ANDERSON, Johanne

1862 - 1893  (30 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	ANDERSON, Johanne
  Birth	28 Dec 1862	Stapley, Uppsala, Sweden
  Gender	Male
  WAC	28 Nov 1888	MANTI
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  Death	18 Aug 1893	Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States
  Burial	19 Aug 1893	Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I21102	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Family	BISHOFF, Eliza Maria ,   b. 22 Nov 1867, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 13 Dec 1923, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	28 Nov 1888	Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States
  Family ID	F11414	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  LIFE SKETCH: John Anderson's father was Erick Anderson, born at Kallinge, Valo, Sweden 26 November 1823. His mother was Maria Catharina Westblad, born at Vassarn, Tuna, Sweden 31 January 1827. Valo is near the Gulf of Bothnia, an extension of the Baltic Sea. Erick and Maria were pitifully poor while in Sweden. They were devoted to their family and willing to do any kind of honorable work to support them. They lived in the midst of a forest. In the winter Erick chopped wood; during the summer he did farm work for others. Maria picked wild berries in the forest while carrying a child on her back. She would then walk a distance of twelve miles to town through the night to make full use of the daylight while in town. She would exchange her berries for food, which she brought home to her children. She bound grain, did other fieldwork and butchered hogs. With both parents often at work, the children were simply left at home to take care of themselves. Around 1875 Mormon missionaries visited these sincere, honest-hearted people. The gospel message was readily accepted my Maria and by her father Anders Jansson Westblad (born 1801 at Rasbo). At first it did not appeal to Erick, but before long, he too became interested. Erick, Maria and her father, Anders, were baptized 4 May 1876. Erick and Maria's sons, John (age 13) and Carl (age 10), were baptized 5 November 1876, on a dark night, two or three miles from their home. A hole was cut in the thick ice, big enough for performance of the ordinance. Then they walked home in their wet clothing, however, they did not so much as take cold as a result of this exposure. A mob had threatened to drown the missionary who performed the baptisms, but did not carry out the threat. The missionary's name, as closely as could be recalled by Carl, was Grandine Larson. In 1877 the grandfather, Anders Westblad, a shoemaker and then age 76, sold his home and furniture to obtain money to get himself, his only child Maria, and her younger sons John and Carl, to Utah. There was not enough money from the sale of the property to bring Erick or other members of the family at the time. They settled in Fountain Green, Utah. Anders was able to establish a new shoemaker shop on Main Street and a cobbler shop in the back room of the house where the family lived. John was 14 years old. Erick came a year later in 1878 after he had earned enough money to pay for his trip. John had some schooling in Sweden and after coming to America he learned to speak English with no foreign accent whatsoever. John and Carl lived in Moroni for a couple of years soon after their arrival in Fountain Green. They worked at the flourmill and Carl received $15.00 a year as wages and John earned $50.00 a year. Their mother furnished them with clothing. They saved the money they earned and sent for their sister, Augusta, to come to Utah from Sweden a year after Erick had emigrated. When the Anderson family was being taught the gospel in Sweden, Andrew, John's older brother, was working away from home hired out to a farmer. So he did not hear the gospel message when the other family members did. Andrew lived at the farm and worked for this farmer for seven and a half years until he was about sixteen years old. He started working for this farmer when he was nine years of age and was about fourteen years old when the family had accepted the gospel and left Sweden. After leaving the farm, Andrew moved to the city where he worked and lived with a family of builders. Here he learned the trade of carpentry. It was also here that Andrew met Selma Anderson and later, after serving in the Swedish army, Andrew married Selma on May 23, 1884 in Sweden. Andrew was 24 and Selma 19 years of age. John served a Church mission from 28 November 1886 to 28 November 1888 in the Copenhagen, Sweden Mission. He kept a daily journal of his missionary experience in Sweden. He had a mission picture taken of him in Stockholm while on his mission. He was able to spend the Christmas holidays of 1886 with his brother, Andrew, and Andrew's wife, Selma. John taught them the gospel, baptized them and influenced them to emigrate to Utah. John had written to Andrew Aagard in Fountain Green and arranged to borrow the money for his brother and family to go to Utah. Brother Aagard, knowing of John's integrity sent the money. Andrew and Selma left Sweden 11 August 1887 and when they arrived in Utah they went directly to Fountain Green. Carl met them at the old gristmill, but it had been eleven years since the two brothers had seen each other and they had changed so much physically that they did not immediately recognize each other. As soon as Andrew's family arrived in Fountain Green, Andrew began to work to repay this loan, thereby, proving his own integrity and establishing his own credit. A little less than a year later John returned home from his mission. John's father, Erick, had a quick temper, as did other members of the Anderson family. When the family was in Sweden and the boys were still all at home, Erick would take his three sons into the hills to cut wood. They would have to cut as much wood together as he could single-handed or he would punish them. When asked weather John inherited this temper, someone replied: "John was not quite as quick-tempered as the other members of the family; he could get angry, but he soon got over it." Maria had a very good disposition, though her son Carl said she used to get mad at him. Their virtues more than offset their tempers. They had good principles and were all known and highly respected for their fairness, honesty and ambition. The family was extremely fond of children, and correspondingly good to them. And no matter how poor their circumstances, they always observed Christmas. John's mother, Maria, became ruptured by over-exertion from carrying large pitchforks of Lucerne hay, and this caused her death on 18 September 1889 at age 62. Carl's wife once said that Maria's boys were just like their mother in lack of judgment, in that they would exert themselves beyond their strength in order to accomplish any given task. Erick died in Fountain Green, 10 May 1896 at age 73. Carl said his father's death was from pneumonia; Andrew attributed it to old age. Both were probably correct. Once, when John was dating Eliza Bischoff before his mission, he was at the Bischoff home with some friends. It was a rainy evening and John and his friend's were waiting for the rainstorm to abate. It had become dark and the light from the coal-oil lamp was getting dimmer and dimmer until it began to sputter. John took his hat and, just for foolishness, fanned the lamp until it went out. This amused them all, and they continued to sit without a light. Eliza's mother who had been in bed, walked through this dark room in her nightgown. Of course, this furnished further amusement to the young folks. John and his friend, Will Collard, soon left! John and Eliza were of a jovial nature, but both took a decided stand against vulgarity even in it's most innocent forms. Each had faith in God and high ideals, which marked them as serious-minded. When John was called to go to the Scandinavian Mission in the summer of 1886, he and Eliza decided to marry before he was to leave. They left for Salt Lake City (Salt Lake Temple was under construction) and then on to Logan in order to be married in the Logan Temple. Upon reaching the temple they found, to their dismay, that the temple was closed owing to a crusade against polygamy, so they could not be married. John suggested that a bishop marry them but Eliza said, "No, if we can't be married in a temple, we won't be married at all." Eliza returned to Fountain Green alone and John left her company to serve his mission. Eliza went to work and helped financially to support John on his mission. John and Eliza went to Manti Temple on 28 November 1888, about six weeks after his return from Sweden. Both were endowed and sealed that day. Daniel H. Wells performed the marriage ceremony. John was 25 years and 11 months old and Eliza had just turned 21. Their first home was in part of John's parents' home. After a short time they moved to the home of Lewis Anderson on Main Street in the north part of Fountain Green. Lewis was a son of John's former employer so he knew of John's honesty and ability as well as Eliza's integrity and experience as a clerk. The arrangement was that John and Eliza would take care of Lewis's furniture store, for which service they should have the use of his home and a stipulated share of the profits. In the Lewis Anderson home, their first child, Katie Maria, was born 22 September 1889, three days following the death of John's mother. Later, John and Eliza bought a lot a block west of Main Street, on which stood a two-room house. Eliza (Lyda) was born there 17 April 1891. Then Anna Myrtle was born in that same house 2 January 1893. Eliza always knew when John was anywhere near, for he was always whistling or singing. He was friendly with everyone. He was well liked and good-natured. Will Collard said of him, "John was as polished and genteel as could be. He was a gentleman in every sense of the word." John was an earnest student, devoting most of his spare time to studying the gospel. He said, "I want to gain all the knowledge I can here, for all that I learn here I won't have to learn hereafter." John was a very thrifty, industrious man, always working. He was known in the community as a "working fool" (today’s equivalent of a workaholic). He would be returning from the canyon with a load of wood when the other men of the town were just going for theirs. "Why are you hauling so much wood, John?" someone asked. He replied, "I'm getting ready to go on another mission." He did go on another mission but, no doubt, different from the one he had in mind. During this period, John was working for Cooperative Wagon & Machine Company selling farm machinery. He won a prize of a buggy for selling the most farm machinery that he traded to James Guymon for two and a half acres of land south of the then city limits of Fountain Green. John was acting as a school trustee, on which board he also acted as treasurer. He kept an accurate account of his own and each company's affairs, although their funds were all handled as though they were his personal means. John built a good, substantial 5-room red brick house. His brother, Andrew, did the carpentry work. Joshua Coombs and his father laid the brick. John tended mason and helped in every other possible way. John had worked so hard to complete the house that he became ill. While irrigating on a "night turn", John lay down on a ditch bank to rest, and caught a cold that developed into typhoid fever. John died from this illness on 18 August 1893, at age 30 years and 8 months, just five years after his marriage to Eliza. At the time of his death, John had a pile of wood hauled and chipped that lasted two years! His death shocked the business interests, which he had been representing on the school board. They all went to Eliza after his death and wanted to know, "What can we get on what your husband owed us?" Eliza said, "John just got the house built and then lay down and died." Burial was the next day. Those present at John's bedside when he died were: Eliza, Andrew, Carl, Joe Bischoff, Jacob Jensen, Dr. Wm. H. Johnson and John's good friend Will Collard. JOHAN (JOHN) ANDERSON Fifth child of six children born to Erick Anderson and Maria Catharina (Katrina) Westblad. BORN: 28 December 1862 PLACE: Stafby (Stavby), Uppsala, Sweden BAPTIZED: 5 November 1876, Sweden SET APART AS MISSIONARY: 6 September 1886 by Heber J. Grant MISSION: 28 September 1886 to 27 September 1888, Copenhagen, Sweden ENDOWED: 28 November 1888, Manti Temple SEALED: 28 November 1888 to Eliza Maria Bischoff in the Manti Temple, Utah, Daniel H. Wells officiating DEATH: 18 August 1893, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah (Typhoid fever) BURIED: 19 August 1893, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah CHILDREN: Katie Maria Anderson, 22 September 1889, Fountain Green, UT Eliza (Lyda) Anderson, 17 April 1891, Fountain Green, Utah Anna Myrtle Anderson, 2 January 1893, Fountain Green, Utah Emma Augusta Anderson, 2 April 1894, Fountain Green, Utah