The Winter of 1867 and 68 .....Very Little Snow Fell

Sego Lily ... Utah's State Flower 

    To have water in the streams there must be moisture in the mountains.  All Spring there was no rain.  The residents of Mt. Pleasant and Fairview had planted crops in hopes of rain but it was a hot dry summer.  What crops did grow were poor.  Cattle were turned into the hills and there were guards to watch for the indians.  The hills west of Fairview in the spring were covered with sego lillies.  This root saved the lives of many and became the State Flower.  The roots of the sego lily were sweet but not sickening sweet and very white in color.  There was no need for cooking. Other roots for food were wild onion and cactus root.  In the spring some plants were cooked and made good greens. 

Utah Grasshopper 

 Crickets and grasshoppers had eaten most crops in the fields and the gardens. But the Lord did provide food of some kind for them to eat and there was very little sickness, and the people did keep well.

Enough to eat, Enough to wear

Always the humble will to share.

A kindly smile, a work of cheer, 

To make folks glad that I am here.

A wee, sweet baby at my breast

Three small lads watching the door...

For Papa coming home at dusk

My heart asks for nothing more.

     .......................     Mary Jane Pritchett

    The blessed rain came in the Spring of 1869.  Sage brush grew tall, some to four or five feet and was used as fence.  Children enjoyed seeing who could jump over the tall sage brush and the boys liked to see who could catch the most rabbits.  

    The railroad was finished on May 10, 1869.  The people said that fall they had the best crops they had since coming to Utah.   God moves in mysterious ways.  

the above post are excerpts from "Lest We Forget"  

by Beatrice Pritchett Budvarson.

Family Group Sheet of Napoleon Bonaparte Pritchett and Olive Loretta Sanders Pritchett

PFC Lawrence Erick Larsen Buried 3 June 1921

A FALLEN FRIEND AND FELLOW SOLDIER IS BROUGHT HOME TO FAIRVIEW FROM FRANCE'S BATTLEFIELD AND HONORED BY HIS HOME TOWN RETURNED VETERAN OF WORLD WAR I.

Lawrence Erick Larsen was born in Fairview to Niels Lewis Larsen and Mary Elenore Vance Larsen October 30, 1894.  His father was killed 12 February 1896 and his mother raised him and his brother Franklin.  She was a widowed mother.  Lawrence married Ellen B. Budvarson in Salt Lake Temple on 20 February 1918.  He was inducted into the Army in May and sent to Fort Lewis, Washington Training in July.  He was sent to France with the 91st Division.  The 91st went into battle at St. Mihiel for the Meuse-Argonne Sector, September 26-27.  Lawrence was wounded and died October 6, 1918 in a field hospital leaving his bride who was expecting in December and his widowed mother.  He was buried in France in a military cemetary until 1921 when he was brought home to Fairview.  His son Lawrence Erick Jr. was born December 22nd, six days after Ellen was told of her husband's death in France.

The picture above shows from Left to Right:  Ray Tanner, Military Escort, Levern Jensen, Harold Mower, Henry Rasmussen, Otto Clark, Floyd Young, Tilman Graham, Franicello Stewart, ??, Hilden Peterson,
Frank H. Larsen, Ivan Sanderson, Myron Stewart, Ladies: Mrs. Clark, ??, ??, Mary James, Coquella Jones, Gladys Graham.

The picture above shows L to R: Aaron Cheney, Bugler, Myron Stewart, Tilman Graham, ??, Ray Tanner, Military Escort, Levern Jensen, Harold Mower, Otto Clark, Frank H. Larsen, Francello Stewart, Henry Rasmussen, Ivan Sanderson, Hilden Peterson.

In the car and back row are Belle Swenson, Franklin Larsen, Geneve Swenson, John
Vance, Mrs. Clark, Coquella Jones, Teola Wheeler, Mary James, Gladys Graham, ??, Ione Osborne.

foregound: Lawrence Erick Larsen, Jr.                                      3 June 1921

The above taken from Alice Hafen's Memorabilia