Wilson's Blacksmith Shop

We believe this building was on the south corner of State and Main  where Skyline Pharmacy is today.

Peter Monson Funeral ~ Notes made by Hilda Madsen Longsdorf

Making Charcoal ~ From the Bonneville Forge Council Blacksmith Site

http://www.bfcsmiths.com/index.html

Pioneer Day and Homecoming ~~~ March 24th ~~~ See details below

Roy August Lundberg History ~ submitted by Judy Malkiewicz

Roy August Lundberg

Born 16 June 1912 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah and Died 8 May 1933 Salt Lake City, Utah

Roy A. Lundberg was the youngest and only son of Dr. August Lundberg (dentist) and August’s third wife, Sarah Matilda (went by Matilda) Johansen Lundberg who were married in 1902. Roy was born 16 June 1912 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.  A photo of his parents:

Roy had three half-siblings from his father’s first marriage (August Lundberg born 1846 and died 1919 and Sophia Persdotter Peterson Lundberg (born 14 August 1884 in Almude, Stockholm, Sweden and died unknown date, but possibly prior to 1880). These half-siblings were Amanda Lundberg (born 1869 and died unknown date); Richard Henry Lundberg (born 1 May 1873 and died 5 October 1955); and Oscar Lundberg (born 1874 and died 1952).

Roy also had four half-siblings form his father’s second marriage (August Lundberg born 1846 and died 1919 and Christina Matilda Lundberg unknown birth date and died 1896) including Jennie Lundberg (Zabriskie) Waldemar (born 1880 and died 3 March 1924), Edwin Lundberg (born 15 January 1886 and died 14 December 1943), Maple Lundberg (born 12 May 1888 and died 16 July 1934) , and Nancy Lundberg (born 2 January 1891 and died 3 March 1943).

Roy attended school at the Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

 Roy worked as a sheepherder and also served with the Battery D, 22^nd Field Artillery, Utah National Guard.

Roy died of a brain tumor at the age of 20 years on 8 May 1933 in a Salt Lake City, Utah hospital. His father, Dr. August Lundberg had died in 1919 and Roy was buried near him at the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery in Mt. Pleasant, Utah. Roy was survived by his mother, Sarah Matilda (went by Matilda) Johansen Lundberg, and all of his half-siblings except for Jennie C. Lundberg who died in 1924.

North Ward Chapel Mt Pleasant Utah Alice Hafen's Photo 

Obituary from Salt Lake Tribune 9 May 1933:

Roy Lundberg, 20, of Mt. Pleasant, only son of Mrs. Matilda and the late Dr. August Lundberg, pioneer jeweler and dentist of Mt. Pleasant, died in a local hospital Monday after a prolonged illness. The youth was a former student at the Wasatch Academy and was a first class private in Battery D, 22^nd Field Artillery, Utah National Guard, until he became ill last fall. He is survived by his mother, four half-brothers and a half-sister, Nancy Lundberg of Provo; Richard Lundberg of Idaho Falls, Idaho; Oscard Lundberg of Uintah Reservation; M.H. Lundberg, Mackay, Idaho and Edward Lundberg of Salt Lake. The body will be taken to Mt. Pleasant for funeral services and burial.

Roy’s half-brother from Mackay, Idaho, Maple H. Lundberg along with his wife, Hazel Anderson Lundberg and their son Rex H. Lundberg (all born in Mt. Pleasant, Utah) attended the funeral for Roy in June of 1933 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery, Sanpete County, Mt. Pleasant, Utah.

David Jorgensen, Pioneer of the Month ~ March 2012

Pioneer Day Invite ~ March 21, 1913 ~~~ Elva Guyman Collection

 This would be what your Pioneer Day Ball invitation would look like in 1913.  


All were requested to be in "Old Fashioned Dress."


And it was to be held at the Mt. Pleasant Opera House.  


Tickets 50 cents  ~  Extra ladies 25 cents.

A PASTOR WITH GUTS !!! ~ shared by Lorie Hardy

A Pastor with GUTS! Thought you might enjoy this interesting  prayer given in Kansas at  the opening session of their Senate. It seems  prayer still upsets some  people.. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open  the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is

what they heard: 

Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask
your forgiveness and to seek your direction and
guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those
who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we
have done. 

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed
our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it 
the lottery. 

We have rewarded laziness and called it
welfare.. 

We have killed our unborn and called it 
choice. 

We have shot abortionists and called it
justifiable. 

We have neglected to discipline our
children and called it building self esteem....

We have abused power and called it
politics. 

We have coveted our neighbor's possessions
and called it ambition. 

We have polluted the air with profanity and
pornography and called it freedom of expression. 

We have ridiculed the time-honored values
of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.

Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts
today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free.
Amen!


The response was immediate. A number of
legislators walked out during the prayer in
protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian
Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than
5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls
responding negatively. The church is now receiving
international requests for copies of this prayer
from India , Africa and Korea .

Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on
his radio program, 'The Rest of the Story,'and
received a larger response to this program than any
other he has ever aired. 


With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep
over our nation and wholeheartedly become our
desire so that we again can be called 'one nation
under God.' 

Victorian Dresses

Cyrus Wheelock ~ A Favorite Pioneer

When we first started this blog  in 2008, I chose Cyrus Hubbard Wheelock as of first "Pioneer of the Month".  His contribution to our history in Mt. Pleasant and also Church History is more than can be adequately expressed.  After posting just a few comments about this wonderful man, I ran onto his history that was submitted to the Mt. Pleasant Pioneer Historical Association.  It is on yellowed parchment.  I want to share this with you, and will post it on his "Pioneer of the Month"  page as well.


Please make sure you read to the very bottom.  There is a large space on page 3, and then more information below that page.

Face the Challenge or Lose Face by Leland Stansfield

A    MUST    READ

.....and I thought just climbing to the top of the fire escape was a challenge !!! (Kathy)

comment by:

Carol Corcoran  My knee's shook when I read that...and we never even thought of things like that. We use to take wax paper and wax it to go faster...and then the boys would go up and pee down it!!

Jennie C. Lundberg Waldemar History ~ submitted by Judy Malkiewicz

Jennie Celestic Lundberg (Zabriskie) Waldemar

Born 1880 and Died 3 March 1924 in Salt Lake City, Utah

Jennie Celestic Lundberg was the oldest daughter of Dr. August Lundberg (dentist) and Christina Matilda (maiden name may have been Neilsen, Anderson, Christensen, or Ericksen) Lundberg. Jennie was born in 1880 in Utah.

When Jennie was was 16 years old, her birth mother, Christina Matilda Lundberg, died 5 August 1896 in Mt. Pleasant, Utah and is buried at the Mt. Pleasant City Cemetery. It appears Jennie lived on her own with her brother, Edwin Lundberg (born 15 January 1886 and died 14 December 1943) who was 10 years old at this time.  Jennie married for the first time on 8 November 1897 to Louis C. Zabriskie in Manti Utah.

Jennie’s younger brother, Maple (born 12 May 1888 and died 16 July 1934) and her younger sister, Nancy Lundberg (born 2 January 1891 and died 3 March 1943) were then raised by August Lundberg in Salt Lake City, Utah while he studied to be a dentist.  

Jennie had three half-siblings from his father’s first marriage (August Lundberg (born 1846 and died 1919) and Sophia Persdotter Peterson Lundberg (born 14 August 1884 in Almude, Stockholm, Sweden and died unknown date, but possibly prior to 1880). These half-siblings were Amanda Lundberg (born 1869 and died unknown date); Richard Henry Lundberg (born 1 May 1873 and died 5 October 1955); and Oscar Lundberg (born 1874 and died date unknown).

Jennie’s father, Dr. August Lundberg, married a third time to Sarah Mathilda (went by Mathilda) Johansen Lundberg in 1902 then raised Mape and Nancy as stepchildren. Mathilda and August Lundberg had only one son, Roy Lundberg, who was born 16 June 1912 and died of a brain tumor 8 May 1933.

Jennie’s sister, Nancy Lundberg, suffered a fall from a hay wagon or loft as a child which resulted in epilepsy. When Nancy was 19 years old in 1910, her father, Dr. August Lundberg, had her placed at the Utah State Hospital Territorial Insane Asylum, later to be known as the Utah State Hospital. Nancy died in 1943 and her mother is listed as Christina Ericksen Lundberg on the death certificate.

Jennie was listed in the 1900 Mt. Pleasant, Utah Census as living with her brother Edwin and employed as a dressmaker. Her last name is “Lundberg”, so her divorce from Louis C. Zabriskie must have taken place sometime between their marriage in 1897 and 1900.

Jennie married a second time on 20 May 1919 to James A. Waldemar in Manti, Utah. James died on 3 November 1936. 

Jennie moved to Salt Lake City, Utah in July 1920.

On 3 March 1924, Jennie J. Lundberg Zabriskie Waldemar (who was married to Louis C. Zabriskie briefly) and then James A. Waldemar died of a drug overdose at the Salt Lake City Hospital, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Note: Jennie’s birth mother’s (Christina Matilda Lundberg) maiden name was listed as Neilson and Anderson on Jennie’s Death Certificate and Ericksen on her sister, Nancy Lundberg’s Utah Burial Database.

Judy Malkiewicz of Mackay,  Idaho has sent us a number of her grandmother's photos in the past.  She promised us more in the future.   She was recently diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells with no known cure.    She has two websites of her own.  One tells of her battle with multiple myeloma: http://jmmultiplemyeloma.blogspot.com.  The other tells us of the "goings on" in Mackay Idaho, where she now lives and where her grandmother moved to after leaving Mt. Pleasant: http://mackayidaho1.blogspot.com/ . We are posting a number of the photos and histories she has shared.  We wish Judy all the best in her battle against multiple myeloma. Many thanks to Judy for thinking of us at this critical time in her own life.   (posted by Kathy)

Dr. Lundberg Lost His Valise