Obituary: LARSEN, MIRIAM CANDLAND~December 3, 2013 ~ Deseret News

Obituary: LARSEN, MIRIAM | Deseret News

Miriam Candland Larsen (1922 - 2013) - Find A Grave Memorial

He Invented the Gun that Helped Tame the Frontier ~~~~~~ Mt. Pleasant Pyramid, 1936-02-21,

West Ward School

Terry W. Ames 1940 - 2014 ~ Obituary

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Merging Photos of Two Old Main Street Buildings

Photo 1  Telegraph Office

Photo 2 Barber Shop

The two buildings merged
Same people, probably taken on the same day.

Thanks to Reed Russell we discover that not only were they the same people  ~  the merged (2 photos) proves to be "one picture" .  Now why didn't I discover that?  Thanks Reed !!!

William Gilbert Barton and wife Mary Gledhill Home ~ Researched by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Athol and Denna Madsen Obituary ~ July 1980

Mt. Pleasant Beginnings by Arla May Stansfield Peterson ~ typed by Kathleen Truscott Simpson

Outlaws In Our Midst at Pioneer Day

Henning Pedersen Peel ~ Pioneer of the Month ~ April 2014

Henning Pedersen Pihl Biography by Sylvia Randall Peel

Henning Pedersen Pihl was born the 26th of February 1799 in the small parish of Poulsker on the farm Dyndebygaard, just down the road from the Poulsker Church.  Henning's father was Henning Pedersen also, and his mother was Ane Olsdatter.  Henning was raised with two older sisters -7 and 9 years older (his parents had lost four children in between) and his mother died when he was two years old.  His father married Kirsten Pedersdatter the next year.

In 1818, when Henning was twenty, he moved to another parish two miles west of Poulsker, called Pedersker.  He had taken the last name of Pihl. (A pihl is a poplar tree or willow that is grown on the island.)  Under the "Names Act of 1828" Danes were required to take surnames.  Henning was probably associated with or worked on a name Pilesgaard (or Pihlgaard or Piilgaard) from which he took his name.  There are several Pilegaard homes close to Dyndebygaard in Poulsker. Willows were used in home building in Utah as lath on which plaster was applied to finish the interior walls of a home or building.  There is a log home built by his grandson, Christian F. Peel in which willow branches were used in this manner.  The home is located about two miles southwest of Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

 

On the 16th of October 1819, Henning married Karen Kirstine Madsen in Pedersker Church.  She was born and lived in Pedersker.  They relocated in or near Aaker, the village in the center of Bornholm.  Their first son, Peder Madsen Pihl was born to them August 24, 1820.  AnneKirstine Elsine Pihl was born 14 March 1826 and died two days later.  Caroline Pihl was born 14 February 1827 and she died 12 May 1835.  The second Caroline Pihl was born 5 March 1836.  They were all born in or near Aaker and christened in the beautiful Aaker church.  Peder and Caroline lived to adulthood and raised families.

Henning, Karen and Caroline were baptized into the LDS church November 11, 1851 by Hans Peder Jensen.  They went during the night to the beach where they were baptized.  They were some of the first members on Bornholm.  They were persecuted greatly by their fellow countrymen.  Henning, Karen and Caroline chose to immigrate from Denmark the fall of 1852.  They received their "Going Out" permits November 6, 1852.  They sailed with 25 adults and 11 children for Copenhagen to join other Scandinavian saints.  They sailed for England on December 20th via Keil.  Brother John Forsgren was their leader.  They left Liverpool on January 16, 1853 with 297 saints on the Forest Monarch.  They landed in New Orleans on March 12, 1853.  Then they traveled up the Mississippi River to Keokuk, Iowa.  May 21, they left Keokuk and traveled by ox train to Salt Lake City arriving on September 30, 1853.  They were the first large company of Scandinavian saints to emigrate to Utah.  The LDS emigration records list Henning as a doctor and also the last name is spelled Piil.

Karen died November 30, 1853 in Salt Lake City, two months after arriving in Utah.  Shortly after her death Henning and Caroline moved to Lehi.  The following year Peder and his wife Christiane came to Utah.  Shortly after that they all traveled to Salt Lake, they could not find Karen's grave.  To this day we don't know where she was buried.

Caroline married Hans Y. Simpson in 1855.  Henning married Johanna Hansen in the Endowment House in SLC on May 23rd, 1856. Henning lived in Lehi about five years.  After the Utah war he and his family traveled to Ephraim passing through Salt Creek Canyon on June 4, 1858 unarmed.  The following day several pioneers were massacred by the Indians there.  Shortly after they moved to Mt. Pleasant.  Henning helped build the fort.  He settled here and lived in Mt. Pleasant the rest of his life.  He built a small home on the southeast corner of 300 west and 400 south.

Following the death of his second wife he married Hannah Louisa Frederikke (probably Mina).  In the 1880 census he is listed as blind.  Also at that time he and his wife were caring for his wife's granddaughter.  Her mother had died and her father was serving a mission.  Henning died August 6, 1885.  He is buried in the Mt. Pleasant City cemetery with his second and third wife.

The following is research on the Henning Peel home done by Tudy Barentsen Standlee.

Duncan James McMillan and wife Emily Kent Johnston ~ Wasatch Academy Was Founded April 19, 1875

Pioneer Day ~ Mt. Pleasant Historical Association ~ 2014 ~ Big Success

Oldest Lady in attendance was Verla Marx.

Oldest Gentleman in attendance was Francis Carlson.

It has been the tradition of each Annual Pioneer Day since its beginning to honor the oldest man and oldest lady in attendance. This year Verla Marx at 9? and Francis Carlson at age 9? took the honors.  Each received a corsage and boutonnière from Roxey Washburn, board member of the association.

We had a very good attendance. Almost all chairs were filled.  All those over 80 years old received a free lunch as well as a flower.  

The program theme was "Who Shot the Sheriff?".  The theme was taken from the shooting of Lon Larsen on main street by Hiram BeBee back in 1945.  Much speculation and diverse history has been drummed up from the event.  Some have claimed that Bebee was the "Sundance Kid".  The years don't match nor the DNA. Hiram Bebee was none other than Hiram Bebee.  He was pardoned from the death penalty and spent the rest of his life in prison.

Mt. Pleasant Pyramid November 26, 1948

Reva Cox Fillis and Son

L to R:  Dave Gunderson, Mary Louise Seamons, Deborah Seamons and Kathryn Gunderson

L to R:  Darlene Frandsen Blackham and Donna Graham Brunger

Cousins  Madsen: Linda and Dora


L to R:  Donna Brunger, Kathy Hafen, Judith Jackson, Darlene Blackham, Roxey Washburn, LaRue Beck Stewart

More to come.............

Ephraim Madsen History and Artwork. Taken from the Johanna Madsen Hafen Collection

Their First Home  ~  Ephraim Madsen, Artist

My father's name was Peter Madsen of Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah.  In 1879 there were a dozen families each took a homestead, and 160 acres on a swampland called the town's herd ground.  It was then owned by the Territory of Mexico.  In a loghouse there, I Ephraim A. Madsen was born in 1881.  In Grover Cleveland's panic, we signed a note of $200 to buy machinery. The note holder caused a cattle sale; 20 cows were sold for $8.00 a head.  There were eight children and we were now on our own, to starve or leave home for work.

In 1903, I attended Fairbank's School of Landscape Painting.  That Spring I bade my class goodbye.  A week later I was in our sheep camp on the west desert.  On the inside cover of the wagon I painted eight pictures. A neighbor sheepman, John H. Stansfield copied my paintings; he became a famous artist.  I was called the "Desert Artist".  Years later he painted our sheep camp dogs.  He said:  "I give you this painting because you gave me one-half of your colored pencils 20 years ago on the desert, near the Nevada State line."

I have written poems of my life.  Now, in 1963,I have made paintings from each poemand the home where I was born; also, sheep camps and herds on the desert and Manti Forest, etc.

In 1907 I married Thurza Whitlick.  We took up a homestead in 1909. It was named Grand View Sheep and Wheat Farm at Hill Top.  There we built a cabin.  It was our first home.  There I lambed the sheep.  Thurza was the camp tender.  We fed thousands of fat lambs from the Manti Forest.  We had to live there three years to raise grain, from the bushel of wheat called Can Red.  It was bred in Kansas and it soon covered our farm,  much of our county and the State of Utah.  It won for us 50 blue ribbons at the State Fair and the Ogden seed show, and ninth prize at the Chicago Seed Show.  It made your bread better, and could add up to a million bushels now.

I have collected woodwork no carpenter can excel; a collection of rocks that tell the history of the western states.  On our summer range I have carved animals on trees.  From the trees I have cut off the bark:  an elephant in 1900, a fox in 1933, a grizzly bear in 1945, my own picture in 1914.  I have written a book of my sheep and farm life, a book of our travels from ocean to ocean, and a book of thrills and spills.  We have chairs that came from Denmark.  I have many other hobbies.

My biggest value is my family.  My wife has everything to live with me 56 years.  Our children have never caused us sorrow.  We lost Allan in World War II.  Karma lives at Tacoma, Eve at Boise, Lloyd at Ogden and LaVon lives here. We pray for health to enjoy everything God has blessed us with from now until then.

Homecoming at Mt. Pleasant  ~ April 9, 1952

The Madsen family gave the program.  I, Ephraim A. Madsen was the only one alive at the meeting of five Madsen families that settled Mt. Pleasant in 1859.  

A meeting was held  to organize a Madsen Family Reunion.  Mina and I had 50 books like this one to give Mother Madsen's families.  I hope this book will be of value to your community.

More to come.......