Home of Magnus Olsen and his wife Minnie Marnetta Christensen ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

HATMAKING IN EARLY PIONEER DAYS

  

HATMAKING IN EARLY PIONEER DAYS

By Wilhelmina H.M. Ericksen 1928 (Book of Mt. Pleasant)

A Becoming Hat adds much to the appearance of a lady and emphasizes her good grooming. This fact was realized in pioneer days, even as it is at the present, but there are many difficulties to be overcome at that time in the art of millinery, which present-day hat makers know nothing about.

Many materials, available now (1928), were unknown at that time. In fact, straw for the summer hats and old velvet, silk, felt or wool goods for the winter bonnets, with trimmings of the same material or dyed chicken feathers and homemade flowers, were about the limit of their millinery supplies.

A millinery shop, in those days, was not just a place where ladies, young and old (could try) on hats which had been manufactured in some distant city, (or) until they found the most becoming one and bought it. It was not a shop where they could go and select a becoming hat shape; and order it trimmed according to (their own) fancy. The pioneer milliner gathered her raw materials and proceeded with much painstaking and tedious labor to manufacture both hat shapes and trimmings.

Mt. Pleasant pioneer milliners were Mrs. Marie Jacobsen, Mrs. Ida C. Larsen, and Mrs. M.F.C. Morrison. In the early (1870’s), Mrs. Louise Aldrich did much of the straw making and taught a number of young women the art of braiding the straw and making the trimmings.

Those seen in this picture are left to right:

Ella Candland, Johanna M. Hafen, Mina Bjelke, Bertie M. Eatinger, and Tina Nelson

 

Mabel Cook ~~~ CITIZEN OF THE MONTH ~~~ JULY 2021

We are so blessed to have her as our neighbor. 

I wish this was a better picture of her.

She is standing with Mayer Mike Olsen 

 

PONY EXPRESS ~~ Skyline Riding Club 1964 ~~ Shared by the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid

The names on the bottom are not in order however, they are Ross Terry, Cleon Rigby, 

Ed Bench, Gardell Osborne, and Jerry Hansen.

They are holding up their trophies. 

 

IN SUPPORT OF POLYGAMY ~~~ Christianna Peel ~ 1870

A Talk Given in Support of Polygamy by Christianna Peel - 1870

Dear Sisters!
We have come together today to express our views in regard to the Bill now before Congress known as the Cullom Bill. I shall try to offer a few remarks if the spirit of God will assist me. We have embraced the Gospel of Christ, not because we were compelled to do so, but because the spirit of God moved us and bore testimony to the truth of its principle; which principles we know are for salvation to all who obey them. We have left our native lands and traveled thousands of miles for the sake of having the liberty to live up to these principles; we left our relatives, the friends of our youth and the places which were dear to us for the sake of this Liberty. We imagined that when we should come to this country we would have the liberty to live in peace and especially to enjoy that liberty which every woman would seek, namely to be free to choose for herself a companion, not only for life but for eternity also. We had heard about the glorious document, the Constitution of the United States, bequeathed to the citizens of this great Republic which citizenship we claim to hold; if not all of us by birth then by adoption, as our husbands either born or naturalized citizens of this country. I said we had heard about this glorious document, which gives freedom to all to worship God in accordance with the dictates of their conscience. But, how do we find it? By reading this document which goes under the name of the Cullom Bill, we find that either must we have been greatly mistaken about this great liberty that we expected to find here, or else there must be men entirely void of all righteousness who are willing to take away from us this liberty which they so gloriously hold forth to every nation. I said, “entirely void of all righteousness.” For it would be impossible for a man with the least sense of righteousness to try to rob a peaceful and honest people of this heavenly boon which is highly appreciated by all nations, the liberty to worship God as their hearts may dictate. They say that they have such kind feelings for the women of Utah; they want to liberate us. I will ask: from what? Their wish is to liberate us from being chaste and true to our husbands and bring us to destruction if it be in their power. They say they will imprison our husbands. For what? For nothing but obeying the Laws of the Almighty which are not only revealed in these days but also in days of old which we can see through the bible. I wonder if that man, if he can have the honor of being called a man, who framed this bill, ever saw a bible. For I think if ever he saw a bible he had seen something about this principle: Plural Marriage, which he pronounces to be a crime. But, my dear sisters, we verily find that such wicked men are found who will rob us of our liberty. Therefore, let us stand by our husbands and live humble before God and pray to Him for deliverance and He who has all Power in His Hands will smite these wicked men with a sore affliction and he will deliver his saints.
Christianna Peel

How To Pray For Rain (taken from Utah Historical Quarterly Summer 2006 ~ volume 74}

DIXIE FOLKLORE 

 

CHILDREN GROUP WITH NAMES ~~~ From the Alice Hafen Collection

 

ICE BOX HISTORY

We have a lovely icebox at the Relic Home.  It is not known who donated it.  Many of the mainstay items were never cataloged. It may have come from the home of  Hilda Madsen Longsdorf.  Hilda was the secretary of this organization; she had no children and so many of her items were brought to the Relic Home.

We have been told that the ice was taken from Wales Reservoir and cut up in blocks.  Some have said that a wagon would be used to canvas the streets and the ice were sold from there.  The Ericksen Meat and Grocery had an "icehouse" behind their store where they stored their meat and also sold ice to customers.  

 

Gonna Shoot You ~~~ Submitted by Larry Staker

 

Mt. Pleasant Eighth Grade Basketball Team ~~~ Champs of Sanpete County

 

Jon Hafen's Sunflowers at Sundown

 

Home of Christian Joseph Jensen and his wife Rosella Ann Farnworth ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

 

ROSENLOF FAMILY ~~~ Pioneers of the Month ~~~ August 2021

 Courtesy of Betty Gunderson Woodbury 

  The Rosenlof Family Picture was taken soon after they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley from Sweden in 1860. They sailed on the "Wm Tapscott" from Liverpool 11 May 1860, arriving in New York 16 June 1860. They finally settled at Mt Pleasant in the fall of 1860. The family of five included Nils Pehrsson Rosenlof 1826-1908, Anna Marie Rosengren Rosenlof 1835-1875 and their three children Olaf 1854-1932, Janne (John) 1857-1922 and Emma Amalie1860-1861. Five more children were born in Mt Pleasant, Martin Albert 1862-1947, Helma Emogine 1865-1869, Mary Annie 1867-1940, Niels Frank 1870-1941 and Fritz 1875-1937

Two years later my Great Grandmother Kirsti Louisa Rosengren Beckstrom immigrated to Mt Pleasant through the encouragement of her half-sister, Anna Marie Rosengren Rosenlof. Louisa arrived just three weeks before her sister's 4th child Martin Albert was born 22 Oct 1862. She lived with her sister and helped with the children until she married Andrew Beckstrom , 28 Oct 1863. He arrived from Sweden in 1859 with the 8th Handcart Co. They had 11 children, 8 grew to adulthood. (Their picture is included.)

Andrew and Louise Beckstrom