| Show jensen jusen s foldesi st Pioneer Buried onlest Frida friday 4 DEATH TAKES MRS ANNIE JENSEN AFTER BRIEF ILL nebs ONLY TWO OTHERS IN JENSEN WIRE THERE ruenn LON LONGER nan AND THEY WERE SMALL CHILDREN WHEN SHE SUE ARRIVED IN 1937 JENSEN at the the close ot of the year jensen was called calle to part with one of its oldest pl and in the number ot of year years ita its oldest person at 1143 11 ai a R m wednesday of last w week eek mrs annie marle madsen huber jensen pioneer died at her home A at the ripe age of 67 87 bhe she had been III ali only a few daya days with a severe cold although die she was waa advanced in years and was not considered dangerously III with the flu and never regained her to former er good beadth just a few minute beloro before her death she arose from her bed and complained of bi being ing so terribly tired or as the she expressed it tired enough to die lying down again ahe passed away peacefully her whole life was that of the pioneer although she lived far for into this modem modern age of convenience her last days were much those ot at the pioneer as the day she came to je jensen risen in 1878 1879 her very retiring nature prevented her from ever ct catching ching up to the present time she was happy and contented in her home and the love of 0 f her sons and the few close friends whom she trusted happy in the true I 1 spirit of the pioneer Arrivi rc in jensen lato in the fall ot of 1870 1879 hen ahen only a few families were ere here with her husband lars and three year old soi so jens they up at the bm bliton ton biome homestead at the mouth of brush creek because of the indian uprising throughout the coir country in the spring they took a home tead at the lower crosing cross ng on thu green river and constructed a terry ferry boat which they ran for 23 22 v scars c ars their home as built on the barks of the river but high enough that high water never rs me into it the ice lee jiorge n 1008 1009 nearly tore away the bank on chich it stood jensen was named after the jer jeroen an ferry perry at this ferry at one timm there was to tso stores for general merchandise chand chandise lse to saloons a post office and a hotel and it vaas as headquarters to cowboys and indiana jensen ansen was a real fian antler tier post it was in this kind of a setting that this retiring woman even to the wint of greatest timidity ched so many years arst mrs jensen never took any part in the activities of the times but was content to run her awn own home and live the life of quietude so 80 timid before strangers bit to those she the knew all love and brave and fearless hen it came to do the work of a pioneer r frequently it was difficult to get supplies which in bm the early times must come frou brou bait lak city or rock springs she h ha aj been known to cany her baby buby to the john 0 D davis place on ashley ashle y creek and then carry back bac k a load of flour or other supplies a round trip distance of over ever tea ten miles sho she paid 10 1000 00 for CO 50 pounds of flour which lasted laded twenty four row days mrs MM jensen never ran the ferryboat be the tint ferryboat ferry boat v was cne made from whip sawed cottonwood and was IS 18 feet long and had to be rowed with oara oars it vw wm put toge together lher with wooden pins as there were no nails mrs jen jehnwn urn helped some in its building thir last terry boat was taken out by the ice lee jam in 1609 1009 it lodged on an island in the nine mile country the ferry was never rebuilt and jensen was moed to the present location and another boat constructed until unfit the bridge was built after this she lived on the homestead until 1017 when she moved 1 to 0 a small arnall home just aarom from tb the ajensen jensen ward chapel mrs jensen was born in SI blacney Blac mevey vey denmark july 28 26 1844 and came to america twenty six years later for a time she ched in omaha nebraska ard then pondered pone ered to aril ard wyoming where the married lars jensen 11 in 1876 three years later tho the came across D amond or taylor raylor mountain mr jensen driving wio cattle acro across s the mountain this was the tall fall proceeding the hard winter in 1901 mr jen jeri sen ded d ed mrs became become a merab r of the L 1 U 8 13 church abacut fourteen years ago funeral services were held fit th the ward ard chapel on friday th the direction of the vard amisa caldwell pres ding the speakers were W P F wh who told of her pioneer life jacob N lybbert libbert arid fred wall the op elint prayer va was as by A N timothy and the benediction by it it wall chri pall bearers were all sneers H 11 J 1 chatwin S meeks I 1 uther ste at a t mrs alii alie e joseph B dudley and al at rIk tm A special quartet consisting ol 01 J N lybbert leslie amderson may neilson and lein goerch ch di ng by request Sor retime well understand I 1 nearer my god to thee beautiful isle we ot of borne born where and come unto jesus interment vu was in the jensen cemetery with lloyd merkley dedications Idica tiong the tho grae |
