Julia Charlotte, known as Lottie, was born in 1875 in Mona, Juab County, Utah, to Joseph Horace Johnson and Julia Hills Eagar Johnson. When she was about six, she moved with her family to Moab, Utah. She and George Amasa Larsen, son of Mads and Jane Bishop were married by Bishop O. W. Warner in 1893. Their first home was a house built from logs brought down from the high mountains. While living in the log house, they had three children: Alta May, born May 20, 1894; George Amasa, Jr. (Brig), born in 1896; and Mada Fern (Williams) born in 1898. In 1900, Bill Small built an adobe house for the family. The adobes were made in the upper valley near the Pack Creek banks. Their daughter, Ida Hortense (Nichols) was born in the new home July 19. 1900. Five years later on August 28, Essie Sophia (White) was born. Lottie and Amassa were hard working people and their children were brought up to appreciate what they had by helping to work and paying for what they received.
In the early 1930s, the circus came to Moab. The circus management people had a difficult time finding a suitable location to set the tents. Lottie made a deal with them to use the northwest corner of her field (where the Youth Center now stands. The field was fenced. The circus people took down the fence and promised to fix it after the circus. They also promised free tickets. When the show began, they refused the free tickets. She knew if they failed to keep that promise, they wouldn't fix the fence. She was right. After the last show, they began moving out and told her they would not replace the fence. Lottie went to the big irrigation ditch, pulled the headgates that would let water down on them. When they saw the water coming in a flood, they tried to hurry their move. The circus could not get out in time. The heavy trucks were so deeply mired in the mud that the circus elephants were used to pull them out. The townspeople who turned out to watch, said this was the best part of the show. Loren Hills Johnson, Lottie's nephew, was about five years of age at that time. He recalled watching the irritation water, the elephants and also the sparks from some of the electrical wires nearby.
Amasa died on his 81st birthday, January 14, 1947. Lottie died on January 5, 1951.