John H. and Clara (Wahlen) Hendricks
John H. Hendricks, son of
Joseph S. and Lucinda (Bess) Hendricks was born 29 Sept. 1873 Richmond, Utah.
He came to Idaho when a boy of 16. He
met Clara Wahlen at Nelson Dairy where she was working, it was at Black Springs, what is now called the Fish Hatchery. She was born 13 March 1876 at Bern
Switzerland, daughter of Karl and Anna Barber (Ashbacker) Wahlen.
They were married when she was nineteen and he 21 at
Marysville 1 April 1895 by Thomas E. Gooch, the first couple married at
Marysville. In October of that year they
went by wagon and team to Logan there had their Endowment and were sealed 16
October 1895 in the Logan Temple. They
were four days on the way camping, the first night at Blackfood, 2nd
at Portneuf Canyon, then at Lewiston.
This was right after an Indian uprising and some white men had been
killed a few days before and the Indians were on the prowl at night, they could
hear them yelling and riding around both nights. Clara said she was nearly frightened to
death. They came back to Marysville
where they made their home all their married life except for a period of nine
years when they moved to Mt. Glen, Oregon.
There were only about nine or ten families living in
Marysville when they went there. Father
and his brothers worked at the sawmill at Warm River and hauled lumber to St.
Anthony for about fifteen years. We
helped make the Marysville canal. Clara
took the children and moved up in the timber with him. They were three years making the canal.
He homesteaded the Big Falls up about Bear Gulch, which
he later sold. He always liked to fish
and hunt and live in the hills. He was a
stage couch driver in the Yellowstone Park eleven summers. He likes music and dancing.
Clara was very active in Church work. She worked in primary and Relief Society, and
in genealogical work. She was a good
neighbor, in very deed, was always the first to be there when help was needed. I guess she attended over a hundred births,
acting as nurse or midwife many times without the help of a doctor. She is the mother of nine children,
thirty-six grandchildren, and six great grand children. She died quite suddenly and quietly, 20 November
1942.
They were great pioneers, joining in with all civic
projects like building the Ward House and other community projects.
Veda
Hendricks Kidd
Clara Wahlen Hendricks
Clara Wahlen Hendricks was born in Bern Switzerland and
was about 17 or 18 months old when she came with her parents to America. They came straight to Utah as they and
previously sent four of their sons over with the Elders, one of whom was Karl
G. Maeser.
Her parents were very poor, her father obtained work in a
sawmill in Paradise, Utah. Then they
moved to Logan where he worked in a Taylor shop and in the Temple. When Clara was about 8 years old they went to
Rexburg, Idaho with the early pioneers who first settled there. There she grew up working at whatever she
could get to do, washing dishes at the Hotel, doing housework in the homes, and
went to the school at Ricks Academy where it was first established. Her parents were still paying for their fare
over the ocean, so they all worked and saved to help. The mother made yeast for the town, did
washings and sewing with Clara and her sister helping. Clara had two sisters Fronica, who was named
for the ship on which they sailed, and Annie who died of scarlet fever when she
was 6 or 7 years old. They lived the
gospel for which they left their native land, and always paid an honest
tithing.
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