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Show HI Residents remember Little Andrew and his handcart 1 l! By KALYN SECRETAN ,ittle Andrew, an early Pleasant 'ive resident, made his living by hing a red cart to town to supply neighbors with the items they i. ded. I; nephew, Oscar Olsen, built the similar to a hand cart, with fpartments to hold the various ery orders. The wheels were jle from iron rims. Little Andrew ried his note book and people 'Id pay him a little bit for ;ing the trip to town, scar, known as "Coffee Oscar" ' a mechanic and considered a ius. He was called on to fix the ishing machine and he made a orcycle. niall in stature, Andrew and his thers, Louis and Jense were all ed "little." They emigrated to j( United States from Soder-nge, Soder-nge, Malmohus, Sweden with r father, Nils Jonsson Nielson in ! Their mother, one of the first i; oin the Mormon Church passed '; iy in Sweden. ,ri he family came with very little, p they bought three acres of ind and planted fruit trees. They took the fruit to Salt Lake where it was sold. Little Andrew married Ingri Goransson from Sweden. They had six children and raised two to maturity, Annie and Ellen. Ingri died in 1906, the children were married and Andrew was left alone Fern Nielson remembers Little Andrew and his cart and how he served his neighbors. He was on one of his trips to town on September 22, 1920 just as a cloudburst hit Pleasant Grove. Pushing his cart of groceries, the water came upon him so fast he drowned by the old tabernacle located on Center and 300 East. LaVerl (Skinny) Turner, a grandson, remembers him well. Skinny recalled. Annie Nielson Turner lived up a trail and across the bridge from her father. Skinny remembers he was quite a tease and he would come up every morning for coffee. He always remembered his grandfather living alone and his mother was the only one he had. The Turners, LaVerl and Jennie, built their house around the "Little Andrew." original home. It sits unnoticed back in the block which Skinny describes as a jungle with all the trees, geese, and a variety of birds in the yard LaVerl pointed out his hall and bathroom, which made up Andrew's original home It was hard to believe a home could be so small. They had a little basement underneath un-derneath w here I hey slept :md a lean-to on the side of the house Skinny's wile. Jenny never met Andrew but she and her sisters lived in the little bouse when Ihev came to Pleasant drove I mm Wyoming. She remembers he bad berries strung I mm the house to I Inroad. In-road. Skinny remembered bis grand lather used to shake and was also known as Shaky Andrew He died when Skinny was 12 years old Last summer the family purchased pur-chased a headstone lor Little An drew along with his nephew. Oscar. Gone, but not forgotten. Little-Andrew Little-Andrew will always be remembered with his red cart pushing groceries up the hill to his neighbors and friends. , $ t - I ! I ; 1 : , ' I i t t K " - J " I Little Andrew and his wife, Ingri. are pictured with children Arthur, Alfred, Ellen and baby Annie. |