Bene was born in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, May 30, 1860. When she was very small, her parents separated, and not too long after her mother died. She then went to live with her father's brother, Andrew Christensen, he was really the only father she could remember. When Bene was about 15 or 16 years of age she came to Mantua, Utah, to live with a brother of her mother’s, by the name of Rasmus Jeppesen. Here she worked for her board and clothes. They were very poor. She had only one pair of shoes, and they were for Sunday, so she had to go barefooted in the fields shocking grain and doing all kinds of work. Later she got a job in a creamery in Cache Valley, where she worked until she was married. Bene married Peter Christen Jorgensen on December 7, 1882, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They made their home on a small farm in Mantua, and a log house was their first home. Here in this log house were born seven of their children, the last two were stillborn daughters. The home they later built still stands, and is where Ernest, Romina and Rose were born. December 22, 1920, Peter, Bene and daughter Rose moved to the new home which Peter had built in Brigham City, in the Second Ward. During the Summer of 1923, Bene contracted Typhoid Fever. It was very hot and her son Dave took Peter, Bene and Rose to Mantua to live for the summer with his family - for there it was easier to endure the cooler temperature. There at her son’s home, she passed away September 7, 1923. She is buried in the Mantua Cemetery.
Written by Leona Halling (Daughter)
Written by Leona Halling (Daughter)
Bene was born in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, May 30, 1860. When she was very small, her parents separated, and not too long after her mother died. She then went to live with her father's brother, Andrew Christensen, he was really the only father she could remember. When Bene was about 15 or 16 years of age she came to Mantua, Utah, to live with a brother of her mother’s, by the name of Rasmus Jeppesen. Here she worked for her board and clothes. They were very poor. She had only one pair of shoes, and they were for Sunday, so she had to go barefooted in the fields shocking grain and doing all kinds of work. Later she got a job in a creamery in Cache Valley, where she worked until she was married. Bene married Peter Christen Jorgensen on December 7, 1882, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They made their home on a small farm in Mantua, and a log house was their first home. Here in this log house were born seven of their children, the last two were stillborn daughters. The home they later built still stands, and is where Ernest, Romina and Rose were born. December 22, 1920, Peter, Bene and daughter Rose moved to the new home which Peter had built in Brigham City, in the Second Ward. During the Summer of 1923, Bene contracted Typhoid Fever. It was very hot and her son Dave took Peter, Bene and Rose to Mantua to live for the summer with his family - for there it was easier to endure the cooler temperature. There at her son’s home, she passed away September 7, 1923. She is buried in the Mantua Cemetery.
Written by Leona Halling (Daughter)
Written by Leona Halling (Daughter)
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