Show I Annie Katrene rene Jensen Bartlett Continued Continue from Nov 10 Mrs had given her a ten dollar order on a hardware store It was of little value to her however Mrs father took the or order er and let her get Its Hs value In goods at his store She purchased enough material to make two sheets and a pair of pillow cases and one quilt From two lindsey skirts which she brought with her from Denmark she made a bed lick wl which ch she filled with straw While they were still living in Parleys Parley's Canyon she went with her husband and two small boys Bart Hart and George to East Canyon where they were to cut hay When they were returning with the wagon loaded with all their bedding their scythe and grindstone they attempted to pass a coal wagon on a bridge over a creek in Lambs Canyon The old white horse balked and went backwards pushing the mule off the bridge Annie sat In the wagon thinking only of the danger of the men or she might have taken the two boys and jumped to safety The first thing she realized was that the wagon was going over too They fell ten feet straight down into the water She with George under her were under all of that load The cow was tied to the wagon she held back as long as she could which partly broke the force of the wagons wagon's fall and probably saved the life of Annie and her baby Her husband had taken the lines of the team so he rode the horse and Travis Moore Sr rode the mule They couldn't do anything with the balky old horse Annies Annie's hand was hurt a bone was broken Georges George's knee was badly bruised Charley was so afraid that they were killed he hardly dared to go to them The baby lay with dirt all over his face his eyes wide open but did not make a sound TilE THE MEN had to dig steps in the steep bank to get her and the children out Bart was not under the load He vomited and spit blood all the next day but the second day he was all right again They had to take the horses and cow and load a long longway longway longway way down the stream to get them out That night when they got home they had to borrow bedding to sleep in because every bit they own owned owned got wet in the creek Annie said she would never ride into Salt Sail Lake City like some of the other young married girls did She was too proud But after she was married she did She rode into the ci city ty on a load of wood and home on the running gears of the wagon even carrying her purchases Mr an and Mrs Josiah Hardy were moving to St. St George and Mr Bartlett arranged to buy their farm for 2500 The farm was in Parleys Parley's Canyon and only small plots of ground could be worked The Hardys Hardy's took the team and cow and everything that could be used on the farm leaving Annie and her husband stripped Nothing to work w with and 2500 in debt Annie cried many bitter tears over that transaction The grasshoppers took their crops for three years and they suffered many hardships hard hard- ships Being forced to give up their farm they moved to Holliday Although Annie was sorry to lose the farm she felt that it was really an answer to her prayers She had prayed early and late that the Lord would open the way for them to be where j there was an organization of the church I Now she could attend her meetings and it was a great comfort to be here They had just a small piece of land in Holliday but Charley taught school in Mill Creek which was quite a financial help to them When finally they decided to leave Holliday for Ashleys Ashley's Fork they emptied all their expecting to find straw there to refill them There was no straw and they had to spend day after day finding cedar ar bark for that purpose OUR nUH HISTORY moves forward to the tenth year of life in Ashley Valley In 1889 a new home was erected and the last move from the old log cabin was made A great effort was made to finish one bedroom in inthe inthe inthe the new house by October It was finished enough to be used on the and that night the stork left a little red-faced red fat boy with her her-her last They named him Ross During a storm the old house leaked badly so the last of the moving into the new house was accomplished Annie never stayed in bed many days when her babies were born because she always had so much to do When George was three days old she got up and washed Her nurse c cS ca 1 t I r p J a S S ABOVE Henry and Davis Bartlett bottom row Charles Claymore and Annie Katrine Jensen Bartlett went home and did not return Many people both rich and poor were fed and warmed by her under the roof of the new house Hundreds of Indians as well as white people After the death of her baby Marcus in November 1883 she went into the district school and assisted Peter Dillman for far part of the winter The hard winter as it is called was a severe one and the people suffered many hardships Although the Bartletts had brought flour with them they shared it with others less fortunate and before spring the supply was gone For six weeks there was no bread They lived upon hulled corn They had no grease of any kind or milk or fruit or syrup only salt to make the corn palatable A new baby was expected and this diet was not particularly enjoyed at this time but when baby Ashley arrived in April he was fat and looked corn fed The cattle they brought with them all perished save one yoke of oxen and they were very poor when spring came There was a greater trial for them It was the accidental death of their oldest daughter 7 There was no lumber in the fort to make a coffin out of so part of their wagon box was used Good crops of wheat sugar cane and vegetables were raised the following year and they had plenty of food thereafter One day while her husband was away on ona ona ona a mission she and Bart yoked the oxen to put in s some m garden She held the plow and he drove the oxen oxen She put the plow beam deep in the ground Result-a Result wagon load of fine potatoes and a wagon load of seventeen long carrots On another occasion she wanted to drive four miles to Old Ashley town to sell some some eggs She had set the bucket of eggs in the wagon but being impatient at Bart hart for taking time to get a willow whip she shouted at the oxen to start The jerk turned the bucket of eggs over almost sure some of the eggs had been broken On the way soldiers from Fort Thornburg Thornburg Thornburg Thorn- Thorn burg stopped offering her more than the store would pay if she drove to the Fort On her refusal they took the eggs on the spot Their count was more than hers She insisted but they paid her the extra without her driving the added distance to the fort In 1881 a Relief Society was organized in Ashleys Ashley's Fork with Annie K Bartlett a as president and Mrs Jan Rich as secretary In those days it was not only part of the Relief Society work to look after the sick but to make clothing for and to arrange for forthe forthe forthe the burial of the dead The scope of the Society's responsibility was all of Ashley Valley including Dry Fork and Jensen The Bartlett family often recall times when their mother got out of her own sick sickbed sickbed sickbed bed to go and wait on others Then there was the time when the Al AI were living at the sawmill Mrs Johnstun became very ill The only way to get Mother there was in the lumber wagon She gathered up whatever things she might need and went along Such things were not uncommon In fact many and many a time after she had been out until twelve o'clock with the sick or laying out the dead she would walk a mile and half to the home of Sister Bird who had been with her and a mile with her other counselor Mrs Rich because they were afraid to go alone it being so late She would be tired and weary herself and she would walk all that distance back to her own home alone SIZE Sill ENJOYED her labors in the service service service ser ser- vice of her fellowmen knowing that Christ had said Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me When Uintah Stake was organized she was made a member of the Relief Society Stake Board She also served as Matron of the Uintah Stake Academy for thirteen years She was president of the Primary Organization She had the pleasure of having three of her sons sent on missions Bart spent four years in New Zealand as a missionary and then was called back again to be President of the Mission for four more years Ashley went to the Northern States and Ross went to the Eastern States They all were honorably released She was the mother of ten children seven of whom are living Her husband died February 12 1916 In 1898 she returned to her home in Denmark after an absence of two thirty two years She spent six months away on this trip This time she rode on the train over the trail she walked over as an emigrant Whenever a stake conference or any important church meeting was to be held away she would go armed with brooms scrubbing brushes soap rags etc and the Stake House as it was called was surely given a cleaning She could never learn to todo todo todo do work any easier than she did in Den Den- mark So when anyone brought a mop- mop stick and attempted to use it she almost drove them out with a broom or she waited until they left then went over the floor again herself Many were the Apostles and Authorities of the Church who were entertained at her home One time while the family was still living in the old log house at conference time she whitewashed her two rooms hung sheets around the bed scrubbed and polished and cleaned She surveyed her house and decided she was fixed up very fine Brother and Sister John Henry Smith came to conference and were entertained at the Bartlett home Mrs Smith came into the house looked around and said Well it is a shelter That sort of took a alot alot alot lot of the pleasure of her work away Annie K Bartlett was first counselor to Relief Society Stake Presidents Sister Pope and Nancy Colton She was the Conference Reporter for each of them She lived to become three ninety-three years of age Finally dropsy took look her away on January 15 1937 The Vernal Cemetery is her last resting place |