From Rose's "diary" we found references to Grandpa. The first mention of him is dated April 19, 1903, a Sunday, she was at the house of a friend in the evening and was escorted home by "L. Pearson." She would have been 25 years old and was still suffering, no doubt, from the death of her fiancé, George Ellingson, three years earlier. Lennart would have been 30.
The next mention of grandpa is: “Sunday May 3 and 10 went home with Pearson.”
“May 15th 1903 I went to hear Miss Ramsy at Provo with Pearson”
“July 24, 1903 Susie Goates and I went to Salt Lake and met him Pearson at Sandy, we went to Calders Park in the morning * * *."
“August 9th 1903 I went to Provo to the Ringling Brothers Circus with L. E. Pearson.”
“Sunday Sept 1 Mr Pearson and I went to meeting in the 3rd Ward. After meeting he ask me if I would be his wife * * * . I received letters from him all the time."
On Christmas (her birthday) "Mr. Pearson was up for dinner."
Rose notes that she was given a ring as she and grandpa were traveling to "American Fork to the Sugar Company Dance." [Apparently the ring was given to her between Christmas and New Years.]
On New Years day, 1904 "went to West Jordan with Mr. Pearson to see his folks and stayed a few days.”
“Feb 22, Mr. Pearson came down from West Jordan and we went to a dance at 3rd Ward.”
May 30 Len asked Rose's father for consent to marry her.
June 18, 1904 “I quit the store and they gave me a set of dishes.”
"Monday night June 20 I went to West Jordan and stayed with Len’s folks.
"Tuesday 21 we went to Salt Lake got our marriage license and our furniture.
"June 22 Married in the Temple"
Saturday, September 12, 2015
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