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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 456 He was Sunday school superintendent several years and always has been an earnest church worker. He owns a sixty-acre farm and is a shareholder in the Gunnison Irrigation Company. Was married October 11, 18G8, to Ingabor M., daughter of John and Ingor Peterson, born in Norway April 3, 1837. She came to this country alone. They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City and have seven children, only one living. Hannah, their only daughter, is now Mrs. Hannah Jensen, mother of the first baby born in Utah State. The boy received a prize of a silver cup offered by the Salt Lake Herald for the first baby born in the State. JENSEN, PAUL farmer, son of Andrew and Mary, Denmark August 4, 1838. He was on a farm, joined the Mormon church in 1867 was born raised M., in and came to Utah the same year, crossing the plains in an ox-train under Capt. Wright, and located at Mt. Pleasant. He resided there three years, then moved to Ephraim, where he remained till 1876, when he came to Gunnison and frighted produce to the mining camps for several years. Now has a farm of sixty acres and a nice home in town. Is a director in the Gunnison City and Antelope Valley Canal Company and one of the representative citizens. He took part in the Black Hawk w ar, doing his share in guarding the homes and property of the people. Was married in Denmark in November, 1864, to Lena Easmussen. Wife died in Ephraim February 22, 1868, leaving one son, Andrew, now a resident of Chester. He was married again to Sene Johnson. They have eleven children: John, Mary, Christian, Parley, Ellen, Birdie, Janet, Rebecca, Francis G., Leonard and Peter, deceased, was struck by lightning on August 20, 1S98, at 1:15 p. m. r KEARNES, AUSTIN, farmer and stockraiser, son of Hamilton H. and Charlotte, was born in Bonapart, Van Buren county, la., September 2, 1845. His parents joined the Mormon church in 1850 and came to Utah in Capt. Johnson's company and located in Salt Lake City, thence to Springville, where father was a |
