History of Veteran's Day ~ Armistice Day

Autobiography and Journals of Christian Nielsen Lund sr.

         

       

Basketball Team 1907-1909 ~ Submitted by Betty Gunderson Woodbury

Mt. Pleasant Eighth Grade Basketball Team

Champs of the County of Sanpete

First Row: Ione McArthur, Vern Seely, Vivian Pritchett, Della Tidwell

Back Row: ???????, Virginia Gilbert 

Design and Construction of the Utah State Capitol

https://archivesresearch.wordpress.com/2016/10/28/design-and-construction-of-the-utah-state-capitol/

Ole Madsen Reunion ~ Written by Mike Ericksen, A Descendant

• Traveled with his family, was from Denmark.

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 41
• Died en Route

Her Magic Touch ~ Saga of the Sanpitch ~ Volume 9

Photos added by Kathy

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Christinia Jacobson

About the Author:

Elizabeth J. "Beth" Story, 93, was born June 11, 1916, in Mount Pleasant, Utah.

She and her husband, Worth Story, moved to Cheyenne in 1937, where they resided throughout their lives. She was first lady of Cheyenne during the years her husband was mayor of Cheyenne in the late 1950s to early 60s.

She was a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Beth wrote many winning stories for the "Saga of the Sanpitch" which documented the history of Utah's Sanpete County by publishing first-hand accounts of her ancestors who had lived in that area.

She was a member of the Artist Guild and was an accomplished watercolorist. Many of her works are displayed in homes and offices throughout Cheyenne and Utah. She also won several prizes at various art shows in Wyoming. One of her "poppy" paintings is embedded under plastic on a bench near the entrance of Cheyenne's City and County Building on Carey Avenue.

Beth is survived by her two daughters, Mary Ellen Kerr of Richmond, Calif., and Leah Beth Higgins of Eugene, Ore.; her son and daughter-in-law, Roy Worth Story and Jackie of Cheyenne; four grandchildren, Lyndah (Larry) Martell of Albuquerque, N.M., Kayne Bancroft of San Francisco, Amber Story of Broomfield, Colo., and Cody Story of Denver; her great-granddaughter, Lauren Martell of Albuquerque; and a sister, Maud Downard of Price, Utah.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Worth Story; parents, Clarence and Farrie Jacobsen; and three sisters, Olive Honocks, Christy Reynolds and Katherine Jacobsen.

Soren Jacobson Family








Annie Jacobson Wall 

Whatever Happened To The Terrace Ballroom?

See Here: http://www.sltrib.com/news/2250392-155/whatever-happened-tothe-terrace-ballroom

(Photo courtesy Utah State Historical Society) The Rainbow Randevu, 464 S. Main, as seen in April 1956. The dance hall was renamed the Terrace Ballroom in 1960. Across five decades, the venue played host to star-studded big bands and rock groups and was for many the place to be seen in Salt Lake City.

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Home of Roswell Alvaro McArthur and wife Emily Philena Stansfield ~~~ Researched and Compiled by Tudy Barentsen Standlee

Family Group Sheet for Morgan Arthur Winters

Mt. Pleasant Bishops ~ Up to and Including 1957

FAMILY TREE

Elizabeth Cook Evans ~~~ Pioneer of the Month ~~~November 2016

 Taken from Family Search
· 8 May 2015 · 

ELIZABETH COOKE‘s STORY

Elizabeth Cooke was the daughter of Stephen Cooke and Isabella Norris (Cunningham). She had a sister named Margaret Norris Cooke. Both Elizabeth and Margaret went to Nauvoo. Elizabeth was sealed in the Nauvoo Temple to Thomas Kirkpatrick. Of this marriage there were two sons: (1) Robert Kirkpatrick of ___ Pennsylvania and (2) Clement Kirkpatrick of Cloverdale, California. 

A Daughters of Utah Pioneers history written by a granddaughter, Halleen Ivie Nicol, states that she was married at age 16 to Thomas Kirkpatrick and that he died at age 19. the two sons that she and Thomas had were supposedly taken by their father's family to raise and never did come west with her, nor did they join the LDS church. Thomas died without a will, so it may have been an unexpected and quick death. The inventory of his estate shows a fairly good estate for a young man in that area. 

The 1830 Census shows a widowed Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (marked in the 20-30 age category) with 2 male children under age 5 residing in East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Residing nearby and listed on the next page of the census are the names of individuals who appear in later records for the Kirkpatrick and Cook families. We find Isaac Hopkins (the first named guardian to the children who died before Mar 1834). Isaac appears to be in the 30 to 40 year old age category. Next door to Isaac resides Simeon Siegfried, who later signed the letters of administration papers. Next door to David is Thomas Lloyd. He was the appraiser of the estate. Down the page a little more we find David Hughes, for whom Elizabeth was later vicariously baptized in Nauvoo, Illinois.

 In 1843, Elizabeth identified David Hughes as her deceased "brother-in-law". His wife's name was Mary. Mary is a step-sister to Elizabeth. They both have the same mother but different fathers. Her 2nd marriage was to Evan Evans (in 1834 or 1835) and of this marriage there were 5 children: (1) Susannah Evans, b. 12 Dec 1835 and married James Alexander Gamette; (2) William John Evans (never married); (3) James Washington Evans; (4) Isabelle Margaret Evans (married Dr. Washington F. Anderson, (5) Elizabeth Evans. Evan and Elizabeth joined the LDS church and came to Nauvoo. Records show that they resided in the 1st Ward in Nauvoo, in the Kimball 2, block 19, lot 1. 

The Nicol history reports that Evan was a body guard to the Prophet Joseph Smith at Nauvoo. Evan Evans died and was buried in the pioneer cemetery in Nauvoo in Oct 1844. The Nicol history goes on to report that while still in Winter Quarters, Elizabeth was counseled to marry William Clark (brother of George Sheffer Clark) who was a widower with 6 children. She bore him 3 more children and immigrated to Utah in President Canute Peterson's Company. This company departed for the Salt Lake Valley on 27 June 1856 and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley between 16-23 Sep 1856.

 There were some 320 individuals and 60 wagons in the company. It headed out from Florence, (now Omaha) Nebraska. After arriving in Utah, they went to settle in Pleasant Grove, Utah. Some few years later, William Clark became dissatisfied and returned to the East, abandoning Elizabeth and their children. 

Her oldest daughter was married in the East before traveling to Utah and, with her husband, settled in Pleasant Grove. Her son James went with a group of people to California before his family started and was never heard from. It is thought that he was killed by Indians. 

From Pleasant Grove, Elizabeth moved to Ephraim with those called to settle there, but soon she took her children and went to Mt. Pleasant Creek, before it was settled, and there she was the first white settler who plowed her own soil and planted her garden. There she remained and reared her family. Elizabeth loved flowers and had a very beautiful garden. Her grandson, Justin Thomas Ivie, when a small boy didn't like her to give so many flowers away, so he cut them all off one year so no one could have any. 

Elizabeth was described as a beautiful woman with big brown eyes which were something to look at. An interesting observation is that after William Clark left the family, Elizabeth appears in all of the records as "Elizabeth Evans." Elizabeth died at the home of her daughter, Isabella Evans Anderson, in Salt Lake City, Utah*. She was buried east of the W. F. Anderson family burial plot in the City Cemetery in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her age at death was recorded as 89 years, 8 months, 2 days, and this was used to calculate her birth date as being in 1809.

 Sources: 1. Salt Lake City, Utah Death Register, Evans, Elizabeth: Record of Death (microfilm of original register book), Book B, page 93, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, LDS microfilm # 0026554.

 2. East Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth: 1830 US Census (online census image), P. 194, 1830, Ancestry.com.

 3. DUP history written by Halleen Ivie Nicol, made available through the courtesy of the International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers. It was provided through the Davis County and Kimball Camp Historians. 

*The following is a quote from a letter written by Guy Anderson to his sister, Sibyl Anderson on January 17, 1898: “Everyone at home is very well excepting grandmother who has had a hard time of it this winter. She set the bedclothes on fire a few evenings ago and we can’t make her believe she hasn’t just returned from Hades. Mabel was the heroine and ought to have a gold medal. Pat arrived on the scene very late with a bucket of water and nearly drowned us all.”