Eirikur EIRIKSSON
Cleveland Ward Record #225877 Erick ordained and Elder 4 Nov 1900 by Einar Erickson Seventy 21 Jan 1940 Cleveland Ward Record #225877 Erick ordained and Elder 4 Nov 1900 by Einar Erickson Seventy 21 Jan 1940 by George F. Richards Ordained High Priest 20 Sep 1942 by Carl Berg called to serve stake mission 3 Jan 1940
HARRY TOOK A HORSE OUT ON A POND IN THE WINTER, IT FELL ON HIM AND PINNED HIM UNDERNEATH. THE HORSE COULDN'T GET UP, AND HARRY WAS THERE FOR A LONG TIME. THAT IS HOW HE GOT HIS LIMP. HIS LEG WAS BROKEN AND IN THOSE DAY'S THEY DIDN'T GO TO A DOCTER MUCH SO HE NEVER HAD IT SET. WHEN HE AND H;IS BROTHER MAYNARD WENT TO SALT LAKE TO JOIN THE MARINES, THEY TOOK MAYNARD, BUT THEY WOULDN'T TAKE HIM BECAUSE OF HIS LEG. HE WAS VERY SAD AND FELT SO BAD WHEN MAYNARD LEFT WITHOUT HIM. HE WENT TO PRICE, TO WORK AND LEARNED TO COOK. HE THEN WENT TO RUTH, NEVADA WHERE HE BECAME THE HEAD COOK AT THE MINE. HE NEVER LIVED IN UTAH AFTER THAT.
MATHILDA DIED GIVING BIRTH TO THIS BABY. IT WAS EASTER MORNING.
He married Mathilda Sophia Christensen 8 Nov 1900 at Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah . Mathilda Sophia Christensen was born at Ephraim, Utah 5 May 1879 daughter of Christen Nielsen Christensen and Marie Sophie Larsen .
They were the parents of 7
children:
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Eirikur Eiriksson died 27 Mar 1965 at Price, Carbon, Utah .
Mathilda Sophia Christensen died 8 Apr 1917 at Cleveland, Emery, Utah .