Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Here is what I have thus far for family members of this family:

Joseph Smith Horne
Martha Maria Morrison, 3rd wife to Jospeh S. Horne
Children:
Mary Margaret Horne, married Asa Solomon Kienke
Byron Horne Kienke, (Married)
John Smith Kienke
Hyrum Cristo Kienke
Lucille Kienke
(Stillborn) Kienke
Albert E. Kienke
Donald Carlysle Cremain Kienke
William Roy Horne, married Phyllis Halladay
Don Halladay Horne
Ray Lynn Horne
Marion Seth Horne, (Married)
Deane Halliday Horne, (Married twice)
William Thad Horne
Conrad Phyll Horne
Clara Ella Horne, married John William Parks
William Fae Parks
Mildred Parks, (Married)
Clara Edith Parks, (married)
John Smith Parks, (Married)
Rachel Parks
Martha Parks
Francis Parks
Frank Horne Parks, (Married with 1 child)
Hazel Parks
Berna Dean Parks
(Baby Boy) Parks, (Died the day he was born)
Florence Morrison Horne, Married Edwin Franklin Tate
Gerald Edwin Tate, (Married with 5 children)
Leah Horne Tate, (Married with 1 child)
Howard Clinton Tate
Joseph Stanford Tate, (Married)
Boyd Tate
Burton Leon Tate
Marjorie Tate
Helen Tate, (married)
Aaron Smith Horne, married Mary Beatrice Toolson
Elaine Horne, (Married twice)
Helen Horne, (Married)
Martha Lenora Horne, married Orson Edwin Crouch
Raymond Calvin Crouch
Morris Crouch
Dean Edwin Crouch
(Girl) Crouch
Edna Horne, married Meltair Hatch Workman
Meltair Grant Workman, (Married twice with 3 children)
Ruth Workman, (Married)
Merlin Horne Workman, (Married with 4 children)
Gloria Workman, (Married)
Eilene Workman, (Married)
Dale Workman
Owen Woodruff Horne, Married Mildred Meyer
Richard Meyer Horne
Harold Owen Horne, (Married with 1 child)
Lawrence Thad Horne
Marvin Kent Horne
David Christian Horne
Carolyn Horne, (Married)
Kenneth Jay Horne, (Married with 7 children)
Karl Maeser Horne, married Thelma Rasmussen
Calvin horne
Robert Kay Horne
Dolores Joann Horne, (married with 2 children)
James Karl Horne

If there are any other family members that are missing please let me know! Thanks a bunch!

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

A Brief History of my Mother Written by her daughter Florence Horne Tate

Martha Marie Morrison

Born: April 20, 1863, Mount Pleasant, Sanpete, Utah

Father: William Morriosn

Mother: Anna Marie Hansen

Spouse: Joseph Smith Horne

Martha Maria Morrison Horne

A Brief History of my Mother

Written by her daughter Florence Horne Tate

Retyped by Trena Horne Dodge October 5, 2008

My mother is the daughter of William Morrison and Anna Maria Hansen. She was born in Mount Pleasant, Sanpete County, Utah, April 20, 1863.

It was her privilege to be born into a family of three brothers and three sisters. Her parents lived in a long low adobe house. At this time Grandpa and two wives, one family living at one end of the house and our Grandma occupying the other end. They lived in perfect harmony, dividing their responsibilities according to their natural abilities. My Grandmother enjoyed cooking and house keeping in all its phases. Our other Grandmother was an excellent sewer; therefore she assumed this phase of their conjoint family life. There were ten children to sew for. There were no sewing machines, all stitching was done by hand. To keep ten children neatly dressed and properly fed under these prevailing circumstances, was indeed a challenge.

When Mother was four years old, she went to live with her Grandmother to learn the Danish Language. She never forgot it and many times it proved very useful to her.

One day she was permitted to visit the school with her older sister Tina. Someone was talking and the teacher thought it was Mother. He came down where she was sitting and gave her quite a whipping with the long ruler he had in his hand. That evening when her father came home, and the incident was related to him, he was quite indignant and said, “The brute.” However, many years later, our father and this man, H. P. Miller, were partners in the Undertaking Business in Richfield.

When Mother was small, she was called Mette Marie by her loved ones. This name seemed to just fit Mother. She was small and dainty and usually humming a tune. When her Grandfather died, the earrings he was wearing were taken from his ears and years later were put in Mother’s ears and she wore them till her death, about 75 years.

Mother’s first date was with a fellow named Lorenzo Nielson. He took her to a party, and when it was over and they were going home they came within about a block of the house and Lorenzo said, “Well Martha, you can see the house from here.” So he left her to go the rest of the way alone.

The only childhood picture we have of Mother is one taken with her sister Tina when they were just small girls. Their dresses were very fancy and quite in style at that time, but you should see their hair-do. It was just bushy curled all over their heads. But we wouldn’t take anything for that funny little picture.

We know very little about her school days, except that they were very few. She was indeed self-taught. She always used good English and wrote with a clear neat hand.




In early days they went into the hills for grease-wood for soap making. She learned to make lovely soap and always saved her drippings of fat and all scraps of fat. She also learned the art of spinning and weaving. I well remember the old spinning wheel. Mother loaned it to the school for a play they were putting on and it was never returned.

In 1871 my Mother’s family moved to Richfield. Their first home was a long house located on the corner of First North and Second West where Judge Chidester’s home now stands.

In the early Spring of 1879, Mother went to Saint George with her parents and received her Endowments in the Saint George Temple. Sister Snow, wife of Erastus Snow, wanted to adopt Mother, but of course her parents would not permit it.

Joseph Smith Horne was living in Richfield and was a member of the First Territorial Legislature. Brother Horne would go by team and often stopped at the home of William Morrison. Upon one occasion Grandpa Morrison said, “Well Joseph, I see you have taken quite a liking to our daughter Martha.” And Father said, “Yes, I think she is a wonderful girl.” So Grandpa said, “Well, you can have her if you want her,” and father took her. Of course it was with her whole-hearted consent. They were married in the Endowment House February 14, 1880 (by Joseph Fielding Smith). Father took his young bride of 17(he was almost 38; born 14 May 1842) to meet his mother, M[ary] Isabella [Hales] Horne. Grandmother said, “Joseph how could you do it, she is but a mere slip of a girl.”

Upon one occasion she was visiting her folks in Mount Pleasant. She was invited to a lovely party. Samuel Allen, later Dr. Allen, escorted her home, little realizing she was a married woman.

Mother owned a large iron kettle in which she made all her laundry soap. I never remember her buying a bar of laundry soap. Her soap was lovely white soap. And, too, Mother always washed and carded the wool for all her quilt making. This was quite often as her family grew and she so often entertained many friends and relatives. We often had straw ticks and as a child I was amused to hear and feel the crunching of the new straw.

The first 18 months of Mother’s married life, she lived with Father’s first wife. Her first child was born there. This must have been a trial for her, but she never complained. To live in polygamy would be hard, but to live in the same house with his first wife and she was 41 years older than Mother, must have been a trial indeed.

My mother, as many mothers, had her trials and her joys, but God’s choicest blessings are often poured out to those who are sorely tried. Her home was always an open house and everyone was made welcome. Mother’s entire life was a life of sacrifice and service.

(In 1889, Joseph Smith Horne was indicted for polygamy.) Some busy-bodied ruthless men could not rest until they made a law that polygamist men could not live with their plural wives. After the Manifesto, that ruling was abandoned. At the time of the polygamist rage, many men went into hiding, but sooner or later were found, and sentenced to serve a term in the Sate Penitentiary. Father served 18 months. Upon one occasion, Mother came to Salt Lake and went to the Pen to see Father, but the guard would not allow her to see him. Brother Francis M. Lyman, also one of Uncle Sam’s boarders, stepped forward and said, “Have you no mercy? This little woman has traveled over 300 miles to see her husband. Do you have the heart to turn her away?” The guard softened and allowed Mother to visit with Father.

In 1833, Mother’s first stove was still in use in the home of Brig Snadberg.

Mother was a very ambitious woman. Often she tried her skill in various ways to earn a little extra money to buy things she needed in her home. She tried selling different wares. She made many friends but not much money. She didn’t give up. Her ambition was as strong as ever. She soon started taking boarders. This brought many people of various walks of life to our home, school teachers, music teachers, theatrical companies, etc. Some were noted actors and actresses. One day a sick man came to her. She hesitated because she had so recently recovered form Typhoid Fever. But her sympathies went out to the man and she took him in.

She contracted his disease and in 1910 she was operated on for Tubercular Peritonitis. Father put up a tent and Mother slept outdoors for one year. Mother paid $500.00 of her hospital and doctor bill by supplying them with chickens and turkeys. Father paid some money to the nurse and to apply on her room.

Pig killing was quite an event at our home. Tom Larsen would come and put up his scaffold, kill the pig, clean and dress it and hang it up until evening. Then he came and cut it up. The shoulders and hams were cured and smoked. We always saved our corn cobs to smoke the meat with. Cooking and grinding the head cheese, grinding and patting the sausages, pickling the pigs feet--my what a busy time and what a procedure this was, but how nice it was to have for the winter.

Mother was a very good cook. It seemed to come so natural to her. Mother often gleaned in the field to get wheat for her chickens.

We used to dry apples, plums and corn on the roof of our house. On one occasion when we were drying apples, our little sister Leona wanted to help. The knife she was using slipped and cut across the pupil of her eye. She carried that scar all the rest of her life.

We often dried corn, apples and plums on the low slanting roof of the house. Sometimes the chickens would fly up and get the corn. We children, not too different form other children, would climb upon the house and peck away with our hands to sound like the chickens. Mother would come rushing out with the broom thinking it was the chickens. How we would jump and run to avoid a swish of the broom.

When Mother’s sixth child was born it cost $75.00. Three dollars each was all the other five children had cost. This was a fine from UNCLE SAM.

Grandmother Morrison sold her home in Richfield and came to Salt Lake where she did Temple work for a while, visited with her family and friends [then] returned to Richfield and lived with Mother until she died. The latter part of her life she became an invalid and was indeed a [in need of] great care. Mother was expecting a baby any day. Florence had the Small Pox. We were quarantined and it was impossible to get help. Late the next evening Grandmother passed away. A few hours later Mother’s baby was born. Because of conditions, we had a death, a birth and a funeral all in one day. I shall never forget that experience.

Mother had opened her home to a dear old German lady. She was cleaning her yard when a gush of wind came and it caused her to fall and break her hip. She had no place to go, so in the usual goodness of Mother’s heart, she took her in and she lived with us till she died.

Wood hauling in the fall was another eventful time. The boys’ lunches were tied in a Germade sack, fastened to the wood rack, a small keg of water and a sharp ax and they were off. Mother’s anxiety for the safety of her sons was as hard on her as the falling of the logs was to the boys. A prayer of gratitude and thankfulness welcomed her sons on their safe return with their big loads of wood.

Father owned some hay-land and what a sight it was to see those big loads of hay pull into the yard; be unloaded into the barn. Sometimes large stacks of hay would be stacked on the outside of the barn.

Up until now, there was but one ward in Richfield. Now three wards were to be established. There was not a suitable place to build a chapel for the second ward, so, our Mother, the self-sacrificing soul that she was, offered a part of her lot to be used as a dwelling and the corner could be used to build the chapel on. Abe Hansen, a neighbor, bought another portion of Mother’s lot, leaving her two thirds acre of her original full acre.

There is one phase of Mother’s life I have not mentioned, but since it is so great and full of rich living, I must include it in her history.

Mother was chosen to be the First Counselor to the first Primary organized in Richfield. Soon the ward was divided and she was made Second Counselor for 1 ½ years. Then she was made President and acted as such for five years and nine months.

In 1894, Mother was chosen Stake Treasurer of Sevier Stake M.I.A. [Mutual Improvement Association]. On May 8, she was set apart as Second Counselor to the Stake President of M.I.A. In October 1895, she was set apart and sustained as President of Sevier Stake M.I.A. with Emily Payne as First Counselor and Anna C. Orrock as Second Counselor. One year later, Sister Payne was released and Martha Crosby took her place.

At a Stake Conference held in 1896, we were favored with a visit from Emma Goddard and Rosa Wallace of the General Board. The following December, at a Quarterly Conference of the Y.W.M.I.A. and Y.M.M.I.A, Sister Susa Y. Gates and Sister Hannah Sorenson of the General Board were present. Brother Thomas Hull of the Y.M.M.I.A. was also present. Sister Gates was blessed with the Gift of Tongues, also the Interpretation of Tongues. An officers meeting was held at our home, the evening before the conference was to convene. I well remember this night. Aunt Susa Gates, as we all called her, spoke in Tongues at this meeting.

In July 1898, a conjoint officers meeting was to be held to decide where to hold the next conference. It was decided to hold it at Fish Lake. Committees to act in making all arrangements for this conference were appointed. Sevier and Wayne Stake met, appointed their committees and all agreed the first meeting would be held in the afternoon at 2 o’clock. A large bowery was constructed for this occasion. Sisters Ruth May Fox, Aggie Campbell and Edna Dyer were the visitors for the Y.W.M.I.A. and Junius F. Wells and George H. Brimhall were the General Board members for the Young Men--also T. S. Ashworth, President William H. Seegmiller and Joseph S. Horne of Sevier Stake. President E. W. Robinson and Patriarch E. H. Blackburn of Wayne Stake wre present. A glorious time was had. Father drove the dead-mans wagon (as we called it) and took the visiting Sisters to Fish Lake.

At a later conference, Sister Augusta W. Grant and Sarah Addington were there representing the General Board.

Sister Martha Crosby was moving away and was released and Bertha Thurber was chosen to take her place.

In 1910, another glorious conference of the Y.W.M.I.A. and Y.M.M.I.A. was held. Apostle John Henry Smith and Brother Shudell were there to represent the General Board. Sisters Emma Goddard and Ruth May Fox were the lady visitors. Two conferences were held, one at Salina and one at Elsinora. At this time Sister Alveretta Olsen was called to the Board.

Early in the year of 1901 a big effort was made to secure means to assist in the erection of a Women’s State House. Success crowned their efforts.

Sister Martha Horne and her workers were faithful during their entire term of office. It would take a volume to tell of their efforts and accomplishments. One of their last deeds of their long and useful term was to plan a big social to be held September 7, 1901, in the evening before a big conjoint conference, but because of the national calamity that occurred, in the assassination of President William McKinley, their plans were not carried out.

Mother’s circumstances were such that she found it to hand in her resignation. With deep regret at loosing her and her counselors, Bertha Thurber and Anna C. Orrock, her resignation was accepted.

Mother and Father worked in the Manti Temple one year and later came to Salt Lake and worked in the Salt Lake Temple for two years.

Out of a family of 15 children (on Father’s side), Father and Mother were the only ones who lived to celebrate their Golden Wedding. This celebration took place at the home of their daughter Margaret Horne Kienke.

Father bought a little house for Mother, and it was her home as long as she lived. There were two rooms, with a closed porch. Several years late, there were two rooms added in the front. Years later the back part was torn down and remodeled as it now stands.

Mother died [January 16, 1944] at the age of 80.

May I, her daughter, add--through all these activities and early trials and hardships, she gave birth to four sons and five daughters.

We are indeed grateful to our Father for our WONDERFUL MOHER.