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AUTOBIOGRAPHY WILHELMINA FREDRICA GUTKE: I was born the 29th of February 1868 in Elfbor Sweden. My father was Johannes Gutke and my mother Johanna Fredrica Mark Gutke. The house where I was born was owned by my father, and was called Johannesberg after him. neat. The little home was clean and the copier kettles all shinhundred crowns, which mother used to send some of her children to Utah when they were old enough. We moved to another place where father found work near by, but he was always thinkin of getting closer to the sea shore so when enough money was made he would be ready to take the boat.
At this place there were a few more L.D.S. families. we used to walk for miles to get to church.

I well remember the bi, fire .lace

ing bright by the big fire place.

Also the big oven where mother baked

The , made a lare hole in

I remember

the bread, large thin cakes made from rye. and crisp and covered with a cloth. times not so often. ex.ensive in Sweden. The first I remember of father We had ver

I was carried part of

the middle of this bread so it cou d be hung on a long pole to keep dry We baked only once a month, somelittle wheat bread as wheat was ver he came home from a trip, mother He, father ave me a ba of One day some They told

the wa . going.

There would onl

be two other families but we did en'o

Sometimes they held their meetings at our house.

Father was a mechanic a d worked at the shi. ards. He also had a blacksmith shop at the home place where he made horse shoes and horse shoe nails which he sold in Norway. I remember well that while father was a way working, mother was taken ver ill with what the called lun fever. Sister Julia

was holding me ( I guess I was the baby). cand ,

Father and mother belonged to the Lutheran Church. people passed through our village on their way to America. father about the Mormons and that the
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was staying home with mother and us children. ing house for father and brother Fred. besides Julia and myself at home. Sofia seven. for father.

Sister Mary was keep-

There were two children I was five

had 'oined that church and were

Brother Oscar was two

- ter wksmorl ..murhAmtprp,stpd, Not long after, Mormons were sent to our house to teach us. Father and mother studied the Bible with them and were convinced that they told the truth, and it was the true church and they were soon baptized
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Mother became so very sick it was necessary to send I don't recollect how man

I was about three at that time

miles we were living. from town but it was a countr district, a long way s from the Postoffice. So sister waited for some one to pass with whom she could get a ride as that would be the uickest wa . neihbors sta perhaps one half mile away The woman that lived said, she would come and

Father often told us what a time they had to get a hole in the ice so he could be baptized. enough. be baptized. Father was not content after that, all he thought of was Three places were cut before the water was deep

with us. The :rocer man came and said he would take sister With him to father, but she couldn't be back before the next morning. Mother said she would-be all right.

A big storm came u. and

if they were friends -- as my parents were shunned by their former frienes who thought Mormons were something to be afraid of. Mother's parents tried to disinherit her and only willed her a fe
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how it did snow we couldn't 10 to the nethbors to tell them we were alone.
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the window watching the big snowflakes

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and deeper. We had forgot the fire to keep it going, Sister Sofia tried and tried to make a fire but no success. It was getting dusk so mother said "come and get in the foot of my bed, and we will all keep warm together, someone will come before night." We drew the little white sash curtains and did as mother asked. It was getting dark when a knock came at the door. voice said "come in" We were afraid. Mother in her weak He

kept sister for four weeks in a little room in the house.

That

was the way they treated the Mormons in Sweden at that time. Our next move was to Gothenburg where father found good work. There was a branch of the church and a number of Saints

and missionaries from Utah in this city, so now we were happy. Gothenburg was headquarters of the Church in Sweden at that time. Here we met many from Utah, Brother Sandburg from Salt Lake City, Brother Hansen from Logan, and Brother I.C. Thorson from Hyrum, Utah. We also met Apostle Snow and his son who were

I remember a man stepped in.

started to explain who he was but mother said, "come in, I know who you are, light the lamp and make a fire. are a servant of the Lord. send you here. to me." said "No
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I am very sick.

I know you

I have been praying all day the Lord would

visiting the Saints in Europe. Before moving to Gothenburg I had studied at home, I will never forget my A B C In the front of the book was a picture of a rooster with a stick in his foot. I had a lesson from it in the morning and one in the afternoon. was my book well. Mother was my teacher. Book.

When the flee is made I want you to come and administer

So he came and asked mother "Sister have you any oil?" Mother but if you will give me a spoon of cold water in the name of

the Lord I know I shall be healed." The prayer was answered. My mother was healed and could have So he stayed a few

After my sleep in the afternoon the first thing I would look for
,

gotten up but the brother told her it was unwise. days with us.

as the rooster would reward me for having my lesson

I shall never forget how happy we were, and mother never

Sometimes I had a look for a long time before I found my

forgot to thank the Lord for his goodness and we children always remembered it. Prayer was never forgotten in our house. I often remember if I

book and in it would often find a cookie or a lump of sugar or a few raisins as a reward. This pleased me very much and if I

had done well all week the rooster would get money from father, as he was paid every Saturday, and in my book I would find twenty-five cents (or Ore) as we called it in Sweden. Ore) study. How I did

had gone to sleep and they hadn't wakened me for prayer I would cry until they knelt and prayed with me. If we children had bad dreams or

were frightened mother would always say "You pray and there is nothing to fear o d
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Then the next year I started school in the Public

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school and did fine so they all s id. I passed my classes and went to a school for girls here

all through my life to know that Our Father hears and answers prayers. We moved to another place , an d wh ile father was a way at work, We were my sister Sophia was taken sick and in January passed away. not allowed to bury sister as we didn't have a certificate from the place where we formerly lived. So until everything was arranged we

we studied the Bible and had to memorize several Rible stories. We also had nature study, geography, arithmetic, sewing, music, and one afternoon a week we had gymnastics. studies in Sweden closed. When I was nine my

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When we went to Gothenburg I had two sisters and a brother older and a brother younger than I. When I was six and Oscar three, and curl h.
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Happy when he received them. After a year at Logan we went to Smithfield where father was a artner with John Sandber. After a ear or so fa her bouh

mother had a little baby girl, with big blue e es hair. How ha. we were. Mother named her C ara

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little sister stayed with us just two years when the Lord took her
back home
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He had -ot e horses and a wagon and went to the canyon with other men and got logs for our front room. How happy we were in our own home. _

three acres of land and started to make a house

My two older sisters and my older brother Fred worked father

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Father soon built his own shop where he did blacksmithin and horse shoeing. machinest. Mother too was very busy these days assisting an one that needed help. Everyone thought her a slendid worker. She would It was said that he was an excellent blacksmith and

After we had been in Gothenburg about two years Julia my

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older sister missionaries

now fourteen

was sent to America with friends and

Some of the money mother had saved from her inheritanc

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was used for her passage hard shi e swhat

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How we did miss Julia, we did not realize a e.had to o throu h in a strane
and were six

take whatever the eggs, or flour.

offered her for working, such as soap, sugar. The people were very kind they would send her

land. In June, 1878, we left Old Sweden for America weeks on the ocean.

pieces for quilts, and wool which she cleaned and carded for quilts. When they learned that

I enjoyed it as there were several young folks z:leStlelpickedopotatoesLpnd fruit on shares. Mother was sick most of the first week.

and children on the ship.

mother could weave she was hired to help the neighbors with their weaving. earnest. and a cow. I was about eleven when I started school in Utah. I had Later she-bought a loom and then the work began in Mother worked early And
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We sailed from Gothenburg on a small boat, first to Denmark then across the North Sea, where we were all sick. and left for America from Liverpool. We arrived in England

carpets and linsey-

All I remember of England was From Liverpool we took From New York it

woolsey for mens clothing.

Soon we had our own _garden, chickens__

the elevated railroad and the large horses. the big ship across the Atlantic to New York. took eight days to arrive in Ogden.

Sister Julia and Mary met us. Here

learned

then to he understood. ***

From Ogden we went to Salt Lake where we stayed a few days.

I got a new dress and myftrst_h_at,_hluewith_Long,Litthons_ancl flowers. I will never forget how happy I was. The girls bought We made some apricots they were so good I ate too many and became very sick.

From Salt Lake we went to Logan here we had friends. our home with Gustaf Tomanson. Logan.
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Father found work in the Foundry in

Soon he applied for his naturalization papers and was very

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MRS. PRICE DIES AT AGE 97

Wilhelmina F. Gutke Price, 97, McCammon, died Sunday at the

home of a daughter in Downey after an illness. Mrs. Price was born Feb 20, 1868 in Rgdanefors, Odeborg, Sweden daughter of Johannes and Johannah F. ?Ark Gutke. When she was nine years old, the family came to the United States and she spent her childhood in Smithfield. Utah. She was married to Alonzo Harmon Price, May 2, 1894, in the Logan Utah LDS temple. Mr Price preceded her in death in October, 1917. Mrs. Price was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. She was a member of the Stake Relief Society board in the Portneuf Stake, a Beehive leader and enjoyed genealogy work. In her youth in Smithfield she was a member of the Glee Club. She enjoyed handiwork and flowers. Surviving are two sons, Harold Harmon Price, Salt Lake City; John Broxen Price. Pocatello; six daughters, Mrs A.L. Oliver and Mrs. G.E. Arnold, Pocatello; Mrs J.M. Hyde and Mrs Gaymond Davis, Downey; Mrs. Walter C. Fleckenstein Rego Park N.Y.; and Mrs R.C. Palfreyman,
Provo, Utah; 27 grandchildren; 63 great-grandchildren;
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and two great

great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 11 A.M. chapel with Bishop Dale Criddle of the Downey Ward officiating.

The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7-9 P.M. at the Manning Funeral Chapel, Pocatello. Burial will be in the Smithfield, Utah Cemetary.