COAL MINE EXPLOSIAN 1930 ~~~ VICTIMS BURRIED.

Standardville Mining Camps

 

NORTH SANPETE HIGH SCHOOL 1931

 

OLD POOR FARM ~~~ FAIRVIEW, UTAH ~~~ CLOSED IN THE EARLY 1930S

 

MT. PLEASANT BOOK ~~~ SURROUNDING COMMUNTITIES

MADSENS OF MT. PLEASANT

 

Our Blog has been posted for over 10 years and most photos, histories, stories, family group sheets, obituaries, etc.  have now been posted. 

 We have invited followers (of which we have many) to send in their family histories and stories as well.We have just about run out of these. 

 The Madsens of Mt. Pleasant is a book of history edited and published in 1967 by Co-Editors Nell Madsen and Pearle M. Olsen.It is a real treasury of histories, photos and more.  Many current local families are offspring of the original Madsens to Mt. Pleasant.  Their stories are of love, success, sacrifice, and of great interest. However, much has happened since 1967. 

If you and your family have more updated material we encourage you to send it in and we will include it in our postings. (pandk@cut.net)
 The Original Madsens were Lars and Bodel MadsenTheir children were  :Mads Madsen

Niels Peter Madsen

Andrew Madsen

Anna Margrethe Madsen

Jacobena Madsen

Niels Madsen

Lars Christian Madsen 

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NORTH SANPETE HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM 1940 ~~~ From the Betty Gunderson Woodbury Collection

 

HOME OF EDWARD BECKSTROM AND WIFE CORDELIA JANE WESTON ~~~ RESEARCHED AND COMPILED BY TUDY BARENTSEN STANDLEE

 

Gerald Marx  died and the home is still standing.

HAMILTON ELEMENTARY~~~SECOND GRADE ~~~ MRS. WINTERBOTTOM

 

JAMES MONSEN'S MEMORIES OF Olive, Her Husband John Frank Pritchett and the 1930 Mine Disaster (From our archives)

 

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Mt. Pleasant Pyramid 1930-02-07

Mt. Pleasant's Own Doughboy

 

"Doughboy"is an informal term for a member of the United States Army or Marine Corps. Today it is especially used to refer to members of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. (A popular mass-produced sculpture of the 1920s, the Spirit of the American Doughboy,   
Courtesy of Wikipedia 



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The following comes from History of Mt. Pleasant.

World War

When the United States entered the World War, the people of Mt. Pleasant loyally responded to every call, and made a record of which it may well be proud. One hundred and eighteen boys enlisted from Mt. Pleasant, and a number of Mt. Pleasant's sons enlisted from other communities. As the boys, one by one or in groups, boarded the train, great crowds, although sad at heart, cheered them as they left for the front. Three of the number died in service. Ralph Braby, while in California, was drowned, Jacob Hafen died of disease, and Henry Merville Zabriskie was killed in action, over seas.

The Sanpete County Council of Defense was organized as follows: J. W. Cherry, chairman; Burke McArthur, secretary; Ed. Johnston, treasurer; Committee chairmen, Finance, N. S. Niel­sen; Publicity, ,Burke McArthur; Legal, J. W. Cherry; Sanitation and Medicine, Ed. Johnston; Food supply and conservation, L. R. Anderson; Industrial survey, Orlando Bradley; Labor, Christian Willardsen; Military affairs, J. Morgan Johnson; State protection, H. R. Thomas; Survey of man power, L. P. Brady; Woman's work, Mrs. G. W. Martin.

In June 1918, there were deposited in the Mt. Pleasant Com­mercial and Savings Bank, by Mr. N. S. Nielsen, county chairman of finance, to the credit of W. G. McAdoo, treasurer of the Nation­al American Red Cross, seven thousand five hundred dollars.



The citizens went over the top in the various other drives conducted. Liberty bonds, postal savings, Soldier's Welfare Re­lief, Christmas boxes, tobacco, conservation of food, etc.

Local committees were organized, among them the local Red Cross. The officers of this organization visited the neighboring cities, Fairview, Fountain Green, Moroni, Wales, Chester and Spring City, and in cooperation with them, purchased material and sewed articles called for. There were checked out something over $3.000, which had been obtained by weekly canvasses made by wo­men and girls, and by other volunteer donations other than the National drives. Mt. Pleasant headquarters were established at about 122 West Main, where the women, some representing differ­ent organizations, met and did sewing, etc., required. Many ship­ments of goods were made. The officers at this time were: C. L. Johns, president; Mrs. Grace Madsen and Miss Irene Nielsen, vice presidents; Miss Hilda Madsen, secretary and treasurer.



Mt. Pleasant History (1939) pp 199-200 by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf

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The original location of the Dough Boy was right in the center of the intersection of State Street and Main Street.

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 Honoring all soldiers in all wars .

"To Honor Those Who Left Our Midst To Fight For Freedom" 

In 2008 the "old armory" now recreation center  was given the artist touch with Soldiers from all wars painted on the south exterior wall. 

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Elva Porter Has Passed ON

 

Elva Z Porter

February 4th, 2022

10/10/1944 ~ 2/4/2022

Elva Z Porter, 77 returned home to her heavenly father February 4, 2022. She was a wife, mother, grandmother, sister and friend. She struggled for a 12 year battle with dementia disease. Elva was born October, 10th 1944 in Heber Utah. Her parents were Herman Gilbert and Elsie Frances Potter Zufelt. Elva has six brothers and five sisters. Elva met Bert M. Porter at the SnoCap lanes in Ephraim Utah. They married June 8, 1963 and made their home in Mount Pleasant, where they raised two beautiful daughters, Tracy (Porter) Larson and Kim (Porter)Sanderson.
Elva grew up valuing hard work. Elva worked at the Moroni processing plant, sewing plant and was the supervisor at Wasatch Academy until she retired. Elva enjoyed watching her grandchildren open their Christmas gifts each year. Her grandchildren have very vivid memories of this. Elva enjoyed doing crafts and had much talent doing this. She was an excellent seamstress. She enjoyed her time she spent at her computer and enjoyed doing jigsaw puzzles as a pastime.
Elva is survived by her daughter Kim (Dale)Sanderson; her son-in-law Chad Larsen; her four grandchildren; Candice (Layne) Holman, Lindsay (Brady) Wootton, Cory (Jade) Sanderson and Alisha Sanderson and five great grandchildren; Keerah, Braylin, Dreyson, Cooper, and Oaklee. Preceded in death by her husband Bert M. Porter and her daughter Tracy Porter Larsen.
Funeral services will be held Friday, February 11, 2022 at 11:00 at Rasmussen Mortuary with a viewing from 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. prior to services at the Mortuary. Interment in the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery.

Click Here to Watch Recorded Funeral Service.

Click Here to Watch Recorded Graveside Service.

Photos Courtesy of the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid

Recently the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid moved its main office to Springville and invited us to take the thousands of photos that they had accumulated over the past years.  We will post some on our blog and then take them to

the Relic Home for patrons to view. 

Charles Crawford Farmstead, Spring City 

Officers of  the Sanpete County Women's Bowling Association
Helen Sutliff, Lou Ann Rosenlof, Renon Daniels and Diane Lund 

John and Norma Bigler 

Mr. and Mrs. Allie L. Carlston 

       

Darrel and LeOra Brady

herril Rigby and Marva SimmSons 
examining 1932 models of 
an old dryer, extractor and washer.

Ches Christensen pinning a corsage on Lettie Peterson 

  

Hamilton Elementary, Ethel Winterbottom Second Grade {circa 1951}