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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 302 Valley railroad and graded eleven miles of the Rio Grande Western. Has always been a prominent churchman, was high counsellor and bishop's counsellor several years, and is now first counsellor to President Peterson. His first wife was Mary Thorpe, married in Ephraim, July 4, 1854. Their children are Ann E., John S., George A., Henry T., David N., Mary J. and Rosabel. Second wife was Anna C. Byergo, married March 28, 1863. Their children are Mary A., Alice, Sarah A., Thomas A., Orscn, Nora, Owen and Bardella. Third wife was Mary A. Thompson, married April 25, 1868. Their children were Henry L., Annie M., Mary M., Ellen C. and Martha He has thirteen children married. Forty-eight grandchildren have been born. M. BEAL, DAVID N., marshal and farmer, son of Henry Mar\-, was born in Ephraim, November 15, 1863. He was raised here and engaged in farming. Owns eighty acres of land. Was elected Constable in '94 and City Marshal in '95. Was married in Logan, October 29, 1886, to Martha, daughter of Jens P. and Bendicta Hansen, born in Ephraim, September 16, 1862. They have five children, David O., Bendetta, Frances, Nelson and an infant. and BECK, JENS X., fanner, born in Denmark, a farm, joined the son of Neils and Anna, was May 6, 1847. He was raised on Mormon church in '66 and came to Utah, crossing the plains with his uncle, Peter Kjessgaard, in an ox train under Capt. Rice, reaching Ephraim in October, 1867. He worked in the canyon two or three years, freighted to mining camps two years, then bought a farm; now owns ninety acres. In '94 he opened a general store, which he conducted till '96, when he went on a mission for one year to Denmark. Was married in Salt Lake City, December 2, 1871, to Olena M., daughter of Hans C. and Hedevig Jensen, born in Denmark, March Her parents came here in '63, father took part 26, 1852. in the Black Hawk war and was in the canyon when the crowd was attacked by Indians and two killed. Her children are Anna, James, Stena, Hans O., Neils H., Newman, Daniel and Leo, living; Wilford, deceased. |
