Nels Peter Jensen and Anna Jensen Jensen

Anna was the second child of John Henry Jensen and Ane Christine Jensen, born 5 January 1882. Anna married Nels Peter Jensen in 1902.

208J2 was the number that we had to give the central operator on the telephone when we wanted to talk to Aunt Anna or Uncle Pete. They were one of the first and very few that had a telephone. It seemed that we spent a lot of time at Aunt Anna and Uncle Pete's home. Maybe it was because we always stopped there on the way to and from Fred Fredrickson's place, where father worked helping run the threshing machine.

My early impressions of Pete and Anna were how hard they worked. It seemed that breakfast was always served before sun up. Uncle Pete was a good Farmer and mechanic. He had his own blacksmith shop where he repaired his own machinery. And Anna was always pleasant to be around unless she had one of her violent headaches that generally put her in bed. At one time Myrtle and I were writing on the steamy kitchen windows. And Anna made us write to 100. We had breathe our breath on the window to make it steamy enough to write each number.

I remember one time the family came down to our place and Odell was very proud that the day before he had driven the horses that pulled the plow. Plowing on Uncle Pete's farm was one of the biggest jobs on the farm as most of the ground was summer fallow. Four days during the summer the hired man or owner of the farm would hook four or five horses on a two bottom plow and work all day to plow two acres of ground. In the early fall the ground would be harrowed and drilled into grain that would be harvested the next year. Uncle Pete had his own threshing machine to thresh his own grain and also his neighbors

Uncle Pete sold his farm and loaded his machinery and cattle on seven railroad cars and moved to Rexburg Idaho to farm. He had the cash for his farming in one of his extra high top shoes and a very big revolver or pistol in the other shoe.

Uncle Pete stayed at our home the night before he left Weston. While Uncle Pete was loading his machinery on the railroad car at Weston the operator of the Weston elevator was accidentally killed while in the elevator. Later that day Uncle Pete sent me over to the elevator to borrow a handsaw because all of his were packed. I have always remembered going over to the elevator to get the saw.

After uncle Pete moved to Rexburg Idaho he became owner and operator of his own garage business until the garage was destroyed by fire which was a financial loss to him

Uncle Pete and Aunt Anna had the following children;

            Mina Jensen born 23 February 1905, died 8 March 1957

                        married Ted Williams

            Myrtle Jensen born 20 August 1906

                        married William O Hall

            Odell Jensen born 6 September 1908, died 15 September 1954

            Andrew Jensen born 19 June 1916

                        married Eddis Round

            Larie Jensen born 19 July 1919

                        married Wendell Walhquist

            Renee Jensen born 26 August 1921

                        married Ray Walhquist

            twins Anna Jensen born 19 November 1923, died three hours later

                      Emma Fern Jensen born 19 November 1923, died six weeks later

                        (first twins worn in the Idaho Falls Idaho hospital)