Parents of Erastus Jensen
by Katie Jensen Nielsen
Grandmother was a very feminine woman as I
remember her, she was of small features about 5’4” and also dark complexioned
with blue clear eyes.
Grandfather, like all other early settlers
in Logan had two or [three] cows, chickens, and usually raised a couple of pigs so there
would be meat of a variety and milk, enough to make cheese. In the winter there were
vegetables, carrots, potatoes, parsnips, stored in ‘Pits’ that were arranged in
the garden plot where the vegetables had been grown during the warm summer days. The
storage pits were made by digging the soil out about [three] feet in a circle, then
filling this with clean straw about [one foot] thick and piling carrots in on pit,
potatoes, parsnips and cabbage in rows the same way, then covering.
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