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Show Jhe Springviih J4ercM Paij6 Dribde . . . Mapleton Pioneer . . . Featuring Histories and Pictures Of the City's Older Residents This In nnotluT In a series of articles and pictures of Snrhifrvillr's older residents, who are. boiiiff saluted each week in the Herald. Anyone 0Ver 75 years of fiRO is being so honored. Only a call to the office, phone 57 anil a listing f tho nanio and ago of the resident, is all that is neces miry; wo arrange for tho rest without charge. AH thoso who arc able aro asked to go to Snelson's Studio mil fcwo a picture, taken. Thero will bo no charge. Tho Herald will t'ake ire of that. ... , Each person whoso picturo appears in the paper in this particular future, will receive a bouquet of flowers as compliments of the Snrin'ir-villo Snrin'ir-villo Floral, announces Ilean Stewart, manager. b I ' ' ! - . - ' - . 1 1 ... .. v V C i lane. I "My husband engaged in farm-' farm-' ing all his life. About the time I our second child was born we ' moved to Redmond and lived there three years. "The land at Redmond was poor and the prices for farm produce was bad. Money was very scarce. I recall butter sold for three pounds for 25c. Eggs were 4c per dozen. We couldn't even get a spool of thread for a dozen eggs. I Wheat was three bushels for a I dollar. "It was hard in those days to get enough money to pay taxes. We could get script at the store ' for produce, but seldom saw any money. "While we were living at Redmond, Red-mond, I had to wash out our only clothes after my husband and two children had gone to bed. We , lived in a one-room home and my I husband would get up early, make a good fire and finish drying dry-ing the clothes. He would push the flat-irons on the stove and I would get up and iron tlie clothes. "Coming to Mapleton from Redmond, Red-mond, we lived on the site of the Lorin E. Harmer corner, and then moved to Palmyra where we lived for about four years. From there we moved to Mapleton to the Aaron Johnson home, where we have lived more than forty years." Mr. Halverson died December 9, 1928. Mrs. Halverson served as a Relief Re-lief Society teacher for 25 years and has always been a faithful member of the LDS Church. Mrs. Halverson is the mother of nine sons and daughters, with seven living as follows: James A. Halverson of Spanish Fork; Mrs. Myrtle H. Ashby of Missoula, ' Mont. ; Christian P. Halverson of Salt Lake City; Harvey Halverson ! of West Jordan; Joseph L. Halverson Hal-verson and Merrill F. Halverson of Mapleton; Mrs. Mary H. Bo-wen Bo-wen of Thornton, Ida. She has lost a daughter, Eliza, at the age of 45 and a son, Raymond, at the age of 22. She also has 30 grandchildren grand-children and 24 great grand-children. wrapped up until we had the house warm. "My father purchased 20 acres from Lucian Hall, which was one-fourth one-fourth mile west of the old homestead home-stead where they lived many years. We went up to the bottom of the old slide and hauled cobble rocks and built a 2-room house. The mud was made by riding a horse around in a mud hole. The I water was drawn from a hand-dug hand-dug well. The well was about 20 feet deep and it never went dry. "I attended school one winter for about four weeks and about five weeks the next winter. My teacher was Hannah Friel. "One of our closest neighbors was Richard Thorn and his wife, and I remember we did not have a cow and they told us to come and milk one of theirs. "Of our 20 acres of land, most of it was in sagebrush. My father fa-ther ploughed the ground with a hand plough and I followed be--hind pulling the sage brush and ' piling it. We hauled about 150 loads home to bum. "We had two horses and two cows and a calf and we planted some crops that spring. "One winter, I recall, my father fa-ther made 175 pairs of wooden shoes, and sold them to Mapleton residents for $1.00 per pair for men's and 75c for women's. He had learned to make them in the old country. "I recall the families living at Mapleton then were the Fifields on the old Marshbanks farm. Tom Williams lived in a dug-out. Mr. Malstrom lived where Rebecca Hall lives; Steven Perry a half-mile half-mile south of the meeting house. Lucian Hall lived in a celler that was walled up with brick. "During those days we used to visit friends we had made in Palmyra Pal-myra and I became acquainted with Andrew Halverson, whose parents came from Denmark. We went together , for about two years. He came to see me on horseback. During the winters we used to get a group together for 1 a sleigh ride". We were married in 1889, when I was 19 years old. At that time I made my own clothes, made bread and did the cooking and carded the wool while mother spun it on the spinning wheel. "After our marriage, we lived in a house west of the old C. O. Law place until the road east of the Lewis Nielson home was opened. Then we built up the Mrs. Mary P. Halverson Talking with Mrs. Mary Peterson Pe-terson Halverson 82, one might cain an insight into some of the things which make for a long life. Sheis a calm, sensible person, hapPV and contented, seemingly seeing the best in everything. The hardships which she has endured have made her strong both physically physi-cally and mentally. Mrs. Halverson lives with a son, Joseph l. Halverson, on the Main hi(;riway at Mapleton, about a block south of Holley's Service. She does her shopping in the nearby near-by grocery store and helps with the house work and cooking. Her story of the experiences she has had in her native Denmark and of the hard times she has undergone since coming to this country, is one of the most interesting we have heard. She relates her own story as follows: "I was born March 17, 1870, in Oderuo, Denmark, which was about five miles from the sea. My father's name was Christian Peterson Pe-terson and my mother, Mary So-rensen. So-rensen. "They were farmers and also had cattle and sheep. Just east of the old home there was a large hill that slopped quite steeply to a point, and at the top there was a hole or depression that was filled with water the year around. The children used to climb the hill and in the summer, the water was shallow enough that we could wade in it. "In the northern part of Den- mark where we lived the summers were short. The sun rose about 3 a.m. and went down very early The weather was damp and foggy' It was quite hard to get the grain and hay dry enough so that it could be harvested. The winters were cold also, and it became dark at 3 p.m. "I went to school until I was in the Third grade. When I was nine years old the Latter Day Saints missionaries came to our home and my parents became interested in-terested in their message. My mother, mo-ther, while visiting in Aalborg, was baptized in the sea. They had to break the ice to baptize her but she suffered no ill effects from the experience. "Two years previous to this time, my father and five of the children had emmigrated to Zion. "The Mormon elders had been to my grandfather's home several years before this time, but he was very bitter and would not listen to them. "My father's sister, Christiana, who later was married to Frederick Fred-erick Tweede, loved to hear the gospel and she would go at night, under a pretense of going to a party, to hear the elders preach. She and her mother joined the LDS church, and Mrs. Tweede pulled a handcart across the plains. "I recall my Grandfather Peterson, Pe-terson, who was a small man and often wore a loose cloak. As children, we used to follow him about as he' went to stake the dry cattle out and we would get under his cloak. "At the age of ten years I accompanied ac-companied my mother and the twins, Pierre and Nels, to join my father in Great Salt Lake. We came from New York by train, arriving in Utah on June 24, 1880. "I recall that I was not seasick on my voyage to this country, and each evening the missionaries would come and conduct prayer. This was strange to me, as we had never had prayer in our home. "Upon arrival in Salt Lake, we stayed in a big room of a building build-ing in the tithing yard. We stayed there for about two days and then moved down to Pleasant Grove. "Father rented a farm from Bishop Hunter of Salt Lake and we lived in a two-room frame home that Bishop Hunter built. It was about a mile west of town. During this time, I helped to herd cows and milk them and helped with the house work. We did not know anyone who lived in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, but one day a man who had been our neighbor in Denmark, and who now lived in Levan, passed our house and recognized rec-ognized father. It was a happy reunion. "During our stay in Pleasant Grove, I was baptized into the i LDS Church. "Just east of our house there was a nice pasture and every summer the Indians camped there. They were friendly and never bothered bo-thered anybody. "There were quite a number of Danish families living in Pleasant Grove, and I recall an interesting incident in connection with a con-: con-: ference held there. President I Lund was in attendance and be gan to speak to the people, when an old lady who did not understand under-stand the English language very well stopped him and said, 'Presi-i 'Presi-i dent Lund, could you please speak t to us in our tongue?' President Lund immediately changed into the Danish tongue and spoke words of hope and comfort to those who had forsaken their homes and .native lands for the j LDS gospel. "President Stephen L. Chipman was present at the time and he shook his head in wonderment to see President Lund change from one tongue to another without effort. ef-fort. "After I was in Pleasant Grove three weeks I went to Big Cotton wood to stay with my father's cousin. I worked nine months helping with the children and house work. "We moved to Mapleton in November No-vember 1883 to a one-room frame home on the site where Mary Allen built her house. There was a granery attached at the corner of the house. We arrived there at 9 p.m., and the carpet was pulled back and there was straw on the floor. We pulled up the old carpet car-pet and swept up the straw and put up a stove. The pipe on the stove was too short so we had to put it through the window. I remember my Grandmother Peterson Pe-terson stayed out in the wagon all |