Tuesday, July 5, 2011
A 2nd cousin some of you might remember... Valerie Walkenhorst? or her mom Rhea LaVon Hess?
This would be Val
(Walkenhorst) Broadbent as I know her today with her Husband Kent - who is Dave's 1st Cousin & they live here in Green River with us (so yes, a double relation for Steve Lake & Julie (Lake) Young TOO!): After our recent 5k race we had gone to China Garden for dinner afterwards & Val & Kent sat at our en
WELL - LOW & BEHOLD - her mother - Rhea Lavon (Hess) Walkenhorst & Grandpa Blain are cousins!! 1st Cousins!!! (How wild is that!) So her Grandma - Rhea Mae (Udy) Hess & my/our
So I got to meet her mom - Rhea LaVon (Hess) Walkenhorst- we talked about some of
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Check in over at Facebook.com
I know many of you have flocked to Facebook.com already - it is a reunion happening online!!! If you haven't yet... feel free to join us!!
There is a "group" called A Welling World where Wellings from all over are gathering. I can't believe it, as I visit with many of them... a good chunk of them live anywhere from Farmington, Bountiful, down to the Provo/Orem area & they are from the same wife "Marietta" of Job that we all come from!
Are many of you aware of the Job Welling family organization? I wasn't ... until I discovered a wonderful friends of mine, Sarah Bell, was/is also a direct 4th cousin (from another mother (wife) - that sounds funny :) of ours living right here in Green River & we were serving in cub scouts together (funny story) & oh... the doors were opened.
She found out info. from her mother & started sending out letters, etc. about this organization & she included me in this. It resulted in us finding out about a Super neat CD/DVD they have put together that includes many exerpts of the original blue Job Welling book that many of us are familiar with. On the CD there are many new Pictures, documents, records, copies of Job's Mission journal & even a newly (as of 2003) updated copy of the descendants & a PAF file to be able to rummage through & discover each other!!
If you would like more information on getting a copy for your family e-mail me @ jeanna1516@gmail.com (so that their info. isn't posted publicly) & I will get you that information.
Some of these great photos are on the CD:
This is a picture of our Great Grandpa Karl's family, his Father: Joseph Harriman Welling & Mother: Effie Irene Richards:
A page from the family bible
How wonderful family is!! Hope you are all doing well! Much love ~ Jeanna Welling Young
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Memories & History of Karl & Effie Welling
Don Welling (son) at the
Karl & Effie Welling Family Reunion in Huntsville, UT ~ Stake Bowery on June 14th, 2008.
Effie Udy Welling was the ninth child in her family and had just turned 15 when her father died. He father was Thomas James Udy, her mother was Rowane Moon. They were both born in Farmington, UT.
After they were married and had two children Grandpa Udy decided it was time to get something of his own. So he quit working at his Father’s blacksmith shop and moved to Bear River Valley or as it was called “Poverty Flat.” They homesteaded 160 acres of government land with no improvements and covered with sagebrush. Grandpa Udy came from Farmington with Grandma in a wagon. He came with two horses, a walking plow, a few tools, a wife and two sons and $80.00. He went to the West hills and cut logs and built a one room log cabin. He dug a well 60 feet deep but the water wasn’t good to drink. It was warm and salty. The used it for washing, scrubbing . The horse would drink it. They hauled water from a neighbor homesteader two miles away. Their first crop didn’t amount to much because of drought and grasshoppers. Grandpa Udy work at anything he could fin for $1.00 per day.
The first five children, Tommy, Eddie, Rowane, Henry and Horace were all born in Farmington when they lived in the winter. The last five were born in Plymouth. Mable, Abbie, Austin, herself (Effie) and Rhea. Her dad built a lean to on one room and made large bedroom shanty in front for washing.
My mother was a hard worker and very thrift. She never wasted any thing. “Waste not want not,” she would tell us. She was kind and generous and always was willing to share and feed anyone that would come to our home. She taught her self to play the piano. She was an excellent seamstress which she used in making many of our clothes.
Karl G Welling was born January 30, 1901, on a farm West of Riverside, UT, to Joseph Harriman Welling and Effie Richards Welling. He was the third member of his family and had two older brothers. So he was expected to stay in the house and hlep his mother and tend his younger brothers and sisters. He said this gave him an inferiority complex and he learned to live alone.
When he was 11 months old his dad was called on a two year mission to the eastern states. In 1910, almost 300 people went to the road west of town to see their first automobile. When his two older brothers were old enough for high school his folks rented a home in Brigham City and moved there. Karl stayed on the farm all winter.
He played center in the High School football team the first year high school had football. Karl was elected student body president his Senior year and graduated in 1919.
He wanted to join the Army but was too young in 1917. When his older brother Tracy enlisted.
In 1921 Karl became engaged to Effie Udy. After they had dated for about two years they were married on October 12, 1921, in the Logan Temple. Four children were born to this hard working couple. Blain in 1922, Jack in 1926, and Don in 1929, and RaNae in 1935.
I have history that tells of their troubles trying to buy a farm, of being burned out twice, and crops being hailed out. Dad was a tall hard working man 5'2", 225 lbs, and worked at several jobs to keep his family fed and clothed. He was tall and strong. He was a strict disciplinarian but alway fair and honest. He taught us to alway tell the truth and he would way to us, “Kids always tell the truth and then you won’t have to remember what you have said.” He would say, “Look at me when you tell me something because I can tell you your eyes if you are telling the truth or lying.”
He had a strong testimony of the gospel and learned early in life the power of the priesthood.
Karl had a unique ability to express himself and always loved to read until his eyesight began to fail. He was well educated. He learned to be an especially good finish carpenter. Every thing he did he did well. He was a hard worker but he also enjoyed many pleasures in life. He was a good fisherman and enjoyed outdoor activities. He said. “ when you work, work hard and when you play, play hard, but don’t mix the two together. With Dad we got out of debt, and never went hungry or naked. We were taught to work, a real treasure.
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When Job Wellings of Audlem, Cheshire, England was baptized and became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1852, he was 19 years old. He was forced by his family to choose between home and his new “Mormonism.” He stood alone, and said that since he would be in the singular henceforth, he dropped this “s” from the last name...thus our last name of Welling. He was 6 ft tall, auburn hair, and had a rich baritone singing voice. We have this fine grandparent to thank for an honorable name and ancestry, for he was a pioneer, a tailor, and a missionary. He was husband to four wives and father to twenty eight children. He helped to settle, and is buried in Farmington, Utah. His history is worth reading and his grave site worth visiting. (Click on photo to enlarge.)
His son, my grandfather, Joseph Harriman Welling, was know as Harry. He was also tall and handsome. His mother was Marietta Holmes. He came North from Farmington, UT, to help settle the area, and lived in the town now know as Riverside, Ut. He married Effie Irene Richards,, granddaughter of Willard Richards. They carried on the Welling tradition of strong membership in the Church. He served as Bishop and they both served the Lord holding many leadership positions. They raised their family of nine children with hard work and discipline, along with daily family prayer and love.
Their son, my father, Karl “G” Welling was the third child born in his family. He resented having a little curl to his hair, being called Karlie, and having to stay in quite a bit to help his mother as a youngster. I think this had a lot to do with him working all of his younger days to keeps his thick dark hair under a skull cap as he slept to help to make it look straight, and for his acquiring the ability to be a man’s man. He was tall, 6'2”, dark and handsome weighing an average of 225 lbs, most of his grown up life. He was not fat, just big and strong. He was a gentleman, intelligent, and an avid reader, a very capable leader, an excellent conversationalist, as he was well versed on every subject. He was fair, had a great sense of humor, was fun and firm in his beliefs. He like to fish and to hunt. He was wise and loving. He was a good farmer and a carpenter of the finest finishing ability. He also made my life full of memories because he loved nature, good music, and good poetry and writings. He was a scriptorian, so he taught these loves to me. He married my mother Effie Udy, in 1921. She was 5'2", eyes of blue, and the prettiest girl in the valley. Dad called her “Prin.”, short for princess. They made a handsome couple as they were married and sealed for the eternities that 12th of October, in the Logan Temple. Their years together were not always very easy. They shared a lot of love, happiness, and good times, but they also struggled through some bad times of having their home burn to the ground, losing almost everything they had owned, the death of parents and of loved ones, sicknesses and the burdens of trying to buy farmland, a home, and raise children despite of crop failures and the great financial depression that oppressed America at that time.
Mother said that they never went hungry. Dad said that this was because Mother never did waste anything and that she had a knack of making a wonderful meal out of practically nothing. This was true. She was an excellent cook.
They worked hard at farming and living. Whenever it was canning time, Mother made and bottled all kinds of fruit, pickles, jams, jellies and vegetables. Dad always took time out of his busy life to help her or see that she had some help when needed at canning season or if she was sick. I have watched dad cut and pit the peaches. Mother could peel them almost faster than anyone could cut and pit.
The food she fixed was beautiful as well as delicious. When we were kids at home she baked home made bread and home made cakes every day. They always had a big garden so we always had delicious, fresh vegetables and we all still love to eat them. They both believed in taking care of what they had and each Spring brought in scrubbing everything and painting too; “Painting preserves the wood.” The farm, house, machinery, harnesses and equipment of all kinds were well kept, and oiled and in good repair. They both liked to squirrel hunt. Mother was a crack shot too. They had good close friends and their families who came to spend winter evenings playing games, eating, etc. They like little vacations to “see the ocean.” They like to fish and tour Yellowstone Park and go to Logan Canyon to catch enough fish for breakfast.
They held fine parties in their home for friends, or various church groups. They were patriots...we always flew the American flag on holidays and we celebrated the 4th of July with home make ice cream and fireworks. We honored our dead on Memorial Day. We had fun and sacred Christmas’s, winter sledding and ice skating and ball games and horse riding. We work hard as a family, were well disciplined with firmness and had a lot of fun and love.
During the years and times of their illnesses they read the scriptures together. These parents also carried on the family traditions of activity in building the Kingdom of God here on earth. They served to extra ordinary fullness as Presidents, counselors, teachers and on committees in all of the Church organizations.
Karl “G”, was named after Karl G Maser, founder of Brigham Young University, and Effie Udy, after just a little over one year of marriage were, through no fault of their own, $1000.00, in debt, had one little boy and no home.
When they died they owned their home, were out of debt, owning some farmland and were able to leave an inheritance for each child and grandchild. Topmost in this is their testimony that Jesus Christ in real. God is our Eternal Father and they love us. That through them and the guiding spirit of the Holy Ghost, we have the opportunity to experience every joy here in this life and through the Eternities. (Quote from January 1978)
Written in 1991 by Don Welling - the 3rd Son of Karl and Effie Welling
The reunion was great!! It was so neat to see you all!! Thank-you Calvin & Curtis!!
Here are 145+ pictures I took of those who attended. (I hope I got at least 1 picture of everyone!! If I missed someone - I apologize!!)
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