Sarah Lena Burkhardt was born 5 September 1872 in Bern, Bern, Switzerland to Friedrich Burkhardt and Elizabeth Stauffiger. Lena was the sixth child and fourth daughter.
Sarah Lena Burkhardt's left her behind in Bern, Switzerland when they came to America. They homesteaded in Idaho, some say west of Cherry Creek, along the west mountains, others say along highway 91 just north of John Morris Jones.
An older man was going to pay for Lena's passage to the U. S .A. for the promise of marriage. People on the ship told her she didn't have to keep this promise. Not in America. When she landed in New York he was there waiting for her. She was 19 years old. She told him that she would rather be a young man's slave, than an old man's sweetheart and she would pay him back some day. On the train to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1891 the Latter Day Saints gave her two bananas. She had never seen one before and threw them away.
Her dad was a stone mason and worked away from home five and half days a week. He earned $15.50 a week. They were very well off and had a Studebaker wagon. He would come home on Saturday with two quarts of beer, sent the kids outside and relaxed Great Uncle Frits, who was Lena's uncle, which side, the Burkhardt's or Ashliman, I don't know, was a wood carver.
After Gottfried passed away from Typhoid Fever Lena did many things to keep her family,. getting $7.00 a month welfare, and taking in washing and ironing. Aunt Hazel tells the story of when she was a young girl they were so poor that she would often steal chickens to keep food on the table. Aunt Cora was sent home from Idaho and when she came in the house, Lena, her mother, said, "Oh No." It meant another mouth to feed.
When Hazel was five years old Lena met and married David Lewis. He was much older than Lena but he was a kind and gentle man. He was a Patriarch and the kids could remember when people came to the house to get their blessings. He died and was buried in Albion, Idaho.
After Hazel and Fred Frodeson were married Lena made her home with them in California. Lena was a little short lady and her hair never turned entirely gray. There was still a lot of brown in her hair when she passed away 19 October 1964 at the age of 92 years. She was very ill the last few years of her life with heart attacks and strokes, but Aunt Hazel nursed her back several times. She took exceptionally good care of her and other family members, including Uncle Fred's family.
Lena was buried in the Lake Port Cemetery 22 October, 1964, in Lower Lake, California next to her daughter Cora, her husband, Albin Theoadore Peterson, and Fred Frodesen. Aunt Hazel died 7 May 1993 and is also buried there.
Sarah Lena Burkhardt's left her behind in Bern, Switzerland when they came to America. They homesteaded in Idaho, some say west of Cherry Creek, along the west mountains, others say along highway 91 just north of John Morris Jones.
An older man was going to pay for Lena's passage to the U. S .A. for the promise of marriage. People on the ship told her she didn't have to keep this promise. Not in America. When she landed in New York he was there waiting for her. She was 19 years old. She told him that she would rather be a young man's slave, than an old man's sweetheart and she would pay him back some day. On the train to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1891 the Latter Day Saints gave her two bananas. She had never seen one before and threw them away.
Her dad was a stone mason and worked away from home five and half days a week. He earned $15.50 a week. They were very well off and had a Studebaker wagon. He would come home on Saturday with two quarts of beer, sent the kids outside and relaxed Great Uncle Frits, who was Lena's uncle, which side, the Burkhardt's or Ashliman, I don't know, was a wood carver.
After Gottfried passed away from Typhoid Fever Lena did many things to keep her family,. getting $7.00 a month welfare, and taking in washing and ironing. Aunt Hazel tells the story of when she was a young girl they were so poor that she would often steal chickens to keep food on the table. Aunt Cora was sent home from Idaho and when she came in the house, Lena, her mother, said, "Oh No." It meant another mouth to feed.
When Hazel was five years old Lena met and married David Lewis. He was much older than Lena but he was a kind and gentle man. He was a Patriarch and the kids could remember when people came to the house to get their blessings. He died and was buried in Albion, Idaho.
After Hazel and Fred Frodeson were married Lena made her home with them in California. Lena was a little short lady and her hair never turned entirely gray. There was still a lot of brown in her hair when she passed away 19 October 1964 at the age of 92 years. She was very ill the last few years of her life with heart attacks and strokes, but Aunt Hazel nursed her back several times. She took exceptionally good care of her and other family members, including Uncle Fred's family.
Lena was buried in the Lake Port Cemetery 22 October, 1964, in Lower Lake, California next to her daughter Cora, her husband, Albin Theoadore Peterson, and Fred Frodesen. Aunt Hazel died 7 May 1993 and is also buried there.
Sarah Lena Burkhardt was born 5 September 1872 in Bern, Bern, Switzerland to Friedrich Burkhardt and Elizabeth Stauffiger. Lena was the sixth child and fourth daughter.
Sarah Lena Burkhardt's left her behind in Bern, Switzerland when they came to America. They homesteaded in Idaho, some say west of Cherry Creek, along the west mountains, others say along highway 91 just north of John Morris Jones.
An older man was going to pay for Lena's passage to the U. S .A. for the promise of marriage. People on the ship told her she didn't have to keep this promise. Not in America. When she landed in New York he was there waiting for her. She was 19 years old. She told him that she would rather be a young man's slave, than an old man's sweetheart and she would pay him back some day. On the train to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1891 the Latter Day Saints gave her two bananas. She had never seen one before and threw them away.
Her dad was a stone mason and worked away from home five and half days a week. He earned $15.50 a week. They were very well off and had a Studebaker wagon. He would come home on Saturday with two quarts of beer, sent the kids outside and relaxed Great Uncle Frits, who was Lena's uncle, which side, the Burkhardt's or Ashliman, I don't know, was a wood carver.
After Gottfried passed away from Typhoid Fever Lena did many things to keep her family,. getting $7.00 a month welfare, and taking in washing and ironing. Aunt Hazel tells the story of when she was a young girl they were so poor that she would often steal chickens to keep food on the table. Aunt Cora was sent home from Idaho and when she came in the house, Lena, her mother, said, "Oh No." It meant another mouth to feed.
When Hazel was five years old Lena met and married David Lewis. He was much older than Lena but he was a kind and gentle man. He was a Patriarch and the kids could remember when people came to the house to get their blessings. He died and was buried in Albion, Idaho.
After Hazel and Fred Frodeson were married Lena made her home with them in California. Lena was a little short lady and her hair never turned entirely gray. There was still a lot of brown in her hair when she passed away 19 October 1964 at the age of 92 years. She was very ill the last few years of her life with heart attacks and strokes, but Aunt Hazel nursed her back several times. She took exceptionally good care of her and other family members, including Uncle Fred's family.
Lena was buried in the Lake Port Cemetery 22 October, 1964, in Lower Lake, California next to her daughter Cora, her husband, Albin Theoadore Peterson, and Fred Frodesen. Aunt Hazel died 7 May 1993 and is also buried there.
Sarah Lena Burkhardt's left her behind in Bern, Switzerland when they came to America. They homesteaded in Idaho, some say west of Cherry Creek, along the west mountains, others say along highway 91 just north of John Morris Jones.
An older man was going to pay for Lena's passage to the U. S .A. for the promise of marriage. People on the ship told her she didn't have to keep this promise. Not in America. When she landed in New York he was there waiting for her. She was 19 years old. She told him that she would rather be a young man's slave, than an old man's sweetheart and she would pay him back some day. On the train to Salt Lake City, Utah in 1891 the Latter Day Saints gave her two bananas. She had never seen one before and threw them away.
Her dad was a stone mason and worked away from home five and half days a week. He earned $15.50 a week. They were very well off and had a Studebaker wagon. He would come home on Saturday with two quarts of beer, sent the kids outside and relaxed Great Uncle Frits, who was Lena's uncle, which side, the Burkhardt's or Ashliman, I don't know, was a wood carver.
After Gottfried passed away from Typhoid Fever Lena did many things to keep her family,. getting $7.00 a month welfare, and taking in washing and ironing. Aunt Hazel tells the story of when she was a young girl they were so poor that she would often steal chickens to keep food on the table. Aunt Cora was sent home from Idaho and when she came in the house, Lena, her mother, said, "Oh No." It meant another mouth to feed.
When Hazel was five years old Lena met and married David Lewis. He was much older than Lena but he was a kind and gentle man. He was a Patriarch and the kids could remember when people came to the house to get their blessings. He died and was buried in Albion, Idaho.
After Hazel and Fred Frodeson were married Lena made her home with them in California. Lena was a little short lady and her hair never turned entirely gray. There was still a lot of brown in her hair when she passed away 19 October 1964 at the age of 92 years. She was very ill the last few years of her life with heart attacks and strokes, but Aunt Hazel nursed her back several times. She took exceptionally good care of her and other family members, including Uncle Fred's family.
Lena was buried in the Lake Port Cemetery 22 October, 1964, in Lower Lake, California next to her daughter Cora, her husband, Albin Theoadore Peterson, and Fred Frodesen. Aunt Hazel died 7 May 1993 and is also buried there.
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