Allens
Larsens
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Ashtons
Church History
100
Grandpa Allen grew up in this Northern Utah town
What is Hyrum?
100
This is the first name of Grandpa Allen's mother.
What is Oda?
100
This Eastern Utah town is where grandma Allen grew up.
What is Roosevelt?
100
This is the first name of Grandma Allen's mother.
What is Evelyn?
100
What is the earliest year that a member of our family joined the church? Hint: the church was organized in 1830 and it was shortly after this.
What is 1830 or 1832? Alva Benson, and his wife, Cynthia Vail Benson, were baptized Feb 14, 1832. The official baptism date listed by the church for Benjaman Benson is 1830, and his wife, Keziah Messenger Benson is Feb 21, 1832.
200
Wendell Gayle Allen (grandpa Allen's father) served a mission in what European country?
What is Germany?
200
Grandpa's mother, (Oda Juanita Larsen Allen) used to say "It won't be _____ in the morning."
What is "this"?
200
Grandma Allen's father (Bennie Schmiett) was student body president at this Utah high school.
What is Jordan High School?
200
How many brothers and sisters did grandma Allen's mother (Evelyn Hope Ashton Schmiett) have?
What is one? She had a sister that only lived for a few hours.
200
William Furlsbury Carter was one of the first missionaries called to this foreign country by Brigham Young in 1852.
What is India? William Furlsbury Carter was the first missionary to circumvent the globe carrying the Book of Mormon.
300
Albert Silas Allen and Margaret Maria Nielsen Allen had 4 boys, two of which died of this disease in childhood.
What is pneumonia? Andrew Thayle Allen and Alton Clain Allen both died of pnemonia (not at the same time) during childhood.
300
Anna Albretsen Larsen sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from this country to America in 1891 as a 5-year old, along with her 12-year old brother, Albert.
What is Denmark?
300
Benard Schmiett used to play this sport and even managed a team after his playing days were over.
What is baseball?
300
Clarence Ashton ran a department store and was the mayor of Roosevelt, UT. He also had a ___ degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
What is law?
300
This ancestor was a member of the bodyguard of the prophet Joseph Smith.
Who is Orville Morgan Allen?
400
Finetta Ann Williams Allen was born Aug 30, 1860 and was the first _______ to be born in Hyrum after it was founded.
What is "white child"?
400
Anders or Andrew Larsen wore a glass eye. How did he lose his eye?
What is playing with firecrackers? He also died young (age 40) in a farming accident.
400
Antone Schmiett and Marie Utzinger Schmiett immigrated from Germany to the United States in the late 1800s. They traveled west and most of the family settled in this state.
What is California? (Los Angeles area)
400
Eva Allen Ashton was born in what southern Utah city in 1873?
What is Beaver? After her parents were divorced and her mother remarried, they came to Vernal, Utah, where she met and married Leslie Ashton.
400
Bendt Nielsen was a wealthy farmer from Denmark, who joined the church in 1853. While traveling with a wagon company to Utah in 1854, his wife, Margrethe, died of cholera near Saint Louis. Bendt died in 1862 and is buried not far away from us in this city.
What is South Weber? Bendt also helped financially to make it possible for several other Scandinavian saints to come to Utah.
500
As Margaret Pettigreen Hope Williams and her husband, William Williams traveled west to Utah, the Indians took a liking to Margaret and attempted to trade these for the "little white squaw".
What are ponies? The pioneers held a mock funeral for Margaret to convince the Indians that she was dead because they kept coming back for her.
500
Pehr (Petter) Larsson and his wife, Cecilia (Sissela) joined the church in 1863 in this country and came to Utah shortly after.
What is Sweden?
500
Isaac Rogers Robbins and his wife, Mary Ann Shinn Burtis Robbins were born in this state. In 1846 they set sail on the ship Brooklyn with a group of East Coast saints and sailed from New York around the tip of South America and back up the west coast to San Francisco.
What is New Jersey? Issaac was first counselor to the ship Brooklyn's leader (Samuel Brannan) and the voyage took six months.
500
William Ashton built a home in this Utah city in 1865 that is now on the National Register of Historic Places.
What is Pleasant Grove?
500
This family are the only direct ancestors that I know of who joined the saints in Kirtland, Ohio. They later traveled with the saints to Missouri, Nauvoo, and the Salt Lake Valley.
What is the William Furlsbury Carter and Sarah York Carter family?
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