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Show knew he and his if he were neighbors would Bateman, born in and Mary Street, born in 1810 Thomas Jacob and Lisa had nine children John, Matilda Joseph who were born in Sweden; Peter, Ellen, Or son, Clarcia Nancy, Jacob and Alma Ephraim who - accepted Mormonism and crossed the Atlantic about 1839. Landing in New Orleans they went up the Mississippi River to Nauvoo, and later on to Augusta, Iowa where the family operated a brickyard. They came to Utah in 1850 in the James Pace Company. Part of the company consisted of freight wagons hauling merchandise in Livingston and Kincaid, merchants in Salt Lake City. and born in West Jordan (Midvale). Lisa was a won mother, always patient and kind. When were derful wife and some sheep from them died from exposure, she she could wash, card and so pulled the wool spin it into cloth. She died in 1885. death, Jacob eventually After Lisa's married Swedish convert, Maria Augusta Erickson. She and Jacob was 61. Jacob died team in following February 1887. an accident with a Their son, Andrew was a The Batemans moved to West Jordan to settle. England in the spring of 1852 to 32 Thomas returned to dispose of his property there. Returning to America, in fall, he died on shipboard and was buried at sea. The family never knew what became of the money he must have had with him. Mary, left with a large family, proved herself equal to the task and raised her family in honesty, integrity and faith. runaway Elof, the was just seven months old. Louise M. Tripp and Maurine Nilsson Peter 1860, PETER AND HILMA MALSTROM Malstrom, born in West Jordan (Midvale) in was a son SAMUEL AND MARINDA A. BATEMAN HARRIET EGBERT BATEMAN of Jacob and Lisa Malstrom. He married Hilma Gustava Olson, a Samuel, son of Thomas' and Mary, was born in Lancashire, England in 1832. He came with the family to Utah. In 1853 heavy rains had washed away the bridges over the Jordan River- connecting the east and west side settlements. Samuel was operating a raft ferrying people across the river; when he ferried the Allen family across he was smitten with their fifteen year old daughter, Marinda. convert to the LDS Church who had come from Sweden when thirteen years of age. They were parents of Delila, Clarence, Raymond, George, Hazel, Marvin, Erma, Harold, Kenneth and Ellen who passed away as a baby. Marvin, known as "Marv" to hundreds of school children, operated the "Little Store" by the Midvale Elementary School for many years. Peter and Hilma lived in Marinda a house on East Center Peter and his brother, Alma, (AI) were was born in New York in 1838, eldest daughter of Daniel R. and Eliza Martin Allen. They joined the LDS Church in 1842 and after living in New York, trekked westward with other church people. When they arrived in Salt Lake they were sent to West Street and also had a farm in West Jordan. and THOMAS AND MARY BATEMAN 1808 at Bolton, England, at Manchester, England, be uncomfortable dressed up. the builders of the M & M Grocery Store, which was next to Peter's home. The home and store were on the property which is the present Midvale City Center. owners Jordan where Daniel was to be the miller for Archibald Gardner. Marv also worked in the M & M store. Samuel and Marinda were next to the flour mill on married in the Allen cabin the Jordan River in 1854. wedding: "Fifty guests sat down dinner, then my husband and I went for a walk over the hills, with about a dozen children skipping by our side. In the evening we had a' dance, but only one set Marinda wrote of her to could dance at a time in the cabin. There drinking of liquor or rowdyism." They lived in a log cabin her moved it from river and Peter Malstrom Peter was killed in an accident while dug a meadow to another the railroad. Leona Malstrom Muir 25 hill Supper large, flat, a father gave them; the west side of the eight years fireplace. red rock in the on a often well-seasoned was no on into the hill. For she cooked milk and sometimes working on room a was potato soup with bread, little butter. In season there might be vegetables from the garden, green onions and watercress from the pools in the meadows. Samuel, active in military and civic affairs, was a member of the Road Patrol who accompanied |
