1Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1FAMILY Records, Jul 2012. Info from Walker's family tree on Ancestry.com.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1FAMILY Records, Jul 2012. Info from Walker's family tree on Ancestry.com.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1FAMILY Records, Dec 2013. Info provided Dennis Walker.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Obituary, Feb 2013. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". See notes.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Walker Family Tree on Ancestry.com, Dec 2013.
2http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/, Social Security Death Index [ONLINE], Dec 2013. See Notes.
3Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
4http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/, Social Security Death Index [ONLINE], Dec 2013.
5Obituary, Dec 2013. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". See Notes.
1Obituary, Dec 2013. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". See Notes.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Walker Family Tree on Ancestry.com, Dec 2013.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Walker Family Tree on Ancestry.com, Dec 2013.
2Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1Family Record, Dec 2014. Info provided by Shirley Louise Marler Dickson.
1NEWSPAPER, Mar 2012. "Comments: Parents of Lewis Robert Anderson who md Clara Maria Munk
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary: The Manti Messenger, 21 NOV 1930
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary Is Celebrated
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Anderson of Manti, Utah celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Friday, November 14, 1930. A program of music, song and dancing in the Arinada was enjoyed and participated in by hundreds of friends. Light refreshments were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were married by the late President Joseph F. Smith in the old Endowment House at Salt Lake City, November 14, 1970. Mr. Anderson was born October 24, 1850 at Hickelberg, Sweden; his wife, Mary A. Crowther Anderson was born May 7, 1851 at Bloomfield, Shropshire, England. Mr. Anderson has been a lifelong worker in the Church. He filled two missions to the United States, served for 10 years as resident of the South Sanpete Stake of Zion and for the past 24 years has been and is still, the president of the Manti Temple. He is an Indian War Veteran, was a member of the first Constitutional Convention and has held many civil positions of trust. Mrs. Anderson has been prominent in Relief Society work, a Temple worker for many years and at present is Matron of the Manti Temple.
The couple have six children: President Lewis R. Anderson of the South Sanpete Stake, Thomas J. Anderson, Mrs. Etta Poulsen, deceased, Mrs. Sarah Jane Westenskow, Mrs. Mary Mabel Simmons and Joseph Franklin Anderson, deceased. They have 21 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren."2Obituary, Jul 2012. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". See notes.
1NEWSPAPER, Mar 2012. "Comments: Parents of Lewis Robert Anderson who md Clara Maria Munk
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary: The Manti Messenger, 21 NOV 1930
Sixtieth Wedding Anniversary Is Celebrated
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Anderson of Manti, Utah celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Friday, November 14, 1930. A program of music, song and dancing in the Arinada was enjoyed and participated in by hundreds of friends. Light refreshments were served.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were married by the late President Joseph F. Smith in the old Endowment House at Salt Lake City, November 14, 1970. Mr. Anderson was born October 24, 1850 at Hickelberg, Sweden; his wife, Mary A. Crowther Anderson was born May 7, 1851 at Bloomfield, Shropshire, England. Mr. Anderson has been a lifelong worker in the Church. He filled two missions to the United States, served for 10 years as resident of the South Sanpete Stake of Zion and for the past 24 years has been and is still, the president of the Manti Temple. He is an Indian War Veteran, was a member of the first Constitutional Convention and has held many civil positions of trust. Mrs. Anderson has been prominent in Relief Society work, a Temple worker for many years and at present is Matron of the Manti Temple.
The couple have six children: President Lewis R. Anderson of the South Sanpete Stake, Thomas J. Anderson, Mrs. Etta Poulsen, deceased, Mrs. Sarah Jane Westenskow, Mrs. Mary Mabel Simmons and Joseph Franklin Anderson, deceased. They have 21 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren."2Obituary, Sep 2012. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". "OBIT: The Manti Messenger, 7 DEC 1934
Faithful Temple Worker Passes To Her Reward
Mary Ann Crowther Anderson, age 83, widow of Lewis Anderson, late President of the Manti Temple died at the family residence at Manti, December 2, 1934, after a long illness. She was born May 7, 1851, in Tipton, Shropsire, England, the daughter of Thomas Crowther and Sarah Thomason.
Thomas and Sarah Crowther, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had a great desire to gather with the saints in America. Accordingly, at Liverpool, on the 13th of November, 1854, Mary Ann, then about 3 1/2 years old, with her parents, embarked on board the good ship Clara Wheeler, a sailing vessel bound for New Orleans. The vessel was tossed about in the choppy waters of the Irish Channel a day and night and was almost wrecked, but was picked up by a pilot ship and towed into the river Mercy, Liverpool, where it waited two weeks for a favorable wind. After many narrow escapes it landed safely at New Orleans, five weeks later.
Here an interesting experince happened. Thomas Crowther needed forty shillings to pay for the passage to St. Louis. He had only 10 shillings and he need 10 to buy food for the rest of the trip. While leaning over the side of the vessel considering what was best to do he conculded he would have to stop off at New Orleans and try to get work, although he had suffered from a severe illness while on the sea and was very weak. At this time a man he had seen once or twice on the vessel, but had never spoken to, came to him, asked his circumstances, gave him 40 shillings the exact amount needed, and told him he could pay it back when he was able. The Crowthers then for nine days traveled 1200 miles up the Mississippi River and on January 10th, landed at Gravois, St. Louis. Here they resided until March 6, 1855, when Mary Ann's mother died. Early in the following April, Mary Ann and her father started on a steamboat up the Mississippi River to Atchison, the starting place for the Saints to cross the plains. Her father volunteered as a teamster and on June 13, 1855, they left Mormon Grove. All during the 1200 miles across the plains, Mary Ann wrapped herself in a quilt and slept under the wagon at night. In the daytime she rode in the wagon ahead of her father. During a stop at Laramie, she was thought to be lost. After an extensive search by her frightened father and the Saints who feared she might have been taken by Indians or wolves, she was found curled up under a bunch of wheat grass fast asleep. For 13 weeks, over 9 months, they traveled and reached Salt Lake City, September 13, 1855. They stayed in Salt Lake two days, then walked 40 miles to Battle Creek, now Pleasant Grove. There Mary Ann was left with her grandmother, and her father went to Cedar City to work in the Iron Works. Later she joined her father at Cedar City, he having married Jane Jewkes. In 1859, the family moved to Beaver and again in 1860 moved to Ephraim where they lived for 12 months. In the spring of 1861, they moved to Fountain Green, where she resided until her marriage to Lewis Anderson, November 18, 1870. The ceremony was performed by Daniel H. Wells in the Endowment House at Salt Lake City. After the marriage they lived in Fountain Green until 1880, their home being a stopping place for may people who journeyed to and from Salt Lake City. From 1880 to 1884, they were in Manti, residing at the old Denison home on First and East Street, next to the Fox residence, and the "Little White House" west of the Public School. In 1884, they returned to Fountain Green. Later they came back to manti and made their permanent home after the dedication of the Manti Temple, where she acted as matron during the presidency of her husband.
Mary Ann befriended many, and was loved by the poor and unfortunate as well as all who knew her. Her charities will never be known. She was gentle and loving with an endearing sense of humor, and she had the courage to carry out her convictions.
She was the mother of six children: Lewis R., Thomas J., Mrs. Jane Westenskow, Mrs. Mabel Simmons, all of Manti; Mrs. Etta Poulsen and Frank, deceased. Brothers and sisters deceased, Thomas A. Crowther, of Sanford, Colorado; J. F. Crowther, Provo, Utah; Mrs.Sarah J. Johnson, Mrs. Emma Kirby, Mrs. Rozilla Mortenson, Mrs. May Jensen, Mrs. Nellie Mortenson, of Sanford, Colorado. Surviving is one brother, William O. Crowther, Mesa, Arizona, and one sister, Mrs. Laura Morgan, Sanford, Colorado, 21 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren survive."
1Obituary, Jun 2013. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". See Notes.
2New.FamilySearch.org, Mar 2012.
1Obituary, Jun 2013. "Obituary in the Manti Messenger 26 November 1898.". See Notes.
2New.FamilySearch.org, Mar 2012.
1New.FamilySearch.org, Mar 2012.