One day I attended an L.D.S. meeting and was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was baptized in October, 1877 by a missionary. I was confirmed by President Hanson the same day on the 28th. In 1880 I had a savings account from dressmaking, nursing at the hospital and sewing. Enough for a ticket to America even to Salt Lake City, Utah.
I left Stolkholm June 29, 1880. I arrived at Salt Lake City on July 29, 1880. I was ill all the way on the ocean.. The first part of the voyage on the Black Sea was the roughest. When I arrived in Utah I couldn't speak a word of English, no learning in schools; I just had to pick it up.
I got house work in Salt Lake City. I then met a family by the name of Chlarson. It was through them I met Solomon Joseph Despain. Chlarsons being Swedish, would interpret English for me. After courtship of four weeks, only seeing my lover. Joseph, once a week, he proposed through the Chlarsons as interpreters and we were married March 28, 1881 in the Endowment House.
We went to Granite to live where my husband was Bishop of the Granite Ward. He was also postmaster of Granite and Justice of the Peace. He owned a saw mill up Big Cottonwood.
My first child was born January 22, 1882, Mark Lorenzo; second Walter Gustiv, November 17, 1883. Lotta Pearl was born November 21. 1885.
March 1, 1886 we left Granite and two weeks later we arrived in Richfield, Utah. There baby Pearl died from croupe. We then journeyed down across the Colorado River to St. Joseph, Arizona. By the way, we were traveling by team and wagon with a party by the name of H.M. Chlarson, and Mart Mortison. We crossed the Apache Reservation, the Apaches were on the war path at that time. The party ahead of us were killed. Through faith and prayer we were not mo- lested in any way and arrived in Thatcher safe and sound May 26 1886.
In Thatcher We bought a few acres of land and built a house which was our home for many years. In 1909 I returned to Arizona on a visit with my son Mark. While I was away my husband, Thortan died February 17, 1895 and his brother took him to Coalville where he was buried in his old home town. After my husband's death I started living with my children. My husband died at the age of 71 and left me with four children to raise. I then studied to be a mid-wife, obstetrician, then I did nursing and sewing. I put my children all through school.
Then in June 1900, I married Thortan Lambert. He was a carpenter and mason. Then we sold our old home in Thatcher and moved to Hubbard, Arizona. It was just across the river from Thatcher where we could get more land as my husband wanted to farm. After we bought 10 acres we found we couldn't get water enough to farm the land, so we sold and moved to Clifton, Arizona where my husband did carpenter work. Later we moved back to Thatcher, then one beautiful September day we moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
I left Stolkholm June 29, 1880. I arrived at Salt Lake City on July 29, 1880. I was ill all the way on the ocean.. The first part of the voyage on the Black Sea was the roughest. When I arrived in Utah I couldn't speak a word of English, no learning in schools; I just had to pick it up.
I got house work in Salt Lake City. I then met a family by the name of Chlarson. It was through them I met Solomon Joseph Despain. Chlarsons being Swedish, would interpret English for me. After courtship of four weeks, only seeing my lover. Joseph, once a week, he proposed through the Chlarsons as interpreters and we were married March 28, 1881 in the Endowment House.
We went to Granite to live where my husband was Bishop of the Granite Ward. He was also postmaster of Granite and Justice of the Peace. He owned a saw mill up Big Cottonwood.
My first child was born January 22, 1882, Mark Lorenzo; second Walter Gustiv, November 17, 1883. Lotta Pearl was born November 21. 1885.
March 1, 1886 we left Granite and two weeks later we arrived in Richfield, Utah. There baby Pearl died from croupe. We then journeyed down across the Colorado River to St. Joseph, Arizona. By the way, we were traveling by team and wagon with a party by the name of H.M. Chlarson, and Mart Mortison. We crossed the Apache Reservation, the Apaches were on the war path at that time. The party ahead of us were killed. Through faith and prayer we were not mo- lested in any way and arrived in Thatcher safe and sound May 26 1886.
In Thatcher We bought a few acres of land and built a house which was our home for many years. In 1909 I returned to Arizona on a visit with my son Mark. While I was away my husband, Thortan died February 17, 1895 and his brother took him to Coalville where he was buried in his old home town. After my husband's death I started living with my children. My husband died at the age of 71 and left me with four children to raise. I then studied to be a mid-wife, obstetrician, then I did nursing and sewing. I put my children all through school.
Then in June 1900, I married Thortan Lambert. He was a carpenter and mason. Then we sold our old home in Thatcher and moved to Hubbard, Arizona. It was just across the river from Thatcher where we could get more land as my husband wanted to farm. After we bought 10 acres we found we couldn't get water enough to farm the land, so we sold and moved to Clifton, Arizona where my husband did carpenter work. Later we moved back to Thatcher, then one beautiful September day we moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
One day I attended an L.D.S. meeting and was converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I was baptized in October, 1877 by a missionary. I was confirmed by President Hanson the same day on the 28th. In 1880 I had a savings account from dressmaking, nursing at the hospital and sewing. Enough for a ticket to America even to Salt Lake City, Utah.
I left Stolkholm June 29, 1880. I arrived at Salt Lake City on July 29, 1880. I was ill all the way on the ocean.. The first part of the voyage on the Black Sea was the roughest. When I arrived in Utah I couldn't speak a word of English, no learning in schools; I just had to pick it up.
I got house work in Salt Lake City. I then met a family by the name of Chlarson. It was through them I met Solomon Joseph Despain. Chlarsons being Swedish, would interpret English for me. After courtship of four weeks, only seeing my lover. Joseph, once a week, he proposed through the Chlarsons as interpreters and we were married March 28, 1881 in the Endowment House.
We went to Granite to live where my husband was Bishop of the Granite Ward. He was also postmaster of Granite and Justice of the Peace. He owned a saw mill up Big Cottonwood.
My first child was born January 22, 1882, Mark Lorenzo; second Walter Gustiv, November 17, 1883. Lotta Pearl was born November 21. 1885.
March 1, 1886 we left Granite and two weeks later we arrived in Richfield, Utah. There baby Pearl died from croupe. We then journeyed down across the Colorado River to St. Joseph, Arizona. By the way, we were traveling by team and wagon with a party by the name of H.M. Chlarson, and Mart Mortison. We crossed the Apache Reservation, the Apaches were on the war path at that time. The party ahead of us were killed. Through faith and prayer we were not mo- lested in any way and arrived in Thatcher safe and sound May 26 1886.
In Thatcher We bought a few acres of land and built a house which was our home for many years. In 1909 I returned to Arizona on a visit with my son Mark. While I was away my husband, Thortan died February 17, 1895 and his brother took him to Coalville where he was buried in his old home town. After my husband's death I started living with my children. My husband died at the age of 71 and left me with four children to raise. I then studied to be a mid-wife, obstetrician, then I did nursing and sewing. I put my children all through school.
Then in June 1900, I married Thortan Lambert. He was a carpenter and mason. Then we sold our old home in Thatcher and moved to Hubbard, Arizona. It was just across the river from Thatcher where we could get more land as my husband wanted to farm. After we bought 10 acres we found we couldn't get water enough to farm the land, so we sold and moved to Clifton, Arizona where my husband did carpenter work. Later we moved back to Thatcher, then one beautiful September day we moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
I left Stolkholm June 29, 1880. I arrived at Salt Lake City on July 29, 1880. I was ill all the way on the ocean.. The first part of the voyage on the Black Sea was the roughest. When I arrived in Utah I couldn't speak a word of English, no learning in schools; I just had to pick it up.
I got house work in Salt Lake City. I then met a family by the name of Chlarson. It was through them I met Solomon Joseph Despain. Chlarsons being Swedish, would interpret English for me. After courtship of four weeks, only seeing my lover. Joseph, once a week, he proposed through the Chlarsons as interpreters and we were married March 28, 1881 in the Endowment House.
We went to Granite to live where my husband was Bishop of the Granite Ward. He was also postmaster of Granite and Justice of the Peace. He owned a saw mill up Big Cottonwood.
My first child was born January 22, 1882, Mark Lorenzo; second Walter Gustiv, November 17, 1883. Lotta Pearl was born November 21. 1885.
March 1, 1886 we left Granite and two weeks later we arrived in Richfield, Utah. There baby Pearl died from croupe. We then journeyed down across the Colorado River to St. Joseph, Arizona. By the way, we were traveling by team and wagon with a party by the name of H.M. Chlarson, and Mart Mortison. We crossed the Apache Reservation, the Apaches were on the war path at that time. The party ahead of us were killed. Through faith and prayer we were not mo- lested in any way and arrived in Thatcher safe and sound May 26 1886.
In Thatcher We bought a few acres of land and built a house which was our home for many years. In 1909 I returned to Arizona on a visit with my son Mark. While I was away my husband, Thortan died February 17, 1895 and his brother took him to Coalville where he was buried in his old home town. After my husband's death I started living with my children. My husband died at the age of 71 and left me with four children to raise. I then studied to be a mid-wife, obstetrician, then I did nursing and sewing. I put my children all through school.
Then in June 1900, I married Thortan Lambert. He was a carpenter and mason. Then we sold our old home in Thatcher and moved to Hubbard, Arizona. It was just across the river from Thatcher where we could get more land as my husband wanted to farm. After we bought 10 acres we found we couldn't get water enough to farm the land, so we sold and moved to Clifton, Arizona where my husband did carpenter work. Later we moved back to Thatcher, then one beautiful September day we moved to Salt Lake City, Utah.
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