BRIGHAM YOUNG AND TWELVE APOSTLES 1870 ~~~CITY AND VALLEY OF GREAT SALT LAKE 1870

Photo by Savage and Ottinger 

 

PAST PRESIDENTS AND GENERAL AUTHORITIES OF THE LATTER DAY SAINT CHURCH

 

Home of Erick Bertle Ericksen and his wife Elsie Marie Syndergaard (from our archives)

 

Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Celebration 1949

 

MT. PLEASANT MAYOR RESIGNS, CHERRON SEELY TAKES REINS ~~~~ Mt. Pleasant Pyramid ~ May 9, 1969

Home of Erick Bertle Ericksen and wife Elsie Marie Syndergaard ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Home of Lars Christian Madsen and wife Mary Olive Nelson ~~~ Researched and compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Home of Jacob Bentsen Rolfson and wife Margretha Christene Kjelson ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Utah's First Christmas ~ From the Alice Hafen Collection

....taken from the Salt Lake Tribune Home Magazine

December 25th 1969

Group Photos From the Alice Peel Hafen Collection

Home of Lars Christian Madsen and wife Mary Olive Nelson ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

PIONEER TRIBUTE

Andrew Madsen
The following is taken from Andrew Madsen's Personal History

At the 1909 Dedication of Mt. Pleasant's Pioneer Monument this poem was read by Moroni Pratt, who was a Mt. Pleasant pioneer boy.

PIONEER TRIBUTE

Now unveil the shaft of honor

Monument to Pioneers

those who bravely fought life's battles

long ago. e'en fifty years

Let each name appear resplendent; 

As 'tis chiseled full and deep,

Names of these who built Mt. Pleasant

Many now who peaceful sleep.

Sons and daughters now beholding,

What your willing hands have wrought, 

Let now the toil and hardship 

That with Pioneer Life was frought.

Days of toil and nights of danger,

Danger from a savage foe,

Danger from a myriad of crickets

Bringing hunger, want and woe.

Danger from the frost and winter 

Late in Spring and early Fall

Scarce could they secure a harvest 

But their God was over all. 

And in time those troubles vanished

Smiling Spring and welcome rain,

Kissed the land and made it fruitful

Bringing forth the golden grain.

As we gazed upon the Pageant

Counter marching through the town,

In today's grand Celebration

Of its fifty years renown.

Oh, we noted well the changes

In the picture then and now,

Then bright youth and early manhood,

Silver grays and bent forms now.

But those grand old gray haired veterans,

few are left to form in line,

We'r today the guests of honor of 

Pioneers "59".

Hail, ye noble Fathers, Brothers,

Who began a City here,

Hail, all Hail, Ye Wives and Mothers,

Hail Ye Faithful Pioneers.

Home of Erick Bertie Ericksen and wife Elsie Marie Syndergaard ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

1949 Party ~ After the Annual Pioneer Celebration ~ From the Johannah Madsen Hafen Collection

Dr. Dean C. Rigby

Dr. Dean Carrol Rigby was born November 4, 1919 in Fairview, a son of Dr. Samuel B. and Alice Anderson Rigby. He graduated from Wasatch Academy in 1938. He received his BS degree from Utah State University and his MD from the University of Utah, and interned at Sacramento County General Hospital. He practiced medicine for 20 years, spending 11 years in Moroni before moving to Mt. Pleasant in 1960.

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He was a member of the Utah State Medical Association, a member of the Sanpete L.D.S. Hospital staff and school doctor at Wasatch Academy for eight years. He served as captain in the Army. Dr. Rigby was a member of the L.D.S. Church.

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He married Lurline Jones October 7, 1945 in Sacramento and the marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple

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Dr. Rigby was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Lions Club and a

councilman in Mt. Pleasant City administration. He served as chairman of the cemetery, also buildings and public grounds committee. He also served on the public safety and waterworks committees, and he was a member of the city board of health.

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He and his wife Lurline were the parents of two children, Newel and Alice Gaye.

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He died August 26, 1968, along with another city councilman, Andrew Pratt in a terrible accident while traveling along Mt. Pleasant State Street where they were hit broadside by a runaway city vehicle.