Life Story of Peter C. Johnson written by him.
"I Peter C. Johnson was born September 18, 1859, in 'Tipgiving', in Fredrickborg County, Denmark. I was blessed and baptized. I was the son of Lars and Anna Marie Hansen Jorgensen. We joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Denmark, and it was because of the Church that we decided to come to Utah. We sailed on July 20, 1870, on the Steamship Minnesota, along with 350 other Saints in charge of Jessie M. Smith.
We arrived in New York the 1st day of August 1870. We moved to Mantua, Utah, and lived in a log cabin there.
I worked at anything that I could find to do: Herding sheep, hauling lumber and also working in a saw mill.
In the early days, the young men of the county were baptized in the Brigham City Co-op. We contracted with the railroads and the young men would cut and haul ties for them. They were sent up to the Elfaan mountains around Malad City, Idaho, to cut ties. We were paid a dollar and a half a day and board. It was while I was working in Idaho that the Sheriff came to Malad City and arrested them for cutting and hauling ties on Indian land. They herded them all like cattle and put them in jail. They asked me who I worked for and when I told them I worked for the Brigham City Co-op, they asked what kind of a man that was. They were talking with me and laughed about it. The Co-op had each young man donate two weeks of labor on the Temple for the L.D.S. Church in Logan, Utah. I usually went up there the first day of June with my team and wagon. Many of the other fellows could make more other places with their team, so they hired me to work their two weeks on the Temple for them, and in this way I was there until Sept. or Oct. when the snow came. I worked this way for four or five summers on the construction of the temple at Logan.
When we went to Mantua, there were many Shoshone Indians there, they had 150 Wigwams down on the Flats of the town about where the Fish Hatchery is now. There was good fishing there and they would stay there all summer and in the Fall move to Willard.
I attended school while in Richmond that first winter and the teacher was a crippled man having but one leg.
In Mantua when I went to school, Peter Jensen was the teacher and he was payed $30. a month. The only store in Mantua was down by Bishop's Jensen's and it carried everything and they exchanged butter and eggs for what groceries they needed. I was a school Trustee, road Supervisor, and also Justice of the Peace and Constable. In 1910 until 1917, I was Bishop of the Mantua Ward. I was married on Dec. 7, 1882, to Bene Christensen in the Endowment House of the L.D.S. Church. All of our ten children were born in Mantua. I built the house we lived in in Mantua. In 1920 I sold the farm to my youngest son, Ernest, and built a house in Brigham City. We moved to Brigham Dec. 22, 1920. I named two of my children and twelve of my grandchildren."
Peter C. Johnson died July 26, 1942, in Brigham City. He was buried in the Mantua Cemetery.
Written by Jay Halling (Grandson).
"I Peter C. Johnson was born September 18, 1859, in 'Tipgiving', in Fredrickborg County, Denmark. I was blessed and baptized. I was the son of Lars and Anna Marie Hansen Jorgensen. We joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Denmark, and it was because of the Church that we decided to come to Utah. We sailed on July 20, 1870, on the Steamship Minnesota, along with 350 other Saints in charge of Jessie M. Smith.
We arrived in New York the 1st day of August 1870. We moved to Mantua, Utah, and lived in a log cabin there.
I worked at anything that I could find to do: Herding sheep, hauling lumber and also working in a saw mill.
In the early days, the young men of the county were baptized in the Brigham City Co-op. We contracted with the railroads and the young men would cut and haul ties for them. They were sent up to the Elfaan mountains around Malad City, Idaho, to cut ties. We were paid a dollar and a half a day and board. It was while I was working in Idaho that the Sheriff came to Malad City and arrested them for cutting and hauling ties on Indian land. They herded them all like cattle and put them in jail. They asked me who I worked for and when I told them I worked for the Brigham City Co-op, they asked what kind of a man that was. They were talking with me and laughed about it. The Co-op had each young man donate two weeks of labor on the Temple for the L.D.S. Church in Logan, Utah. I usually went up there the first day of June with my team and wagon. Many of the other fellows could make more other places with their team, so they hired me to work their two weeks on the Temple for them, and in this way I was there until Sept. or Oct. when the snow came. I worked this way for four or five summers on the construction of the temple at Logan.
When we went to Mantua, there were many Shoshone Indians there, they had 150 Wigwams down on the Flats of the town about where the Fish Hatchery is now. There was good fishing there and they would stay there all summer and in the Fall move to Willard.
I attended school while in Richmond that first winter and the teacher was a crippled man having but one leg.
In Mantua when I went to school, Peter Jensen was the teacher and he was payed $30. a month. The only store in Mantua was down by Bishop's Jensen's and it carried everything and they exchanged butter and eggs for what groceries they needed. I was a school Trustee, road Supervisor, and also Justice of the Peace and Constable. In 1910 until 1917, I was Bishop of the Mantua Ward. I was married on Dec. 7, 1882, to Bene Christensen in the Endowment House of the L.D.S. Church. All of our ten children were born in Mantua. I built the house we lived in in Mantua. In 1920 I sold the farm to my youngest son, Ernest, and built a house in Brigham City. We moved to Brigham Dec. 22, 1920. I named two of my children and twelve of my grandchildren."
Peter C. Johnson died July 26, 1942, in Brigham City. He was buried in the Mantua Cemetery.
Written by Jay Halling (Grandson).
Life Story of Peter C. Johnson written by him.
"I Peter C. Johnson was born September 18, 1859, in 'Tipgiving', in Fredrickborg County, Denmark. I was blessed and baptized. I was the son of Lars and Anna Marie Hansen Jorgensen. We joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Denmark, and it was because of the Church that we decided to come to Utah. We sailed on July 20, 1870, on the Steamship Minnesota, along with 350 other Saints in charge of Jessie M. Smith.
We arrived in New York the 1st day of August 1870. We moved to Mantua, Utah, and lived in a log cabin there.
I worked at anything that I could find to do: Herding sheep, hauling lumber and also working in a saw mill.
In the early days, the young men of the county were baptized in the Brigham City Co-op. We contracted with the railroads and the young men would cut and haul ties for them. They were sent up to the Elfaan mountains around Malad City, Idaho, to cut ties. We were paid a dollar and a half a day and board. It was while I was working in Idaho that the Sheriff came to Malad City and arrested them for cutting and hauling ties on Indian land. They herded them all like cattle and put them in jail. They asked me who I worked for and when I told them I worked for the Brigham City Co-op, they asked what kind of a man that was. They were talking with me and laughed about it. The Co-op had each young man donate two weeks of labor on the Temple for the L.D.S. Church in Logan, Utah. I usually went up there the first day of June with my team and wagon. Many of the other fellows could make more other places with their team, so they hired me to work their two weeks on the Temple for them, and in this way I was there until Sept. or Oct. when the snow came. I worked this way for four or five summers on the construction of the temple at Logan.
When we went to Mantua, there were many Shoshone Indians there, they had 150 Wigwams down on the Flats of the town about where the Fish Hatchery is now. There was good fishing there and they would stay there all summer and in the Fall move to Willard.
I attended school while in Richmond that first winter and the teacher was a crippled man having but one leg.
In Mantua when I went to school, Peter Jensen was the teacher and he was payed $30. a month. The only store in Mantua was down by Bishop's Jensen's and it carried everything and they exchanged butter and eggs for what groceries they needed. I was a school Trustee, road Supervisor, and also Justice of the Peace and Constable. In 1910 until 1917, I was Bishop of the Mantua Ward. I was married on Dec. 7, 1882, to Bene Christensen in the Endowment House of the L.D.S. Church. All of our ten children were born in Mantua. I built the house we lived in in Mantua. In 1920 I sold the farm to my youngest son, Ernest, and built a house in Brigham City. We moved to Brigham Dec. 22, 1920. I named two of my children and twelve of my grandchildren."
Peter C. Johnson died July 26, 1942, in Brigham City. He was buried in the Mantua Cemetery.
Written by Jay Halling (Grandson).
"I Peter C. Johnson was born September 18, 1859, in 'Tipgiving', in Fredrickborg County, Denmark. I was blessed and baptized. I was the son of Lars and Anna Marie Hansen Jorgensen. We joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Denmark, and it was because of the Church that we decided to come to Utah. We sailed on July 20, 1870, on the Steamship Minnesota, along with 350 other Saints in charge of Jessie M. Smith.
We arrived in New York the 1st day of August 1870. We moved to Mantua, Utah, and lived in a log cabin there.
I worked at anything that I could find to do: Herding sheep, hauling lumber and also working in a saw mill.
In the early days, the young men of the county were baptized in the Brigham City Co-op. We contracted with the railroads and the young men would cut and haul ties for them. They were sent up to the Elfaan mountains around Malad City, Idaho, to cut ties. We were paid a dollar and a half a day and board. It was while I was working in Idaho that the Sheriff came to Malad City and arrested them for cutting and hauling ties on Indian land. They herded them all like cattle and put them in jail. They asked me who I worked for and when I told them I worked for the Brigham City Co-op, they asked what kind of a man that was. They were talking with me and laughed about it. The Co-op had each young man donate two weeks of labor on the Temple for the L.D.S. Church in Logan, Utah. I usually went up there the first day of June with my team and wagon. Many of the other fellows could make more other places with their team, so they hired me to work their two weeks on the Temple for them, and in this way I was there until Sept. or Oct. when the snow came. I worked this way for four or five summers on the construction of the temple at Logan.
When we went to Mantua, there were many Shoshone Indians there, they had 150 Wigwams down on the Flats of the town about where the Fish Hatchery is now. There was good fishing there and they would stay there all summer and in the Fall move to Willard.
I attended school while in Richmond that first winter and the teacher was a crippled man having but one leg.
In Mantua when I went to school, Peter Jensen was the teacher and he was payed $30. a month. The only store in Mantua was down by Bishop's Jensen's and it carried everything and they exchanged butter and eggs for what groceries they needed. I was a school Trustee, road Supervisor, and also Justice of the Peace and Constable. In 1910 until 1917, I was Bishop of the Mantua Ward. I was married on Dec. 7, 1882, to Bene Christensen in the Endowment House of the L.D.S. Church. All of our ten children were born in Mantua. I built the house we lived in in Mantua. In 1920 I sold the farm to my youngest son, Ernest, and built a house in Brigham City. We moved to Brigham Dec. 22, 1920. I named two of my children and twelve of my grandchildren."
Peter C. Johnson died July 26, 1942, in Brigham City. He was buried in the Mantua Cemetery.
Written by Jay Halling (Grandson).
