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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. sawyer and followed it for thirty years, giving 345 up the Has also carried on farming. Was elected the hrst Mayor of Ephraim and held the office three terms. A member of the Legislature in 1868-69-70. Took work in '95. part in the Black Hawk war. Served as bishop's counsellor for a number of years and is a member of the high council and stake recorder. Was married in Salt Lake City to Mary A. Quinn. They had seven children. Mary A., Harriet, George, Elizabeth, Thomas, Zina and Presendia. Second wife was Charlotte E. Leggett SHOMPSON, ANDKEW, SB., farmer, son of Thomas and Dorthea, was born in Falgverslov, Denmark, December 4, 1831. He was raised on a farm, joined the Mormon church in '53, and came to Utah, crossing the plains in an ox-train under Captain Fosgren, and located in Spring City. The company was short of provisions and Andrew with others went to Utah county and worked for food. Advised to go to Manti by the authority of the church on account of Indian troubles. Andrew lived with John Beal and in the spring of '54 came to Ephraim among the first settlers. They built a fort and lived inside it. He received twenty acres of land and engaged in farming. Was active in the Black Hawk war, standing guard and doing his share. He is first counsellor to the bishop. Was married in Ephraim November 21, 1857, to Christena, daughter of Andrew and Anna Jensen, born in Denmark August 6, 1837. She came here in '57, pulling a handcart 1,300 miles. Her parents came the same year and died here. Her children are: Andrew, Jr., Diantha C, Thomas P., Hannah M., Elizabeth A., Daniel H. and Joseph M., living; Anna M., James and Sena, deceased. m5 HOMPSON, NEILS, farmer, woolgrower and merchant, son of Peter and Dorthea, was born in the island of Falster, Denmark, January 23, 1846. The family came to Ephraim in October, 1854, where Neils grew up. He engaged in freighting produce to the mining camps of Utah and Nevada from 1869 to 1879. He took part in the Black Hawk war, being in the engage- |
