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Show d no fear of bad weather or bad drunken .time, Hilda heard dun approaching, so she baked roads, bad men, or drunken J was asked my door, but the Indian was going dians. She made those trips with opinion of the1 come to of through the window. She courage of a lioness, today. They grow young people the door, and the Indian! After John Erickson returned up so fast that I can never really ver from his mission, he took i know them; they marry so young,1 jCanu right at her, but she was loo Iquuk lor him. She gtai.lxd him the affairs ul the ranch. By this have children, and they grow out of my recollection by the collar, and wi.h the aid of time, her children, Amy and ihc stove poker, she subdued bun Perry, were attending school, in This birthday, I will lx unable lie begged not to lx whipped, lit Sa.l Lake, but Hilda and the child-said- , to do much entertaining, but I "Me go," and he went. shall be happy to have my friends jren always went to the ranch durjing the haying season, which call. atxiut 12 years, the Erick- wavs summertimA 0j My first recollection of voting sons remained on the church 'as "lht.,e ,.ie gMiay more tluA for a president would be James ranch. I he others, Bios. Bowen um$ of hay stacked lor winter A. Garfield. I remember when he and Batrus, weie released ftsr was shot su years of missionary service "All the friends of girlhoud days' In I'kn, Hilda and her son, Duiing the 12 years, txi many have passed away, but 1 am left' hapix-neto record in this Perry, went on a three-monttrip things with many happy memories of, short sketch suffice to say sick- - to Sweden, where she had our friendships." accidents, both to man and lives, and a brother on a mission DUP History Of beast, were amung the ordinary there. They visaed many towns of li!e. During ail ol those m Sweden, Denmuik, and ec-n!Mrs. Hilda Erickson Hilda was always called land during their to assist and relieve the ilolmstud Ledsga are two small fering Many a time, she has la-- j country of villages in the uPn returning from ken a buckskin needle and stitched Sweden. The country people of was chosen president she Sweden, sothese two places were very up ugly wounds caused by mis,b Tooele stake Primary ciable. They would often have gay haps in riding wild horses. Sev-held for times, she performed the ,sov'iation, a position she picnics and dancing parties. At released earswas khen she same kmj of service on the horses one of these parties, a young man e named Iehr Anderson met a Pulling teeth became an ordinary jrorn b,s position, she was stake br! to the counselor named she men met two and Once, young pretty girl MIA (1922) and was released in Marie Katarina Larson A strong along the roadway. One had between these bad So toothache. the stethoscope she used, to Diane McBride she sat up very BELOVED MRS. HILDA IRItKSON, whose grew friendship the man cm a box and extracted and Dewane Beebe. two young people, and after a , accomplishment during her lifetime included ,9;5 Mrs Lrltkson t.stab. ,hp short courtship. Pehr Anderson !' .,nd ',h' n ",nl hailed a general merchandising practice of obstetms and dentistry, shows on her way just an ordinary oc were We remained on this mission for did a little dentistry work. I a and Marie Katarina Larson store at Grantsville, and was ERICKSON on a live to curance went her in ordinary day. s felt tender toward little folks married. They of this store for 21 years. years. We had quite a of Ledga. In 1S'0, Hilda gave birth to an- manager her of cows and 1 used to muke aj. . . when it was necessary to pull small farm at the town sold the store in June 1946). (Continued from page 1) (She other child. This time, a boy, This is the story of their youngWhen the Grantsville Deseret great amount of butter; first, I their teeth and when i was in the in a which they named John Perry was . est child, and the only girl, preserved it by putting it in large 'mercantile business and they I".1!! born. With this addition to the Hank.r f oram5ed Jbvp c h ' d r f "' Her would come for a tooth to doing all duties connected with ml h;rntv it held this of the one and directors, miwm, family, came new and added re- farm life position until 1931, when the bank sponsibilities. but these were met closed. two children, who crossed the AGE Hilda OF AT Mrs THE Erukson. M, with and determinaadded zeal Tied to Back in those depression days, tom to carry on. plains in a wagon drawn by an ox team, 92 year ago. still in Salt iwhen the Government established has a zest for living, and does her own housework. Here, she , By this time, they had accumu-grew Loan Act, latc-this Indian mission, my husband . is pictured as she stirs up some goodies which will probably a considerable number of bp "eb'a, that 1 should take out a jj.jllere, Pehr Anderson learned ena, but passed away in inij He as ,,,Wa 0 ,ls Ik the of children. wonderful n,a,n. sup' the One livestock. ?np neighborhood about appreciated by . country time, thev milked bu.lt the home in which I w!rnnci",tf1j,Iny "h.idren WerJlcensc ,0 Prac,,ce 0,)Me,ncs- - but 1 America. more about 40 cimshe heard As as milk The s 1 many her license live. with to the certificate and and coats. it off until about 1898, prac-(aheir; helped kept not wasted, as Hilda madej?cretary of ,he Grantsville farm new country, he "in 1883, we were called to golold enough to enter school I then when putting I took the examination from the tice obstetrics picans were -80 auxd'ary ,0 1898. moved to Grantsv.lle in the 10 Tu'nie to ,ate b,s large quantities of butter, which'1 on a mission to the Indians in the doctors, passed the test, and anxious Dancing plavs were lc Fcdlral association This po- she live. about to she returned, of as added So, one 'new ISSS. I went to Salt Lake received their store "In year, blowing H.j Owen country old with for ihief and amusements Ibapah, together my license, keeping it cnIaild a 1,11 ,f exacting May I, lMa. he sent his wife and young in those days, and Hilda 10 lb1Pal' anil from this time on. commodities, which was in grcat,s!tlon Barrus, Benjamin L. Bowen, and, to study obstetrics, and after good until 1953. w sbo dld Wl'b bcr ol ac to wor,t America. demand and sold to miners for the youngest children service began ra cr";a ',ork; b,lb one of the ma The menfolks went early 'duating I commenced my pracparticipants "We started a little mercantile! ,35those fidelity. Many times she .unfailing w.th!g,x)d h not with but the T Ind.ans, and ,bc only ,le !d rem affairs price. 1111L-- in Deem Creek and the white folk of the valley, andj In 1S93, they decided to leave!,. 10 makc onR journies to outmainpd ,0 "ork and rarn monpy'i dians how to farm; they then came into the world, but I was called n . . . While attending the sociables s a store in Grants the to communities keep Church ranch and get a placeilying wh0L ,,wd ,n ,ar a' back for their families. It took us into the homes for other ailments ,vlUeVu- sold out jn m5. M hus. and resuming her schcxii work. !0th''rs in good association ,be over the mountains. Once shejof their own. John Erickson had?lrs sixdays to travel that distance. .Along with I922 d(.d Jan ,0 ,M3 Many times, she crossid word from a distant previously spotted a place that hcsba,K first went to Skofd, a mother, !wc had sold our ranch. from their urgentlylthought v,1 was a good ranch. !be dost'rt ln br model T to visit that would make drive team, ,1 place she by day and a 1 c, . a ra,hfr I have my one daughter l.vmg ' s,ern Par TTtcre. they boarded a tram .needed, so without any hesitancy. (This place was 30 miles down thej.larn,',rs 'n lbc marr'-- d( ,n sb- have eight grandchildren, and 23 timescoun,y25 rode mounted a 0,H.e and d w,, t0 Coteborg. Then. of out Wm2L the valley, horse, Deep Creek, and ux n ,n ! d ut bavc ,0 Lent on the North sea on a small Pu ln greatgrandchildren. miles over a mountain trail to the just on the western edge ol thejou f1 F . und('r ,be 'heels to "In 1909, I took a trip back to ship to Denmark. From there they; robP ,bc suffering woman. An- - great desert, known to the poplebrusb. to ..riesiv nc Sweden, and in 1947, I was per- - Lent to Hull, w here they took pas trough the sand dunes, at other time, she left her home atof that vicinity as the sink of th,K, ouPb ,rJ cnn ftion with milted with a few other pioneers sage on a sailing vessel to New and creek. He re, at this place, was a other times she would have to and drove a mldnt(,r,, n n ran s , shovel the car out of mud holes. arnis, and the youngest daughter of Pre- York. Thev were nine weeks com-- ! . b(,j,y 0V).r a nuuntain road for great patch of willows, which gave sometimes pMmin 0 fT "H sident Brigham Young, to fly back mg across the ocean. They landed engine ,rub,c wuld in manv miles to assist another ,1,amin shelter from storms in winter, and on a mission to the Goshute d r ,;u to Nauvoo. '.nvuin shade during the hot days dd"P- - a, These childbirth. in New York in the middle of 'j'v " eiiiMitltiiiir wilb ,be r.V "I have traveled by oxen team, July. They then went by tram to IYiaIS ,n. ,! w? 'oi typical of the uncounted lp0 fIat; but times of summer mad, mule team, horseback, horse and St. Joseph, Missouri. At St. Joseph " 'c IS lca ' nfar t .she subjected herself to hardships "This is' a place lor a great !a'd of unsetn hands line in T(xxle county. Bro. khc alwas Pot buggy, bicycle, car. and plane. they got on a small river boat state 'and danger to give unstinted ser- - ranch," said John Lrtckson to his ,bose 'r,Ps in early spring vue to others. My biggest thrill was by airplane; and went to Omaha. Nebraska.; Barrus wife. Hilda. One day they both,,h';h an ' 1 have I cho-l""hat a remarkable fete for a the to ride 1Irw? kept While they were on the boat, yet the strenuous went on horseback 30 miles down jet. Notwithstanding Br" hours my driver's license good until '53. lera broke out. and many of theiand ,he. rn" and davs spent in that re- - the Deep Creek to see this new-- l woman "h more ,han 'bree score-founodd years vars and "In 1906, I was asked to take a people died. This family was for; Yn.h.s family, and John and moe vllll,y hcre wcrc manv place. On them wav back. ran 's' a ' rit'son position on the stake Primary tunate in escaping the disease. and enjoyable occasions as thev approached their' home. and morc ls far Pasl 1,e ac,ive pleasant on horsebatk. drove their 7i ct board. I really think it was to be the people would come from John tried to talk to Hilda about 'car ,,f nlost huLman blnes From Omaha, thev went by ox: John, ,heS(,s do,n shp a chauffeur, as I had a good team team across the plains. They had four cows, and Hilda drove their far and near to s,'cn in thev had visited, but the place i;arsmingle at mpn and and buggy. In 1910, after the death a very hard time, as it was in the team and wagon. They, arrived and djnang. she said. "John, don't talk to me. lhe work of , name l! wb,cb ,bt mcn 'baPab w,lh and skill. of the Primary president, Annie cold time of the year, and was proficiency In in well those too And were she corsets I'm tired." , , davs, might on, une ' a' 'style. Hilda gave a pair to one of he, for she had ridden over 60!pl ,bor ls st,b more to her Huntington, after much persuasion very stormy. However, they ar-- l or ,pP rp from Pres. Hugh S. Gowans and rived in Salt Lake City. Utah, on ,n ,PPIn s,(x days driving the IM (hp ,ndan w You Cdn ima-- 1 m.Ios that day. perched on a s.de accoT,P,Ishmf nts. l0' ln the sevendavs. Salt Lake1 but in the eighties, still manhis counselors, I accepted the posi- October 22. making it ten weeks ties, fat when the this saddle gine funny sight store and her farms. tion of president in 1910, my coun- from Omaha to Salt Lake, and "part ra.lroad point Indian squaw appeared with these They began this new project, aging her stxj"as ,bp haPab-lef- t selors being Mary Nelson and Ra- months from the time they had corsets laced tightly on the out- first, by John Erickson hauling She is still driving her Ford, tho chael Smith. This trip was more strenuous side of her dress upside down logs from the south mountains, not a model T, and now, at the their home in Sweden. When 87, reluc,ant,y re "After 12 years, the Primary they arrived in Salt Lake, they than crossing the plains. The cros- - Indians can aj;p give and take a jokelwith which to build a house and board was officered by ladies from had no or specialising of the great mud flats re- - ,gracefullv, but when this Indian barn. This was a long, trying job, bn(Tulsbms tbp toanagement of a but s,m Tooele and the Mutual board was acquaintances, so they didn't quired much hard work to dig out woman was laughed at in her new for the logs had to bo cut and storptbp s,Pcnn ho'dinS of "'0btrhands taken from Grantsville ladies. 0"n just vvhere to go, or what the mired wagon. The long'mode of dresSi she indignantly re-- ! hauled a distance of 30 miles over.0" nius Anderson was chosen presi-itdo while crossing the plains, stretches of prairie made it that she wouldn't wear very bad roads. However, both car, driving on. What a wonderful lesson in hudent, and I accepted the position' they had a teamster by the name sary to haul water. The alluring ."angponnes" dress no more no John and Hilda set about it with as counselor. After her release, '0f Fredrick Peterson, whose home mirage of the desert lands always 'good. Angapomy in Indian means undaunted courage and determi- man accomplishments. What is ahead it matters not; Phyllis Johnson was chosen presi-wa- s jn Mt. pleasant. Upon learn-dent- , lends a false hope, and many a .red headed, for red headed Hilda), nation. On this desert sjxit, blosI was asked to be her coun-!jnweather's foul and Though been has traveler he j approach-lost, to no had of thev go, Special Holiday Savings are now yours on an expertly place alfalfa, a previously indicated. Salt somed forth fields roads are bad, selor, hut decided I hud been there offered to take them to his father's ing the beautiful forest or lake, ,iake was the nearest trading cen- - wonderful orchard soon came into selected assortment of gifts brought to you from the Somewhere beyond, the skies long enough, so declined. markets of the world through the combined and mother's home in Mt. Plea- which vanish in mid-air- , usually o,- - .store goods had to he shipped .bearing, and after a relatively are blue, can still do my own cooking, sant, Sanpete county. They were when one has gone too far to re-dollar buying power of Jewel House Jewelry Stores. Cona distance of over 200 miles by short time, some of the fruit was 'four-horsvenient budget terms and lay-bkeep my own house, attend Re- - Bratcful for the offer, and after a turnplans easily arranged. team. The Ericksons shipped to New York and to Cali- - And, Hilda, dear, youll sure lief Society and Daughters of Pto- - few morc davs 0f traveling, found get through. Thc church had a large ranch decided to set up a store, and as. forma, mining men seeking invest- Hilda is a charter member of neers meetings. On my birthday, themselves comfortably located injn the Deep Creek Valley, and soon as sufficient goods were on ments in soon discovered mining the DUP, and is still a faithful II usually make Swedish cakes but tw0 r0oms of the Peterson home these people began flocking in for this oasis of the desert and the missionary families were jthey are never quite as good now.j After thCy had become settled, cated on this ranch, as they had supplies. At this time, prospective! delicious fruit produced by rich member and seldom misses a Daughters of Pioneers monthly Hilda's mother, who had been to be self - supporting. The log mining was booming in the and many months of meeting. She is still active doing trained in the art of weaving and in which they lived were rounding mountains. Miners would, shine. her own housework, and living in of kind this inin come for When and from would be John Erickson first all directors spinning, began doing crude, "primitive" her comfortable home at 247 West livelihood. work as a means of a mild word to use in trying to their "grab stake." as they called formed his neighbors where he PIECE STAINLESS STEEL SERVICE FOR While at Mt. Pleasant, Hilda and describe all that went with these it. Travel was slow and distances was going to start a ranch, one Main st., Grantsville, where she will celebrate her 99th birthday, her two brothers attended school rough and ready-mad- e buildings, long, so the miners would remain iof them said that was the last Nov. II, 1958. r for two winters As soon as the mission was or- - over, sometimes for days. Thus, alchance on earth to begin in 1868 that the Petersons was It csso was became was school known a the ranch imposed ing obligation Sunday pani7ed, ... with no great. upon the Eticksons, in housing; as the Last Chance ranch. One of Jr. Jr. move to Grantsville. After a short stretch of imagination, one canjand feeding the miners and their, his closest friends told him that' time, the Petersons decided to see the difficulties in trying to horses. John Erickson would care he would cat everything he could have Mrs. Anderson and her the Indians, first the English for the horses while Hilda would raise on such a place. It wasn't too long before John Erickson preren, Claus. Charley, and Hilda, 'language, and then the Gpsoel of! cook for the miners, come to Grantsville and live with jesus Christ, and from whence Junior Gleaners and Junior Many a time after a dance, sented his skeptical friend with a them. of Tooele stake will hold they originated. However, Hilda sometimes two or three or four squash so big that neither of their annual stake "Sacred to Me" Here, it might be interesting to took her part in this difficult task, oclock in the morning, Hilda them could carry it alone. note that Hildas brothers were!and was made secretary of the would go home from a dance, not For years, this family lived and and "Clean Life" night on Monknown by the name of Peterson, Sunday school. Without a to sleep and rest, but to pack thrived on this Last Chance day, November 10 in the h lived during those early ledge of the language, it was a goods so that the miners who were ranch, but when the children beward. Mrs. Ruth Funk of the MIA years with the Peterson family, hard and tedious task to teach the scheduled to leave could go on came old enough to need the adSoon after they settled in Gospel to the Indians. their way without delay. vantages of a school, Hilda moved general board will talk to the girls In those days, money was plenti- to Grantsville, her former home, and M. Earl Marshall will be the Grantsville (Oct. 1868), Pehr An-- j Meetings and Sunday school derson, Hilda's father, arrived were held in the Erickson home. ful and the change was scarce. leaving John Erickson on the speaker for the Jr. Mothers and fathers are invited Twenty-fivcents was the smal- ranch with his hired help to make (Nov. 1868), having migrated from while the menfolk taught the and urged to attend these meetWith the arrival of pei, as best they could, Hilda lest piece of money used then. For out as best he could. Hilda's father and with the help would teach the Indian women to example, a sjxiol of thread or a In 1903, John Erickson was ings with their sons and of the boys and Hilda, they made sew, mend, make gloves and box of matches was 25 cents, and called on a mission to Sweden, a permanent home in Grantsville. many other useful things; she also people were happy to get them and Hilda had to then assume the Hilda continued her school work taught them to read and write. for that price. full responsibility of the ranch af- HERE FROM NEW MEXICO in Grantsville until she was 14 Indians, as well as whites, would fairs, as well as the home in The Indians soon learned that Visiting here and in Salt Lake years of age. The school was then the missionaries and their fami- trade at the Erickson store. One Grantsville. At first, she made the City with friends and relatives, held in a small adobe building. lies were their real friends and Indian got in debt a little too trips to the ranch by team and are former Tooeleans, Mr. and located just opposite the Firstbenefactors specially was this much. When John Erickson asked mountain wagon. Many times she Mrs. John M. Johnson and daughward LDS chapel. This building .true with Hilda they would bring him when he could pay some on had to travel alone across the ter, Kathleen, of Grants, New was later used as the city hall. their troubles to her. When sick, his bill, he said, "Oh, me like desert, which took from four to Mexico. They are house guests of and still stands, and is presumed they always went to Hididy, as white man now, me no pay bill six days to make the trip She Mr. and Mrs. Ray Lee. to be owned by President J. called her. and usually they no more. ben Clark, who also attended were relieved of their ailment, Indians also have romantic school there, with his father, the Deep Creek was sparcely settled, troubles. Chief of the Tribe, Antelate Joshua R. Clark, as teacher, the ranches being from five to lope Jake, came early one mornHildas school work at Grants-ejgh- t miles apart, yet the. white ing and told Hilda that old Jim ville was interrupted for a time.ipeople met often in social galhcr-a- s had taken his horse, saddle, and she went to Salt Lake City to.jngs. Hilda Erickson was their bridle, and run away with a young take a course in dressmaking, chief doctor, as she was called on girl over the big mountain. He tailoring, and sewing in general. continually to assist them in car-- . asked, "Hiditv, what you going to On returning to Grantsville, she ing for their sick; this was espe- - do about it?" Hilda told Jake to daily so in confinement cases. So,go get him. Oft times, an Indian urgent was this need that Hilda would come excitedly in the early Erickson decided to go to Salt morning and say his squaw was terns and do their own fitting. Lake and take a course in obstet- - dying "Hidity, you come quick. of layNevertheless, she was profitable rics from a lady doctor by the Hilda would go to his camp, which s in this art, and the demands forjnamc of Tratt, who was conduct- consisted of a poor tent or a kind of work make it ncccs-ijn- g a school and hospital for this low wigwam, and find the Indian sary for her to make a dross al- - special training, TOYS gifts most every day, which she did This was a rather difficult staying up very late at night, dertaking, as she had a voting In tailoring, she made many com- - baby girl about a year and a half plete suits of coats, vests, and old, whom they had named Amy. , pants. However, she made arrangements At this time, the Grantsville, with her mother, who then lived in because the patient was still alive Lewis brass band was organized with 15 Grantsville, to care for her baby. Indians sometimes got drunk, 49 North 980 I members, and Hilda was engagodJThis was in the fall of 1SS3. By and a drunken Indian was usually to help make the uniforms. She the following year, she had a bad animal which goes on made ten pairs of pants alone, jplcted the course, and received! a warpath, so to speak. At one ihe Tooele Transcript Friday, November as when 7, 1958 I baked them coal In a t stove. e j C I d oja-ne- . V j j f .7 - U j O' d r rela-tn-s- i s Eng-y.ar- n three-mont- far-of- f j As-ei- ! : j I'-- j num-lway- be''ly 1 ' . thjPWt.ce.Iaband ".'''""''receivetl one-IT"- r thevl'P - CnUu-ixf- 1 I "" j'P ...... 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