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Show Pioneer's Story Skills This Week "All Through Life's Journey," the life story of Mrs. Cecilie Sven-ning Sven-ning Skeem, is concluded in this issue of the Chronicle. A number of readers have commented of their enjoyment in reading her simple, heart-warming story. It was written as told to her daughter, Mrs. Hannah Peterson, near the close of Mrs. Skeem's life in Oasis. She died there March 5, 1920 at the age of 86 years. She had lived in Oasis since 1884, when her husband moed vhis family fam-ily to that newly settled area. Mrs. Skeem told but briefly of their early hardships in this new country, and then writes "Things kept improving a -little year by year until we were comfortable and independent. Our children were all married living around us." That contributed greatly to her happiness. Of her descendants, 48 still live in and around Oasis. She had 28 grandchildren, 74 great-grandchildren, and 11 great-great-grandchildren. Of her family of 9 child- ren, one son, Christian, is still living, liv-ing, and farms in Idaho. A son and daughter died before the family fam-ily left Denmarkk, and the others, Andrew, Peter, Marcus, Mrs. Hannah Han-nah Peterson, Mrs. Annie Thompson, Thomp-son, and Atlantic Wisconsin died in Oasis. Some of their families live in Idaho and California now. The grandson who was killed in World War I was Nels Skeem, son of Andrew. He lost his life at Chateau Thierry. The grandson who returned from that war was Peter H. Peterson, postmaster now at Oasis. Her story ends with her love of the United States, and the flag. Nels Petersen, also of Danish stock, knew the family well, and recalled an early July 24 parade in Deseret, when he was a boy. When the flag came by, Grandfather Grand-father Skeem stood up and saluted salut-ed proudly. He had been a Danish soldier, and fought in the Danish-German Danish-German war, and hailed the flag of his new country. |