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Amelia Marie Nielsen

	Amelia Marie Nielsen was born the 13th of June 1888 in Moroni, Utah, a daughter of Jens Brigham Young and Karen Marie Sorensen Nielsen.   She was baptized July 23, 1899 in the Sanpitch River.   Amelia, her brother Ezra, and her friend Yulene, were baptized the same day.   She went to school in Moroni to about the 6til grade, and had to stay home a lot of the time to help with the younger children. When her mother had a new baby, Sister Elizabeth Curtis, the midwife, would come to help.   Dr. Woodsing in Mt. Pleasant was the doctor who would come and it took 7 hours to come to Moroni. Usually, on Sundays her mother would put a large pan of meat and potatoes in the oven to cook while they went to church, and after meeting, there would always be friends and relatives in for dinner.
Amelia wanted a sister so much and every time there was a new baby, she hoped it would be a girl. She finally got a sister when she was 9 years old, and they named her Laura Selma.   When one little brother was born, he was named Soren Peter and she cried because she hated that name.   He just lived to be 3 months old.
When her cousin Laura Anderson died, Christina Madsen, her mother's best friend, came down to tell her, and her mother went up to see her cousin and Amelia stayed home to take care of the house.   Mrs. Madsen had hair put up in nails, and Amelia felt so bad she gave her mother's hair pins to her.
Her mother was upset, but never scolded her.   On one Thanksgiving day, her mother had found one egg in town, and it was on the table. Her mother went out for something and while she was gone, there came a big Indian to the door and Amelia opened the door and he saw the egg and took it and left. Her mother felt bad about that when she came home, but they managed to get along.   There were a lot of Indians around and would come into town.   Amelia was always afraid of them. The gypsies would come to town every year, and she was also afraid of them.   They could always cure some of the illnesses in town, and they would be very secret about what they did to heal the sick.
Every Spring her father and some other men in town would go to Livingston, Montana to work on the railroad, building it through the west. They would be gone all summer and come home about November. One time he came home in the middle of the night, and he wouldn't come in, he said he wasn't alone.   Her mother had to build a fire and heat some water and he left his clothes outside to be burned, he was full of lice.  They bought a new coal stove (kitchen) with the money he earned for a summer.
When Moroni got electricity, It was a great and exciting time. Amelia was a young girl. They had one light in the house and mother told them not to touch it while she went out.   Ezra got too brave and touched it, and then turned it and it went out.   He couldn't get it back on and thought he had
broken it and the little kids screamed. They couldn't use the electricity in the summer time.   Sometimes when her mother would use the iron, it blew a fuse.   There was a man who came around to check on them to see if they were using too much electricity.
There weren't any musical instruments in Moroni when they bought their organ for $75.00. Amelia wasn't allowed to touch it, but Laura took a few lessons from an old man, Mr. Call.   Her mother would always keep it locked.   Sometimes Amelia would find the key and try to play it when her mother was out.
Most of the families were Mormons in Moroni, but a few families were Methodist.   Amelia and Laura and some friends would visit their hall sometimes and when their mother found out, she would be angry at them.   Laura would try to sing like the Methodist teacher sang, and it would be very funny.
When Amelia was about 16, her Aunt Anna Martine died and she had asked Amelia before to take care of her youngest daughter Genevieve who was 6 years old.   Amelia lived there until Genevieve was about 14 or 15 and got married. When Genevieve was 8, there were Effie, Affie Christensen, and
Martha Larsen, Edith Nielsen, 2 Andersen twin girls. Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy (Daine) Christensen and Amelia took all the girls down to Silver Creek in Moroni in a wagon and Baptized them and then went to Bishop Bradley and he confirmed them.
Ezra was called on a mission in 1911. He was worried about going to another country across the sea. He belonged to the Commercial Club and they had a lot of parties for him.   He left in 1912 for Denmark. He met Ida Petersen while he was in Denmark.   After he came home, she came over to settle in Moroni, and they were engaged.   Ida worked in Salt Lake for 2 years until she and Ezra were married. Her family came to Moroni later.
Amelia worked for all the women in town when they had their babies.  She earned about 70 cents a week in Moroni. Later she went to Salt Lake and worked as a cook for Mrs. George Q. Cannon, (Martha), and Mrs. Willard T. Cannon.   Aunt Laura worked for Mrs. Nibley at this time and went to California
with them for a trip.   Later she worked for Mrs. Platt.   Sometimes Amelia worked  for Dr. Linebaugh.   She would earn 7 dollars a week in Salt Lake.
Amelia worked for Mrs. Annie Johnston in Moroni.   Mr. John'ston owned the drug store in Moroni. Annie Burrison ran away and married Mr. Johnston when he was a soldier and was married 6 months before her mother knew about it.   Annie's cousin was John Henry Halvorsen from Spring City. Their mothers were cousins.   Amelia met John Henry when he came to visit Mrs. Johnston.   Amelia and John went together for 8 years.
Amelia's brother Ezra was married to Ida the 20th of Dec. and Laura was married to Stanley Symes the 13th of Dec. 1916.   The family fixed up their grandmother's house for Ezra and Ida, and Ida wouldn't live there because she said it was too little. They lived in the house Ed Blackham and his wife lived in before
his wife died.   Aunt Laura lived in two rooms with Mrs. Jolley.   Ezra told Laura and Stan to live in his little house.   Laura's first baby, Don, was born Sept. 8, and Ida's first baby, Dora was born Oct. 5, 1917.   When Dora was 2 weeks old, Ida hemmorraged and almost died.   She was given a transfusion of horse blood.  When Laura went over to see Ida, Laura's house burned down while
she was gone, Oct. 19.
Amelia's brother Ed Has working over in Mammoth and a girl died of diptheria and he sat up with her.   When he came home for Christmas, Amelia got sick and finally her dad got the doctor and he said he could smell it was Diptheria when he opened the door.   The whole family had a shot.   No one else had diptheria in Moroni, and Ed never got it.   He probably was a carrier for the disease.
	Amelia went back to Salt Lake in April to work for Mrs. Simon until she got married.   She did the cooking only.   Annie and Ed Johnston came up to see her and gave her a gold watch.   John's mother died in Oct. and John and Amelia decided to get married Oct. 23, 1918.   Amelia and John went to Manti to get married.   The flu was so bad they couldn't be married in the Temple. Everything was closed and they were married by the justice of the peace and went to the
Temple the next year.
John's mother Julia was always talking about when John and Amelia would be married and she would have grandchildren.   Julia called her Emily, and said Henry could do everything, fix the children's  shoes and anything else.
Amelia's first baby was born in July, 1920, and was named Julia Fern.   Amelia never saw a doctor until the night she was going to have her baby.   Dr. Dice was her doctor.   There was a lot of flu just after, about the time Aunt Laura had Raynard, March 1, 1922, and he was a blue baby.   Amelia had
a Gall Stone attack and was really sick and Marie was born a month early, April 23, 1922.   Aunt Art Andersen was the midwife when Marie was born.   She was a tiny baby and fair and didn't have any fingernails.   All the kids had whooping cough.   Raynard died of whooping cough on July 23, 1922
Amelia's father had been sick for several months and he hemmorraged from the mouth and died in Nov.   Everyone in town liked him so much and told how he had fixed their shoes when they needed good shoes.   They had such cold winters and there wasn't any work or money anywhere.   One time John brought home a little yellow cat and it was outside and when they opened the door the
cat fell inside stiff and frozen.	

John came up to Magna with Alvy Madsen and got a job at the Copper Mills. Then Ruel Symes got a job and they all lived together until they got a house.   Laura and Affie went house hunting.   Amelia and Laura moved to Garfield after they had been here 6 months.   They lived together in Garfield almost 2 yrs.
Nida Ann was born Aug. 4, 1924 and Wilma was born in Oct.   Julia got pneumonia at Christmas time. Dr. Eskelsen was the doctor, and he did everything possible for her and then he gave her a blessing.  He knew she had died, but when she was conscious again she asked for bread and honey and she said
she had seen Raynard.
Clarence and Ed and Ezra came to Garfield and worked and stayed with Amelia.   Clarence was so good to Amelia and Laura and would give them five dollars to go to the store and buy something.   Grandma Nielsen came to Garfield and lived with uncle Byron.   Ezra and Ed and Clarence later went back to
	Moroni to live.
Ed and Henrietta's first baby was twin boys and lived only a few hours.
			In Nov. 1926, Nida got sick with pneumonia. She got sick on Monday, and died Tuesday.   Amelia hated to see the black hearse come up the street when there was a death.   She said when Julia had been sick and they thought she died, the black hearse came to the house, but Julia had regained consciousness but the baby up the street had died, so they went there, instead.
Doris Maxine was born the next Jan. 3, 1927