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Author Note – Handcart Trek, and why you should go
In Wyoming, with sweat down our backs and dirt under our fingernails, we contemplated in Martin’s Cove, pushed and pulled up Rocky Ridge, were pelted by hail at Rock Creek Hollow, and felt the aid of angels. Every year more … Continue reading
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Margaret Holden Hardman – Ever Onward
As the smoke of the industrial revolution continuously settled on residents of Manchester England, in 1834, death persistently came to rest on the small home of Margaret and Richard Hardman. Likely with broken heart wondering if she would ever have … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, genealogy, Industrial Revolution, Manchester
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Sidney Lehi Hardman – Part 2, Kind and Generous
“Kind and Generous. One of the best men I have been blessed to know” (Terrie Petersen, grand-daughter in law) Typical for men in the depression years, Sid worked at whatever he could to keep bread on the table and a … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, Depression, genealogy, jack of all trades, parenting
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Ardella Elizabeth Anderson – The Greatest Scare of my Life
On April 8, 1921, the day after her 18th birthday, Ardella Anderson retired to her room where she boarded and worked, near the Malad, Idaho train depot. The caretakers, the Pecks, had gone out for the evening, the children were … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, #RootsTech, genealogy, Malad Idaho
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Rachel Ault Elton – Escaping Shipwreck
“Grandmother, Rachel Ault Elton, was born April 19, 1859, at Stony Stratford, Buckingham, England… She was the third child of a family of thirteen children. Through misfortune of one type or another, Grandma had only two sisters and one brother … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, Buckingham England, genealogy, Nova Scotia, Prayer, Sabel Island, Steamship Wyoming
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Walter Tennyas Griffin – Plows and Pennies
Shortly after his birth in 1898, WT Griffin, named after his father and the poet Tennyson, moved from Newton, Utah to Indian Valley, Idaho to homestead. Life was hard living off the land, raising grain and livestock. At age five … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, genealogy, Homesteading, Indian Valley Idaho, Tennyson, tithing
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Abraham and Elizabeth Coon – Ever Faithful
#In about 1841, with their new Mormon faith and seven children under the age of eleven, my 3rd great grandparents, Abraham and Elizabeth Coon experienced the heavy persecutions that drove the Latter-day Saints from Missouri. More children came in Nauvoo … Continue reading
John Griffin – Frontiersman
In 1876, on a trip to Florence Nebraska to bring goods back to Salt Lake City, my great-great-grandfather John Griffin and east-bound company attempted to get west-bound pioneers, goods, and oxen across the Green River in Wyoming. Due to storm … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, ferry, Florence Nebraska, genealogy, Green River Wyoming, oxen
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Andrew Fredrick Losee – Teacher and Farmer
In the early 1920s, having served as a wireless telegraph operator and sergeant at the end of World War 1, high school valedictorian Andrew Fredrick Losee, set his course for college degrees that would some day land him as a … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, genealogy, Malad, Orderville, Salt Lake Temple, Snow College, Teacher, valedictorian, World War 1
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Harvey Ralph Hansen – Perseverance
In the 1940s, during the boom-town years in Los Angeles, Harvey Ralph Hansen became a highly successful grocery businessman, first with Safeway, then on his own, feeding the ever-growing population of World War II factory workers flooding in from the … Continue reading
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Tagged #AncestorClips, #familyhistory, avocado, businessman, fallbrook, genealogy, grocery story, heart attack, Los Angeles, perseverance
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