needed by herself and her family. After some months there, she started working for one of Brigham Young’s wives where she stayed for some time. After a year in Salt Lake, Ingeborg went to Mt. Pleasant to be with her folks. This young girl of 18 obtained work in the home of Jacob Christensen whose wife had a family of youngsters, and in that day with the lack of any comforts, a family gave the mother plenty work to do.

Plurality of wives was in flower at that time. Those who could afford two families and were worthy could get permission of the Church authorities to marry a second wife. Jacob asked Ingeborg to marry him, and after due consideration she accepted his offer of marriage. They were married January, 1865. She was 19 years of age and he was double her age, but it seems at that time, this was often the case. Jacob Christensen and Ingeborg Anderson were sealed 14 Jan 1865. He was sealed to Inger Kirstine Jensen 4 Oct 1862 and he was sealed to Anna Christena Magnussen (Marberg) on 15 Mar 1869. Ingeborg became the mother of seven children, two dying in infancy.

About this time Jacob took a very active part in the Black Hawk War, being captain of Company A, Mt. Pleasant Militia and was in several engagements with the Indians. He was also a Councilman in Mt. Pleasant’s first City Council. On March 15, 1869, he married his third wife, Anna Christena Marberg, daughter of Johannes and Christine Peterson Marberg, who was born March 2, 1850 at Leitse, Gutland, Sweden. She was the second child in a family of four daughters.

Even during Anna’s early childhood tragedy and hardship stalked through her life. Her family was desperately poor, as were most of the people in the locality in which they lived. That part of Sweden was barren and unproductive. The climate was cold and the people were entirely dependent upon the rainfall for their crops. Food and fuel were scarce, coal being unheard of and wood had to be bought.  . Ann’s father was a tailor, of the machine less age, doing all his sewing by hand and, at times, walking miles and spending days to sew at the homes of the more well—to—do. His wife assisted him in his work and a good part of her time she worked for others, sometimes in a slaughter house, taking her pay in meat to help out the family larder. Anna began her working career at the age of nine, tending children.

Johannes Marberg was a very devout man. He and his family were members of the Swedish Lutherian Church, the prevailing religion. During Anna’s early childhood her parents were converted to the L.D.S. church by a Mormon missionary named Warnick of Battle Creek, Utah, now known as Pleasant Grove, Utah. Elder Warnick not only brought the Marbergs their religion, but he gave them a beautiful friendship and instilled in their hearts the desire to immigrate to Utah. Anna was baptized and confirmed a member of the church, by her father, when she was ten years old.

In the fall of 1863, when Anna was just thirteen years old, her father contracted typhoid fever and died, leaving her mother destitute and with a family to provide for. Christine Marberg having no means of maintaining the home, was forced to sell her small house and household goods at public auction and find a home for herself and daughters. The eldest daughter, Marie Helena, 15, and Anna were taken in by families to help care for children. The third child, Augusta, age 5 was taken by a moderately wealthy L.D.S. family. The mother with her infant daughter, Hedda, secured a place to work for a family named Collgren.

During this time of misfortune Elder Warnick had proved a staunch friend of the Marberg family. In the spring of 1864, he received an honorable release from his mission and the money for his fare home. Knowing Christine Marberg’s great desire to go to Zion, Adolph Warnick stayed in Sweden and loaned Christine his fare to Utah.

On account of her limited finances Mrs. Marberg was unable to take her three eldest daughters with her when she immigrated. The child, Augusta was still with the family who had taken her at the time of her father’s death and who had become greatly attached to her. Friends rallied around Mrs. Marberg, promising to care for Anna and Marie Helena. The day came when the mother was to depart for• America and.`Utah, a day• to the end of days never to be forgotten by Anna. Her mother and baby sister, in company with the Collgrens and another family of converts had packed their belongings in white topped wagons which were to convey them to the nearest railroad center. The country was perfectly flat and level and Anna and Marie Helena watched and waved to their mother until the wagons became a mere speck in the distance. It was two sad and lonely little girls, just 14 and 16, who turned back to the mercy and charity of friends and relatives. Marie Helena went to her maternal grandparents, Peer and Helena Peterson, who were devoted to the girl, but bitter toward her mother for joining the L.D.S. faith. Anna was to stay with an aged couple and their widowed daughter.

Because of the gap between age and youth, life with the old couple became intolerable to Anna. She sought the advice and council of her sister and it was decided that Anna should leave this place and go to her father’s sister, Marie, who worked in a neighboring rural community. So Anna and Marie Helena walked the four Swedish miles, equivalent to sixteen American miles, to the place where the Aunt worked as a cook for a group of laborers. Marie Helena rested here for a couple of days and walked back alone to west Gutland.

How Anna hated to see her go, it was well the girls could not read the future for they never saw one another again. Marie Helena, never a robust child, was taken seriously ill shortly after this and was taken to a hospital in a distant city and died and was buried there. Anna knew nothing of this until she received word from the Grandmother, through the Aunt, that her sister was dead and she could call at the Grandparents and get the few possessions the girl left, if she desired. Even the mother, on her journey across the ocean, was not free from the tragedy that seemed to follow the Marbergs. The baby Hedda, now one and a half years old, contracted the measles and died during the early part of the night. The mother, dreading to have her child thrown overboard, lay with the dead baby in her arms until morning. Then she reported it’s death to the ship’s authorities and the little one was buried in the ocean.

In the meantime the family who had taken Augusta, immigrated to America, taking this child with them. While crossing the plains the entire family, including the child, died of cholera. Only the hired man, who immigrated with them, lived to carry the story of Augusta’s death to her mother.

Anna, now alone in Sweden, was again faced with the problem of finding a home. It was no longer possible for her Aunt to keep her at the place she worked. Anna was a pretty, red haired girl and the men would not keep their hands off her. Although Anna was now old enough to hire out, she lacked the required education to do so. There were no schools in the rural areas of Sweden, so Anna never attended a day of school in her life. It was the custom, however, for one to be able to read and repeat to a priest portions of the Swedish Testament and the Catechism. When they passed this test they were fairly well educated and ready to begin work. Anna studied diligently and in time mastered these books. She secured a place to do housework, with the customary understanding that she must remain six months and she was given one dollar in advance to bind the bargain.

She was about to begin her second year at this place when she received word from Elder Warnick, who was still in Sweden, that he had a letter from her mother repaying the loan he made to her and telling him she was borrowing the money to bring Anna to Utah. Elder Warnick advised Anna not to begin another six months of service, but she had no other place to stay until her money came so she was obliged to start a third six months term.

Again Adolph Warnick proved to be the rare friend he was. When Anna’s fare arrived he found a girl to take her place, brought the girl to his household and took Anna back to West Gutland, where she stayed awhile with Adolph’s sweetheart’s parents and then later in the spring he took her to Jutaborg where she began the first lap of her journey to America. From here she crossed the north sea to Liverpool, England. At Liverpool she boarded a sailboat and spent five weeks on the Atlantic Ocean. This company was to have had the first steamship to cross the ocean, but were disappointed and so made the last sailboat trip over the Atlantic.

Anna arrived in New York City in July of 1868 and came by railroad to Omaha, Nebraska. She then joined the Folkman and the C. C. A. Christensen companies and. began a four weeks trek across the plains, walking all the way. It was the middle of August when she joined her mother, who had come to Salt Lake City, from Mt. Pleasant to meet her after a four year separation. It was a happy meeting between mother and daughter. They were the only survivors of a family of six. They never again parted until the mother's death in the spring of 1907. On March 15, 1869 at the age of nineteen, Anna was married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, to Jacob Christensen of Mt. Pleasant, Utah, 23 years her senior. Her first home was the old Haage home on South State Street, now owned by Maxine Johansen Hardy. This house, built by Jacob Christensen was considered one of the finest residences of the early days. Jacob Christensen died March 9, 1915, having been an invalid for eleven years.

Anna became the mother of ten children, three dying in infancy, one in youth and two in middle life. She was the wife of a soldier and the mother of a soldier. She was a faithful church worker, being a visiting teacher for over forty years when the teacher’s beat covered miles instead of blocks and the contributions consisted of the staples, such as flour, eggs, meat, etc.

Anna died May 7, 1937 at the age of 87 years, two months and five days. She left four children, fifteen grandchildren and ten great- grandchildren. Her once red hair was grey, but her back that carried so many burdens was still unbent and her spirit still unbroken and surely, the good Lord, who holds the destinies of men in the hollow of His hand, will have a special reward for souls like these, who have kept the faith. This history was written by Olea Thompson, granddaughter of Jacob and Anna Marberg Christensen.   

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The following is a history from our archives and published in 2012

Jacob Christensen, son of Christen Petersen and Maren Thompsen, eldest of ten children, was born in Vennsyssel, Hjoring, Denmark, September 21, 1827. His father was the son of Peter Peterson and Mette Christensen. His father, Christen Peterson was born in Lendum, Jutland, Denmark and his mother Maren Thomsen was born in Napstyert, Jutland Denmark.

His boyhood days were typical of the times in which he lived. His parents earned their scanty living by fishing. When a young man he spent two years in the service of his king, as was customary. He served as a sailor.

Jacob joined the L.D.S. church in his native land on February 20, 1853 and was a traveling elder for the following two years. He married Inger Kristine Thomsen January 19, 1855. She became the mother of nine children, the eldest being born in Denmark before immigration.

In 1857 they immigrated to the United States. a perpetual emigration fund came into being through the desires of the church leaders to bring to this land those too poor to provide themselves with the transportation money which was needed.

Jacob's mother accompanied them to Omaha, Nebraska, where she died a short time later. They were compelled to stay here for two years, because of lack of funds to go further. Here, although he took whatever employment he could get at sawmills and adobe yards, they lived under the most trying circumstances. One time he was obliged to trade one shirt, of his meager supply of two, for a bushel of frozen turnips, which they boiled and then warmed up in tallow. While crossing the plains Jacob and his good wife encountered a great misfortune. Their only child died.

They located in Mt. Pleasant, among the first settlers in the fall of 1859, living in a dugout until the fort was built. Jacob helped to build the south wall of the fort, furnishing team, wagon and his own work. Homes were built against the inside walls of the fort where the settlers lived. By the fall of 1859 Mt. Pleasant had a population of 800 people.

Jacob Christensen Grave Marker

The First Ward was organized at Mt. Pleasant, July 9, 1859, by Elders George A. Smith and Amasa M. Lyman. William S. Seely was ordained bishop. Jacob Christensen became his first counselor. The Bishop and his counselors were looked upon as the leaders of the group. They were the superintendents, planners, confidant tribunal, directors, ecclesiastical tribunal, the leaders of the group, in fact the responsibility of the settlement rested upon their shoulders.

They were all busy people those days, building homes, a fort, clearing and plowing land, planting crops, building fences, canals, fighting and guarding against Indians, harvesting crops and a score of other jobs.

Thereafter, Jacob devoted much of his time to building up of this community. He was a shareholder in Mt. Pleasant's first cooperative institution and organizer of the United Order here. He served as Counselor to Bishop William S. Seely for seven years and as president of the High Priest's quorum for twenty five years.

January 14, 1865, he married Ingeborg Anderson, daughter of Christian and Karen Anderson. Ingeborg was the only daughter and the youngest of a family of four, born in Seiland, Denmark, April 28, 1846. Her father was a tailor, and Ingeborg had a comfortable childhood attending the schools of the town until her parents accepted the Latter-day Saint Church and decided to leave their homeland for Utah, where her three brothers had already settled. This was in 1862.

Plurality of wives was in flower at that time. Those who could afford two families and were worthy could get permission of the Church authorities to marry a second wife. Jacob asked Ingeborg to marry him, and after due consideration she accepted his offer of marriage. The were married, January 1865. She was 19 years of age and he was double her age, but it seems at that time, this was often the case. Ingeborg became the mother of seven children, two dying in infancy.

About this time Jacob took a very active part in the Black Hawk War, being captain of Company A, Mt. Pleasant Militia and was in several engagements with the Indians. He was also a Councilman in Mt. Pleasant's first city council.

On March 15, 1869, he married his third wife, Anna Christena Marberg, daughter of Johannes and Christine Peterson Marberg, who was born March 2, 1850 at Leitse, Gutland, Sweden. She was the second child in a family of four daughters.

They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. Their first home was the Haage home about 411 South State Street, Mt. Pleasant (now vacant). This house, built by Jacob Christensen was considered one of the finest residences of the early days.

Anna became the mother of ten children, three dying in infancy, one in youth and two in middle life.

Jacob died March 9, 1915, having been an invalid for eleven years.

TEMPLES NOW DOT THE LAND

 

William Edgar Madsen ~~~Written by his sister, Mina Madsen Remund 27 March 1944

 

William E. Madsen 

William standing next to one of his sheep camps manufactured
by him and his sons. 

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WILLIAM EDGAR MADSEN 

Written by his sister, Mina Madsen Remund 27 March 1944

Will, as he was always called, was born 18 July 1879 at Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Blessed 2 November 1879 by Wheelock. Baptized 25 June 1887 by Joseph Johansen and confirmed the same day by James Jorgensen. Ordained deacon 18 Feb 1895 by Lars P. Madsen. He was the son of Neils Peter Madsen and Wilhelmina Krause Madsen. He was born in a little house in the southeast corner of the lot, on 1st North 2nd, the place where Ras Madsen's house stands now. There was a large pear tree in front of it. Mother and her family moved down to the Bottoms on the 160 acre farm; it was located three miles west of Mt. Pleasant. Will was a month old when they moved to this desolated place; imagine a mother with six little children to live so far away from neighbors and on a place covered with brush, etc. I don't know very much about his childhood, but I imagine it was like the rest of the family, had to work hard. He went to school and Sunday School. When he was a small boy, he picked up a bridle back of the heels of a colt, the colt kicked him in the head on the side, right in the temple, making a large hole. The blood spurted out, mother thought he would bleed to death but she put soot on it, that seemed to coagulate the blood. It stopped the bleeding. Lucinda walked to town after father. He had that scar a half moon shape on his temple all his life, it seemed to have affected his speech causing him to stutter, especially if he wanted to talk or tell something in a hurry. When he got older, the boys had lots of fun. There were always horses on the farm, the boys used to go horseback riding, go skating in the winter. When Will, Eph, Edgar and Mina used to have to walk across the Bottoms to school, the schoolhouse was over on Joseph Johansen's hill (Father and Joe Johansen, etc. built the school house). In the winter, we could skate nearly all the way to school in the spring these large slews of ice would break. We would break through, go down to water or mud, sometimes we would get wet to our knees. In the winter, after a snowstorm, Will would go ahead, Eph next, then Edgar, then Mina. They would walk through the deep snow to break a trail. We would get a good trail made, then it would snow again. Many nights after school, when he got home, we had to change our shoes, stockings sometimes even our underwear. Will was always such a good-natured boy, always good and kind to his mother, brothers, and sisters. It was amusing before Easter, the boys would hide all the eggs they could find, and the first one to the coop got the eggs. Gunner (Lucinda's husband) watched Will and Eph one day. They hid their eggs. After they went, Gunner found 18 dozen eggs they had hit, he took them up the house and gave them to Mother. My the boys were surely mad at him. Easter was a great day for the young folks in those days. They would have dozens of dyed eggs, take their lunch and each have a horse, go to the Cedar Hills, or up to Nels Peters or Moroni Seelys. They all had a good time, all ate their lunch together, cracked each others eggs, would horse race, play ball, etc. Will and Eph liked to go up to Nels Peters to play with Arleas Stanis. Sometimes go swimming in the Sanpete River. One time the boys were in the river swimming, it was raining a little. They could hear a roar, they got out of the river, ran over to Nels Peters corral, just got there, a big flood came down the river. It was lucky for them they got out (they said something just told them to get out). The flood would have carried them down the river and they would have drowned. The boys all liked to come to our home to play with our boys. One time Will and Eph and Frank and Joseph Jorgensen (neighbor boys) trapped a mother coyote. They caught the mother, took her two baby coyotes. They took one coyote, our boys took the other one. We named ours Coy, they called theirs, Ote. We kept the coyote, it ran around the place like a little pup, it had the wild characteristic; it would snap or growl at us when it got older. It went in the chicken coop and killed so many chickens, mother wouldn't have it around anymore, so we gave it to Nels Peters. They had it on a chain, one day it got loose and killed so many of their chickens. They sold it to the circus. When Will, Eph, and Edgar got older, they helped farm our farm of 160 acres, we raised wild hay, some alfalfa, wheat, oats, barley and potatoes. The boys had to work hard to take care of such a big farm and such young boys. Will and Eph would pitch the hay on the load, Edgar and myself would stomp it, then we would have to lead or ride the horse on the hayfork. Then we would have to all pick up potatoes. We would raise wagon boxes full of potatoes. My that was hard work, to sort and carry all these potatoes to the potato cellar. Then in the spring, Mother helped or mostly cut up the seed potatoes. It seemed to me it was nothing but work during the week but Mother never let anyone work on Sunday. After a few years Mother bought us a home in Mt. Pleasant, the Gunner home. Then the boys went away to work, mostly for John and Frank. Then Will went as an apprentice for Peter (Tanner) Nielsen in the blacksmith shop. Mother always worried over Will but he got along better than anyone. After mother died, he lived with John, Gusta and Mina. Then Peter Simpson and Will went into business together. They had a blacksmith shop. They made sheep wagons, repaired things, shod horses, did all kinds of blacksmith work, wagons. They were in this business for years until the automobile came in. Then there wasn't much of this kind of work. Then Mr. Bitle and Will went in business together in a garage. Years before this, Will bought sheep, then he and Eph went in partnership with the sheep also. Will bought some rangeland up near Hilltop, near Eph's dry farm. They were together with this business for years. Will married Mary Woodring daughter of Dr. Will Woodring. William, their first son, was born in a couple years. Virginia was born, then Robert (Bob) was next. This little family lived so happy together until the grim reaper of death took the little mother, who was one of the sweetest, kindest and most loving wife and mother, just a perfect mother and homemaker and keeper. When the Spanish influenza (flu) epidemic came through the country in 1918 after the World War I, Mary (his wife) always said, if she got the flu she would die, as everyone was scared to death of it. Doctors or no one knew what to do for it. So Will went to Gunnison on business. Mary got sick, she phoned to Will, said she believed she had the flu. Will came right home. They got the doctor, sure enough Mary had the flu and the children; one was very sick. They had nurses, did everything for her, it just seemed after she knew she had it, she just gave up, pneumonia set in, she passed away. It was so pitiful, such a young wife and mother and Will left with three little children, his baby was two years old. Their mother was dead, he didn't know what to do, some girl kept house for awhile, then he came out to me. I told him about Annie Remund. I wrote to her, she came down, he paid her $9.00 per week. She was sure a good mother to his children. It was quite a trial for her, as she hadn't been around children very much, but she did a wonderful job, taught those children to be so neat and clean, to work, sent them to school and Sunday School, cooked, sewed, washed, put up fruit, did everything for them their own mother would have done. Then Will and Annie got married, had one son, Jay. They got along fine, although as the children got older, there were feelings of step-mother and step-children. As years passed Virginia got married to John McGougan, moved to California, then William, Jr. went to some of the Woodring relatives in Colorado to work, then he married a school teacher and lives there. Then Robert (Bob) married a girl from Fountain Green. Will and Annie have went on a number of trips to visit Virginia in California, spent the winter there. Then Will went to Colorado to visit Billy. Will and Jay went in their car to Detroit, Michigan, so trade their truck in for a nice new truck and took a trip around the United States. Then 1943, Jay got drafted in the Army, he was first sent to Texas, then different parts of the United States, then to Italy and is now in Italy at the front. He is a gunner in the airplane. Jay is surely a fine boy, it's a big worry for Will and Annie to have him at the front. Will sold his rangeland at Hilltop and Eph and he sold their sheep for $30,000 so each got $15,000. Will and Annie have always been very economical with everything, so have accumulated a lot of money, have bought bonds, and they could live on for years. They live alone in their home at 1st East 1st South at Mt. Pleasant, the home was Mary's parents home (Dr. Woodring) which Mary fell heir to. Then Will paid his children each their share as it was their Mother's estate. They have it remodeled. Annie is one of the cleanest, best housekeepers. Annie works in the Relief Society, etc. 28 January 1949 - Jay got married and is very happy. Robert and his wife have two children. William lives in Colorado. Virginia's husband died, she and her two children have lived with Annie and Will for three years. Will sold his sheep, the boys bought his place of business, so Will has retired. January 1952 - Will has been very sick (heart attack) this winter, was in Mt. Pleasant Hospital, but at this date 15 May is getting better, up and around. 10 April 1952 - William took a heart attack, passed away, was buried 14 April 1952 at Mt. Pleasant. 1957 - Virginia married a man from California, John Derr. Billy lives with them. Johann married Joe Skelton of Magna; they have a baby girl. Mary Woodring and Annie Elizabeth Remund sealed to William Edgar Madsen 18 November 1954, Manti Temple by proxy Alonzo Tidwell. Annie Elizabeth had her endowment 4 November 1954, Manti Temple.

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ANNIE ELIZABETH REMUND Written by his sister-in-law, Mina Madsen Remund 26 January 1943

Annie Elizabeth Remund was the daughter of Fredrick Remund and Elizabeth Ott. She was born 4th September 1892. Blessed by her father, who blessed nearly all of his children. Baptized by Benjamin Hair, confirmed by Geo. A. Huntington. She spent her girlhood days at Midway, Wasatch Co., Utah, attending School, Sunday School and Primary, etc. She lived with her family after her mother died. She and her sisters kept house for their father. Then years after her father married, moved to Salt Lake City, she lived with the family. She went to Mt. Pleasant, lived with Matilda, her sister, and family for a couple of years. Then she went to Mt. Pleasant to keep house for William (my brother). His wife, Mary, died of the flu and left him with three motherless children. She married William a few years later. She was a wonderful mother to these motherless children and gave them a wonderful training. She is an excellent housekeeper and cook. The children are all grown up and married now. William married a school teacher from Colorado and lives there. Virginia married John McGougan and lives in California, she has a beautiful little girl. Robert (Bob) married a girl from Fountain Green and just bought the Lourtz P. Larsen house in Mt. Pleasant. Annie had one son Jay, who is now in Texas in training. Annie is very active in Church work, is a Relief Society teacher. She is good to help those in need. Will and Jay went to Detroit, Michigan, bought a truck and rode home in it. 7 February 1944 Jay is in the Army now. Trained in Texas, then sent to Italy, then transferred to France, has been to the front, did some bitter fighting in the war. Jay married Ann Poulsen; they had two children and were divorced. William, Annie's husband, died in ___ so Annie lives alone in her home in Mt. Pleasant, so goes to California nearly every winter to live with Virginia or Jay. Virginia married Don Derr of California, 1957.

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"BillionGraves Index,"   Annie Ramond  Madsen, died 10 Jul 1975; citing BillionGraves (http://www.billiongraves.com : 2012), Burial at Mount Pleasant City Cemetery, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Maria Wilhelmina Catherine Krauss Madsen
Mother and family of William Edgar Madsen 
William E. is middle row and far right.
Wilhelmina is to his right
Lucinda is in the lighter dress and front row.