After Thanksgiving and Cabin Fire ~ Henefer Timber Project ~ The Great Depression

Home of Carl Gustav Trygg Bjelke and wife Britha Maria (Mary) Wall ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Hearse and Casket Operation; authored by Golden Sanderson (this record found in "Scandinavia to Sanpete" edited by Christian Peel

Fairview's 73 Year Old White Hearse Restored

The following story comes from "Scandinavia To Sanpete", Edited by Christian Peel.   Andreas Olsen, builder of the hearse, was Christian's ancestor.  Photos of the hearse are unavailable but a likeness of what it might have looked like is below.

courtesy of http://www.chateauhorsedrawnhearse.com/

mention of photos are not available

My Aunt Emma ~~ One Classy Lady

Emma Smith

1920 ~ 2014

Emma Arzella Smith, our beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother, friend, and One Classy Lady, returned peacefully to our Father in Heaven on Christmas morning. What a beautiful day for Mom to pass. She had suffered from cancer for many years, which she never
complained of.
Emma was born March 17, 1920 in Fairview, Utah to Charles Martin Rigby and Sarah Pritchett. She attended school in Fairview, Utah through the 11th grade. She later married Maurice (Joe) Smith in 1937 at the Manti, Utah courthouse. Emma and Joe lived on his family farm for a short time, moving to Carbon County for Joe to work in the coal mines.
They were blessed with 2 boys and later moved to Orem, Utah where they were blessed with a baby girl. Mom worked for 30 years, 40 hour work weeks, while raising 3 children and her husband. Mom may have not gone to church much, but she taught and instilled by example strong moral values, which her children have been greatly blessed by.

Emma was preceded in death by her husband Maurice (Joe) in 1980. Mom was the last living child in her family of 4 brothers and 2 sisters. Moms 3 children, Barry (Lenis) Smith, Clyde Pete (Shirley) Smith and Lynne Arzella (Steven) Sargent, brought great joy to her along with 10
grandchildren who blessed her with many great grandchildren. Mom loved to sew. She worked in a Barbizon (garment factory) for 30 years. She also sewed for her children, being very proficient in making her daughter, Lynnes clothes. She could quilt, crochet and knit which she taught to us all. We will be forever grateful for that. When we would come to visit, she was always be ready and willing to play all kinds of games with us. She loved to play Canasta, which she usually always would win, eating peanuts and drinking coke. She loved the outdoors. Her last camping trip was when she was 92 years old, and she loved every minute of it. She loved to see the deer, cows and all the creatures of the woods. Mom lived in Kanab, Utah for her last 11 years. She lived for her family. She will be greatly missed by all of us. Memorial and Graveside services will begin at Sundberg/Olpin Mortuary 11:00 am on Tuesday, December 29, 2014, in Orem, Utah and conclude at East Lawn Memorial Hills, in Provo, Utah. Mosdell Mortuary, of Kanab, Utah, will be handling all of the arrangements.

Wasatch Academy thrives as boys basketball independent in Utah

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Mt. Pleasant Pyramid June 6, 1947

January Almanac

Mt. Pleasant Female Relief Society September 1, 1878

Meeting held Sept. 1, 1878.
Opened with singing.
Prayer by Sister Peel
Singing in Danish.
Sister Peel opened the meeting as Sister Morrison was called away.
to a Dead Person.
Donations were read and disbursements from the last month; also the donation for our missionaries, Brother Franzen and Brother Jensen which amounted to $30.00.

Sister Peel then bore her Testimony, felt thankful for our Heavenly Father, that He had brought the Everlasting Gospel to her native country and had helped her so she could embrace.
She said that she heard a letter read from a Missionary, it said that parents would give their children away and would be glad if anyone would take them; felt glad to come to meeting.  She thanked the Sisters in the name of the Missionaries for the money that was gathered so willingly from the Sisters and said that she went down to Brother Jensen, and could see how glad he was for it.  And before he left, he came to see Sister Peel  and told her again to remember his thanks to the Sisters and wished them to remember them and sustain them with their faith and prayers.  She urged the Sisters to come to Meeting and to   one their duty.
She said that she likes to come up to her duty all the time. If she was well or sick, if she only knew that nothing was on her mind that she has to be sorry for.

Sister Simpson rose and was glad for the opportunity
to meet with the Sisters. She felt that we were a blessed people to live in this peaceful valley and these mountains, and hoped we all would realize this blessing and as the Lord blesses us with plenty, we should try to do the best we can for the building up of His kingdom and always be on our guard; not to do any wrong or hurt anyone's feelings.

Most all of the Sisters present bore their testimonies in a faithful manner.

Meeting was closed with singing and prayer by Sister Simpson.

MFC Morrison, Pres.
Louise Hasler, Sec.

Home of Albert William Noland and wife Estella Rosella Coates ~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Aron Gustav Oman ~ Pioneer of the Month ~ January 2015

New Year's Eve 1912

Mt. Pleasant Pyramid   ~  January 12, 1912

Mt. Pleasant Pyramid January 3, 2013

Scandinavian Choirs

One third of the means for the 567 emigrants leaving Scandinavia in 1869 was sent from Utah. Work on the approaching railroad proved a boon because it was the one type of labor for which cash was paid, cash that could be sent to waiting relatives in the old country. Scandinavians in Utah contributed twenty-five cents a month to a missionary fund, and they organized local emigrant aid societies whose contributions showed up on the emigration ledgers in Copenhagen as the Moroni Fund, the Ephraim Fund, the Provo Fund. The renowned Scandinavian Choir in Salt Lake City held benefit concerts. In Ephraim, Sarah Ann Peterson of the Women's Relief Society urged her sisters to donate all Sunday eggs to the fund, and other settlements followed. In 1872, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the arrival of the Mormons in the Great Salt Lake Valley, friends and relatives in Utah sent $10,000 to Scandinavia. In 1883 they sent $30,000 more to Sweden alone, enabling so many to emigrate that the mission could hardly function.