Christine Hansen Part Two...

After coming to Utah Christine worked hard.  She never married again.  She supported herself and her children by doing laundry and sewing for others.

My Mother -in -Laws memories of her Grandmother are good ones.  She loved visiting her home on Thanksgiving and Christmas which she described as being a very clean and inviting place.

Her eldest son Alfred returned to Norway on a Mission when he was a young man and was welcomed by family members when he visited them.

Later he married Margaret Aamodt.   In 1918 Alfred died during the great Flu Epidemic.


Daughter  Signe (or Zina)  never married .  I met her when she was still living in the small house she had shared with her Mother before she passed away.

Pauli (or Parley) Lorang Larsen my children's Great Grand Father married Jane Bee .  I wish they could have known him.  He was a very fine person.  I enjoyed to sit and talk with him and he would tell me many things about his childhood.
 

He was very successful in life and earned a good living as a plumbing contractor.   He always remembered the times when he was a child and would take his wagon and collect the laundry for his Mother to do.

  One of his jobs was to take a cloth bag to the Mill where they would give him a cup of flour.  They would have to sift it seven times to get the weevil out of it.
He would follow the railroad tracks to pick up coal dropped by passing trains.  He never forgot being poor and was always ready to help others in need.

Parley and Jane Larsen with their five children. my Mother-in- Law Virginia sitting next to her Mother on the front row.

I remarked to Parley one time about how blue his eyes were and he replied with a laugh "that's what you get when you are born on an iceberg".

I think my eldest Grand Son, has inherited those blue eyes.

It was written that Christine never complained or said she wanted to go back to Norway.