WW2 Westras - Remembering Rationing

 Word War 2 ended September 2, 1945

When Covid-19 came on the scene - there was a sudden rush for products. Toilet paper was gone from the shelves. Bottled water was nowhere to be found. Antibacterial wipes, hand sanitizer, masks, gloves ... and later on basic staples like yeast, flour and sugar. All either impossible or very hard to find. Similar shortages have happened in certain areas before big storms. This perhaps can give us a small glimpse into why rationing was important in 1942.

Here are a couple great websites explaining rationing ... 

NationalWW2Museum and Ames History Museum

During the Second World War, you couldn't just walk into a shop and buy as much sugar or butter or meat as you wanted, nor could you fill up your car with gasoline whenever you liked. All these items were in short supply. The US government’s Office of Price Administration established a system of rationing that would more fairly distribute these limited products. Every American was issued a series of ration books during the war. The ration books contained removable stamps good for certain rationed items, like sugar, meat, cooking oil, and canned goods. A person could not buy a rationed item without also giving the grocer the right ration stamp. Once a person’s ration stamps were used up for a month, no more of that type of food could be purchased. 

Going through boxes of memorabilia from Granma Lucille's estate, 

some of these old ration books were discovered and scanned in to share here. 

First page of a book, and several examples of different ration stamps.

Information (name/address/age/height/weight/sex/occupation) had to be filled out.

This gives us a unique look at this information for our family!

... as mentioned, gasoline was rationed as well as food, 

so there were separate stamps and books issued for necessary transportation. 

This was Dad/Lamar and his family ... Dad was six years old. On Mom/Margie's side of the family, Grandpa Rex had been drafted and Grandma Zada was on her own with three small children. She doesn't mention the war much, but did make this statement " I will never forget the day President Roosevelt died, or the rationing that went on during the war."  (In The Army Now). 

What was rationed and when? Check out the chart below.

... at least toilet paper is back in stock now, right?

Father's Day 2019

The Westra Way blog started in 2020 ... I don't know if Scott had any idea that his clever email invites from past years would be saved and showcased. Will this inspire him to write something even wittier this year, or will he become shy and standard. Does Scott even know there is a blog? *Ü*

He kept it fairly simple for 2019 ~

From Scott: Dear family, it is once again time to celebrate all of the fathers at the annual Draper Westra Father’s Day Spectacular! We have arranged for Emeril Lagasse and Guy Fieri to cater dinner and Cirque du Soleil to provide entertainment. Festivities will begin at 5:00 pm. We hope to see everyone there.

From Mom: I'm embarrassed to admit that I only know one of the three famous names:-[  We will be there! At least you won't have to do your yard prep this year!

From Wendy: The Jensens will be there!!! I haven’t heard of the two famous chefs either mom -- but I have heard that there is this guy named Grayson Blackham who also has the gift! Maybe we could enlist those services along with the rest of the foodies in the family!

From Shane: We really wish we could come to the Father's Day party, but my schedule has me in California that day so that my family can shower me with gifts and praise. Tell Emeril and Guy hello for me, it's been a while since I've hung out with them.

Derek had written that a few days before, Layla had suddenly turned very sad. He asked her what was wrong and she replied  "I just miss my cousin Jaiden so much and I really want to see her!" :) Happily, the Jensen's were able to make it this year, and Wendy and Jaiden and Jenna slept over at Derek's house so the cousins could hang out a little more before heading back the next day.

There were the usual outdoor games, and inside, Landon had set up a customized Jackbox game set. There were lots of funny questions about all the family members. Lots of funny answers about the Westra clan. What do you see when you look down from a hot air balloon?

The History of Joseph Lamar Westra

Birth and growing up years, 1937-1949, Ages 0-12. 

I arrived into this wonderful world 28 May 1937, the first child of Joseph Ate Westra and Lucille Erskine. I was born in Salt Lake City, and spent most of my early childhood in the South Salt Lake area, where we attended the old Haven Ward, just a block west of State Street about 2300 South. Our family grew to include two sisters and one brother. The old Haven Ward must have been torn down after we left the area. 

 We lived at 246 East 21st South. 

 

My father’s parents were both born in the Netherlands, so my father was 100% Dutch, making me 50% Dutch, with ancestor surnames such as: de Haan, Bangma, Scheeringa, Posthumus, Snip, Ploeg, Hofstra, Wijnalda etc. My mother’s ancestry was mostly English and Scottish with ancestor surnames such as: Erskine, Cushing, Roberts, McFarlane, Peat, Bird, etc. 

One of my early memories, when I was a small boy, was when I set fire to the field behind our house. My mother had always said how she liked a nice bonfire, so I lit the fire for her. She wasn’t pleased. I think my fire almost burned up a cow that was in the field. 

I attended Madison Elementary on State Street about 2400 South: kindergarten through 6th grade. Some of my friends during my elementary school days were Boyd Parry, Fred Dalton, Gary Royce and Norman Middleton (see more about friends from Madison and the neighborhood, including a first girlfriend). There was an initiation into the 6th grade that all the lower grades would dread. It involved harassment by the outgoing 6th graders, and eating grasshoppers. 

I remember having a thriving nightcrawler business. My dad and I would go out at night and gather nightcrawlers from golf courses around the valley: Nibley, Forest Dale, and Bonneville, and Fairmount and Liberty Parks. I would store the nightcrawlers in my basement in large flat wooden boxes, spread with damp gunny sacks, and feed them Cream of Wheat until we sold them. I would take orders in advance, so often we would have to make special night excursions to fill orders of 10-12 dozen nightcrawlers. I charged 15 cents a dozen, or two dozen for 25 cents. My sister Sharon would be my helper and help customers if I wasn’t home. We even put electrical rods in our back lawn to bring the night crawlers out. It worked pretty well, but the worms became a little woozy. 

I got my dad to take me fishing. We would go down to Spring Run on 9th East about 50th South. It was the final point of one of our bike trips. One time, when I was about 10 years old, my dad and I were fishing in Mill Creek, near Granite High. The water was very deep there, and I caught a whopper. I pulled it out and it came flying out of the water up on the bank, and the hook came out. It was about to flop back into the water when my dad grabbed it and tossed it up on higher ground. It was a 21 ½ inch rainbow trout. We took it home, and somehow the newspaper got word of it, and my picture appeared in the newspaper, with this big trout hanging over my shoulder, and hanging almost down to my waist. It would be about 16 years later, after I had married, and we had moved to Richland, Washington, when Margie’s dad called us and told us that my name was on the big yellow Dees cup for being the record holder in Utah for the largest rainbow trout. It was listed on the cup as a 21 ½ pound rainbow trout, caught in Millcreek Reservoir. That record actually stood up for many years. It was the listed record until they built the Flaming Gorge reservoir, and grew rainbow trout bigger than 21 ½ pounds. 

My father was a returned missionary, having served in the Southern States Mission under President LeGrande Richards. But during my growing up years, he was not too active in the church. My mother would attend church with us children. My father was very often playing golf each Sunday. He was a pretty good amateur golfer, and had lots of golfing trophies. But when I was 12 years old, I was given the Aaronic Priesthood and ordained to the office of Deacon by my father. I was also ordained to the office of Teacher by my father, but I was ordained to the office of Priest by someone else: Melvin Brain. My father later ordained me to the office of Elder. 

Grandview Circle Years - 1949-1957 Ages 12-20

When I was 12 years old, our family moved into a new home South and East of Sugarhouse, at 2740 South Grandview Circle (about 1700 East).  See the neighborhood around Grandview Circle.  I remember working with my dad doing cleanup during the construction: sweeping, straightening nails, etc.  We lived in the Wilford Stake and attended the Grandview Ward on 20^th East, about 2900 South.  I attended Roosevelt Junior High, which is now Rowland Hall, a private school.  It was located west and down the hill from East High School.  We were bussed to Roosevelt.  I remember some of the teachers at Roosevelt: Mr. Kartchner for PE, Justin Tolman for math, Buttermilk Bertha Rappoport for type.  I wrestled for Mr. Kartchner.  Mr. Tolman would tell us how he taught the young man who invented Television, Philo Farnsworth.  He said he had long discussions up in schools in Idaho with Philo, who would explain his theories, and fill the blackboard with complex equations.  Buttermilk Bertha Rappoport gave me the only D I ever got on a report card.  Then the next semester she gave me an A.  My mom told me she had Bertha Rappoport for type when she was in Roosevelt Junior High.  Buttermilk Bertha got her knick name for sitting outside her classroom on a garbage can and drinking buttermilk. 

Then I attended South High School which is now part of the Salt Lake Community College and Grand Theatre.   Having all three of my old school buildings no longer operating as public school buildings makes me feel somewhat of an outcast.  At South High, one of my favorite teachers was Rocky Schroeder for math.  Mrs. Schroeder was a diminutive little lady, probably less than 5 feet in height.   Another favorite teacher was Mr. Armont Willardsen, for acapella choir.  I tried out for the choir as a Junior and got in as a baritone.  So I was in the choir for two years.  We would go around to different wards in the area to sing in sacrament meetings.  We put on the whole program, including speakers and 8-10 musical numbers.  One of our favorite closing numbers was Battle Hymn of the Republic.  I can still sing the baritone part today.  We sang almost every Sunday.  I remember singing also at locations in downtown SLC, the Hotel Utah and the Congregational Church, and for the big Baptist church on 13^th East just north of East High School.  The pastor there, Fenwick Fowler, knew that most of the members of the choir were Mormons, so he always planned on a baptism as a part of the service.  The baptism was done in a font, high above the pulpit, complete with mirrors so the audience could see the baptism being performed.   The pastor always had a fiery sermon prepared for us.

Chemistry teacher got me to major in Chemistry at the U. 

I was also enrolled in early morning seminary.  We had a carpool, mainly driven by Don Phippen.  My sister Sharon and I were in the carpool together.  She was one year behind me at South High.  Others in the carpool were my sister’s friends: Joyce Keiser and Eileen.  We would be in a big hurry every morning, and would very often arrive late.    

Some of my friends from the ward were: Frank Willardsen, Tim Maxwell, Mike Dixon, and John Dunn.  Tim had lots of exotic birds: pheasants, etc.   Tim’s dad was our scoutmaster, and each year, our ward would take a trip to Moab to camp and hike n the Arches.  Some of the friends I met in High School were Jim Peterson and Dick Van Wagenen.  I would play lots of basketball with Jim, down on Ashton Avenue, and ping pong with Dick down in his basement. Dick lived on Parkway.

On Sundays, we had a big group of boys who played football, at the Stratford Park church, just south of the Crystal Heights ward building. I played on our ward young men’s teams: basketball, and softball(Libby EdwardsSchool). My sister Sharon didn’t have many friends in our Grandview ward, so she attended the Crystal Heightswardin the next Stake to the North, where she had lots of friends: Steve Stutz, her old boyfriend, JoyceKeizer, and Eileen. Don Phippen also lived in that ward. I think that Don and Joyce were cousins. When Sharon eventually married, she had her reception in the Crystal Heights ward.

I worked each summer for the Granite School District, starting about age 14.  My dad was the purchasing agent.  The main offices were in a small two story building on State Street just north of 33^rd South.  My dad knew everyone at the school district, and got me jobs, first in the Cannery at about 25 cents per hour, and then on the cleaning crew.  The crew was made up of 5-6 teachers, and 5-6 young guys like me.  We would travel from school to school and clean rest rooms and dough clean walls and ceilings with wallpaper cleaner: soft pink stuff you would wipe over the surface and it would clean the dirt off.  We would build scaffolding to get to the ceilings.  It got quite precarious in rooms like the Granite High School auditorium.  We would be way up there on the scaffold, walking a thin 2 by 8 plank, swinging our arm wildly from side to side.  Then we would throw the dough at each other.  Then I got jobs on the plumbing crew, installing and repairing sprinkler systems.  The last jobs I had were watering new lawns as they were planted.  They planted seed, which needed watering every day.  I brought up new lawns at Granger High, and several elementary schools: Eastwood, East Mill Creek, etc.  I would also catch gophers when they made mounds in my new grass, by inserting gopher trips in the holes.  My main boss for all of this work was Lee Davey. 

After my graduation from high school in 1955, I attended the University of Utah for two years, majoring in Chemistry.  I spent much of my free time at the LDS Institute of Religion.  A big group of South High graduates met there.  We played a lot of ping pong, and took institute classes, and ate our lunch, and joined Delta Chapter, one of the four men’s chapters of Lambda Delta Sigma, the LDS fraternity/sorority at the U of U.  I met lots more friends there.  Many of our girlfriends were from Sigma chapter, the woman’s chapter that met the same night we did, on Wednesday evenings.  We dated lots of different girls, but many of them were set up dates between our Delta chapter and one of the seven woman’s chapters.   

Some of the group went on a river trip down the Colorado, with the Socotwa River Rats.  We had four Deltas on our boat, and three Sigmas.  The Deltas were Steve Carr, Tim Maxwell, Don Phippen and I.  Steve was there with his girlfriend, Annette Thorpe.  We got in the Colorado near Moab, and floated down through Cataract Canyon until the convergence with the Green River, in what is now Canyonlands National Park, and then to the convergence with the Yampa River.  We met with others in our company who were floating down the other rivers.  We were on the river 10 days, clear down past the Glen Canyon Dam being built.  We could see some of the construction high up on the canyon walls.  We hiked up some of the side canyons that are now covered by Lake Powell, including Hole in the Rock and Rainbow Bridge.  In some of the side canyons, we would hike up a narrow canyon, and then encounter a section of water, where we would have to swim or wade.  We got to one canyon with a fantastic waterfall.  Some of our group actually dove from the top of the waterfall down into the deep pool in which it was falling.  We continued our floating, past the Arizona border. 

Some of us had a last fling before our missions.  We went on a trip to California with Jim Peterson and ….  Ray ….  ….. Marlo Gwynn

Mission Years (1957-1960)

  

I was called to the Netherlands Mission: 1957-1960.  I was pleased to receive a call to the land of half of my ancestors, and to be able to learn the Dutch language. 

I was 20 ½ when I was called.  I attended the old Missionary School in downtown SLC, 20-31 August, near where the LDS Conference Center is now.  Dick Van Wagenen and I were there together.  Dick had been called to the Northern States Mission.  We skipped out to visit our girlfriends: Joann Despain and Sylvia (Saliva) Wheelwright.

My mission is pretty much described in my Missionary journal, including the trip over to the Netherlands, with my traveling companion, Elder Ronald Whiting, of Firth, Idaho,  via train to Chicago, where we had to change trains, and train stations, and New York, where we stayed two days, and were able to visit Niagara Falls, and New York City, Central Park, Empire State Building, Radio City, show, the Pajama Game, and the boat trip on the SS Maasdam, 5-14 September.    

We made a stop in Southampton, England, and LeHavre, France, and got to Rotterdam on 14 September.  We were met by Elder Russell and Elder Teerlink, and went to The Hague in President Sperry’s car.  We stayed in The Hague for three days, and then were transferred.  I went on 17 September to Amsterdam, with a trainer, Elder Robert J. de Bry, who was the District President in Amsterdam. 

Usually, when new missionaries arrive in the Netherlands, they go straight to the mission home in The Hague to the mission school.  However, since there were just the two of us, me and Elder Whiting, they decided to have us wait for the school, until three other missionaries would be arriving. 

So I spent my first month in Amsterdam with Elder de Bry.  We made trips to Haarlem and other places. 

I got back to The Hague to attend the mission school, 19 October to 8 November.  Our school teacher was Elder Schetselaar, and the missionary presidents for the Sunday School and Mutual (OOV) were living there also, Elder Shupe and Elder Lemon.   Some of the others attending the mission school, were Elder van Boerum, Elder Whiting.     

I was transferred to my next assignment, in Arnhem, 9 November.   My companion was the Branch President in Arnhem, Elder Butler, and then Elder Sieverts, and finally, Elder Ladle.  We were in a foursome, living above the church in Arnhem.  The other two missionaries were the District President, Elder Stewart, and his companion, Elder Stuart Poelman.   

I was in Arnhem for about 7 months. 

I was transferred to my next assignment, back to The Hague, 26 May 1958.  My companion was Elder Leon de Vries.

After I was released as a missionary, I went up to the Northern two provinces of the Netherlands, Groningen and Friesland, and did family history work in Friesland the archives in Leeuwarden, and visited the villages where some of my ancestors had lived.  I stayed up there for two weeks, waiting for the release of three more missionaries. 

We toured, with five missionaries and two Volkswagons, through Germany and Austria and Italy and France and Belgium.  We had tents and camped out, or stayed in youth hostels along the way,  We went to England to do more touring, and to board the SS United States for our return to the US.  We toured New York and Washington DC and traveled west to Dayton, Ohio to meet with my uncle Harold Erskine.  We continued our trip west in our Volkswagons to SLC.  My mom was not aware of where we were until we knocked on her front door.    

Post Mission Years (1960-1963)

After my mission, I returned to the U of U, where I continued my chosen major of Chemistry.  I got into summer school when I got back home, to avoid being drafted.  I took 20 hours during summer quarter, 4 five hour classes, all relatively easy: German 1, Music 1, Statistics, Econ 1.  Our teacher in Econ 1 was a young bearded fellow, who taught with a cigarette in one hand, and a piece of chalk in the other.  He would sometimes forget which was which.  I remember one of our texts for Econ 1 was The Communist Manifesto.  I graduated in 1962, and spent an additional year of post graduate study, changing my emphasis from Chemistry to Math and Computers.

At the U, I was actively involved in Lambda Delta Sigma, the church sponsored fraternity/sorority group.  I was elected an inter-chapter officer, Treasurer.  It was there I met the love of my life, Margie Norman.  She didn’t attend the UofU.  She went to Heneger’s business college.  A group of Henegers students created another chapter of Lambda Delta Sigma, the Omicron chapter.  We would have conjoints, or parties between one men’s chapter and one women’s chapter.  The first conjoint between the Delta chapter and the Omicron chapter resulted in 5 or 6 marriages.  Margie and I were married 29 June 1962 in the Salt Lake Temple.   

We moved into our first apartment, an 8 plex on McClelland Avenue in Sugar House, and went on our honeymoon to Las Vegas, with a stop at Bryce Canyon.  Margie showed her prowess as a gambler by winning several big returns on her slot machine.  We took in a few shows in Las Vegas: PillowTalk, and

We paid $80 per month for our apartment, and it was the only one of the 8 that did not have a carport and storage unit.  The builder promised one, and when it didn’t happen quickly, we paid only $75 per month.   t ….  Address ….   We stayed in the apartment for one year, while I did a year of graduate study.  Margie had her job at the Huntsman Cancer research center, and I had an assistantship where they paid a stipend for teaching lab and research classes in Chemistry. 

In the summer of 1963, I went on two interview trips.  One was by myself, flying to Denver, Colorado to interview Marathon Oil, and then Margie and I drove to San Francisco to interview Shell Oil Company.  Then we accepted a job offer from General Electric in Richland, Washington, one of the three cities making up the Tri Cities.

Richland, Washington Years (1963-1972)

In the summer of 1963, I went on two interview trips.  One was by myself, flying to Denver, Colorado to interview Marathon Oil, and then Margie and I drove to San Francisco to interview Shell Oil Company.  Then we accepted a job offer from General Electric in Richland, Washington, one of the three cities making up the Tri Cities.  I was hired as a chemist, but never did any work in chemistry.  I was assigned to work in computer programming, and spent the next 40 years as a computer programmer/systems analyst.  We had planned to stay in Richland about two years, and get some work experience, and then return to Salt Lake City.  Those goals didn’t work out quite as planned.  We lived in Richland for nine years, in two homes.  Our first home was a small house in what was called Richland Village, at 2031 Raineer Street, on the corner.  We paid rent: $79 per month.  The house had a garage and a basement.  We made acquaintance with two of our neighbors.  Elwyn and Marilyn Shimoda lived in the house just west of ours, and Gil and Eileen Litchfield on the next street.  They each had one child.  Eileen served as a surrogate mother for Margie, since her own mother was so far away.  

We had our first child 16 Dec 1963.  Scottie was born in Kadlec Memorial Hospital, which had been built years before by the government.  The whole city of Richland was built by the government to support building the atom bomb.  A lot of people were hired to work in Richland in the years before 1945.  Most of the people who worked there didn’t know they were working on a project to build the atomic bomb. 

After the first two atomic bombs were exploded in Japan, the local Richland High School changed their mascot name to the Richland bombers. 

In Richland, General Electric was a sub contractor for the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and was operating the Hanford nuclear reactor plant on the Columbia River.  I started with GE in the tech grad program.  There they had new employees take 3-4 three month assignments with different groups.  Then when the employee and the group manager come to a mutual agreement, the employee is assigned to that group.  I had one assignment out in the labs, a 20 minute bus ride west to the lab area, and another assignment in downtown Richland.  I accepted the second assignment, working in the Richland Federal Building for Glenn Otterbein, doing computer work, mostly in Fortran.  After working there for just a year or so, GE’s contract expired, and the contract was divided into 5-6 different groups.  Other subcontractors won the contract with the AEC.  I sat at the same desk, but was now working for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).

My father died in May 1965. We returned for his funeral.

We had our second child, Christopher, 5 Sep 1966.

Moved to a new house, 726 Saint Street.   Nov 1967 …    Richland 1^st Ward.   Richland Stake new Stake Center …  included wards in Kennewick and Walla Walla.   Neighbors Roy and Sharon Kent on one side and Jean and Dick Turley on the other side …..   

Served in Family History, starting the Richland Family History Center in our new stake house.   Served as a stake missionary …   adult Aaronic replacing Dick Turley …

Graduate Classes at the Richland Center for Graduate study …….   Classes in Math, Advanced Calculus, Advanced differential equations, linear algebra, etc.  The Richland Center would contract with professors from Washington State, U of Washington and Oregon State to fly in to teach the classes.    

Wendy was born 29 Apr 1968. 

 In the summer of 1969, CSC moved us to Los Angeles for three months, along with 8 or 9 other families, to develop software at the main CSC headquarters in El Segundo.   

Back in Richland: One time I was working out in the yard and supposedly tending the kids.  I didn’t notice, but Wendy wandered off.  One of the neighbors way up the hill saw her and brought her back home, clutching an all-day sucker.  I hadn’t even missed her.  The neighbor said they knew her from church, with those beautiful blue eyes. 

Jenny was born 10 Nov 1970. 

I taught early-morning Seminary (9th grade) for a year before we moved back to Salt Lake.

 Hermitage Circle Years (1972-1994)

(check out The Hermitage House post)

   

We finally returned to Salt Lake City in August 1972, along with our first four children, ages 1-8.  We moved into a new split entry home in the Jamestown subdivision, 1677 East Hermitage Circle.  The Jamestown area was part of the home show in the year before.  We attended a number of Cottonwood Wards in the Cottonwood Stake.  We were first in the Cottonwood 9^th Ward, meeting in the ward house on Highland Drive.  A few weeks later, the new Cottonwood Stake Center on 1830 East 6400 South was finished.  We were assigned to the Cottonwood 11^th Ward meeting in the Stake Center.  …Bishop Harry Peckham . 

  

In our move to Salt Lake City, I was hired as a computer programmer by the Sperry Corporation, who ran a plant out by the Salt Lake airport.  They eventually merged with other companies and became the Unisys Corporation. 

In my first assignment there, I worked with David Powell and Franci de Long.  Our boss was Wayne Slagle.  I worked as a computer programmer or analyst.  During my work there, I took many trips: many to Roseville, Minnesota and many others to Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.  I took another trip to New Orleans, and another to Miami to attend conferences of some kind or another.  Other bosses were: Wayne Ivie, Glenn Johnson, John Burns, Franci de Long.  I worked on many projects. 

Church callings – Family History, FREP, Church, FH Center …..membership clerk, teach ….  Varsity Scouts ….. 

  

3 May 1976      Birth of Shane Michael Westra

Ward split, 13^th Ward …Bishop Robin Egan, with counselors Lane Summerhays and Steve Woolston.   Margie was the first RS president.   We were a very small ward ….  After two years, Steve had to be released: working for the church, too much travel, South America.  I was called to replace him as 2^nd Counselor.

17 Apr 1979     Birth of Kellie Sue Westra.  Our little girl had a heart defect and died at the age of 8 days.

22 Jan 1980     Death of Margie’s grandmother, Louella McGee Norman

5 Nov 1980     Birth of Cory Matthew Westra.  He was a full-term stillborn little boy.

5 May 1982     Birth of Derek Alan Westra. I was almost 45 years of age.

26 Dec 1982     LaMar - called to serve in the Bishopric of the Cottonwood 13^th Ward, with Bishop Robin Egan and Lane Summerhays.  LaMar replaced Steve Woolston who was doing a lot of traveling for the church. 

Budd Ferre was later called as a counselor to Bishop Egan, and when Bishop Egan was released, Budd was called to be the new bishop.  I served as a counselor to Budd also.  I served for almost 7 years as counselor. 

26 May 1983    Scott was called as a missionary to the Tampa Florida mission.  He departed 26 May 1983.  The missionary system had been recently changed, with new missionaries called for a period of just 18 months.  Scott returned 30 Nov 1984.   After Scott’s return, the missionary system was changed back again, with new missionaries again called for a period of two years.    

• 31 Mar 1986 Death of Herbert LaVar Norman
• 13 Oct 1986 Death of Hannah Lucinda Hurst Howell Bohne
• 21 Oct 1987 Chris departed as a missionary in the Columbus, Ohio mission. Chris returned 6 Oct 1989. 
• 5 July 1989 Wendy departed as a missionary in the Atlanta, Georgia ASL, American Sign Language. Wendy returned 24 Jan 1991.
• 26 Nov 1989 Release from Bishopric after serving almost seven years in the Bishopric 
• 29 Aug 1990 Death of Lucille Erskine Westra Burgener
• 15 July 1991 Marriage of Chris and Casandra Mueller
• 20 Mar 1992 Marriage of Scott and Amy Whiting. They moved into a house in Cottonwood Heights, 2256 East 6630 South, 84121.
• 13 May 1992 Birth of our first grandchild, Conner Joseph Westra 
• 22 July 1992 Marriage of Jennifer and Grayson Blackham. 
• 23 Feb 1993 Birth of our second grandchild, McKenna Nicole Westra 
• 15 Jan 1994 Death of Victor Alma Burgener
• 12 Mar 1994 Move Chris and Sandy to Fayette
• 2 June 1994 Birth of our third grandchild, Kadan Christopher Westra 
• 28 July 1994 Marriage of Wendy and Rick Jensen. 

We lived in the Hermitage home for over 22 years, and then built a new home, just east of our old home, in a new subdivision called New Haven.  12 Nov 1994     Move to 6176 South Haven Moor Circle. We have now been in our current home for over 10 years.      

Haven Moor Circle Years 1994-Present

• 12 Nov 1994 We moved into our new home: 6176 South Haven Moor Circle
• 15 Feb 1995 Birth of our 4th grandchild, Alyssa Blair Westra
• 19 July1995 Departure of Shane for his mission in Brazil. Shane returned 25 June 1997. 
• 7 Sep 1995 Birth of our 5th grandchild, Landon Gordon Blackham
• 8 Dec 1995 Birth of our 6th grandchild, Janika Carol Jensen
• 16 Dec 1995 Move Scott and Amy, and McKenna and Alyssa, to Draper, 404 East Rosewood Park Lane. 
• 16 Oct 1996 Birth of our 7th grandchild, Kellen Scott Westra
• 12 Dec 1996 Move Jen and Gray, and Landon, to West Jordan, 3692 West 8070 South, 84088
• 6 June 1997 Birth of our 8th grandchild, Corin Benjamin Westra
• 28 June 1997 Move Rick and Wendy, and Janika, to Ivins, 582 North 300 West, 84738
• 8 July 1997 Install new computer
• 2 Dec 1997 Birth of our 9th grandchild, Jase Rick Jensen
• 5 Aug 1998 Birth of our 10th grandchild, Kemery Chase Westra
• 21 Feb 1999 Birth of our 11th grandchild, Callahan Joseph Blackham

1 Jan 2000   One of the last projects I worked on at Unisys was the Y2K project.  In Jan 2000 all the programs that relied on a two digit year would be compromised, because the year 00 was then 1900.  The Y2K project has us go through all our programs and see which ones needed to be changed, so that on 1 Jan 2000, they would not all become obsolete.

•  8 Mar 2000     Birth of our 12^th grandchild, Jared Daniel Jensen
• 31 Aug 2000     Birth of our 13^th grandchild, Keaton Glen Blackham
• 9 May 2001     Marriage of Shane and Alicia Marie Green.  
• 3 July 2001     Departure of Derek for his mission in Campinas, Brazil.  Derek returned 2 July 2003 
• 4 Oct 2001     Move Chris and Sandy, and  their three boys to Gunnison, 711 East 300 South, 84634.  Chris had purchased the property, and built the house there. 
• 1 Jan 2002     LaMar retired from Unisys, after working there for 30 years. 
• 27 Apr 2002   Birth of our 14^th grandchild, Camden Jacob Westra
• 20 June 2002   Departure of Merrill and Lorrie to be the Mission President in New Jersey.  They returned June 2005.
• 12 Aug 2002   Start of LaMar’s Family History Mission.
• 14 Oct 2002    Birth of our 15^th grandchild, Janelle Marjorie Jensen
• 27 Aug 2003    Birth of our 16^th grandchild, Taylee Grace Westra
• 28 Aug 2003    Birth of our 17^th grandchild, Cooper Grayson Blackham
• Oct 2003          Margie and LaMar called as Area Family History Advisors
• 1 Nov 2003      Move Shane and Alicia to Sandy, 9704 South 1700 East
• 3 Mar 2004      Move Rick and Wendy, and their 4 kids, to Santa Clara
• 31 May 2004    Birth of our 18^th grandchild, Jaiden Wendy Jensen
• 2 Nov 2004     Birth of our 19^th grandchild, Adria Elisabeth Westra
• 12 Feb 2005     Move Scott and Amy, and their 5 kids, to 936 East Old English Road

This was the start of a 9 month period where we had four grandchildren born.

• 20 Dec 2005     Birth of our 20^th grandchild, Colton Jensen Blackham.  
• 16 Apr 2006     Birth of our 21^st grandchild, Joshua Joseph Jensen
• 22 May 2006     Birth of our 22^nd grandchild, Cayson Michael Westra
• 23 Aug 2006     Birth of our 23^rd grandchild, Mirella Marie Westra

•  4 Nov 2006       Marriage of Derek and Danielle Taylor.  
• 13Jan 2007       Move Shane and Alicia and their two girls to Lindon, 967 East 300 North
• 17Aug 2007      Move Derek and Danielle to Hawaii, 2065 Lanihuli Drive, Honolulu
• 27Jan 2008       Death of President Gordon B. Hinckley

I have always been an avid genealogist, especially on my Dutch lineage.  After being released from my mission in the Netherlands, I spent two weeks doing research in some of the old archives in the Netherlands.  In Richland, I worked with others in starting up the Tri Cities Family History center. 

I have held a number of church callings.  I was in a Bishopric in our current ward for 7 years (serving under two Bishops), and also served as membership clerk and then in Family History work as the Stake Family Records Extraction Director.  I worked with others in our stake to establish a Family History Center, and worked as Stake FHC Director for a number of years.  

Easter - 2019

Easter was April 21 this year. I think this may have been the first Westra Easter in a few years. It's hard with some families being further away, and not so many littles around. But this year, it was EARS and everything. Jen has been in charge of filling oodles of eggs in the past, but with only Derek's crew of kidlets and Integrity (Chris and Kim kidnapped her for this event),  Mom/Margie said she could handle it. She'd bought lots of candy for the LRC game and had extra. I think Ani was going on a no-sugar challenge though ...

What exactly is Keaton doing to Grayson's head in the picture above? 

Who knows! He's a weird kid. 

In fact, don't leave your phone unattended or you just might get some surprise pictures like this ...

Some years - this set of stairs has been FULL of grandkids.

It was fun to get together though!

Ancestor's Immigration to Utah

Colton had an assignment in school, to spotlight how/when an ancestor came to Utah. Time to turn to Grandpa Westra! He got back to us with tons of information, and I mentioned that other grandkids might likely have similar assignments in the future, and that he had gone to so much work, that we should keep the document handy.

Immigration to Utah

Westra and Norman Ancestors

The following table provides a list of Westra and Norman Ancestors, listed in order of first immigration to Utah. Relationships are listed with respect to LaMar, Joseph LaMar Westra, and Margie, Marjorie Norman. Those ancestors who immigrated to Utah between 1847 and 1868 can be found on the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel website, see Notes 19. All of the ancestors in the following table can be found in the Family Tree part of the Family Search website, see Notes 20, Family Tree = (FT). 

Names	Dates	From – To	Notes
Elam Cheney & Hannah Compton	Oct 1847	Illinois – Utah	17
Agnes Baird (Adamson)	1848	Scotland – Utah	16
Moses Martin Sanders & Mary Jane Sparks	1849	Illinois - Utah	8, 10
Aaron Cheney & Mehitable Wells	1849	New York – Utah	18
Thomas Guymon & Sarah Gordon, and son Noah	1850	Illinois – Utah	21, 13
Henry Weeks Sanderson & Rebecca Ann Sanders	1850	Illinois - Utah	9, 12
Amanda Armstrong Fausett	1850	Illinois - Utah	10, 11
William Hurst & Susannah Webley	1852	Illinois – Utah	22
Edmund Wheeler Howell & Sarah Vail	1852	Iowa - Utah	6, 23
Archibald Anderson	1855	Scotland – Utah	14
Agnes Adamson	1856	Scotland – Utah	15
Archibald Erskine & Ann Jack McFarlane	1860	New York – Utah	2
Samuel Roberts & Mary Peat	1866	England - Wyoming	24
Robert Cushing & Carolyn Ayers	1866	England - Utah	3
Henry Charles Cushing	1866	England - Utah	4
John Cushing & Elizabeth Bird, and Laura Cushing	1874	England - Utah	25
Mons Anderson Norman & Julia Sharlotta Johansen	1886	Sweden - Utah	5
Solon Huff McGee & Emily Lucretia Robinson	1899-1900	Missouri – Utah	26
Ate Obes Westra & Geeske Egberts de Haan	Apr 1907	Netherlands – Utah	1

(1) Notes for Ate Obes Westra

Ate Obes Westra is LaMar’s paternal grandfather. He was born in 1868 in Achlum, Friesland, Netherlands. He met Geeske, who had been baptized earlier. Ate was baptized a member of the LDS church, 12 Apr 1902 in Groningen, Netherlands. He married Geeske in Oct 1902, and they had three children and immigrated to America in 1907, on the ship: The Canada, arriving in Portland, Maine, and came to Utah. Those three children died in Salt Lake City, shortly after they arrived. Ate and Geeske would have seven more children, and three of those children died young also. They resided in the Forest Dale Ward, 2256 So. 8th East in SL, which had a large population of Dutch immigrants. 

(1) Notes for Geeske Egberts de Haan

Geeske Egberts de Haan is LaMar’s paternal grandmother. She was born in 1878 in Niekerk, Groningen, Netherlands. She was baptized into the LDS church 19 Oct. 1901. She met Ate Obes Westra at the church in Groningen. They were married in Oct 1902. Geeske was Endowed 12 Feb 1908, SL Temple

(2) Notes for Archibald Erskine & Ann Jack McFarlane

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1828 and 1826) and married (1851) in Scotland and converted to the LDS church, and were baptized in 1852, and immigrated to the US. They came with one daughter on the ship: the S.S. Samuel Curling. It sailed from Liverpool, England on Sunday, April 22, 1855, and arrived in New York in 1855. They lived in New York City, N.Y. and Boston, Mass. A son and daughter were born in New York. The family came to Utah in 1860 with the Charles Ross Company.  Archibald was a tailor and had a sewing machine. Brigham Young asked him to make canvas covers for the wagons and the hand carts. In SLC, Archibald was the tailor for Brigham Young and made coats and dresses for Brigham Young's daughters. Archibald was a soldier and went to the Black Hawk Indian War. 

(3) Notes for Robert Cushing & Caroline Ayers

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1828 and 1823) and married (1852) in England and converted to the LDS church, and were baptized in 1848 and 1850 in England. They immigrated from England to the US in 1866 on the American Congress. They came to Utah, most likely in 1866 with two sons, Henry and James. The family settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

(4) Notes for Henry Charles Cushing

Henry was born in England in 1855 and Immigrated to Salt Lake City from England in 1866, age 11 with his parents, see Notes (3). Occupation: shoemaker. He was the first husband of Laura Cushing, LaMar’s great grandmother. Henry and Laura had three children in Salt Lake City, 1876-1880. Henry died in April 1880. Laura remarried in 1882, to Samuel Albert Hunt, and LaMar’s grandmother, Olive Laura Cushing was born of that marriage in 1882. Samuel deserted the family, and Laura had Olive sealed to Henry Charles Cushing.

(5) Notes for Mons Anderson Norman & Julia Sharlotta Johanson 

These are Margie’s Great Grand Parents. They were born (1859 and 1858) and married (1877) in Sweden. They had four children in Sweden, 1879-1885. Mons and Julia converted to the LDS Church and were both baptized 6 Oct 1886 in Sweden. The family emigrated the next day, 7 Oct 1886, to England, on the ship: Milo, where they are listed with the surname: Nauman. They sailed a week later, to America, 13 Oct 1886 on the ship: British King, where they are listed with the surname: Naumon. Mons changed his name to Mons Anderson Norman. They settled in Mt. Pleasant, Utah where they had 8 more children: 1887-1904. Most of the family are buried in Mt. Pleasant. The mother of Mons Anderson Norman, Hannah Olsson, came to America also, and died in 1888 and is buried in Fountain Green. Two siblings of Mons also immigrated, with immigration dates listed as 1883, and 1884, and 1908, with no source details. 

(6) Notes for Edmund Wheeler Howell

Edmund is Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Father. He was born 1817 in New York. See Notes (23). United Ancestries has Edmund's death place recorded as Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa. Other records show that Edmund's death was at the Platte River in Nebraska while crossing the plains. (1852)

(7) Notes for James Sanderson 

James is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Father. He was born 1804, and married 1827 in Massachusetts to Mary Jane Sparks and was converted to the church in New York in 1841 by his wife's brother, Quartus. He journeyed towards Nauvoo in fall of 1842 and stopped at Pittsburg. He arrived in Nauvoo in the summer of 1843. He worked on the Nauvoo Temple, Seventies license 21 Apr 1844, Good bass drummer. He moved to St. Louis in late 1844 to find work. He and his son, Henry, found employment there in the shoemaker industry. He brought his family down to St. Louis in early spring of 1845. They moved to a farm on the river, where the family sickened, and James died. New Era article on son Henry has death date for James as 16 Sep 1845. See Notes (8) and (9). 

(8) Notes for Mary Jane Sparks (Sanderson)

Mary Jane is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Mother. She was born 1809, and married 1827 in Massachusetts to James Sanderson, see Notes (7). James died in 1845 in St. Louis. Mary Jane is listed also in FT with a marriage to Moses Martin Sanders, in 1847 in Winter Quarters, her daughter in law’s father. However, she immigrated to Utah with the surname of Sanderson. She immigrated with Moses Martin Sanders and a daughter, age 16, and a son of Moses Martin Sanders. See the trail, Allen Taylor Company, 1849. The sealing of Mary Jane to Moses Martin Sanders was later cancelled, approved by President George Albert Smith.

(9) Notes for Henry Weeks Sanderson & Rebecca Ann Sanders

Henry Weeks Sanderson & Rebecca Ann Sanders are Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. Henry was born in 1829, in Massachusetts, and Rebecca was born in 1832, in Illinois. They married in 1850 in Iowa. One story about Henry: his parents were induced by a friend of theirs to add the middle name of Weeks, which was the surname of that friend. They were promised some valuable present, but this was never fulfilled. Henry’s middle name is listed also in some records as Wicks or Wix. He resided in Nauvoo from 1843 to 1846, helped in building the Nauvoo temple, was personal friend to Joseph Smith and family. He joined the Mormon Battalion in 1846. He entered the Great Salt Lake Valley just behind the 1847 pioneers. He returned east with Brigham Young's company late 1847, and married Rebecca in 1850 and came west again in 1850 with Rebecca, and with his mother in law and 4 siblings of Rebecca, in the Warren Foote Company Wagon Train. He lived at West Jordan, Union Fort, Fort Supply (Wyoming), Fillmore and Fairview, Utah. He engaged in many wars with the Indians in all of his residences. Information found in New Era of October 1989, "Nauvoo Teenager", pages 44-47. Autobiography started: Fairview, Jan 1884, continued until 1889 where he wrote much of it while serving time in the Utah Penitentiary for unlawful co-habitation. He died in Fairview in the home of his wife, Rebecca Ann. He is buried between his two wives in the northeast quadrant of the Lower Fairview Cemetery.

(10) Notes for Moses Martin Sanders

Moses Martin Sanders is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Father. He was born in 1803, in Georgia. He married Amanda Armstrong Fausett in 1826 in Tennessee. They are listed in FT with 12 children, 1826-1853. Moses Martin Sanders married again, in 1847 in Winter Quarters to Mary Jane Sparks, see Note (8), who was the mother of his son in law. Moses Martin Sanders and Mary Jane Sparks immigrated to Utah in 1849, with a daughter, age 16, of Mary Jane, and a son of Moses Martin Sanders. See the trail, Allen Taylor Company, 1849. Moses Martin Sanders was known also by the name of Moses Masters Sanderson. He was ordained an Elder and Seventy 6 May 1839 in Quincy, Adams, Illinois. His first wife, Amanda Armstrong Fausett, would immigrate to Utah, a year later, in 1850, with most of her children., see Notes (11). 

(11) Notes for Amanda Armstrong Fausett

Amanda Armstrong Fausett is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Mother, see Notes (10). She was born in 1810, and married in 1826, both in Tennessee. Her husband, Moses Martin Sanders, took a second wife, and immigrated to Utah in 1849 with the second wife and one son. Amanda immigrated the next year, in 1850, in the Warren Foote Company Wagon Train, with her daughter, Rebecca, and Rebecca’s husband, Henry Weeks Sanderson, and four siblings of Rebecca, see Notes (9). United Ancestries has her name as Amanda Armstrong FAUCETT. Patriarchal blessing 21 Sep 1844 by Patriarch John Smith.

(12) Notes for Rebecca Ann Sanders

Some sources have birth place as Irving Township,Montgomery,Kane,Illinois. Pioneer: Summer of 1850, Warren Foote Company Wagon Train. See Notes (9). 

(13) Notes for Lucinda Harris Guymon 

Lucinda is Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Mother. See was a Pioneer: 8 Sep 1850 in the Aaron Johnson Wagon Train. See Notes (21). She came with her grandparents, and with her father, Noah. Her mother, Mary Dickerson Dudley, had died in 1845 in Nauvoo. The family moved to American Fork, and then to Springville. 

(14) Notes for Archibald Anderson

Archibald is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Father. He was born in 1805 and married (1826) both in Scotland. He joined the Mormon church in 1847, and came to the US on the ship: S. Curling, and to Utah in 1855, in the Milo Andrus Company. In 1856, his wife Agnes and three sons, Archibald, John and James joined him. 

(15) Notes for Agnes Adamson 

Agnes is Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Mother. She was born in 1804 and married (1856) both in Scotland. She joined the Mormon church in 1847. She sailed from Scotland 23 March 1856 on the sailing ship, Enoch Train, with three teen age sons, and travelled to the Salt Lake Valley in the Daniel McArthur handcart company, arriving 26 September 1856. Her husband had made the trip in 1855, see Notes (14). The family moved to Spanish Fork in 1857, and to Fairview in 1880.

(16) Notes for Agnes Baird (Adamson)

Agnes is Margie’s 4th Great Grand Mother. She was born in 1781 and married (1799) both in Scotland. She married William Adamson, and in 1848, she was a widow. She immigrated to the US and to Utah in 1848 in the Willard Richards Company with two sons, Alexander and Dougal Adamson. 

(17) Notes for Elam Cheney and Hannah Compton

These are Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Parents. Elam was born in New York, in 1825, and baptized into the LDS Church in 1838 at age 12, and Hannah was born in England in 1804. She had married Edmund Wattis in England in 1824, and they had four children in England, 1825-1834. Edmund and Hannah converted to the LDS Church and were baptized by LDS Apostle, Wilford Woodruff in 1840. They immigrated to the US in 1842 on the Ship Chaos. Edmund died in 1844 in Nauvoo. Hannah then married Elam Cheney in 1845 in Nauvoo. They crossed the plains and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley 4 Oct 1847 in the Jedediah M. Grant Company. Their first child was born 10 days after they arrived in Utah. This child was one of the first babies born to LDS Parents in Utah. That child died soon after she was born. Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Mother was born in 1849, in Salt Lake City, Hannah Matilda Cheney. Hannah Compton was a widow, 21 years older than Elam Cheney. Elam would later marry four more wives, and have 43 more children. 

(18) Notes for Aaron Cheney and Mehitable Wells 

These are Margie’s 4th Great Grand Parents. They were both born in 1787, in Maine and New York, and married in 1807 in Vermont. Some in the family were baptized into the LDS Church in 1834. They moved to New York and then to Iowa, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1849 with a son and his wife and an infant daughter, in the George A. Smith Company. Another son of Aaron and Mehitable, Elam had come two years earlier, see note (17). In the same pioneer company, with Aaron, was Aaron’s second wife, Sarah Griffith. 

(19) Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel Website 

Those ancestors who immigrated to Utah between 1847 and 1868 can be found on the Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel website. The railroad came to Utah in 1868, so any ancestor coming to Utah after that date will not be listed on this website. To see more details about any ancestor listed on this website, enter into the search box, only the surname of your ancestor. A list will come up with all of the Pioneers on the website with that surname. Go to the ancestor you want to know more about, and click on his or her name. You might see sources, with journals, and perhaps a link to the Family Search website for that ancestor, see Notes (20). 

(20) Family Search Website 

The Family Tree part of the Family Search website is a common tree for all mankind. You will have to sign in to this website with your LDS Account, username and password. When you are on the website, click on Tree to get to Family Tree. To find any deceased ancestor in Family Tree, click up on Find and input a name and one date. For any ancestor, you can see their family, and there may be sources and memories and photos about that ancestor. 

(21) Notes for Thomas Guymon and Sarah Gordon 

These are Margie’s 4th Great Grand Parents. They were born (1787 and 1791) and married (1809) in North Carolina, and moved to Tennessee. Sarah was baptized into the LDS Church in 1835. They came west in the Aaron Johnson Company, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1850 with a son, Noah, and two of his wives, and six children, including Lucinda Harris Guymon, who was Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Mother, see Notes (13). 

(22) Notes for William Hurst and Susannah Webley 

These are Margie’s 3rd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1813 and 1812) and married (1831) in England. Some in the family were baptized into the LDS Church in 1843. The family immigrated to the US in 1849, on the Ship: The Ashland, with the parents and three children. They crossed the plains three years later, in the James Jepson Company, and arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1852 with three children. 

(23) Notes for Edmund Wheeler Howell and Sarah Vail 

These are Margie’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1817 and 1818) and married (1836) in New York. Edmund was baptized into the LDS Church in 1841. The family moved to Iowa and immigrated to Utah in 1852, in the David Wood Company, and Edmund died after one month on the trail. Sarah arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1852 with four children, and settled in Fairview, Utah. 

(24) Notes for Samuel Roberts and Mary Peat 

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1830 and 1829) and married (1852) in England. Samuel was baptized into the LDS Church in 1861. The family immigrated to the US in 1861, on the Ship: American Congress and they crossed the plains in 1866, with six children, and settled in Afton, Wyoming. 

(25) Notes for John Cushing and Elizabeth Bird 

These are LaMar’s 2nd Great Grand Parents. They were born (1815) and married (1836) in England. Elizabeth converted to the LDS Church in England in 1853. John and Elizabeth immigrated in 1874 from England, with their youngest child, daughter Laura, born 1853, who was LaMar’s Great Grand Mother. From the personal history of Laura Cushing, written 12 July 1933: 'Father, mother and myself left Liverpool on the Steamer Wyoming 2 Sep 1874 in Elder John C. Graham's company, arriving in Salt Lake City 23 Sep 1874.' Four of Laura’s older siblings had immigrated earlier, 1864-1870.

(26) Notes for Solon Huff McGee and Emily Lucretia Robinson

These are Margie’s Great Grand Parents. Solon was born in 1853 in Tennessee, and Emily was born in 1855 in Mississippi. They married in 1876 in Missouri, and 10 children were born 1877-1897 in Missouri and Oklahoma. Solon and Emily were baptized into the LDS Church in 1898. They moved to New Mexico and then to Utah, 1899-1900. 

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