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Hans Sorensen – Modest in Heart and ‘Sole’

Posted on July 11, 2018 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

In 1847, on the north shore of Zealand, as Danish citizens fought for “freedom of press, and religion,”1 fourteen-year old Hans Sorensen finished school and entered apprenticeship. That same year his mother and grandmother died. In 1849 the monarch gave … Continue reading →

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Anne Marie Hansen – A Young Mother in Richfield

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

Anne Marie gasped as her knees buckled. She sat down immediately on the rough porch covering her mouth with one clinched hand, holding her chest with the other. She widened her beautiful gray eyes to prevent tears from falling, which … Continue reading →

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Walter Pitts Griffin – Gunpoint

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

Opportunity was slim in Newton Utah in 1899. Walter and Eliza Caroline journeyed by steam locomotive from Newton to Indian Valley Idaho, anxious for promising, “cheap and plentiful” land further north. A “lawless element…infested the railroad,” so, “mother and the … Continue reading →

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Halvorine Halvorsen Gulbrandsen – Only a Bowl of Rice on Christmas Eve

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

It was Christmas of 1909 just before my dad was to come home [from his two-year mission.] We were down to board floors and paper curtains [having sold the furniture piece by piece.] We had large five-gallon lard cans to … Continue reading →

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Ole Gulbrandsen – “Finger Prints” all over the Church

Posted on November 26, 2017 by Kenneth Richard Hardman

With all hopes of emigration from Norway to Zion, Ole’s father died leaving a widow and nine children. Fighting despair with faith, the whole family was gathered in the Rocky Mountains within six years. During his youth in Utah, Ole … Continue reading →

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