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Show Mrs. John Grant's Mother Dies Here Mrs. Christiana Madsen Andreay son, 75, a resident of this city for the past several years, passed away last Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock .at the home, of her daughter,. Mrs. John Grant, -following an illness' of j three months, after an attack of pneumonia. The deceased was born March 28, 1858, in the little village of Rostved, Denmark, the fourth child of a family of five. Her father was a blacksmith and besides cultivated a farm of some seven acres. The mother was an expert worker in flax and wool. Mrs.. Andreason, in her diary, tells of learning to knit when but a tiny girl and how she sat by her mother's side and knitted stockings as her mother spun. She in company with her brother and sister, the two other children having died, attended the Danish Lutheran school. The brother became a first class clerk and book keeper but during the time of his duty he accepted the gospel as preached by the Mormon Mor-mon Elders. The mother was told the news of his conversion but: they were afraid to tell the father because be-cause of the feeling against the Mormons at that time. He was. called to fill a local mission and to Christiana fell the lot of telling, the father who felt bitter towards, his son and; refused to recognize him, and when he emigrated to, Utah, would not bid him good-bye The sister and Christiana later joined the church also, and' their father felt so bitter he refused to have . them in his home. The letters let-ters from the son in Utah, Iww-ever, Iww-ever, partially broke down the prejudice pre-judice and before she emigrated to America she spent a month with her parents. The sister followed the year after and two years after that the parents came, settling in Elsinore. The mother joined the church but the father did not. March 8, 1877, Christiana was. united in marriage in the St. George temple to Ole Christian Andreason and they made their home in Monroe. Mon-roe. Their grounds became the beauty spot of that locality as Mr. Andreason was a successful horticulturist. horti-culturist. Nine children were bom to them, seven of whom survive. Twenty-eight years ago Mr. An-, An-, dreason died. During her later life, Mrs. Andreason made her home with her children in Idaho, Utah and California. For the pat two years she had been with her daughter, Mrs. Christabell Grant here. She is survived by the following children: George W Monroe; Joseph Jos-eph Mark, Cedar City; Christabell Grant, American Fork; Oliver C. and Daniel W., Los Angeles; and Agnes S. Helm, Pocatello, Idaho; Mary Brower, Hollywood, California; Califor-nia; also twenty grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held in the Third ward ehapel Monday at 3 p. m. with Bishop G. Edward Abel in charge. The music consisted of a vocal trio ''Sister Thou Wast Mild and Lovely" by Mesdames Edna Ed-na Boley, Docia Wagstaff and Clar-a Clar-a Rhodes, accompanied by Mrs. Ann Shipley;- a violin solo by Fer-ren Fer-ren Sager accompanied by Miss-Naomi Halliday; a vocal solo "O My Father" by Clara Gordon, accompanied accom-panied by Miss Ann Clayson; a vocal solo "Going Home" by Mrs. May Halliday, accompanied by Miss NaoiBi Halliday; and a vocal duet, "My Mdthet' Love" by Mesdames Rhodes and Wagstaff, accompanied by Mrs. Shipley. The speakers were Bishop T. A. Greenwood of the First ward, President Pres-ident S. L. Chipman and the closing clos-ing reiii&fks Were by Bishop Abel. A life sketch, prepared from the deceased's de-ceased's diary, Was read by Mrs Mary E. Abel. The' opening prayer was by George E. Abel and the closing prayer by Bishop Abel. The services1 were well attended arid a profusion of flowers expressed express-ed the esteem in which the deceased de-ceased and her family are1 held. Tuesday morning the bodV was taken to Monroe to the home" of her son, George W. Andreason, where friends viewed the body. Funeral services . were conducted that afternoon in the North ward chapel. This being her home for many years there was a large attendance at-tendance of friends from the surrounding sur-rounding communities. . Bishop Lundgreen was in charge. The speakers were President James H. Ware of Sevier Stake; Royal Andreason, An-dreason, a grandson, who read the biographical . sketch; Ephraim Mag-elby Mag-elby and Bishop Lundgreen. The North ward chior rendered "O My Father," "Nearer My God To Thee" and "We Shall Meet Beyond the River," and a male quartet sang. The invocation was offered by Joseph Jos-eph H. Jensen and the benediction pronounced by Arthur Lundgreen. Interment was made in the Monroe cemetery. |