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ANDERSEN, Fay Emanuel
1894 - 1970 (76 years) 
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Name ANDERSEN, Fay Emanuel Birth 10 Jul 1894 Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States 
Christening 6 Sep 1894 Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States Gender Male WAC 5 Nov 1914 SGEOR _TAG Reviewed on FS Death 21 Dec 1970 Saint George, Washington, Utah, United States Burial 23 Dec 1970 Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I21077 Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Last Modified 19 Aug 2021
Father ANDERSON, James Peter , b. 28 Nov 1855, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United Statesd. 15 Sep 1946, Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States (Age 90 years) Mother CROWTHER, Elizabeth , b. 15 Aug 1858, Payson, Utah, Utah, United States Payson, Utah, Utah, United Statesd. 19 Jan 1937, Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States (Age 78 years) Marriage 31 Oct 1875 Moroni, Sanpete, Utah, United States Family ID F10679 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family HANNIG, Carrie Solinda , b. 10 Nov 1896, Logandale, Clark, Nevada, United States Logandale, Clark, Nevada, United Statesd. 30 May 1988, Overton, Clark, Nevada, United States (Age 91 years) Marriage 3 Aug 1914 Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States Notes - MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada. ~SEALING_TO_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 18 Dec 1997, BOISE.
Children4 sons Family ID F11431 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Fay Emanuel, Son of James Peter Andersen and Elizabeth Crowther was born in a little town in Utah known as Fountain Green. He was the eighth child in a family of twelve children. His father owned a farm just five miles from Fountain Green known as Water Hollow. When he was four years old, he had typhoid fever and lay at deaths door for many days. His grandmother Crowther nursed and watched over him until he was well again. The family spent the spring, summer and fall in Water Hollow. Fay said about family life, “We would go on picnics. Not very often, but we go down the canyon a little ways and have a watercress picnic. We also had chokecherries and serviceberries. We would go in the fall and hunt those. We had red currants and gooseberries on the farm that we would go out and pick. The red currants we used to put cream on them… that was the real stuff.”
In the winter came they would move to town where the children could attend school. They had a herd of sheep and Fay spent much of his time as a little lad herding them in the hills near the farm. When he was 11 & 12 he worked in the shearing corrals. He would carry the sheared fleece to where it was sacked.
He was small for his age and even in manhood was small in stature and weight around 150 pounds and five feet and five inches in height. He had brown eyes and hair and a quick fiery temper. Always saying what he thought regardless of and to who or where, yet he was meek and unassuming in nature.
Because of a serious illness, Fay’s father moved his family to a warmer climate in Nevada. They landed in Moapa Valley August 1908. They hired two railroad cars and moved all their belongings, even to the work and saddle horses. When they arrived it was extremely hot. There were no modern conveniences, no electricity, not even ice to cool the water. They were use to drinking good cold water from mountain springs so it was all very hard to take and like the children of Lehi, they longed for their home in Utah. They all became ill but because their father regained his health, they made the best of it. They began raising cantaloupe melons on the farm their father bought. It was a profitable crop in those days. Fay’s father also bought a store from Brigham Whitmore and was also Postmaster so this gave his daughters a job while the boys worked on the farm. His father managed the store since he was no longer strong enough to work on the farm.
When asked if he had fun as a boy he said, “I had lots of fun when I got a little older about 16 or 17. Before that, they built the railroad down here. The engineer, fireman, and conductor said it doesn’t cost any more to run the train than it does to just let it sit here, so they said, ‘get the crowd and we’ll take to you to St. Thomas to the dance.’ And when we had a dance, they would go down to St. Thomas and get them and bring them up here.”
There was no high school in the valley then so each fall Fay went back to Manti, Utah to school until March when it was time to plant crops. Then he would return to work on the farm. In high school Fay was interested in athletics and music. He as a star on the basketball team and sang and played several instruments.
“I used to play dances here. I remember going to St. Thomas and up here we would play the organ. We had an organ then and a violinist. We’d just cord on the organ while I played the violin. I done that for 7 years then I got an orchestra of my own. And we played for 7 years.”
He lived at the home of his Aunt Kate, his mother’s sister. He had two girl friends. When he was nineteen he met and married Carrie Hannig.
When asked how he met Carrie he said, “Well, she came up here (Overton) to work for President Jones in the summer time. And they lived in St. Thomas. And I was riding down the street in my white top Buggy one day, right up…Oh, about half a block up the road here and she was walking down alone. And I just stopped and asked her how she would like to go riding with me. And she got in and we went for a ride and that got us started. That was the beginning. And she went to Vegas to school in the fall, and I went up to Manti.”
They were married Aug 3, 1914 at Las Vegas, then three months later while in St. George learning dancing for the MIA they went through the temple for their endowments and sealing Nov 5, 1914. Fay worked on the farm for his father and lived in part of their home until his parents moved to a smaller one. Two boys were born to him, Rene, March 18, 1915, and Glen, January 22, 1918. Fay loved theses babies and had one of them in his arms where ever he went. They were his pride and joy.
He was called on a mission to Canada when Glen was not yet walking. He sold his small herd of dairy cows but kept the flock of laying hens to help defray the expenses of the mission. He filled a two-year mission and was happy to return home to his family for he was a man who loved his home and family.
His home had been his main interest and he never cared to leave it even to visit relatives or friends. He began farming again and helped other farmers by contracting different jobs in the tomato plant industry. He got a farm loan from the government to remodel the old home that his father had given him, and to equip the farm. He was a good carpenter and did most of the remodeling himself He has built several homes and apartments in the valley. He also did carpenter work for Uncle Sam during World War II at Henderson, Nevada.
During World War II he lease his father-in-law’s service station on Highway 91 at Glendale but because of gas rationing business was very slow, so he left his wife to run the station and he went to Henderson where he worked as a carpenter for the government. They were at Glendale when the Japanese invaded and bombed Pearl Harbor, December 7 1941. That was a dark day for everyone. One by one Fay’s sons entered the service: Glen in the Air Corp, Lynn a Paratrooper, and Phil in the Navy.
Rene was deferred because of his intensive farming. After peace was declared and all his sons were home again they gave up the service station and returned to their home in Overton. Fay continued working, then he and his son Phil bought some cows and had a small dairy. This kept them busy from early hours till nighttime and it was not very profitable since feed was so high. After a few years they were happy to sell the dairy and work at other jobs. Fay worked as a building inspector for the Clark county Schools until they retired him because of his age. In October 1965 Fay and his wife were called to a two-year mission in Florida.
December 4, 1970 Fay had a severe heart attack while feeding his small herd of sheep and was flown to the St. George hospital.
- Fay Emanuel, Son of James Peter Andersen and Elizabeth Crowther was born in a little town in Utah known as Fountain Green. He was the eighth child in a family of twelve children. His father owned a farm just five miles from Fountain Green known as Water Hollow. When he was four years old, he had typhoid fever and lay at deaths door for many days. His grandmother Crowther nursed and watched over him until he was well again. The family spent the spring, summer and fall in Water Hollow. Fay said about family life, “We would go on picnics. Not very often, but we go down the canyon a little ways and have a watercress picnic. We also had chokecherries and serviceberries. We would go in the fall and hunt those. We had red currants and gooseberries on the farm that we would go out and pick. The red currants we used to put cream on them… that was the real stuff.”
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