Albert Jensen and Cora McCullough Jensen

Albert Jensen was the fifth child of John Henry Jensen and Ane Christine Jensen born 12 March 1887.

After Uncle Albert and Aunt Cora were married Albert built a house on the corner of grandfather’s farm across the street from George Kofoeds home. Aunt Cora's parents had died some time before leaving Cora and two sisters Velma and Grace to live with their Uncle Henry McCullough. Because of the loss of her parents and not too good of care from her uncle, Cora became discouraged and resentful of her uncle.

Albert and Cora lived north of Weston for a few years. While they were living there and during the First World War a telegram came to the Weston Depot. That agent called on the telephone and said that Uncle Ted who was in the Army had been wounded. Albert jumped in his model T Ford to go to the depot to get a telegram. While in route he lost one headlight and the spare tire but he did not have time to pick them up. Later Albert and Cora moved to Weston in a home they purchased one block north of the store in Weston.

Albert was a good carpenter and cement finisher he helped build the Fairview and Weston church house and worked on the cement finishing of the cement road between McCammon and Pocatello Idaho.

Uncle Albert used to be a very good baseball player and it was claimed by many who played with him that he could always hit the ball. Albert always worked hard and his greatest fault was that he worked and played too hard as he had a stroke while he was still a young man that left him in poor health for the rest of his life.

As long as Albert was able, he volunteered or helped dig almost every grave dug in the Western Cemetery without charge.

Cora died 28 August 1953.

Albert and Cora had three sons and a daughter;

            Henry Clyde Jensen born 18 September 1915

                        married Marguerite Jantokovich 17 June 1949

            Allen Hyrum Jensen born 23 April 1918, died 25 August 1962

                        married Bessie Avona Workman 1 September 1943 later divorced

            Ted James Jensen born 24 July 1923

                        married Francis Smith 22 January 1945

            daughter, stillborn

During the war Albert and Cora had all three of their boys in the armed services at the same time. Clyde was in the battle of the bulge and that invasion of Normandy. Allen was in the Coast Guard on the West Coast. Ted was in the Navy on the WASP battleship at the time it was destroyed.

After the war Allen went to work as a logger in the timber in Oregon. As a boy he liked to chop wood and tell tall tales of the many wild animals that he killed. After the war Clyde worked in Tooele Utah in the smelter and later went to work for himself building homes for resale. Ted was skilled in watch repair. Later he went to work in Seattle for Boeing aircraft Company.

Albert lived alone in his home in Weston. He took care of Allen during his sickness and prior to his death in 1962. In 1969 Albert went to Seattle to live with Ted and Francis where he has been ever since. On 12 March 1974 Albert will be 87 years old.

Albert passed away 16 March 1974 in Seattle Washington. His funeral was held 20 March 1974 in Weston Idaho. Burial in the Weston Cemetery, Weston Idaho.