SERVICES HELD FOR BALTZAR JACOBSON
Special to The Tribune 12 mar 1920.
MANTI, March 11 - Funeral services were held Tuesday for Baltzar Jacobsen, pioneer of this city, who died Sunday of general debility.
Mr. Jacobson, who was 82 years of age, was born in Aarhus, Denmark, and came to America in 1864. He made the ocean trip on the ship Monarch of the Seas, and walked across the plains with his wife and children in Captain Rawlins's company.
After residing in Morgan county for ten years. Mr. Jacobson removed to Wisconsin, but returned to Utah in 1885, settling in Mill Creek, Salt Lake county. He later moved to Manti, where he resided until he died, in full possession of his physical and mental faculties until ten days before death.
He is survived by the following children: Mrs. Katy M. Stone of Union; J. B. Jacobson, bishop of Manti South ward; Mrs. Lovina M. Lang of Sandy; an adopted son. Professor B. H. Jacobson, of the L. D. S. university, Salt Lake City, and a stepson, Nels Jacobson, of Endeavor, Wis., besides twenty-five grandchildren and thirty-one great-grandchildren.
The funeral services were held under the direction of Counselor Ernest Madsen. The prayer was offered by C. M. Anderson. The speakers were Jens Mikkilson, Ernest Bramwell, President Lewis Anderson, Bishop N. R. Peterson and Counselor Ernest Madsen. Ernest Munk offered the benediction and the grave was dedicated by L. R. Anderson.
Brief History of
Baltzar Jacobson
1837-1920
Baltzar Jacobson, was born in Bjerge Holme, Arhus, Denmark on 28 August 1837 to Jacob Baltzarson and Kirsten Anderson. He married Rudolphine Georgine Pederson. Rudolphine was born in Horrett, Arhus, Denmark, on 17 June 1824 to Peder Pederson and Marie Elizabeth Schiotz. Rudolphine was a tailor by trade and had pursued it for some time prior to their marriage. To this marriage was born two little girls, Petra Beatrice on May 8, 1858 and Katy Marie on 17 June 1861, her mother's birthday.
In 1864 the family left Denmark for the United States. They stopped off in Wisconsin to see relatives. Some of his brothers tried to get him to stay in Wisconsin but he was determined to go to Utah. Baltzar and his family Immigrated to Utah in 1864 with the William B. Preston Company, so they continued on, walking most of the way. The hardships which they encountered on this journey were particularly hard for the rather frail and older Rudolphine. About three weeks after their arrival at Milton, Weber County, Utah, while Baltzar was endeavoring to complete a one room log house to live in she contacted Mountain Fever and slipped away from this life. Rudolphine died in November of 1864. She was buried at Richville on property owned by relatives which came to be the Richville Cemetery. However, no trace can be found of her grave. She was apparently the first person to be buried there.
With his wife's passing, Baltzar Jacobson was very grieved and lonely. He continued on and finished this one room log house which he had begun and then begun to till the soil. The house had canvas at the windows and door which flapped when the wind blew and let in the cold. They were cold and hungry a lot of the time during their early years in Utah. One year the grasshoppers were very bad and ate up their crops (Katie Marie Jacobson recounted how as a little girl, the sky was literally black with them.) They hunted Sego Lily bulbs, wild berries, greens, and whatever they could find to eat. It was a very hard life for Petra and Katy because of their lack of food and because grandfather was a hard worker and expected hard work from the family.
Baltzar subsequently met and married a widow, Ann Marie Sorensen Friis, who had two girls, Anna Margrethe born 9 September 1859 and Anne born 24 September 1864. Anna was about the same age as Petra and Katy. They also had a son, Nels Severin Christian, born 24 January 1862 in Starbran, Randers, Denmark.
Petra and Katy's new mother, Anne Marie Sorensen Friis Jacobson, was very kind and thoughtful. She divided the clothes of Anna Margretha with Petra and Katy who were destitute for clothes by this time. As a result of this and her other kindness to them, Petra and Katy loved her very much.
Anne Marie loved to fish and often rose early and caught enough fish for their breakfast. (Katy Marie often ate the fish heads when we had fish) maybe this was because there was six of us, but I think it was because she had been taught to eat everything edible due to their hardships during her early years.
To this union were bom three children, Hans Rudolph Jacob Baltzar on 25 February 1868, Mary on 17 August 1870, and Martha Lovina on 23 October 1873. All three children were born in Milton, Morgan, Utah. Mary never married and passed away in 1888.
Baltzar Jacobson stayed in Utah for several years (some say about fourteen years) and then being homesick to see his relatives in Wisconsin, took his family and moved there. He didn't stay there very long, however, because he wanted to return to Utah.
While in Wisconsin Katie married Frank Edell Smith, Her step-sister, Anna Margaretha Friis, who was Katie's best friend, married John Moses Smith, a brother to Katy's husband. Anna had a baby boy named Philo John Smith. After his birth, Anna died. Baltzar and Ann Marie Jacobson subsequently adopted the baby and changed his name to Baltzar Hans Jacobson. Baltzar Hans Jacobson was one of the first Rhodes Scholars from Utah.
When the family returned to Utah, Baltzar and his remaining family lived for a while on the hill on Vine Street leading down into Murray Ball Park. Then Baltzar purchased a farm near the mouth of Millcreek Canyon where they lived for a long time.
May Maxfield Rook, a great-grandchild of Baltzar Jacobson, visited them at this place and stayed with them overnight when she was about five years old. Before her visit, her mother, Luella May Smith Maxfield, told her that she must eat all the mush that was put in her bowl because this was the law with Baltzar Jacobsen, her great grandfather. She didn't relish so much mush but did remember and at it all.
On September 5, 1905 Anna Marie Jacobsen passed away. She was buried in the Millcreek Cemetery. Katy Marie Smith was there with her during her illness, Katy and Frank having moved to Utah a few years after their marriage in Wisconsin. There was a great love between Katy and Anna, her stepmother.
Soon after his second wife passed away, Baltzar moved to Manti, Utah. His son, Hans lived there with his family. He was in the Manti Temple presidency for several years. Baltzar soon met and married Karma Andersen Christensen, a widow about his age. He was sealed in the temple to each of his first two wives, but it is unknown about this third wife as no sealing date was found.
Karma passed away between 1910 and 1920. In this time period Baltzar came to Luella and John Harwood's home, his granddaughter's family, in Granite, Utah, a short time after his third wife had passed away and a short time before his death. He had come to visit his daughter, Martha Lovina and her husband George Lang, who lived a mile west of the Harwood's. He had walked to the Harwood's to see the family. He stayed all night and remarked to the Harwood family how much he enjoyed being there where we had a family prayer and the blessing on the food, something he was always used to and missed while visiting Lovina and her family, where they didn't have it. This was a short time before he passed away on 7 March 1920 at the age of 83, in Manti, Utah. Baltzar was buried in the Manti Cemetery, Manti, Sanpete, Utah.
Baltzar was a hard worker and expected hard work from everyone else. He brought up his family this way and was very thrifty with both his time and his money.
NOTE: This history was originally written in 1973 by May Maxfield Rook and Aaron Eugene Walker, grandchildren of Baltzar Jacobsen. |
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