MOUNT PLEASANT -- Mrs. Mary Wall BJELKE, 84, widow of Carl G. BJELKE, pioneer shoemaker of this city, and a Mount Pleasant resident 67 years, died Monday evening a the family home following a paralytic stroke.
Mrs. BJELKE came to Utah and Mount Pleasant in 1857 from Vanersberg, Sweden, where she was born May 23, 1847, a daughter of Carl and Katherine WALL. She was married the same year in Mount Pleasant and had resided here continuously since, excepting the winter of 1866-67, when her husband was enrolled with the Blackhawk war company, and they were in Moroni. Mr. BJELKE died in 1909.
She is survived by a daughter and two sons, Mrs. G. W. BRAND, J. A. and O W. BJELKE, Mount Pleasant; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church with interment in the family plot in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery.
(Published in The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), Wednesday, July 08, 1931.)
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MOUNT PLEASANT -- Mrs. Mary Wall BJELKE, 84, widow of Carl G. BJELKE, pioneer shoemaker of this city, and a Mount Pleasant resident 67 years, died Monday evening a the family home following a paralytic stroke.
Mrs. BJELKE came to Utah and Mount Pleasant in 1857 from Vanersberg, Sweden, where she was born May 23, 1847, a daughter of Carl and Katherine WALL. She was married the same year in Mount Pleasant and had resided here continuously since, excepting the winter of 1866-67, when her husband was enrolled with the Blackhawk war company, and they were in Moroni. Mr. BJELKE died in 1909.
She is survived by a daughter and two sons, Mrs. G. W. BRAND, J. A. and O W. BJELKE, Mount Pleasant; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral Services will be held Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the First Presbyterian Church with interment in the family plot in Mount Pleasant City Cemetery.
(Published in The Salt Lake Tribune (Salt Lake City, UT), Wednesday, July 08, 1931.)
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