TITLE PAGE. Daughters of Utah Pioneers. 75 [075. PIONEER NAME- Peter and Christen Peterson BIRTH DATE AND PLACE- Denmark DEATH DATE AND PLACE- FATHER- MOTHER- WHO MARRIED AND DATE- YEAR ARRIVED IN UTAH- After 1878. NAME OF COMPANY- WHO WROTE HISTORY AND DATE- WHO SUBMITTED HISTORY AND DATE- Ellen Mamanakis CAMP NAME- Mt. Joy CAMP HISTORIAN- Bertie Smith COMPANY NAME- Morgan HISTORIAN- Dena Rich SOURCE OF INFORMATION- Family History SIGNATURE OF AUTHOR OR OWNER OF THIS HISTORY- Ellen Mamanakis CAMP RECEIVED (DATE)- Oct. 13, 2008 COMPANY RECEIVED (DATE)- [076] PETER AND CHRISTEN PETERSON Peter and Christen Peterson are my great, great, great, grandparents. They both came from Denmark and settled in Utah in the late 1800’s where they met and married. I have a plate that my grandmother brought from Denmark. I decided to look up what Denmark was like back in the 1800’s and how people lived and how their lives changed when they came to America. Most of the homes in Denmark in the rural area were thatched-roofed cottages with dirt floors. Often the area for the cattle was in the same structure as the living area and with a work area in between. There they lived and worked and played and practiced many home industry skills. They would often wear wooded shoes that could be warmed in the winter with Coles from the fire before they put them on their feet. They used wooden buckets to get the milk from the cows. They made their own cloth from their own sheep. They would wash the wool before they would shear it off, then they would carded it, spun it, then woven it and sewed it by hand to make their clothes. In 1878 Peter’s family came to the United States, then they came to Utah where they settled in Manti. Peter came as soon as his mission in Copenhagen was completed in 1878. There he met and married Ellen Larson. They soon went down to Ferron Utah and started to learn how to farm. This was new to them because in Denmark, Peter’s dad was a “Woodsman”, a person who protected and took care of the King’s Forrest. Usually this is pasted down from father to son. So farming was new to them. Soon they had orchards where they grew pears and apples. Peter’s wife Ellen was an excellent seamstress. She made clothes for royalty in Denmark before she came to Utah. Peter also was a teacher in his church for many years. I have this plate that came from Denmark and is very special to me because of what my grandparents mean to me. I also have some pictures that you might want to look at that were taken back in the 1800’s and 1900’s.