Ancestral Glimpses » Julia Jacobenia Bastian (± 1871-????)

Données personnelles Julia Jacobenia Bastian 

• Elle est née environ 1871 dans Utah, Verenigde Staten.
• Un enfant de Jacob Bastian et Johanne Marie Sander
• Cette information a été mise à jour pour la dernière fois le 2 novembre 2013.

Famille de Julia Jacobenia Bastian

Notes par Julia Jacobenia Bastian

Julia Jacobenia Bastian Brian was born January, 1, 1871 in the little town of Washington, Washington, Utah. She is the daughter of Jacob Bastian and Joanne Marie Sanders, pioneers of the Dixie country.
She was blessed 28 June 1871, by Frederick Christensen. Baptized April3, 1879 by Andrew Larson, and confirmed a member of Latter Day Saints Church by Cornelius McReive.
Her father Jacob Bastian was a convert to the L.D.S. Church from Denmark. He married his first wife Gertrude Peterson, also a convert, just before leaving Denmark, she couldn't stand the rigors of pioneering and passed away on the way to Utah.
Her mother, Johanna Sanders was also a convert from Denmark. They were in the same company of Saints leaving Denmark and crossing the plains. After arriving in Salt Lake City they were married in 1857.
Julia was the eighth child and youngest girl of this family. Her father had two other wives and a posterity of thirty three children. She attended grade school in Washington, and the B.Y. academy in Provo for a short time.As soon as they were old enough the other girls went to work at the cotton factory  in Washington. With such large families the women had to help earn the living. Her mothre raised a large garden and sold vegetables and fruit to the familoies who lived at Silver Reef, a little mining town. She arranged her produce and went each day to sell them. Julia stayed home to help her mother with the baking, cleaning, spinning, carding, knitting, churning and other household chores. In the summer and fall they dried fruit.
When she was a child she was taking a hay knife thru the field to her brothers. She stumbled over a rock and the knife went between her toes. She pulled the knifeup, cutting her foot quite badly. An old darky was there. He was chewing tobacco and as he tried to comfort her he spit tobacco juice upon the cut. When he finally thought the wound had enough of this treatment, he bandaged it and took her home. She has always had a bad foot.
Her brothers Jacob and Gearson, lived at Loa after they were married, and she came here to visit them. While in Loa she received her Partiarchial Blessing from Partiarch Elias Hicks Blackburn on July 15, 1894. She worked for Thomas and Julia Blackburn, who ran a rooming and boarding house and also had a store where Reba Turner now lives. While here she met Hyrum Dudley Brian, who was the town blacksmith. They became engaged and shortly thereafter she returned to Washington to prepare for their wedding. She and her mother made her wedding dress by hand. It was dark rose woolen cashmere trimmed with white braid. They were married April 28, 1898 in Washington at her parents home by Andrew Sproul.
Hyrum had gone to Washington in a light wagon, drawn by horses. one of them he borrowed from Enoch Sorenson anad the other from his brother, Dan. It took them about two weeks to return to Loa. They stopped in Richfiels and bought a wooden bedstead, chest of drawers, and some kitchen chairs. He made a  kitchen table. With these they started housekeeping. They also brought with them fifty pounds of raisins. She was renowned for her raisin pies.
They lived in a one room log house with a lean-to kitchen. Here her five boys were born. She had a mid-wife take care of her and the babies. Her first baby Hyrum Leo was born August 4, 1889, a strong healthy boy. Twelve days later he was dead from erysipelas. One year later, Sept. 18, 1900 William Rex was born. January 7, 1902, Dolan Gross was born. Arthur Dudley was born March 5, 1905, and Reed Bastian, 12  June 1908.
Her husband Hyrum bought a herd of sheep after thery were married. They ranged on the Fish Lake Forest. While taking care of them in June 1910, he bacame injured by falling upon a sheep hook, which he had  in his hand while chasing sheep. He died the next day at home, leaving her a widow with four little boys, the oldest nine years of age.
The next year on July 12, 1911, she took her boys to the Manti Tample where she was sealed to her husband and the boys were sealed to their parents.
In 1912, she built a four room house. She leased the farms until the boys were old enough to run them.
When the boys were small she worked in the Primary, and was a Relief Society visiting teacher most of her married life. The boys can remember going with her from door to door to collect the wheat which the Relief Society Sisters had gathered for their wheat program. Orilla Harris was her visiting pardner for many years. She had an old white horse which her brother George Okerlund had given her. They hitched this horse to a buggy, put the smallest children in the back and went to make their visits to Road Creek or the other out lying districts.
She sang in the choir and spent many hours at night practicing under the direction of William C. Potter, Sr. They sang at the dedication of the tabernacle, October 24, 1909, when Joseph Fielding Smith, President of the Church offered the dedicatory prayer.
She always tried to pay an honest tithing, one tenth of the butter she churned, chickens, potatoes, grain etc, they raised,
For a number of years she helped take care of her aged mother, who needed a great deal of attention and care.
When Arthur was a small boy he broke his leg. it was a very bad break and they were advised to go to Salt Lake City. They went over the mountain in a light wagon to the railroad where they made a bed for Arthur in the baggage car. She sat there with him until they reached Salt Lake City, where he was then taken to the hospital and he was there a couple of weeks.
When she was eighty years old, she was queen of the Home Coming Celebration in Loa, She was the oldest living resident at that time.
In 1954 she fell and broke her hip. She has been able to walk, but the doctors say she should not go up or down stairs.
Source: Papers that were with Marguerite [Mathis] Meeks D.U.P. Moana Loa Camp

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