Anders Sorensen Frost & Elsie Marie Christensen

(Carl Hulbert's Great, Great Grandparents - Mother's Side)

Anders and Elsie Marie Frost were born in Denmark.  He, a son of Soren Andersen
Frost and Ida Palie Nielsen was born 10 May 1798, in Stovring, Randers.  Elsie Marie
was born 3 June 1807, in Hov Mariager, Randers, to Christen Rasmussen and Mette
Nielsen.  Anders was a house owner and a carpenter in Mariager.  He and Elsie had
seven children; only three of them matured and had families.  When the missionaries
of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints came to their city, the parents
and these three children all joined the church.  Elsie Marie was the first to be
baptized, 23 October 1858, the following month, 20 November, her husband Anders, her
daughter, Anna Marie, and son Jens Christian were also baptized.  The remaining
daughter, Maren, with her husband, Jens Petersen, were baptized the following
February 3rd.

Anna Marie came to America in 1859 with a company of Saints led by Jens Larsen Lund,
a missionary, and married him that year, settling in Mount Pleasant, Utah.  Three
years later, the parents with Maren and Jens and their four children, sailed on the
ship "Benjamin Franklin" for American to join the Saints there.  Jens Christian and
the girl he was engaged to marry, Johanna Marie Andersen, were also on board and
were married by the captain a week after sailing.  While sailing there was
considerable trouble caused by the lack of wind to sail their ship.  Many became
ill, some with measles.  One of the children of Jens and Maren was one of several
children that died and were buried in the ocean. After many weeks they arrived in
New York 29 May.  Their travel across the continent had numerous hardships including
the death of another of Maren's children who was buried at Florence, Nebraska.  In
Omaha, Nebraska, they visited with Anna Marie and family who had not left Utah.
They had been disappointed in some of the Saints; especially those whom Jens had
financed passage to America and then hadn't acknowledged their debt.  The arguments
to stay with them instead of going to the Salt Lake Valley were heard but the
travelers knew they should go on to be with the rest of the Saints.  After several
years, the Lund family came back go Utah, settling in Ephraim.

On the 5th of October, the party arrived in Utah.  Jens and Maren located in Lehi,
but the Frosts went on to Ephraim.  There they made their home and resided until
they died.  Their son, Jens Christian, also lived there.  Jens took two plural wives,
Mette Marie Mortensen and Sine Petersen.  He was also a carpenter and became
a reliable business man.

They settled in the northwest section of this pleasant little city in a little
two-room house.  The furnishing here were very meager.  There was a fireplace for
cooking, a broom made of willows tied to a long stick, and two little wreathes which
were made of scraping the horn of an ox until the white shaving-like ends were curl.  A little red coloring was added and the appearance of roses was achieved.  These
were hung on the east wall.  Their home boasted a floor made of adobe, placed close
together.  When these were old, they became very rough and bumpy, and hard to walk
on.  Their bed was a four-poster made of wood with two large white pillows taped at
one end to keep them from falling out.

A little irrigation ditch meandered in front of the house, and a foot path of flat
stones led to its edge.  Green grass grew on each side of the path which made it
look neat and nice.  There was also a duck pond.

Anders did his work in an outside cellar.  He was an excellent carpenter and enjoyed
a fine reputation as a cabinet maker.  Next to the cellar where grandfather did his
work was a bake oven.  Frequently there would be delicious baked duck, and
occasionally, they would dry the duck meat and use this delicacy in sandwiches.
Apple rings and many things were treats here.

They had a garden lot and a five-acre piece just north of town.  They raised wheat
and Grandmother gleaned every head of it and carried it home for threshing.  This
wheat was threshed in the loft in one of two barns built by Grandfather.  It was
done with a flail and the chaff was separated from the grain by throwing it from one
side to the other in the wind.

All livestock was kept under cover.  They had two oxen and one red cow.  One day
they were much alarmed to hear the drums beat and the sound of much excitement.  
They were much perturbed when they were told that the Indians had stolen the cow
herd.  Grandmother cried in real alarm "Oh, my poor red cow."  It is well to note
that although many lost all theirs, Grandmother's red cow came home safely.  Indian
alerts were not uncommon in Ephraim and in 1865, three years after the Frosts came
there, there was a terrible massacre where most all the people that were in their
fields were killed.  Indians continued to be a threat for some years.

After a time, they built a five-room house of brick, and even had it papered.  It
was a beautiful home for those days, and their cellar was noted for the bounteous
amount of good things to eat it contained.  It was always full of smoked ham,
sausage, chipped beef, beer, and any number of good things.

Grandfather was a tall, stately man.  Grandmother was a plump, fine looking woman.
She was a good cook and could fix all kinds of meats, cheese, and butter.  She made
lovely clothes.  They were very hospitable to their friends and neighbors.

Grandfather died of blood poisoning.  He had a sore on his big toe and infection set
in and killed him.  Grandmother died a few years later.  She was chopping wood and
the ax handle flew up and struck her side causing a rupture.  She suffered very much
for ten days and then passed away.

Sources:

l.    Family groups of each child.

2.    Life sketches by Josephine Frost Jorgensen and Andrew Larsen.

3.    History of Scandinavian Mission, p 162-164.

4.    Danish census and parish register records.

5.    Probate records of Sanpete County.

6.    Diary of John Bushman.

7.    Research by Thelma J. Hansen.

We have two references for a date for the death of Anders:

1.    In a diary of John Bushman (who married a granddaughter, Mary Ann Petersen) he
records on 30 April 1878, that when they arrived in Ephraim, her grandfather had
died ten days before - making it 20 April.

2.    16 February 1880, his son, Jens Christian, was granted administrative power to
settle his father's estate.  In the court record, it was stated that Anders S. Frost
had died ____March 1878

We can safely conclude from these two references that he died in February or March
1878.

As to the death date of Elsie Marie we have nothing unless the date that has been
given as that of Anders' death 22 July 1883 (and a date we now know not to be
correct) would actually be hers.  There is nothing in the sexton or cemetery records
to fix these dates.

(Note of the compiler)

Compiled by Mary W. Carroll, 1972-1973

The Origin of the Frost Family Name
As searched by Annie Frost Otte

During the wars between Denmark and Sweden, some things took place which were often
left out of history, and very often forgotten.

In one of those troubling times, the Swedes had landed on the Island of Sjolund,
north of Kobenhaven and had come so near to that city that only the moat was between
the enemy and the inhabitants.  There was a moat found around a big town or city as
important and Kobenhaven.

It was in the months of December and January and the ice often between six to twenty
inches thick in one night and so would make a chance for the enemy to walk across
the moat and enter the city.  On such a dangerous place was a Commoner, a "soldier",
on duty to do his best to hold the water open so that no one could get across.

One morning, the King himself came along to see how well the men did their duty.  He
asked a man by name of Anders Peter, "How goes it?"  The answer was, "Fine.  I shall
keep this water open until hell freezes over!"  The King patted him on the back,
drew his saber, laid it on his shoulder and said "From today your name is not Anders
Peter, but Anders Peter Frost.  And he was given a skjold mark of a tree with a
thick layer of frost on its limbs.

This event took place in December 1467 and January 1468.