Hanna Malinda Denison Peterson
Hannah Malinda (called Malinda or Lin) was born 3 April 1886 in Manti, Utah to Hans Denison Jr. and Mary Agnes Braithwaite.
Malinda's family settled on a farm about 1 mile NW of Sterling town near the Gunnison Reservoir. Malinda's youth was centered on household farm chores. Malinda and her sister, Mary Ann, were the older girls in a farm family of 3 girl's and 8 boys. I would imagine that the mother, Mary Agnes, leaned on them pretty heavily to maintain the household. Also they lived a considerable distance from Sterling restricting them somewhat to the farm and its activities. Both Malinda and Mary Ann married at 18.
Malinda was courted by the town boy Martin Peterson Jr. and in September of 1904 they married in the Manti Temple and came back to Sterling and set up household. Peter Swenson built for them one of the first all-brick houses in Sterling on the corner of Main & 100 N. Sterling City didn't have a culinary water system when the home was built so Malinda had to carry water from a big ditch about a half block down the street, pail after pail with a bucket in each hand, for house hold water necessities. Eventually they put in a cistern (a large cement lined hole) that could be filled with water about every two weeks and Malinda could pump the water into a bucket and just carry it right into the house. Sterling didn't get their water system in until 1936.
Malinda taught Primary for a number of years and earned the name "Aunt Lin" to many of the Sterling children. She also served as the secretary and in the presidency of the Relief Society. At that time the R.S. visiting teachers would pick up donations from the homes they visited. It might be eggs, or 10 to15 cents, some time as much as 25 cents. Malinda had to keep the collection record and spent hours each year making the books balance, accounting for every dime and turning the money over to the ward bishop.
Martin conducted the Sterling church choir and Malinda always sang in it as a member. She loved to sing and would go about her work singing. As a choir member she sang in the duets, trios and quartets for various church and community occasions.
Malinda's loved her flower gardens, which were showy enough that cars would stop and come over to look at the beautiful flowers she maintained. She also was the home gardener and her garden provided the family table with radishes, carrots, lettuce and beets. Potatoes and corn were grown in larger quantities on the main farm.
After Martin's death, 10 December 1930, it was decided that Lorin should continue on with college. Gladys and Delosta were married so Malinda was left with the Sterling house and 64 acre farm,(both paid for) and four children at home (Mildred 16, Doyle 13, Afton 10 and EuDale 5).
The first couple of years Malinda hired Alva Peterson to help with the farm but soon found that she couldn't afford hired help, so running of the farm fell to Doyle.
In order to get extra money to pay the bills, Malinda rented out a wagon and team of horses to the W.P.A. workers at about $3.50/day. The summer of 1934 was a drought year and the crop of hay, wheat and oats was minimal. The family couldn't feed their stock and had to sell 6 of their 7 milk cows to the government for 12 to 14 dollars a head.
April 14 1937, Malinda married John Rasmus Jensen; she was 51 and he 53 at the time. It was not a happy union and within a short time they divorced.
Through her last years Malinda lived with her children, much of the time with her daughter Mildred and Mildred's husband Evan Johnson.
On the night of 9 September 1964, Mildred fixed up Malinda's hair as she went to bed. That night Malinda died in her sleep. Mildred related that the next morning, September 10th (Mildred's birthday), she went in the room where Malinda had failed to get up, there she saw her mother lying peacefully asleep, her head in the pillow, her hair unruffled, an easy passage into the next existence.
Hannah Malinda (called Malinda or Lin) was born 3 April 1886 in Manti, Utah to Hans Denison Jr. and Mary Agnes Braithwaite.
Malinda's family settled on a farm about 1 mile NW of Sterling town near the Gunnison Reservoir. Malinda's youth was centered on household farm chores. Malinda and her sister, Mary Ann, were the older girls in a farm family of 3 girl's and 8 boys. I would imagine that the mother, Mary Agnes, leaned on them pretty heavily to maintain the household. Also they lived a considerable distance from Sterling restricting them somewhat to the farm and its activities. Both Malinda and Mary Ann married at 18.
Malinda was courted by the town boy Martin Peterson Jr. and in September of 1904 they married in the Manti Temple and came back to Sterling and set up household. Peter Swenson built for them one of the first all-brick houses in Sterling on the corner of Main & 100 N. Sterling City didn't have a culinary water system when the home was built so Malinda had to carry water from a big ditch about a half block down the street, pail after pail with a bucket in each hand, for house hold water necessities. Eventually they put in a cistern (a large cement lined hole) that could be filled with water about every two weeks and Malinda could pump the water into a bucket and just carry it right into the house. Sterling didn't get their water system in until 1936.
Malinda taught Primary for a number of years and earned the name "Aunt Lin" to many of the Sterling children. She also served as the secretary and in the presidency of the Relief Society. At that time the R.S. visiting teachers would pick up donations from the homes they visited. It might be eggs, or 10 to15 cents, some time as much as 25 cents. Malinda had to keep the collection record and spent hours each year making the books balance, accounting for every dime and turning the money over to the ward bishop.
Martin conducted the Sterling church choir and Malinda always sang in it as a member. She loved to sing and would go about her work singing. As a choir member she sang in the duets, trios and quartets for various church and community occasions.
Malinda's loved her flower gardens, which were showy enough that cars would stop and come over to look at the beautiful flowers she maintained. She also was the home gardener and her garden provided the family table with radishes, carrots, lettuce and beets. Potatoes and corn were grown in larger quantities on the main farm.
After Martin's death, 10 December 1930, it was decided that Lorin should continue on with college. Gladys and Delosta were married so Malinda was left with the Sterling house and 64 acre farm,(both paid for) and four children at home (Mildred 16, Doyle 13, Afton 10 and EuDale 5).
The first couple of years Malinda hired Alva Peterson to help with the farm but soon found that she couldn't afford hired help, so running of the farm fell to Doyle.
In order to get extra money to pay the bills, Malinda rented out a wagon and team of horses to the W.P.A. workers at about $3.50/day. The summer of 1934 was a drought year and the crop of hay, wheat and oats was minimal. The family couldn't feed their stock and had to sell 6 of their 7 milk cows to the government for 12 to 14 dollars a head.
April 14 1937, Malinda married John Rasmus Jensen; she was 51 and he 53 at the time. It was not a happy union and within a short time they divorced.
Through her last years Malinda lived with her children, much of the time with her daughter Mildred and Mildred's husband Evan Johnson.
On the night of 9 September 1964, Mildred fixed up Malinda's hair as she went to bed. That night Malinda died in her sleep. Mildred related that the next morning, September 10th (Mildred's birthday), she went in the room where Malinda had failed to get up, there she saw her mother lying peacefully asleep, her head in the pillow, her hair unruffled, an easy passage into the next existence.
Hanna Malinda Denison Peterson
Hannah Malinda (called Malinda or Lin) was born 3 April 1886 in Manti, Utah to Hans Denison Jr. and Mary Agnes Braithwaite.
Malinda's family settled on a farm about 1 mile NW of Sterling town near the Gunnison Reservoir. Malinda's youth was centered on household farm chores. Malinda and her sister, Mary Ann, were the older girls in a farm family of 3 girl's and 8 boys. I would imagine that the mother, Mary Agnes, leaned on them pretty heavily to maintain the household. Also they lived a considerable distance from Sterling restricting them somewhat to the farm and its activities. Both Malinda and Mary Ann married at 18.
Malinda was courted by the town boy Martin Peterson Jr. and in September of 1904 they married in the Manti Temple and came back to Sterling and set up household. Peter Swenson built for them one of the first all-brick houses in Sterling on the corner of Main & 100 N. Sterling City didn't have a culinary water system when the home was built so Malinda had to carry water from a big ditch about a half block down the street, pail after pail with a bucket in each hand, for house hold water necessities. Eventually they put in a cistern (a large cement lined hole) that could be filled with water about every two weeks and Malinda could pump the water into a bucket and just carry it right into the house. Sterling didn't get their water system in until 1936.
Malinda taught Primary for a number of years and earned the name "Aunt Lin" to many of the Sterling children. She also served as the secretary and in the presidency of the Relief Society. At that time the R.S. visiting teachers would pick up donations from the homes they visited. It might be eggs, or 10 to15 cents, some time as much as 25 cents. Malinda had to keep the collection record and spent hours each year making the books balance, accounting for every dime and turning the money over to the ward bishop.
Martin conducted the Sterling church choir and Malinda always sang in it as a member. She loved to sing and would go about her work singing. As a choir member she sang in the duets, trios and quartets for various church and community occasions.
Malinda's loved her flower gardens, which were showy enough that cars would stop and come over to look at the beautiful flowers she maintained. She also was the home gardener and her garden provided the family table with radishes, carrots, lettuce and beets. Potatoes and corn were grown in larger quantities on the main farm.
After Martin's death, 10 December 1930, it was decided that Lorin should continue on with college. Gladys and Delosta were married so Malinda was left with the Sterling house and 64 acre farm,(both paid for) and four children at home (Mildred 16, Doyle 13, Afton 10 and EuDale 5).
The first couple of years Malinda hired Alva Peterson to help with the farm but soon found that she couldn't afford hired help, so running of the farm fell to Doyle.
In order to get extra money to pay the bills, Malinda rented out a wagon and team of horses to the W.P.A. workers at about $3.50/day. The summer of 1934 was a drought year and the crop of hay, wheat and oats was minimal. The family couldn't feed their stock and had to sell 6 of their 7 milk cows to the government for 12 to 14 dollars a head.
April 14 1937, Malinda married John Rasmus Jensen; she was 51 and he 53 at the time. It was not a happy union and within a short time they divorced.
Through her last years Malinda lived with her children, much of the time with her daughter Mildred and Mildred's husband Evan Johnson.
On the night of 9 September 1964, Mildred fixed up Malinda's hair as she went to bed. That night Malinda died in her sleep. Mildred related that the next morning, September 10th (Mildred's birthday), she went in the room where Malinda had failed to get up, there she saw her mother lying peacefully asleep, her head in the pillow, her hair unruffled, an easy passage into the next existence.
Hannah Malinda (called Malinda or Lin) was born 3 April 1886 in Manti, Utah to Hans Denison Jr. and Mary Agnes Braithwaite.
Malinda's family settled on a farm about 1 mile NW of Sterling town near the Gunnison Reservoir. Malinda's youth was centered on household farm chores. Malinda and her sister, Mary Ann, were the older girls in a farm family of 3 girl's and 8 boys. I would imagine that the mother, Mary Agnes, leaned on them pretty heavily to maintain the household. Also they lived a considerable distance from Sterling restricting them somewhat to the farm and its activities. Both Malinda and Mary Ann married at 18.
Malinda was courted by the town boy Martin Peterson Jr. and in September of 1904 they married in the Manti Temple and came back to Sterling and set up household. Peter Swenson built for them one of the first all-brick houses in Sterling on the corner of Main & 100 N. Sterling City didn't have a culinary water system when the home was built so Malinda had to carry water from a big ditch about a half block down the street, pail after pail with a bucket in each hand, for house hold water necessities. Eventually they put in a cistern (a large cement lined hole) that could be filled with water about every two weeks and Malinda could pump the water into a bucket and just carry it right into the house. Sterling didn't get their water system in until 1936.
Malinda taught Primary for a number of years and earned the name "Aunt Lin" to many of the Sterling children. She also served as the secretary and in the presidency of the Relief Society. At that time the R.S. visiting teachers would pick up donations from the homes they visited. It might be eggs, or 10 to15 cents, some time as much as 25 cents. Malinda had to keep the collection record and spent hours each year making the books balance, accounting for every dime and turning the money over to the ward bishop.
Martin conducted the Sterling church choir and Malinda always sang in it as a member. She loved to sing and would go about her work singing. As a choir member she sang in the duets, trios and quartets for various church and community occasions.
Malinda's loved her flower gardens, which were showy enough that cars would stop and come over to look at the beautiful flowers she maintained. She also was the home gardener and her garden provided the family table with radishes, carrots, lettuce and beets. Potatoes and corn were grown in larger quantities on the main farm.
After Martin's death, 10 December 1930, it was decided that Lorin should continue on with college. Gladys and Delosta were married so Malinda was left with the Sterling house and 64 acre farm,(both paid for) and four children at home (Mildred 16, Doyle 13, Afton 10 and EuDale 5).
The first couple of years Malinda hired Alva Peterson to help with the farm but soon found that she couldn't afford hired help, so running of the farm fell to Doyle.
In order to get extra money to pay the bills, Malinda rented out a wagon and team of horses to the W.P.A. workers at about $3.50/day. The summer of 1934 was a drought year and the crop of hay, wheat and oats was minimal. The family couldn't feed their stock and had to sell 6 of their 7 milk cows to the government for 12 to 14 dollars a head.
April 14 1937, Malinda married John Rasmus Jensen; she was 51 and he 53 at the time. It was not a happy union and within a short time they divorced.
Through her last years Malinda lived with her children, much of the time with her daughter Mildred and Mildred's husband Evan Johnson.
On the night of 9 September 1964, Mildred fixed up Malinda's hair as she went to bed. That night Malinda died in her sleep. Mildred related that the next morning, September 10th (Mildred's birthday), she went in the room where Malinda had failed to get up, there she saw her mother lying peacefully asleep, her head in the pillow, her hair unruffled, an easy passage into the next existence.
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