Sister to Martha Lindholm Johanna Lindholm Haderlie Freedom, Bingham, Idaho 8 July 1891 – 3 Jan 1972 Idaho Falls, Idaho (Freedom Idaho Cemetery)

Father: Franklin Lindholm Mother: Agnes Stewart Smith Husband: Luther Herman Haderlie Children: Infant Son born 17 Jul 1916 – died 18 Jul 1916 Byron Frank Austin “L” Vera (Paul Allred) Lila (Dee R.Burton) Carol (Lynn Welch) Kermit L.

I was born at Freedom, Bingham, Idaho (Wyoming) on 8 July 1891, to my parents Franklin and Agnes Stewart Lindholm, in a two room log house, with a dirt roof, a typical pioneer cabin. I am the fifth child of a family of seven. My parents were both born and raised in Tooele City Utah, of pioneer parents.

My mother was first married to Heber Anderson Smith on 17 Dec 1880 at Tooele, Utah. To this union was born three children; Agnes Smith, 28 Jan 1882, Heber Ross Smith, 11 Aug 1883, and Clara Smith, 3 Dec 1884.

In May 1884, Mother's husband, Heber A. Smith became very ill and passed away. On 30 May 1884, and with very little of this world's goods, it became necessary for Mother to take into her home such work as washing, ironing and sewing to feed and clothe her small children. She often went out to do housecleaning such as, white washing walls and ceilings in homes. She was also an excellent cook and often went out to do cooking for harvesting groups and at shearing time, cooked for large groups of working men.

Franklin Lindholm, then a young man living in the same town, often saw her out chopping her wood in the evening. He used to stop by and offer to lend a hand, as he understood full well the hardships a widow has with a family of small children, as his own mother was left a widow when he was only eleven years of age. He was the next to the oldest and there were five younger in the family.

Through these friendly contacts blossomed, first a friendship and mutual understanding, which later developed into love for each other. They were married on 10 Oct 1888 at Tooele, Utah.

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To this union were born four children, Martha Lindholm, 19 July 1889; Johanna Lindholm, 8 July 1891; Thecla Lindholm, 11 September 1893 and Franklin Jr. Lindholm, 19 Oct 1895.

My father owned a small dry farm in Tooele, but had an ambition to go some place where he could engage in raising cattle. So accordingly, he went out early in the spring of 1889, along with the Lee brothers and some others, to look for a place that was more suited to raising cattle. In their journey, they came into Star Valley, which had a few settlers in it. They seemed well pleased with the valley as it had an abundance of timber on the nearby hills and many clear, sparkling streams running down into the fertile valleys. The streams had an abundance of trout and the nearby hills were well stocked with game, such as deer, elk and a few buffalo. They journeyed down through the valley following the Salt River. The Lee brothers staked off claims on the east side of the river and my father and a man named Josh Brower crossed to the west side of the valley, and staked off claims near the creek, which was later known as "Jack knife" Creek.

My father returned to Tooele early in July in time to welcome his first daughter Martha into the world. By the time Martha was two months old, my parents had sold their dry farm and their home, and had purchased two good teams, a pony, a wagon, flour and provisions they thought would last a year. They took about all the rest of their money and bought cattle with it to take to their new home.

About 15 Sept 1889, all was in readiness for the journey as they had packed all their bedding, clothes, flour and provisions. They took their stove, dishes and household items into a covered wagon. They then tucked the three small children, with the baby in a large clothesbasket, which was fastened to the back of the spring seat. Mother climbed up into their wagon and took the lines to drive the team while father got on the pony and gathered up the cattle to drive along. Thus, they waved goodbye to their mothers, kinfolk and all their friends as they embarked on their journey to their new home.

They traveled over pioneer roads that were almost impassable, and at night they would camp and milk the gentle cow to furnish milk for the children. Sometimes Ross, who was just past six years old, would ride the pony and urge the animals along to give Mother a rest from driving the team. They were thirty days making the journey to their new home, the distance we now travel comfortably in five hours by automobile.

Johanna Lindholm Haderlie - 2 As they approached their destination, they realized winter would soon set in at the higher elevations and my father was concerned about securing feed for his animals. He learned from isolated settlers and trappers that there would be no hay available in Star Valley, and that he'd better try and get hay at Grays Lake where they usually had been cutting an abundance of wild hay. Father found a man there who was willing to take the animals and feed them until spring. He estimated that he had plenty of hay to feed the twenty-five head of cattle and two horses and bring them through in good shape. So father paid him for the hay and left the cattle there with him. The family then traveled on a distance of about fifty miles to the little pioneer settlement known as Freedom and there they secured a house to live in for the winter. The house was known as the Limberg Place. They bought hay for the family cow and the team. Father then began securing wood from the nearby canyons to keep the family warm during the winter. Winter set in real early that year and it was a very long and severe one. It was referred to for many years as the "hard winter".

It's almost needless to say, but there was a shortage of feed for all the animals in the valley that winter, but father and mother felt confident that the bulk of their livestock were where they would have enough to eat. They didn't complain when they had to take the hay out of their bed ticks to feed the cow so she would continue giving milk for the children. When all of that was gone, father got her moved up on top of a high hill, which had a long south slope, and as the snow would melt, she'd find dry feed. Father would go up the hill twice a day, on skis, with a small pail to milk the cow and divide the milk with two other families who also had small children.

The mail only reached the Valley from outlying districts once a month and at that time was brought in by horseback. So spring really had come, when they received a letter from the man who had been feeding their cattle. The letter stated that owing to the winter being so much more severe than he expected, he had run entirely out of hay and the snow was still so deep when it had happened, that it had been impossible to move the animals and they had all starved to death. Thus ended the first winter.

During the next summer, my father worked at whatever work he could get to do to earn enough money to buy flour, food and clothing for the next winter. He used to work all day, from early morning until night, and furnish his own dinner and receive one dollar per day. At odd times, he was able to build the two-room log house, with the dirt roof, in which I was born.

I was the first child of the family to be born in Star Valley (up Jackknife on

Johanna Lindholm Haderlie - 3 the Idaho side). There were no doctors available in the valley at that time, but as was the custom in pioneer settlements, a neighbor lady came to assist at the birth of babies and also to help in cases of death. A lady by the name of Mrs. Eggleston was in attendance at my birth.

My parents were members of the Freedom Ward, of the Star Valley Stake, which was organized as a Ward of the Church, on 17 June 1891 with Bishop Arthur B. Clark as the first Bishop.

Freedom is the community in Star Valley that has the Wyoming and Idaho State line running through the center of the community. The Post Office is in Wyoming as is the church house. My father's ranch was located on the west side of the community; hence, our home was in Idaho. I started school in the autumn of 1906 at 5½ years of age, in a little one room; log schoolhouse at what was then known as Ulet, Wyoming.

We traveled to school, a distance of 2½ miles on horseback. The following year, I again enrolled in the Ulet, Wyoming school, but within a month, we were informed that other families had moved into the community on the Wyoming side with children who were school age, therefore, we children in Idaho were requested not to come back to school anymore as there would not be room for all.

My father, along with other neighbors living on the Idaho side of the community, worked untiringly to have a school district established in Idaho. After five years of work, the Glen, Idaho School District was established.

Although I had studied at home under the supervision of my mother, I was obliged to begin school again in the second grade where I’d left off. I managed to graduate from the elementary grades of Idaho on 26 March 1908. At that time, there were no institutions of higher learning within hundreds of miles of where we lived, therefore, that was the end of my school days. Although my school days were ended, that didn't prevent me from reading and studying to try to improve my life and increase my knowledge.

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Blessed - September 3, 1891 by Sylvester Lowe Baptized - July 8, 1900 by Solon Barber in a large pond on my father's ranch Confirmed - July 9, 1900 by Bishop Aaron F. Bracken 1896 October 6 - Started school at Ulet, Wyoming. 1897 November 15 - Refused us continuing in the Wyoming School because our home was in Idaho.

Johanna Lindholm Haderlie - 4 1902 October 2 - Commenced school in Glen, Idaho.

Married - September 15, 1915 to Luther Herman Haderlie in the Salt Lake Temple by Adolph Madson. Endowed and sealed on the same day.

Departed for our mission - November 15, 1945 to the Southern California Mission Returned from mission - May 6, 1946

1907 June 17 - Sustained as secretary of Branch Sunday School of Freedom Ward. 1908 May 11 - Graduated from elementary school at Glen, Idaho 1912 July - Released from the office of Sunday School Secretary. 1915 Sept 15 - Married in the Salt Lake Temple 1916 January - Sustained as Relief Society Visiting Teacher 1929 August 8 - I was given a blessing by Apostle Melvin J. Ballard, an unusual blessing Which I lived to see fulfilled. 1932 September 11 - Released as Visiting Teacher and sustained as First Counselor to President Annis Jenkins of the Freedom Ward Relief Society 1935 November 10 - Released from the Relief Society Presidency because of illness. 1937 January - Sustained as visiting teacher and teacher supervisor of Freedom Relief Society. 1942 June 18 - Sustained as Sunday School Teacher in senior department (boys and girls 16-17) 1945 September 15 - Spent our wedding anniversary in touring the Idaho Falls Temple, Prior to the dedication. 1945 September 20 - Received a call to the mission field to accompany my husband on a Short-term mission. 1945 September 23 - Released from Freedom Relief Society and Sunday school Office. 1945 November 4 - Entered Mission Home for missionary course. 1945 November 14 - Set apart as a missionary by Joseph F. Merrill. 1945 November 15 - Left Salt Lake for Southern California Mission. 1945 November 18 - Arrived at field of labor, Wickenburg, Arizona 1946 May 2 - Released from Southern California Mission 1946 May 7 - Arrived home from mission 1946 May 12 - Reported mission activities at Freedom, Wyoming. 1946 May 26 - Reported mission activities at Stake Conference at Afton, Wyoming. 1946 July 14 - Sustained as Genealogical teacher in Freedom Ward (Sunday school) 1948 September – Sustained as Speech Director of YLMIA. 1949 June - Released from YLMIA. 1949 October - Released from Sunday school Teacher. 1951 January - Sustained as Relief Society visiting teacher. 1952 December - Released from Relief Society visiting teacher on account of leaving the Ward for the winter - on account of my husband's health. 1952-53 - the winter was spent in Salt Lake City working in the Temple. I did 125 Endowments. 1953 March - had my first airplane ride over Salt Lake Valley, Kermit was the pilot. 1954 February 7 - Sustained as Seagull teacher in Primary.

Johanna Lindholm Haderlie - 5 1955 June - Released from Primary after graduating 1955 Seagull class of 13 girls. My Plans were to return to Salt Lake for the winter. 1955 December 1 - Went to Salt Lake and rented an apartment at the Kimball apartments for the winter to work in the Temple. 1956 March 11 - Attended the dedication of Los Angeles Temple. 1957 Jan 4 - Left home to spend the winter in Mesa, Arizona 1958 Jan 7 - Left home to spend the winter again in Mesa, Arizona to work in the Temple.

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Johanna Haderlie Dies in Idaho Johanna Lindholm Haderlie, 80, a resident of Freedom for many years who made her home in Mesa, Ariz. during winter months, died Monday, Jan. 3, 1972 in an Idaho Falls hospital after a long illness. In recent months she had been staying at the homes of her daughters in Brigham city, Utah, Smoot and Idaho Falls, during her serious illness, when she became an invalid. Funeral services will be conducted Friday, Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. by Bp. Dee J. Hokanson, in the Freedom Ward LDS Chapel. Friends may call at the Schwab Mortuary in Afton Thursday evening from 7 to 9 p.m. or at the chapel Relief Society room in Freedom Friday morning from 11 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Burial will be in the Freedom Cemetery. She was born July 8, 1891 at Glen, Idaho, to Franklin and Agnes Stewart Lindholm. She spent her youth there and attended the Glen Elementary School. She married Luther H. Haderlie Sept. 15, 1915 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She and her husband homesteaded a ranch on Tincup Creek at Freedom. In 1919, they purchased the ranch and lived there over 40 years. She was very active in the LDS Church, and served as an officer and teacher in Relief Society, as Primary and Sunday School teacher, and was an active genealogist. She was also a member and chapter president of a Daughters of Utah Pioneers camp. Johanna and Luther served a short term mission for the church in Arizona in 1945-46, where they learned to love the warm climate and beauty of the desert, and later made their permanent home in Mesa after their retirement, returning to Freedom to spend the summers, Among her life's pleasures and hobbies, aside from her family and church activities, were fine needlework and flower gardening, as evidenced by her, beautiful home and yard as long as her health permitted. She was an excellent cook and enjoyed the pleasure of preparing delicious foods for her family and friends. She is survived by her husband, Luther, Mesa, Ariz.; one son, Byron, F., Sacramento, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Paul (Vera) Allred, Brigham City, Utah; Mrs. Dee R. (Lila) Burton, Idaho Falls, Idaho; and Mrs. Lynn (Carol Welch, Smoot, Wyo.; 24 grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren; a brother and sister, Franklin Lindholm, Logan, Utah, and Mrs. Arthur (Thecla) Spackman, Freedom, Wyo.; a half sister, Mrs. Idonna Barry, Pocatello, Idaho.; and twohalf brothers, Garth and Grant Lindholm, both Montana. She was preceded in death by her parents, three sons, three sisters and one brother.

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