| Show f 0 ELSINORE 0 1 1 by special correspondent 0 0 n pioneer answers call funeral services were held sunday afternoon in the ward chapel at 2 p in for sirs mrs hanson kelson who dide on april 3 at the home of mrs airs emily johnson where she had been staying during the winter bishop H J kotter officiated ficia ted at the services mrs airs minnie sylvester sylveste and mrs airs may jensen rendered a vocal duet duct elder frank D gunn offered them the invocation A quartet composed of mrs arrs minnie sylvester mrs may alay jensen J A bell and claud bell sang resolutions of from the daughters of the pioneers lead by mrs violet jensen an interesting te sketch of the life of deceased was given by patriarch J L I 1 jensen mrs minnie sylvester sang a solo oliver J jackman spoke of the life hereafter and of the th e well spent life of mrs airs kelson who has been a devoted latter day saint from her youth a tender wife and loving mother after a song by the quartet benediction was pronounced by J P christensen mrs kelson was born november 15 1848 in ferslev jerslev Jer denmark she wa was the daughter of thomas G C and karen marie alarie jensen who with their entire family joined the L D S church in their native land on the oth of may 1865 they left their home and boarded the sailing vessel B S kimball at hamburg and sailed for america landing in new york on june 14 from there they traveled by boat and rail to wyoming nebraska here it was found that the emigration train under the management of thomas taylor was unable to accini accommodate all of the immigrants so mrs kelson had to undertake the journey onward without her parents and brothers and sisters which she willingly lid did at the age of sixteen walking all the way from wyoming nebraska to salt lake city enduring severe cold and hunger near fort laramie wyoming the company was attacked by indians and seven men of the company were Noun mounded ded one man by tile the name of grundtvig and his wife had remained too far behind the company the indians shot an arrow into his thigh and took his wife who was levei heard from again the company landed in salt lake ity ily on tile the sn of november of the same year mis kalsons Kel sons parents lid did not come t to 0 utah until one year later at the age of 18 she met and married michael A hanson hailson in ane endowment house at salt lake city where here they resided for some linic lime later moving to ephraim in log 1676 they came to elsinore and aad were among the earliest eari iest settlers of our town t 0 wn in 1907 her fai first ot husband died and in 1913 she married soren J kelson who lied died eight years later mrs kelson was an active church member as long as her health permitted her to work she was the first president of the Y L al I 1 A in our ward and later became active as a relief society N worker in which organization she labored for several years as treasurer her family was small only two sons being bom boin to her from her first marriage one of them preceded her to the great beyond she is survia survived by one son H D hanson of salt lake city A sister mrs A L anderson of rehburg rexburg Rex burg idaho a sister mrs airs matilda smith one brother J 1 I jensen of elsinore eleven grandchildren and three great grandchildren giand children also survive f nielson roberts mrs airs pearl nielson daughter of mr and mrs A C andeeson An deison and H roberts of joseph were married monday evening of last week in the salt lake temple congratulations f local and personal elder frank D gunn arrived home saturday from a six months mission in the north central states mrs airs lydia madsen entertained her home friday night complimentary to the officers of the Mutu als luncheon and social entertainment featured the evening A number of relatives and friends met at the home of mr and mrs joseph jensen monday evening a and nd honored them with a real surprise party both having birthday anniversaries ver saries within a few days of each other out of town guests were mr air and mrs hyrum howes of marys val vale and W H roberts of joseph mr and mrs owen hill left friday for blackfoot idaho where will make their home mr hill b has as been transferred there by the utah idaho sugar company and will employed in the office of the company clyde lott left friday for ely nevada where he expects to get employment mr and mrs airs erastus madsen mr and mrs glen Ahlstr ahlstrom orn and mr air and mrs airs leon madsen motored to salt lake friday to attend the general conference i mr and mrs J C hill made a business trip to salt lake the last of the week mr james gibbs entertained at a family dinner sunday on tile the occasion of the birthday anniversaries of herself and son clarence mrs anna bell entertained the members of tile the L L club at her home wednesday afternoon I 1 william christensen arrived home friday from soldier summit where lie he has been employed for several months he will vill spend a month here I 1 1 with his parents mr and mrs john christensen mr and mrs airs woodruff johnson johnso of panguitch were sunday guests of mr johnsons sister miss tina folin john 1 s son 0 n 1 mr air and mrs airs roy darlington of gunnison visited sunday mrs dar I 1 ling tons mother mrs airs rena jensen mrs mary B anderson entertained a crowd of little folks thursday afternoon at a birthday party for her son grant I 1 j lionel who was reported ported r 1 seriously ill in los angeles is much 1 j improved at this writing his chil dren returned home the first of the week but 1 mr air and mrs airs are still in california waiting until he is able to make the trip home soren left friday i to attend ten general conference in sa salt lt lake city I 1 mr and mrs H D hanson of salt lake arrived thursday to attend th the e funeral of mr hansons dansons Han sons mother which was held sunday |
