Alma Henry Hendrickson ( ) By Patsy Hendrickson July 2010

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1 Alma Henry Hendrickson ( ) By Patsy Hendrickson July 2010 Alma Henry Hendrickson was born December 7, 1881 in Santaquin, Utah, a small community on the western boundary of Utah County. He was the eighth child and fifth son of Andrew Hendrickson and his wife Maria Carl Fredriksson. Though it sounds like Alma was part of a large family, only four of his older siblings were still living when he was born. Three children, a boy and two girls, had died young. They were Alexander who was born and had died in Finland, and Maria Andritta, and Amanda Sophia both of whom had been born and died in Sweden. 1 Alma was left with three living brothers and one living sister. Alma s parents were natives of Finland, as were their ancestors as far back as they can be traced. His father Andrew was from the village of Kronoby near the northern boundary of the province of Vasa. In 1868, famine conditions had driven Andrew south, first to Vasa where he met and married Maria; then he and his family moved from Finland to Sweden where conditions were better, and where he hoped to find work. In Sweden they settled in the town of Sundsvall. It was there that Andrew and Maria were introduced to the Mormon faith, and as converts they were baptized in 1869 by Carl Carlgren, a native Swede. After their conversion, the family waited over eight years to immigrate to Utah, which they did in the summer of Andrew and Maria came with their two living children John Alfred, who was 10 years old and Helena who was two. They came directly to Santaquin and settled near the family of Carl Carlgren who was already living there. Santaquin had a sizeable community of Scandinavians who spoke Swedish so the Hendrickson s probably adjusted to the new area fairly quickly. Utah s landscape was dry and barren compared to Finland, but Andrew had learned the carpentry trade, so he found plenty of work in his new home. By the time Alma was born, his parents had been in America four years. John Alfred was fourteen, Helena was six, and Alma had two more brothers, Carl Andrew (Charlie), born a month after the family arrived in Utah, and August Moroni, born at the end of His father was 39 years old and his mother 37. They still spoke Swedish at home, but English was becoming more familiar and more necessary especially for Andrew in his work and the children at school. Two more children came into the family after Alma: Arthur Fredrik was born November 24, 1884, and Anna Cecelia was born October 20, This brought the number of children in the family to ten, seven of whom lived beyond childhood. As the children grew up, it appears that Arthur and Alma (or Al, as he was often called), were especially close. 2 Not only were they close in age, but they had similar temperaments and 1 Alma s parents were married 29 Nov 1863 in Vasa, Finland. Before they left Finland they had two children: Alexander born 13 Sep 1764 and John Alfred born 5 Jun Alexander died 1 May Family born in Sweden included Maria Andritta born 21 Oct 1870, Amanda Sofia born 18 Jun 1873, and Helena Louisa born 31 Jul Maria died 9 Oct 1874 shortly before her fourth birthday, and Amanda died a week later on 18 Oct 1874 at the age of a year. 2 Most of the personal insights come from an interview done in 1977 by Steven Hendrickson, a grandson of Alma. 1

2 interests. They also worked together on the farm while Andrew and the older boys went out shearing sheep or doing other jobs. It isn t clear how much of the farm work John Alfred did is unclear; he had been born with s club foot and was listed as crippled and at home in the 1880 Federal Census. Alma spent his boyhood in Santaquin on the family lot in town. There they raised gardens and planted an orchard, probably had animals as well; cows, sheep, and chickens, possibly an assortment of dogs and cats too. The boys all worked with their dad to improve the Santaquin property, building sheds, barns, coops, and other out buildings. Andrew, a carpenter by trade, took great pride in everything he built. Some of the building techniques he used were learned in Finland. 3 Some sheds that he built are still in use today. To provide better for his family and to have work for his boys, Andrew bought several pieces of property away from Santaquin in an area now known as West Mountain. This area was about five miles north of Santaquin. It was all dry farm 4 on which the family raised grains and alfalfa. Farming then was done with horses and the crudest of machinery. It required a great deal of work for the modest harvest they got. Without irrigation water, they were dependent on the precious little rain that fell in the spring and summer. It wasn t until World War I time that farm machinery improved, and irrigation water was brought to the area from the nearby canyons. By then the boys were married and on their own. Around the time Al was born, his maternal grandmother, Lovisa Norrgard and his aunt and uncle, John and Sophia Berg came from Finland via Sweden and settled in Santaquin. 5 They had all joined the Church in Sweden, and now came to America to be with their family. Most likely they did not speak English when they came. But that was not much problem with all the Swedish immigrants in town and being with family members who both spoke and understood Swedish. Sadly for the family, Sofia died at the end of 1886, five years after she immigrated, and her husband John moved away. He settled in Murray in Salt Lake County and spent most of the rest of his days there alone and as a day laborer. It doesn t appear he had much contact with the family after he left Santaquin. 6 Lovisa grew homesick for her homeland, and some time after 1888 she returned to Finland where she died around Alma was about seven when we have the last definite record of his grandmother. He would have known her fairly well since he could have communicated with her in Swedish. That is the language spoken at home as long as his mother was alive. 3 Many log buildings on Finland are constructed without nails by notching the logs and fitting them together so they are snug, sturdy, and tight. 4 Dry farming is done without irrigation. Farmers planted crops mostly grains, corn, and alfalfa, and depended on the rains to water them. Yield in dry farms was never heavy. 55 John (Johan) and Sophia Berg, and Lovisa Norgaard were originally from Finland as were the Hendricksons, They had moved to Sweden around 1880 and joined the Mormon Church there after Lovisa s husband died. 6 When John Berg died in January 1916, he was living in a little hovel in Murray. An obituary in the Herald Republican was titled Recluse Found Dead. Source of information was Legacy of Sacrifice : Missionaries in Scandinavia by Susan Easton Black and others. 7 Lovisa s exact death date and death place is unknown. The last record of her is in the Manti Temple living endowment records which say that she received her endowment on November 24, Her death date comes from family group sheets submitted by the family when sealing work was done for her and her husband in the Salt Lake Temple in

3 Lovisa was the only grandparent Alma ever knew. All his other grandparents died in Finland before he was born. And John and Sofia may have been the only aunt and uncle he knew. Sofia was Maria s only sister; and all of Andrew s siblings were still in Finland. Perhaps some members of Andrew s kept in contact by letter, but no correspondence has survived. 8 Alma was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 3, 1890, when he was nine years old, and he was confirmed the following day in the Santaquin Ward. 9 The congregation held its meetings at that time in the Santaquin schoolhouse since the town had no church building until later. The school house was the center of many activities in the community. In addition to serving as the church and school for many years, it was the center for social activities and town meetings as well. 10 As Alma grew, he was taught the doctrines of that Mormon Church. However, it appears that he drifted away from those teachings during his youth and adulthood. One indication of this is that he did not advance in the offices of the priesthood in his teenage years. Perhaps it was because his father became lax in his own activity in the late 1890s at a crucial time in Alma s life. His father came back, but Alma never did completely. In the early 1890s a railroad spur was being built to bring ore from the mines in the Tintic area (in Juab County) to the Ironton steel plant near Provo (Utah County). The tracks passed near the Hendrickson s West Mountain farm. There were both Union Pacific and Denver and Rio Grand trains running through the area and their tracks crossed at a point about a mile or so to the north and east of the Hendrickson farm. A trestle was being built there so one train line could pass over the other. Watching this construction must have fascinated the family especially Alma and his brothers. Seeing and hearing the dynamite blasts would have been a particular thrill. No doubt the whole family tracked the progress of the railroad line. One day during this construction when Al was nine years old, his older brother Charlie who was fourteen was fatally injured while playing with some of the dynamite capsules that the workmen did not discard properly. After the workmen had left the site, Charlie and some friends went there and found a number of the capsules with powder still in them. Charlie scraped the left-over powder from several capsules and put it in his pockets. When his friends set fire to a pile of powder nearby, it ignited the powder in Charlie s pockets, setting him on fire. In his panic he ran screaming across the field toward home. His mother smothered the flames with a blanket. But the damage was too severe. Charlie lingered a few days and died August 10, Did Alma witness this tragedy? We don t know. But his brother Arthur did, and the memory of Charlie running and being on fire stayed with him the rest of his life. Al received a basic education at the old school house in Santaquin which he attended during the winter months in his youth. He may have started school around the age of six. Some of the teachers that were hired in Santaquin had been trained as teachers, others had not. Al learned to 8 Alma s paternal grandparents had both died before he was born but Andrew s brothers, Henrik and Simon, and perhaps his sisters Anna Greta and Brita were still living. 9 Record of Members Santaquin Ward [Utah]. (FHL film 27323) 10 Santaquin through the Years, : Santaquin Centennial History. By Elma Fowkes. N.d.: n.p.,

4 read, write, and cipher. However he may not have gotten much more than a grade school education since nothing better was offered in Santaquin. A person had to go to a larger town to get more education. Besides, for the Hendrickson family, advanced book learning probably took a back seat to all the farm chores that needed to be done all year round. The first church in Santaquin was built in The proposed cost of the building was $3,000, but the final figures came in at $3,660. Most, if not all of the labor, was provided by local church members; the pattern for the building came from the Provo Tabernacle. Foundation rocks were brought from the mountains nearby, lumber and sandstone were brought from the White River district 75 miles away. It took seven days to make the trip for the lumber and sandstone. 11 It is possible that members of the Hendrickson family helped building this chapel. It was completed when Alma was about 15 years old. Alma enjoyed farm life working alongside his father and brothers, as they prepared the land; planted seeds; then watched, waited, cared for, and worried over the crops till harvest. Not only was water a concern, but pests were also a constant worry especially crickets, grasshoppers, and gophers. Andrew invented a trap to catch crickets that his sons used to advantage. Al and Arthur would collect crickets in the traps and receive ten cents for each bushel they brought into town. The family was always relieved when the grain was finally harvested, the hay was stacked, the grain threshed, and the corn was in the crib. Often Al and Art were left with the farm work while Andrew and August were away shearing sheep. Al leaned a lot about building from his father. There was almost always something being built on the Santaquin property or the West Mountain farm. Andrew encouraged his sons to take the same pride in their work that he did. The family built a two room log cabin on the West Mountain property. They also built sheds and corrals. They not only farmed that land West mountain land, but they kept horses there too. Arthur tells of having a number of horses that he and Al rode and raced. But he said they only had one pair of work plugs for farming. He said their family was very particular how they fed their horses. They did not put their hay in troughs to feed them as some of the other farmers did; instead they scattered it in piles around the field. He said that those who put hay in troughs for their horses lost animals, but they never lost any. Alma grew up with an easy-going temperament and a keen sense of humor that delighted all who knew him. He was quite a tease. As for his appearance, he was of medium height and medium build. His eyes were blue, his hair was brown. 12 Edna Hendrickson, Arthur s wife, called Al a genuine fellow. In 1902 when Alma was 20 years old, his older sister Helena married Carl John Hyrum Sundstrom in the Salt Lake Temple. At 26, Helena was the first in her family to marry; Carl was 21. He had been born in Salina, Utah, in 1881, the son of Carl John Sundstrom and Emma Ericson of Sweden. Carl was one of the first Mormon missionaries called to Finland. Carl and Helena settled in Santaquin near Helena s family. 11 Emma Fowkes, Santaquin Through the Years : Santaquin Centennial History. (N.d.:n.p, [1956]) p World War I Draft Registration. Image from Ancestry.com 4

5 The year after Carl and Helena married, Alma s mother, Maria, died on April 17, The cause of her death is not known. The only thing known about her health is that she supposedly had a cough from the time she was nine years old. She was 59 years old not quite 60 when she passed away. She is buried in the Santaquin Cemetery. Al was then 22 and living at home then. Though Andrew lived another 23 years he did not remarry. Helena and Carl lived nearby and undoubtedly helped some with the family after Maria died. Annie who was now 17, would have been a capable homemaker by then, however, neither she nor Helena could begin to replace their mother. Alma remained at home with his family farming and working at odd for three years after his mother s death. Then on July 11, 1906 at the age of 24 he became the second member of his family to marry. He chose Ruth Elizabeth Broadbent as his bride. She was the daughter of James Thomas Broadbent, a day laborer from England, and Sarah Alice Jarvis who was born in Santaquin. 13 Though the Broadbents had moved away for several years after their first children were born, they were back in Santaquin when Alma and Ruth married. The Hendricksons and the Broadbents undoubtedly knew each other in the early years when Ruth s parents left Santaquin. The town wasn t that large; besides there was only one LDS ward there. Though Al doesn t appear to have been an active church goer, Ruth was, and so were most members of her and Al s families. Coincidentally, Alma s brother Arthur and Ruth s brother James were both born at Santaquin a mere two weeks apart in November of Ruth was the fourth of eight Broadbent children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. 14 She was the first of her siblings to marry; she was barely 17. The couple was married in Salt Lake City, Utah in a simple civil ceremony. The witnesses to the marriage were both members of Ruth s family. One was Ruth s mother Sarah; the other was Anna M. Jarvis, Ruth s aunt, who had married Sarah s brother Richard. Anne was probably chosen as a witness since she lived in Salt Lake. 15 Did any other family members attend the wedding? It appears that none or few of the men-folk in either family were there. Where were Al s and Ruth s father and siblings? Were they actually there and not accounted for, or were they so deep in the summer farm work they couldn t get away? Perhaps the wedding was arranged hastily and no one could make proper arrangements on short notice. It was July when the farm work would have been at its peak. 13 Ruth s parents began their married life in 1882 in Santaquin and their first two children were born there. They then moved to Mona some 15 miles to the south in Juab County, Utah, where their next two children were born. Ruth was one of those born in Mona. After Ruth s birth the family moved to Elsinore, Utah, in Sevier County where three more children were born. Elsinore was about 90 miles further south from Mona. Sometime between 1895 and 1900 the family was back in Santaquin. The last child in the family was born there, and that is where the family remained. 14 The children of James Thomas Broadbent and Sarah Alice Jarvis were: 1) Alice Ann b. 15 May 1883 in Santaquin, James Thomas b. 12 Nov 1884 at Santaquin, William Francis b. 2 Feb 1887 at Mona, Ruth Elizabeth b. 6 Apr 1889 in Mona, Sarah Olive b. 21 Oct 1893 in Elsinore, Zilpha Jane b. 15 Feb 1891 in Elsinore, Lucy May b. 1 Apr 1895 in Elsinore, and Ransom Golden b. 9 Apr 1900 back in Santaquin. 15 Salt Lake County Marriage Records Application and Certificates no. A (FHL film ) 5

6 Still it seems unusual for the couple to drive to Salt Lake from Santaquin in the middle of the summer Why not marry in Santaquin, or even Provo when they had a civil, not a church wedding? Both places would have been more convenient for everyone concerned. Salt Lake City was some seventy miles from Santaquin over narrow and rough roads. Most likely they made the trip with a horse and wagon, which would have been long and tiring. Were there any men who went along to drive the teams? Only women signed the marriage record. Perhaps part of the reason for driving such a distance to marry is answered in the marriage application. It states in two places that Ruth was of legal age to marry without parental consent. Legal age was 18 years. Ruth claimed that she was 18, but she would not reach that age for another nine months. The marriage may have taken place far from home to avoid making a big fuss over it and having lots of publicity. Before Alma married, he worked as a farmer on his father s land. Once he married, he became a day laborer mostly doing odd jobs. He sheared and herded sheep, continued to farm and help his father with building projects. According to his brother Arthur s account, he really wanted to stay on the farm after he married. He tried several times to make farming his life s work. But farming didn t work for him. Several times he moved away, then came back to try his hand at farming again. Each time he ended up seeking a livelihood elsewhere. Even after he moved away for good, he came back to help Arthur on his West Mountain farm as often as he could. When he couldn t make it at farming, he went to the mines in Eureka and Park City where wages were better and more constant. It was in Eureka Ruth s first child was born, a daughter who was named Torza Ruth. Torza was born February 2, Ruth was still two months away from her eighteenth birthday. Being a mining town Eureka had a reputation for being rough and somewhat uncivilized. When it was settled, it was not laid out in the typical Mormon style like a grid with straight streets. Instead, everyone settled where he wanted and where he could find space. The life of the town was likewise less structured than that of some of its neighbors. It was a place of multiple churches and saloons. While Al was in Eureka, his family back in Santaquin suffered a great loss. Less than two weeks after Ruth turned 18, Al s older sister Helena, who was expecting her first child, died of Bright s Disease on April 17, 1907, shortly after her baby was born. The infant, who was named Edna Marie, died also. This must have been especially poignant for Al and Ruth, since their baby girl was about three months old at the time. 16 The next year Alma and Ruth had a son, also born in Eureka. This child, Alma Wayne was born on October 25, Al brought his family back to Santaquin around He worked with Arthur on the West Mountain land where he had a piece of property adjacent to Arthur s farm. 16 Helena s husband Carl did not stay single long. Less than a year later on March 18, 1908, he married Jenny Isabella Borgeson in the Salt Lake Temple. Jenny s family was living in Santaquin. After his marriage he moved away and it seems he did not maintain contact with the Hendrickson family. He returned to Santaquin several times, but it was with the Borgesons he stayed connected. 6

7 Al and Ruth only stayed in Santaquin a short time, but it turned out to be a most eventful year for them; many things happened in both the Hendrickson and Broadbent families during that time. Starting in September 1909, Ruth s brother James Thomas married Ruby Helen Fulleriede of Eureka. They were married on September 25 in Provo. Three months later, on December 29, 1909, Al s youngest sister Anna Cecelia married Lee Shepherd Montague at the age of 23, also in Provo. Around this time, Al became active enough in the Church to receive the Melchizedek priesthood and be made an Elder in the Church; this took place in the Santaquin Ward in February In the 1910 Federal Census, he is enumerated in Santaquin next door to his father where he worked as a laborer at odd jobs. In May he was probably in the around the family in Santaquin when his older brother August married Jenny Johnson in the Salt Lake Temple. Is it possible that Al became an Elder with the thought that he could go to the temple to be sealed to Ruth and to his parents when the rest of the family went. Jenny was a school teacher, and the wedding was scheduled for the end of her school year. But Alma didn t go to the temple with his father, August, and John Alfred. Perhaps he did not feel ready or committed yet. Ruth was pregnant at the time; that may have also been a problem. Whatever the circumstance, Alma did not go to the temple then or ever in his lifetime. It appears he drifted away from activity again while his wife who had always been active did not drift away. She was always active in Church work. A few months after August s marriage, Al s older brother John Alfred, who never married, died unexpectedly on August 10 at the age of 43. According to the family story the men were building some sheds on the Santaquin property and John went out in the dark at night, tripped over some boards that were lying around, fell, and broke his neck. They say he was found dead by a young girl who was staying with the family. This story may be true; John was probably prone to falls because of his bad foot. Surprisingly, however, his death certificate mentions nothing about an accident. Instead it says he died of general debility with contributory causes of heart and kidney disease. They were conditions his doctor had treated for 22 years. 17 Less than a month after John Alfred died, on September 16, 1910, Alma and Ruth s third child and second daughter Devere was born. Then on November 24, 1910, that child died at the age of two months. He had been jaundiced since birth. 18 A week later, on November 29, Alma s younger brother Arthur married Edna LeBaron in Provo, Utah, and Arthur moved with his wife permanently to the West Mountain property. There they lived in a two-room log cabin that the family had built earlier. While Al was away shearing sheep, Edna tells that Ruth stayed in that log house with her and Arthur. The cabin had chinks in the wall and when the snows came, they would wake up with snow on their blankets. 17 Utah State Death Certificate for John Alfred Hendrickson. State Board of Health File No From the Utah State Archives website: 18 Utah State Death Certificate for Davere Hendrickson. State Board of Health File No From the Utah State Archives website: 7

8 Alma really wanted to try farming again though he also continued working at odd jobs as is recorded in the 1910 Federal Census. One of those odd jobs was undoubtedly sheep shearing. The next year Al s family moved back to Eureka where their fourth child Bernice was born on February 2, The family returned to Santaquin again, where their fifth child Sarah Marie was born June 16, Sadly, Sarah died of acute meningitis five months later on November 26, It was probably around this time that Andrew divided up his assets. Among other things he had the farm and his Santaquin home. Alma as the older son was offered the land and Arthur the home. However the boys were given their choice and Arthur chose the land. Al at first took the home, where Andrew kept a room in back as his living quarters. Al continued to help Arthur with the farm as circumstances allowed. His prospects as a farmer looked promising. Then Torza who was about eight at the time, burned herself badly cooking something on the stove. She needed medical care and more money than the farm could provide. So Alma took his family back to Eureka and the mines sometime between the births of Ellis James in 1914 and Byron Max in The family last appears in Santaquin when the LDS Church Census was taken in December of Arthur said that Al left in the spring of the year. He had planted his crops on land which was adjacent to Arthur s. It was just coming up and looking really good when Torza was burned and the family had to leave. Though Alma left the farm for good this time, he continued to return to visit Arthur often because of his love of the land. Byron Max was born in Eureka on February 4, He was Alma and Ruth s seventh child and fourth son. Next came a daughter Zoella, born May 4, 1918 also at Eureka. Both children were born back in Eureka. World War I was raging in Europe beginning in 1914, but it didn t seem to affect the Hendrickson families until three years had passed. Then the United States passed the Selective Service Act in 1917, requiring men 21 through 31 to register for the draft. A second draft held on June 5, 1918 targeted men of essentially the same ages. But a third registration held on September 12, 1918, required all men from 21 to 45 years of age to register. Alma, who was now 36, went to his local draft board and registered. On his registration form he stated that he was a farmer living in Santaquin. living in Eureka by then. Alma and his family remained in Eureka, where he continued to work for the mines. He is listed in the 1920 Federal Census as a teamster doing general work on his own account. He does not own his own property there; instead he is listed as a renter, 38 years old, with his wife and six children in the home between the ages of 12 and 1. Alma and Ruth had a stillborn daughter on June 25, 1924, in Eureka. By the next year, Alma had left the mines in Eureka for those in Park City. Perhaps they had moved to be closer to better doctors for Torza. Perhaps the Park City mines paid better or provided more opportunity. It was here that Maurine, the youngest child was born on June 2,

9 Two years later on July 28, 1927, Torza, the oldest daughter, married at the age of 20. Her husband was Morton Cutler from Preston, Idaho. They elected to be married in Preston in a civil wedding ceremony. 19 Eventually the couple settled in Idaho. Around March of 1928 Alma and his family moved to Park City. About 15 months later tragedy struck the family. According to a history written by Ruth, she states: Alma got caved on June 1929 in the Silver King Mine [in Park City] and was brought to the Holy Cross Hospital in SLC. So I moved the family down to SLC Their home in Salt Lake was in the downtown area at 860 Elm Street. An article in the Deseret News reported the accident as a fire in the mine on Sunday June It does not mention anyone being seriously hurt, and Alma is not mentioned by name at all. That is not surprising since the mine accident was reported as an out-of-town event. Ruth continued her story, Alma lived until Oct. 1 st, We buried him in Santaquin in our family lot." According to the Alma s obituary, Torza was then living in Salt Lake, probably near her mother and the younger children. 21 Alma and Ellis were living in Park City. The five younger children were still at home. They ranged in age from 19 to 4 years of age, three boys and two girls. Shortly after the accident, Alma Wayne married Elizabeth Doran on July 5, 1929 in Salt Lake City. He and Elizabeth were both 20 years old. After their marriage they settled for a time in Park City. Ruth continued to live in Salt Lake for a time. Then about 1960 she moved to Walla Walla Washington. Toward the end of her life, she moved to Scottsdale, Arizona to be with children. She died 24 October 1971 in Scottsdale. From an written by granddaughter Carolyn Lanners on 2009 I quote I remember Mother Bernice, telling me she was her daddy's pet and loved to sit on his lap. one time she caught the tablecloth and pulled all the dishes off the table, breaking many. She sat on the floor crying and Her Father Alma picked her up, loved her and dried her tears. He told her "we can mend broken dishes, but we can't mend a broken heart". Mother always felt her father was warm, friendly and loving with a good sense of humor. With Aunt Torza being the first born with a lot of responsibility and having the terrible burn accident, she had a different view of her parents. She felt they were strict and stern. Mother said: "You would think we were raised in different households by different parents". 19 They never did marry in the temple. In fact it appears from the records that none of Al s children except Byron Max were sealed in the temple during their lifetimes Miners Escape death in $25,000 Park City Blaze, Deseret News, Monday, June 3, 1929 Section 2 p. 4 (FHL film 27066) 21 Morton and Torza can t be located in the 1930 census anywhere. 9

10 I know different personalities bring out the best or worse in some people and Mother and Torza were very different. Mother was always happy and fun loving and that is how she viewed her parents. Too bad Aunt Kit is having her mental health problems. I do not believe she would remember anything, however, in Mesa I may have a story written by her. I will check and see Torza married Morton Cutler in Preston, Idaho where they eventually settled. Morton Died in 1988 in Twin Falls. After his death she moved to Arizona where she died in Tempe December 28, Alma Wayne married Elizabeth Doran in Salt Lake in Three years later he was involved in an auto accident that caused him to become manic depressive. He died March 9, 1938 in the Mental Hospital in Provo, Utah from what his death certificate called exhaustion of the insane. He was buried in Salt Lake in the Wasatch Lawn Cemetery. Bernice married Ronald Nels Frost November 20, 1929 in Salt Lake City. He died 6 months later in an auto accident. Bernice married twice after that. First to Byron Edward Harris then to William Dean Howells. Bernice died May 27, 1997 in Payson, Arizona. Ellis James married Fay Herbert, but they divorced. Then in 1943 he married Annie Ruth Hood in Arkansas. He died April 14, 1966 in Russellville, Arkansas and she died the same place in Byron Max married Louise Jensen in After they divorced he married twice more. He died in Provo, Utah October 26, Zoella married Lloyd Bernard Headland on March 6, She died of toxemia following childbirth on January, 22, Her baby girl was born dead two days earlier. Lloyd died five months later following an acute cold. 10

11 segment: from Carolyn Lanners to Patsy Hendrickson October 28, 2008 I know very little about Grandfather Alma. He died October 1929; seven years before my birth. Jerry may know something's if grandmother Ruth shared them with him. He and Mother lived with her for a while in SLC. I will forward this to him just in case. I will include what Grandmother Ruth wrote in her Family History Book: Alma Henry Hendrickson, son of Andrew Hendrickson and Maria Fredrickson (Gadda) was born 07/Dec/1881 in Santaquin, Utah -- Baptized January 1890 Married Ruth Elizabeth Broadbent 11/July/1906 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Endowed and Sealed in SLC Temple 26 October 1933 Patriarchal Blessing by Homer M. Brown 13/Feb/1930 "Alma and I (Ruth) lived in Eureka, Utah where Torza, Wayne, Bernice, Max and Zoella were born. Devere, Sarah Marie and Ellis were born in Santaquin and Maurine was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. We moved to Park City Utah and lived there one year and three months. Alma got caved on June 1929 in the Silver King Mine and was brought to the Holy Cross Hospital in SLC. So I moved the family down to SLC. Alma lived until Oct. 1st We buried him in Santaquin in our family lot." if she says anything about grandfather Alma. Sorry I can't be of more help. Hopefully in your search Some of the brothers stories may include something on him. I believe there is a little on the tape I sent you by your father 11

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