| Notater |
FRANK EDELL SMITH AND KATY MARIE JACKORSON
Frank Edell Smith was born on 31 Aug 195 in Tecumseh, Lenawae Co, Michigan, to Franklin Philo Smith and Mary Leah Smith. When Frank was a child his family moved to Hillsdale, Hillsdale Co, Michigan, where a younger brother was born and then about 1875 to Marquette Co, Wisconsin, where he met Katy Marie Jacobson whom he married in Feb 1879. Katy was born on 17 June 1861 11 Horrett, Aarhus, Denmark, to Baltzar Jacobson and Rudolfina Georgine Pederson. Har parents joined the L. D. S. church in 1863 and emigrated to Utah in 1864 walking most of the way across the plains after a visit with relatives In Wisconsin who tried to persuade them to settle in Wisconsin instead of Utah. Baltzar built a one room log house in Morgan, Weber Co, Utah, Baltzar but his wife died of mountain fever before he could finish it a few weeks after their arrival. She is reported to be the first person buried in what is now the Richville Cemetery.
One year while Katy was young the grasshoppers were so bad that they nearly destroyed all their crops besides polluting the ditches and streams severely. This caused the family to exist on sego lily bulbs, wild onions, berries, greens, etc. Baltzar expected hard work from all so they labored on the farm with him. In the winter when the wind blew it let cold air into their house via the canvas flaps at the window and door, so they were often cold. Thus, they knew hunger, fatigue, and cold. They also knew love for Baltzar married a widow, Anne Marie Sorensen Friis, who had three children, who also extended her love to them. One of her two living children was a girl about the age of Katy and Petrea. She split up the dresses of her daughter with Katy and Patra who were badly in need of clothing by this time and the latter were very grateful to her for this. Anne liked to fish and often would rise early, catch a batch of fish, and have them ready to eat in time for breakfast.
Around 1878 Katy's father decided to move to Wisconsin where his relatives had located. It was there that Katy first met Frank Edell Smith. Katy and Frank were married in Feb 1879 and they located on a farm in Harrisville, Marquette Co, Wisconsin, where they raised sugar cane and made molasses. Two children were born in Wisconsin, Luella May Smith on 6 Oct 1879 in Harrisville, and Joseph Rudolph Smith on 21 Mar 1882 in Westfield. Another child was stillborn, and this apparently had some adverse effect on the health of Katy. During the winter of 1884-1885 while Katy was carrying another child, she was very sick and had to stay in bed most of the time. Additionally, during this time Katy and Frank decided to move to Utah. This may have been partially due to a decision about this time of her father to move his family back to Utah and partially due to a desire to be with the Mormons. Frank apparently joined the church about 1875 while still in Michigan being the only member of his family to do so. Also, during that winter two missionaries lived with them and one of them was returning home to Arizona the next summer. The other’s folks lived in Murray, Utah. He was Harry Young, son of polygamist Lorenzo Young. He wrote home and arranged with his parents to take Katy and her two children in with them until Frank could dispose of their property and join them. One missionary helped prepare the clothing of the children for the trip and the other helped prepare the food, etc., because of Katy's sickness. It is reported that one of Frank's brothers, a Josephite, said that Frank would never see Katy again, that the missionary was taking her for polygamy, when she left with him. This reflected, in general, the sentiment or belief of the remainder of Frank’s Family as far as the church was concerned they apparently choose to believe the anti-Mormon or apostate Mormon literature or beliefs circulated about the church rather than any literature published or promulgated by the church.
The missionary whom Katy and the children accompanied to Utah impressed Luella, the oldest child, as being a rather forward or domineering type for when they had to change trains, he would corner the first available male and say, "Come and help me carry this woman to the next train". This apparently was necessary because Katy was still sick at this time. When they arrived in Utah the missionary had nearly run out of funds having insufficient money to reach Arizona. Katy gave him what money she had which was sufficient with his to enable him to reach home; then she went, as prearranged and stayed with the Young's until Frank arrived later in the year. She said Lorenzo Young came every day in his surrey to visit his family with whom she was staying to find out if they had any needs.
When Frank arrived from Wisconsin the Smith's located first in So Cottonwood (now Murray) on Vine St. on the hill near the present entrance to the Murray Ball Park. They were apparently at the home of Baltzer Jacobson when Jennie Isabell Smith was born on 19 Dec 1885 in Millcreek, Utah. Jennie was a rather frail child perhaps due to the trouble Katy had carried her; however, she lived to raise six children of her own, was an avid reader, and had a flare for poetry. Katy Leah Smith was born in So Cottonwood on 7 Nov 1887 hut died as a child on 3 Oct 1888. Mary Maudie Smith was born in So Cottonwood On 7 Nov 1889. She survived to have four children which she raised largely by herself and to care for her mother, Katy, during most (19 years) of her later years. In 1890 the family relocated to Granite, Utah, living for a time just east of the Sandy, Utah, line in a dugout on a 20-acre farm before moving to the hillside just below Fell's Canyon. Three more children, each of whom died as a child, were born at this location Frank Knud Smith horn 28 Mar. 1893 and died 14 June 1893, Willie Filo Smith born 29 Sep 1894 and died 26 Nov 1894, and Elbert Edell Smith born 22 Nov 1896 and died 3 Feb 1897. Katy felt very bad about her children who died as babies and acquired white Lambstone markers to mark their grave sites in the Murray Cemetery. Frank and Katy were both eventually buried next to their babies when they died, Frank in Oct 1909 and Katy in Apr 1950.
The home which Frank and Katy built on the hillside in Granite had a cellar on the left side extending into the hill to the East. It was used to store dried beef, salted pork, dried fruits and corn, bottled fruits, vegetables, Jams, and Jellies, etc. A kitchen was located on the right side of the cellar and contained a door on the South. Behind the kitchen and progressively up the hill were the living room and two bedrooms, the latter bedroom having a south outside door. Just southeast of the house was a large granite rock that was taller than the house. The cornerstone for the Brigham Young monument was taken from the property adjoining their property and Frank helped haul it to Salt Lake City. There was a large lawn to the south of the house. They built a milk house across a creek where it was shaded from the sun about a half city block to the southeast of the house. During high water the water really roared down the hill to the east. Milk was kept in open pans in the milk house and the cream was skimmed off for churning butter, making cream cakes, biscuits, etc. Katy always had cows, pigs, chickens, and usually turkeys. Just southeast of the milkhouse were the fruit trees, red raspberries and strawberries in terraces up the hill. These also were trademarks wherever Katy was located. A barn and a pond were located on the other side of the house. Frogs Inhabited the pond and could be heard croaking in the evenings.
Grandfather and Uncle Joe hauled ore from Alta (Little Cottonwood) to the smelter in Murray, Utah, and were away a lot so the farm and the stock, etc., were left for Katy and the children to care for. When the Granite Ward chapel was being built Frank and Katy, and their family had a party on their lawn to raise funds for it. They arranged Japanese lanterns around the lawn for light and had all kinds of competitive games and sold homemade ice cream and cake. Mary Maudie, the youngest daughter, was a wonderful cake maker. All the funds went for helping to build the church.
Luella May Smith married John Maxfield on 30 Nov 1898 in the SL. Temple. One child, Dorlesca May Maxfield, was born to this union on 5 Sep 1899 at the home of Frank and Katy in Granite, Utah, John died on 19 Nov 1905. Luella subsequently married John Harwood for time only in the SL Temple and five more children were subsequently born, all at another place in Granite, Utah. The family subsequently moved to a farm in Grace, Idaho, about 1929. They returned to SLC, Utah, in their later years. Jennie Isabell Smith married Charles Ernest Egbert on 6 Jun 1906. One child was born in Granite, Utah, and then they moved to Grace, Idaho, on a farm about a mile from where the Harwoods subsequently located. This was in 1908, and five more children were born there. Joseph Rudolph Smith married Eliza Ann Maxfield on 26 Jun 1907 in the SL Temple. Twins were born in Union, Utah in 1908 and they subsequently moved to Ucon, Idaho before 1918 and two more children were born in Coltman, Idaho.
Frank and Katy went to Wyoming (Cody) for a time to help settle it about 1898 Luella and John Maxfield lived in their place in Granite for a time. Frank and Katy returned from Wyoming in 1899 to their home in Granite, Utah, where they lived until after Frank's death in 1909. Just prior to his death Frank stayed for a short period with Luella and her child following the death of John Maxfield. He fixed up the loft and slept there. He played the violin by war and usually would get it out in the evenings. Luella loved to hear him play.
Frank died on 18 Oct 1909 in Granite, Utah. from injuries suffered in a runaway while he was getting a load of wood in Big Cottonwood canyon. to worry about him for he didn't know how long it would take. He had told Luella not to worry about him for he didn’t know it would take. Luella fretted and worried all day, seeming to have a premonition of trouble. She didn't even go to church, a very unusual thing for her. At about dark she got word of his accident and was told to have a bed ready. He could he heard from a long way groaning and screaming with pain as they approached. The horses had run away and dragged him during which a kidney was crushed or severely damaged. A young boy had found him and run a long way for help. Frank though injured and laying flat on his back in a white topped (covered) wagon directed then aright every time a wrong turn was made as they brought him home. The doctor from Sandy cane and tried to help Frank but he died during the night. All of his family were there including Katy who had hastened to his side to help him as best she could.
By this time Mary Maudie did housework for others a large part of the time and all of the other children were married so Katy was mostly by herself, Mary Maudie Smith soon married Clarence Proctor who had a farm on the Creek Road, in Union, Utah. (28 Mar 1911). Three children were born to this union before Clarence died of Influenza on 7 Feb 1920 in Union. She later married Rufus Hyrum Walker on 18 Apr 1923 and a son, Aaron E. Walker, was born on 6 May 1924 in Union. They had domestic difficulties and divorced in 1925. She never remarried, raising her children and caring for Katy, her mother, from 1929 to late 1948 when arthritus nearly crippled her. Uncle Joe Smith, now living in Idaho, sent money to Maude to help with Katy.
Grandmother sold her farm on the hillside and a nice four room house near the mouth of Little Cottonwood canyon. A huge hill on the south of her new place separated it from the old place. She still kept a few cows, chickens, and a horse or two. She cleared ground for lawn, a garden, and fruit trees, etc, and built another cellar. This was no mean task for the land was very rocky. People often wondered just how she was able to get the very big rocks out by herself.
Soon after Mary Maudie married, Katy went to work for Philip Jolin Stone, & farmer in Union, Utah, whose wife had died. Katy cooked and kept house for him. She cooked for a lot of men in the summertime when the crops were being harvested. During the winter of 1912 they were married. They raised potatoes, hay and grain and also chickens, berries, fruit, and vegetables, etc. They sold berries, butter, and eggs in Murray, Utah. Katy had a beautiful flower garden with very big peonies and pansies being the highlights. They had a treadle organ which one could play. Grandfather smoked his own hams and bacon and always kept a good supply on hand. They also had a few honeybees. They had an old open roofless car with doors that swung open like a gate. The seat was rather high relative to the doors and It was very easy to fall out of if a door came open while going around a corner. They had a greenery that had yellow Jacket bees in the eaves. A large irrigation canal passed behind their place near the foot of a hill. There was a bridge crossing it but the water was quite deep and the sides were very steep making it dangerous to youngsters. They had nice white freestone peaches and yellow clingstone peaches. Grandfather enjoyed gathering vegetables, etc., with his grandchildren. They raised tomatoes, turnips, parsnips, beets, radishes, beans, etc., besides the various berries and fruit trees. Grandfather was a kind gentle old fellow,
Grandfather Stone passed away in 1928. After about a year grandmother moved in with Mary Maudie and her children on the Creek Road east of Union, Utah. She had a basement, and two bedrooms built on to the back of the house to accommodate her. A grandchild by Luella, Jolin Edell Barwood, dug the basement by pick and shovel. Since mother was alone with four children to raise, she built two large coops, stocked them with white leghorn chickens, and once again was hack in the chicken business Which was assumed by all the family. Katy had always wanted some fine clothes and had finally gotten some, but they were not to last long for a fire destroyed the home and the majority of the contents during the summer of 1933 while the family was visiting Uncle Jacob Jacobson, her half-brother, who was in the L.D.S. hospital in …
|
- Web
dåb
Utah, County Marriages vielse philip, 1871-1941
Utah, Death Certificates, 1904-1966
find a grave
|
1861 - 1950 (88 år)
