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Show Kix'li porson wlioso picture appears In tho paper in this particular par-ticular font urc, will roooivo a bouquet of flowers as compliments f d,o Sprinsvillo Floral, nunonuces Dean Stewart, manager. Springville Herald Salutes Older Residents With Picture and Story 92 Saturday. . . mer time, Mr. Christenscn would go into the valley to run the farm and Mrs. Christensen and the children would take care of the ranch. Mrs. Christensen always kept a clean and tidy home while doing the farm work and rearing her children, and still found time to attend to her church duties. She attended Relief Society and served as a teacher in the organization. Mrs. Christensen has also had 1 much grief in her lifetime. A married mar-ried daughter passed away and later a married son and his wife died but three years apart, leaving eight grandchildren orphans. Mr. Christensen died shortly before the daughter-in-law, on September 24, 1933. Later Mrs. Christensen's eyesight eye-sight failed and she went to live with her children. While living with a son and family in Monroe, the son was accidentally killed while riding a horse. A year later Mrs. Christensen, in 1945, came to I live with the Mellors in Spring-j Spring-j ville. There are only two daugh-j daugh-j ters, -Mrs. Mellor and Mrs. Eldred J Nilsson of Monroe, living; also a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Maude Christensen, at Annabella. Mrs. Christensen also has 14 grandchildren grand-children and 28 great grandchildren; grandchild-ren; a brother, James Christensen, and a sister, Mrs. Stena Jensen. A few years after they moved to Richfield, the United Order was begun, but Mrs. Christensen said it lasted sveeral years, did not prove successful, and so was abandoned. As a young girl, Mrs. Christensen Christen-sen worked out for other people in Scipio and in Elsinore for the sum of $1 and sometimes 80 cents a week. Out 'of this small amount, however, she managed to save enough for a nice trousseau. She was married to Niels Peter Christensen January 24, 1882 and they lived in Richfield two years. Mrs. Christensen recalls the big wedding they had with the guests dancing all night and eating whenever when-ever they desired. Mrs. Christensen and her husband hus-band lived in Richfield two years and then, hearing that a new town of Annabella was being formed, they moved there and took up farming and ranching. They lived at Annabella more than sixty years, enduring the many hardships hard-ships which go with pioneering a new unsettled country. It was in Annabella that Mrs. Christensen and her husband celebrated their Golden Wedding. In addition to their farm, Mr. Christensen homesteaded a large ranch in ' the tops of the Cove mountain's and for six summers Mrs. Christensen took her little family of five children into the mountains. Eight and ten cows were milked each day -and Mrs. Christensen made a large cheese from the milk daily. In the sum- ! - - - ; 1 y ' ' ' ' "N 1 i- - . - i Mrs. Annie Christensen Editor's note: This Is another an-other In a series of articles and pictures of Sprlngvillo's older residents, who are being saluted each week in the Hor-ald Hor-ald Anvone over 75 years of age s being so honored. Only a call to the office, phone 57 and a listing of the name and aire of the resident, is all that is necessary; we arrange for the rest without charge. All those who are able are asked to go to Ralph Snel-son's Snel-son's Studio and have a picture pic-ture taken. There will be no charge. The Herald will take care of that. At 92, Mrs. Annie Christensen, who has lived with her daughter and son-in-law, Lyman and Lelia Mellor in Springville since 1945, takes a keen interest in the news of the day. She listens to the radio daily from 10 a m. until noon and then enjoys the noon news. She also gets much enjoyment from visiting with friends and rel-tives rel-tives and, although her eyesight has failed, she still does little odd jobs about the house. Until recent years she spent her leisure time doing handiwork of all kinds and has made many beautiful quilts and rugs. Mrs. Christensen was born in Holensker, Denmark, April 26, 1860, a daughter of Hans Christiansen Chris-tiansen and Malene N. Christiansen. Christian-sen. She will celebrate her 92nd birthday Saturday. One of ten children, the family lived on a farm in Denmark until Mrs. Christensen Chris-tensen was nine years old, when the family came to Utah as converts con-verts to the LDS church. Her father sold his property, leaded his family in a wagon and traveled the first lap of the journey jour-ney ot Olberg, Denmark, where they visited relatives a week and then bade farewell to them. On their trip to Utah, they experienced exper-ienced many modes of traveJ, going go-ing by train from Olberg to Copenhagen; Copen-hagen; by boat to London, Kng-land; Kng-land; by steamship to America; by railroad part of the way to Utah and by ox-team from Ogden to Salt Lake City. When the family arrived in Salt Lake, they were met by President Brigram Young who shook hands with each and said it was the biggest family he had seen arrive in Utah. There were the parents, seven children, the grandmother and four others for whom her father had paid fare. Mrs. Christensen had only about two months of schooling in her native Denmark, but she learned learn-ed to read the Danish and English languages to write letters, and she was also good in arithmetic. Mrs. Christensen recalls on their way west, the train stopped for a time at 'Omaha, Nebraska and men there tried to get her father to settle in that state and they took him out and showed him the land, but her father was determined to come to Utah to be with the people of his faith, and they were bound for Mt. Pleasant, where he supposedly sup-posedly had a sister and brother-in-law. When they arrived, however, how-ever, the sister had died and her husband had remarried. They stayed there a month, later moving to Ephraim. Times she recalls, werp hard in Ephraim, with grasshoppers grass-hoppers taking the crops two out of four years. From Ephraim the family moved to Richfield and the father bought a farm. There were plenty of homes in this area, as the people had moved out due to the Black ,Hawk depredations. It was quite a hardship to move in those days, and traveling from Ephraim to Richfield meant fording ford-ing rivers with cows and other livestock. Mrs. Christensen recalls re-calls the trip they made and how frightened she was when, with two brothers, she was left at the home in Richfield while the father made the return trip to Ephraim to bring the remainder of the family and belongings to Richfield. He was gone two weeks. The children Mrs. Christensen recalls, . were frightened of Indians which were camped nearby. There were then only about 12 families in Richfield. |