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Show Anderson lived to be 97, and witnessed a sage brush develop into the city of Midvale. Nine children were born to this union Emma Larson, Neil Ander son, Sarah Jenson, Amanda Olson, Elizabeth Mitchell, knitting factory until her marriage to Robert They were the parents of five children, three whom died young. They raised two daughters, in a waste Ellwood. of - Martha and Ellen. Elizabeth died in 1907. Marinda Bringhurst, Laura Brimley and Ella Borst Lemke. One child died in infancy. Hannah Anderson Florence died in 1940. Whittenburg Louise B. Anderson NEILS AND HANNAH ANDERSON was born in 1836 in Malmo, Sweden. Neils Anderson He joined the LDS Church and came to Utah in 1861. JACOB AND LISA MALSTROM in Malmo Sweden in 1843, was converted to the LDS Church. In 1862, she and a sister, Hannah Pierson, born Jacob Malstrom Poulson, and Mrs. Poulson's family, sailed on the Hamburg, Germany to the United States. On their arrival, the family entrained for Omaha, Nebraska, where they waited for a wagon train to bring them to Utah. Then came the long walk to Utah. They only got on the wagon tongue when the rivers were too deep to wade. They mixed their bread in the morn ing and baked it at night around the campfire. Their Celia Alexander Humboldt from main food was was born in Ostra Sweden to Olaf Johnson Malstrom and Karna Person Malstrom in 1824. He married Lisa Person and in 1856 Jacob and Lisa; his father his sister Elena and her husband, Mons Larsen, members of the LDS Church. In 1858, were baptized comfortably well off, prepared to emigrate to Utah. Jacob, Lisa, their three children, his sister and her husband sailed from Copenhagen to Liverpool, England to pick up more converts and then sailed to America. Jacob, who was a blacksmith and sold his business and bacon and bread. The Poulson's five year old daughter had died in Chicago on the way west. In Emigration Canyon, they were met by a group which had reached Utah ahead of them. In this group was a young man, Neils Anderson. There attraction between Hannah and Neils and was a mutual they married shortly after this in August 1863. Their first home was a dugout on the east side of the Jordan River. Here their first child was born and died in infancy. Jacob and Lisa Malstrom Jacob with Alma on his family. Front: Lisa, elareia, Neil Jacob lap. Back: John, Peter, Ellen, Joseph Matilda. and and courtesy Grace Nelson In June 1859, they left Florence, Nebraska for Utah in an ox train company. Niels Anderson Jacob brought along a cow to have milk for the three children. They lived in Murray for awhile, then moved farther south toWest Jordan (Mid Hannah Anderson vale) and had a dugout in the hill where the U.S. later established. There was a cool spring on the property and a few wonderful neighbors, Alexan der Dahl and Alma Hogansen. Later, they moved to Fairview, Utah, where they Smelter resided for three years, braving the hardships of the Blackhawk War and other Indian uprisings. Returning to the Midvale area, they homesteaded a piece of land and farmed. The adobe home they built is still standing on the southwest corner of Allen and Lennox Streets. More children more room was In 1885 Neils Anderson returned to his native land servd a two year mission. His wife and son, Neil, and took over the farming while he was away. Hannah would walk to Salt Lake City with her butter and eggs and was exchange them for groceries. It wasn't until the century that things became easier for them. turn of the Neils Anderson died in 1910 at the age of 74. Hannah 24 were born to the Malstroms here and needed. Jacob sold his place with the spring for twenty gallons of molasses, a scarce com modity in those days. They moved east on Center Street where Jacob built a larger two room adobe house. Jacob had brought his good black suit with him from Sweden, a reminder of more prosperous days. One Sun day he decided to.take it out of the trunk and wear it to church, but walking down the, road a ways, he went back home and changed into his everyday clothes. He |
