| Show Trees serve many practical and aesthetic purposes They provide shade for the weary protection from the cold food for the hungry beauty for the observer They provide lumber for building for making furniture for heating and cooking pulp for making paper memorials for loved ones havens for birds and animals Because many of our pioneer ancestors heeded Brigham Youngsage advice we today enjoy vegetation not indigenous to our desert-like climate Brigham Young had foresight--Joyce Kilmer used sensitivity when he penned his famous think thatshall never seepoem lovely astree Material for this essay comes from Mownt Pleasant 1859 to 1939 compiled by Hilda Madsen Longadort published in 1939 It TakesHeapLivin by Mary Lovise Seamons with Talula Nelsca privately published in 1989 Trees by Joyoe Kilmer and memories of Louise Secly and Seamons Mary Louise My grandparents were Willard Lauritz Frandsen 14 Aug 1863 son of Rasmus and Margrethe Madsen Frandsen and Bothilda Hansen 28 Mar 1866 to James and Johannsh Anderson Hansen They were married on 24 June 1886 Both were bom in Pleasant James Hansen 24 April 1828 in Gromegade Frodriksborg Denmark father of Bothilda and father-in-law to Willard Frandsen Louise Seely Mother was 19 Mar 1907 in Mt Pleasant dsughter of Willard and Bothilda Hansen Frandsen She married Justus Seely son of Joseph and Adella Olson Seely grandson of Justus Wellington and Clarissa Jane Wilcox Seely ALMA PETERSON High Man at all Ranges Nora Mickelson Non Professional Second Place Historical Essay Alma Peterson was born in Nephi Utah on the 17th of August 1892 His parents were Christen Peterson and Anna Christina Lasson Peterson They were Danish converts to the Mormon Church and came to Nephi in the spring of 1885 Alma was the fifth child infamily of eight children six of whom were born in Nephi The family moved to Manti in 1895 Aftercouple 50 |
