Family History excerpts taken from the writings of Cleora Hansen Summers, dated February 10, 1983. Her mother is Esther Peterson Hansen, youngest daughter of Kisa and John Peterson, and youngest sister of Alfred.
Alfred was a product of a home where life had not been easy. His mother, Kisa, was the youngest wife in a polygamist family. After polygamy ended and the family had to move out, his mother moved her family of 4 daughters and son Alfred, from Grantsville UT to Goshen ID. (Another son, Elmer, died in infancy when the family lived in Grantsville, UT).
The family moved and took advantage of Idaho's Homestead Act, and in 1900 they purchased 40 acres of farming ground in Goshen, Idaho. They would always refer to this as "The Home Place."
While pioneering in Goshen Idaho, Kisa was to bury her second eldest daughter, Ada Petersen in 1901. Her first eldest daughter Amanda Petersen Christensen (married in May 1903 to Hiram R. Christensen) would pass away in 1910.
Kisa's youngest daughter, Esther, would marry in 1909 to Hiram Kundt Hansen.
The farm house had been built by Alfred and his cousins, the Stromberg boys from Huntington, UT. This was somewhere between 1910 and 1915. It had 2 bedrooms, a living room, a small kitchen, and a pantry under the finished stairs that led to an unfinished upstairs attic.
Grandma Peterson, Aunt Sarah, and Uncle Alfred lived together in this farm house. Uncle Alfred was the provider. He was very slim and tall as a man. Grandma was the little spunky woman who had ruled with a firm hand while the children grew up in a one-parent home. She was still loved and respected by her three remaining children.
We children loved to have Aunt Sarah or Uncle Alfred hang the green canvas hammock up between two trees on the front lawn beyond the open front porch so we could swing in the wind. There seemed always to be a wind. We could play out there for a long time and it was very special.
I think a characteristic of the whole family was an abundance of ambitious energy to keep the work all caught up and finished in a timely manner, and to be helpful to each other. It was a close knit caring family.
Uncle Alfred never married and had no heirs. On January 20, 1919, he died at the age of 42, from the dreaded flu epidemic.
Grandma Peterson would pass away a year later, at the age of 78, in May 14, 1920. Her estate was left to her daughters, Sarah and Esther to divide.
[Courtesy of A. Fellows]
Alfred was a product of a home where life had not been easy. His mother, Kisa, was the youngest wife in a polygamist family. After polygamy ended and the family had to move out, his mother moved her family of 4 daughters and son Alfred, from Grantsville UT to Goshen ID. (Another son, Elmer, died in infancy when the family lived in Grantsville, UT).
The family moved and took advantage of Idaho's Homestead Act, and in 1900 they purchased 40 acres of farming ground in Goshen, Idaho. They would always refer to this as "The Home Place."
While pioneering in Goshen Idaho, Kisa was to bury her second eldest daughter, Ada Petersen in 1901. Her first eldest daughter Amanda Petersen Christensen (married in May 1903 to Hiram R. Christensen) would pass away in 1910.
Kisa's youngest daughter, Esther, would marry in 1909 to Hiram Kundt Hansen.
The farm house had been built by Alfred and his cousins, the Stromberg boys from Huntington, UT. This was somewhere between 1910 and 1915. It had 2 bedrooms, a living room, a small kitchen, and a pantry under the finished stairs that led to an unfinished upstairs attic.
Grandma Peterson, Aunt Sarah, and Uncle Alfred lived together in this farm house. Uncle Alfred was the provider. He was very slim and tall as a man. Grandma was the little spunky woman who had ruled with a firm hand while the children grew up in a one-parent home. She was still loved and respected by her three remaining children.
We children loved to have Aunt Sarah or Uncle Alfred hang the green canvas hammock up between two trees on the front lawn beyond the open front porch so we could swing in the wind. There seemed always to be a wind. We could play out there for a long time and it was very special.
I think a characteristic of the whole family was an abundance of ambitious energy to keep the work all caught up and finished in a timely manner, and to be helpful to each other. It was a close knit caring family.
Uncle Alfred never married and had no heirs. On January 20, 1919, he died at the age of 42, from the dreaded flu epidemic.
Grandma Peterson would pass away a year later, at the age of 78, in May 14, 1920. Her estate was left to her daughters, Sarah and Esther to divide.
[Courtesy of A. Fellows]
Family History excerpts taken from the writings of Cleora Hansen Summers, dated February 10, 1983. Her mother is Esther Peterson Hansen, youngest daughter of Kisa and John Peterson, and youngest sister of Alfred.
Alfred was a product of a home where life had not been easy. His mother, Kisa, was the youngest wife in a polygamist family. After polygamy ended and the family had to move out, his mother moved her family of 4 daughters and son Alfred, from Grantsville UT to Goshen ID. (Another son, Elmer, died in infancy when the family lived in Grantsville, UT).
The family moved and took advantage of Idaho's Homestead Act, and in 1900 they purchased 40 acres of farming ground in Goshen, Idaho. They would always refer to this as "The Home Place."
While pioneering in Goshen Idaho, Kisa was to bury her second eldest daughter, Ada Petersen in 1901. Her first eldest daughter Amanda Petersen Christensen (married in May 1903 to Hiram R. Christensen) would pass away in 1910.
Kisa's youngest daughter, Esther, would marry in 1909 to Hiram Kundt Hansen.
The farm house had been built by Alfred and his cousins, the Stromberg boys from Huntington, UT. This was somewhere between 1910 and 1915. It had 2 bedrooms, a living room, a small kitchen, and a pantry under the finished stairs that led to an unfinished upstairs attic.
Grandma Peterson, Aunt Sarah, and Uncle Alfred lived together in this farm house. Uncle Alfred was the provider. He was very slim and tall as a man. Grandma was the little spunky woman who had ruled with a firm hand while the children grew up in a one-parent home. She was still loved and respected by her three remaining children.
We children loved to have Aunt Sarah or Uncle Alfred hang the green canvas hammock up between two trees on the front lawn beyond the open front porch so we could swing in the wind. There seemed always to be a wind. We could play out there for a long time and it was very special.
I think a characteristic of the whole family was an abundance of ambitious energy to keep the work all caught up and finished in a timely manner, and to be helpful to each other. It was a close knit caring family.
Uncle Alfred never married and had no heirs. On January 20, 1919, he died at the age of 42, from the dreaded flu epidemic.
Grandma Peterson would pass away a year later, at the age of 78, in May 14, 1920. Her estate was left to her daughters, Sarah and Esther to divide.
[Courtesy of A. Fellows]
Alfred was a product of a home where life had not been easy. His mother, Kisa, was the youngest wife in a polygamist family. After polygamy ended and the family had to move out, his mother moved her family of 4 daughters and son Alfred, from Grantsville UT to Goshen ID. (Another son, Elmer, died in infancy when the family lived in Grantsville, UT).
The family moved and took advantage of Idaho's Homestead Act, and in 1900 they purchased 40 acres of farming ground in Goshen, Idaho. They would always refer to this as "The Home Place."
While pioneering in Goshen Idaho, Kisa was to bury her second eldest daughter, Ada Petersen in 1901. Her first eldest daughter Amanda Petersen Christensen (married in May 1903 to Hiram R. Christensen) would pass away in 1910.
Kisa's youngest daughter, Esther, would marry in 1909 to Hiram Kundt Hansen.
The farm house had been built by Alfred and his cousins, the Stromberg boys from Huntington, UT. This was somewhere between 1910 and 1915. It had 2 bedrooms, a living room, a small kitchen, and a pantry under the finished stairs that led to an unfinished upstairs attic.
Grandma Peterson, Aunt Sarah, and Uncle Alfred lived together in this farm house. Uncle Alfred was the provider. He was very slim and tall as a man. Grandma was the little spunky woman who had ruled with a firm hand while the children grew up in a one-parent home. She was still loved and respected by her three remaining children.
We children loved to have Aunt Sarah or Uncle Alfred hang the green canvas hammock up between two trees on the front lawn beyond the open front porch so we could swing in the wind. There seemed always to be a wind. We could play out there for a long time and it was very special.
I think a characteristic of the whole family was an abundance of ambitious energy to keep the work all caught up and finished in a timely manner, and to be helpful to each other. It was a close knit caring family.
Uncle Alfred never married and had no heirs. On January 20, 1919, he died at the age of 42, from the dreaded flu epidemic.
Grandma Peterson would pass away a year later, at the age of 78, in May 14, 1920. Her estate was left to her daughters, Sarah and Esther to divide.
[Courtesy of A. Fellows]
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