Margaret Fredricka Tattersall
The pictures I have put up are those of my mother Margaret Fredericka Tattersall born 16 Dec 1916 in Niagara Falls NY. Her mother Hattie Miriam Hull died when she was 8 years old and her sisters had a lot to do with caring for her. She was about 5'2" tall and a very kind person at all times. She always thought the best of people. She loved young children, especially babies, even in the deepest moments of her Alzheimer's disease at the end of her life, she recognized them and they always made her smile. She loved my Dad and they were lifetime sweethearts, now they are together forever!
Sunday, September 11, 2011
"Freddie" and the Tattersall family
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| James G Tattersall Family abt 1940 Kurt Bauer, Norma, and Barbara; Christine, Jack Huffa and Gretchen; Grace, Harry Chapman and Carlton; Freddie, James G. Tattersall and Norabelle |
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| Ensign MF Downey abt 1943 |
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| Margaret F Tattersall HS Graduation |
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| Mom and ECDJr 21 May 1969 |
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| Courtney (She calls him Earl) and Freddie Jun 1944 |
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| Grad from Nursing School |
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| in Niagara Falls NY |
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| Grace, Christine, Norma, "Freddie" abt 1918 |
Moving to Utah Valley
Most of you already know that I have been reassigned to Provo to start a full time pediatric surgery service here in Utah Valley. For those of you who do not know, Provo is about 50 miles from SLC where I have been for about 10 years at Primary Children's Hospital. We have been working on this for some time, about 12 years altogether, even before I came to SLC. Utah County is a predominantly LDS community and the home of BYU and UVU. It has the largest birth rate of any county in the US. I guess that is why they have wanted a pediatric surgery service here full time!
It has been somewhat difficult to leave PCMC. It is a great place for children if you have to be ill or injured. I have often said that I wish I could have come here professionally at the beginning of my career as this is a wonderful place to take care of the children. But things always move on and this (coming to Utah Valley) is a great opportunity for me to lay a ground work for things in the future. There is much growth south of SLC and things need to develop there-in the right way. It will be a challenge to be here by myself (like when I was at Kaiser (1988-1994) but I am excited about it. I see it as a real opportunity to make a difference before I hang up the scrubs in 3-4 years. Hopefully I will be able to lay a ground work for Primary to be able to meet their high level of commitment to the children of the intermountain west and also meet the ever-changing needs of the medical environment in the US.
I started here last Thursday and now have several cases done and a lot of children seen in the clinic. Since I am covering here 24/7 during the week consistently and every third weekend, we needed a place to stay and so we bought a condo fairly near the hospital. It is an improvement space wise over the Zion's Summit condo and so if guests show up there will actually be a place for them to stay and also a place for Kathy to do her sewing and quilting activities when she is here. Thanks to Scott and Laura for helping to move some stuff up from San Diego. We really appreciated this from them.
I have enjoyed hearing from all of the Fam especially through their blogs which I get regularly. I have not opted for Facebook so this is the way I plan keep up with the people I care about the most. It is exciting to have some of us doing the family history work and really enjoying it. My long term plan as most of you know is to spend lots of time on the computer and at the FHL in Salt Lake City when I do not have the work demands. That is really why I elected to buy the condo in SLC where it is. I do get there periodically but not as much as I would care to. I had a wonderful experience recently there that I am not sure all of you are aware of. I have always been interested in Brett's family. His grandfather Lars and his family joined the LDS Church in Denmark before 1862 and came across the Atlantic on the LDS consigned ship Franklin in 1862 and subsequently emigrated to Utah in the Christopher Madsen Company. This was just a verbal history until recently (Lars journal burned in a house fire). When I would go to the FHL to work on my own family I would have these strong feelings that I needed to see what happened to them. In addition to the oral tradition passed down by Lars children, they were supposed to have settled here near Provo and had land. Lars was supposed to have worked on the SL Temple also. For some reason they became disaffected from the Church (by tradition, polygamy) and returned to Nebraska where they settled. The tradition is that they joined the RLDS Church and were excommunicated from the LDS Church. Eventually I gave in to their promptings and set off to see if I could pin some of this down. The records for those with LDS ancestors are pretty good and there was a good chance to find something. In addition I knew the Danish records are good too so I was optimistic. Despite this I could not find anything that matched up. I had made a list of things to do on them at the library and planned to go there one Saturday. I woke up early that day (0400) and decided I would do a little work on the computer first waiting for the library to open. I felt strongly that they came over on an LDS ship company and knew it was 1862 (1900 US Census for Lars) so I found the records of the ship Franklin, the entire manifest. (This was remarkable because there was an outbreak of measles and the ship was not allowed to dock in NY. They eventually did but I have not yet been able to find this record) This list of passengers was kept by the clerk/secretary for the company, thank goodness. Anyway, I could not find their names in the index and so I thought I would go through the actual manifest family by family because I thought they just were missed in the index. When I did, I suddenly recognized all of their names and matching ages-but their name was Lauritzen, not Larsen! No wonder I could not find them. I also read the diary of the trip, again by the clerk, and there was a record of Lars sister dying on the voyage also, the only record anywhere I have found. After that I was able to find out that they did join the RLDS Church. This was through a 7 volume compilation of early members of the RLDS church by Susan Easton Black and her husband (just 7 volumes) which gives their baptismal dates in Goshen Utah 1866. They remained faithful through their life: their obits are in the RLDS newspaper.
So all of this meant a lot to me: first the story/oral tradition about them is true (Who could have fabricated such a tale anyway!). Second I believe from this that they were converted to the restoration and while they may have had some doctrinal issues, they believed in the Book of Mormon and also the Prophet Joseph Smith, which were keystones of the RLDS beliefs then. I have always felt that there were other factors that brought about their disaffection and I know this will prove true, although I have a lot of work to do to prove it.
I hope you all can see the inspiration and channels of revelation that exist between them and us. We are who we are and that has not changed since we left our Home and come here and will not even after we leave this life. We are family, and friends forever. I hope also you can see how important the ordinances and covenants we make with the Lord in the temple are. They too are real and binding when we strive to obey and keep them. He has promised us that He will not forget us and will save us (1 Nep 21:24-25-see footnote esp) even though somethings might not go all that well in our lives. He will give us the chance to choose Him and His way, the way of true happiness.
It has been somewhat difficult to leave PCMC. It is a great place for children if you have to be ill or injured. I have often said that I wish I could have come here professionally at the beginning of my career as this is a wonderful place to take care of the children. But things always move on and this (coming to Utah Valley) is a great opportunity for me to lay a ground work for things in the future. There is much growth south of SLC and things need to develop there-in the right way. It will be a challenge to be here by myself (like when I was at Kaiser (1988-1994) but I am excited about it. I see it as a real opportunity to make a difference before I hang up the scrubs in 3-4 years. Hopefully I will be able to lay a ground work for Primary to be able to meet their high level of commitment to the children of the intermountain west and also meet the ever-changing needs of the medical environment in the US.
I started here last Thursday and now have several cases done and a lot of children seen in the clinic. Since I am covering here 24/7 during the week consistently and every third weekend, we needed a place to stay and so we bought a condo fairly near the hospital. It is an improvement space wise over the Zion's Summit condo and so if guests show up there will actually be a place for them to stay and also a place for Kathy to do her sewing and quilting activities when she is here. Thanks to Scott and Laura for helping to move some stuff up from San Diego. We really appreciated this from them.
I have enjoyed hearing from all of the Fam especially through their blogs which I get regularly. I have not opted for Facebook so this is the way I plan keep up with the people I care about the most. It is exciting to have some of us doing the family history work and really enjoying it. My long term plan as most of you know is to spend lots of time on the computer and at the FHL in Salt Lake City when I do not have the work demands. That is really why I elected to buy the condo in SLC where it is. I do get there periodically but not as much as I would care to. I had a wonderful experience recently there that I am not sure all of you are aware of. I have always been interested in Brett's family. His grandfather Lars and his family joined the LDS Church in Denmark before 1862 and came across the Atlantic on the LDS consigned ship Franklin in 1862 and subsequently emigrated to Utah in the Christopher Madsen Company. This was just a verbal history until recently (Lars journal burned in a house fire). When I would go to the FHL to work on my own family I would have these strong feelings that I needed to see what happened to them. In addition to the oral tradition passed down by Lars children, they were supposed to have settled here near Provo and had land. Lars was supposed to have worked on the SL Temple also. For some reason they became disaffected from the Church (by tradition, polygamy) and returned to Nebraska where they settled. The tradition is that they joined the RLDS Church and were excommunicated from the LDS Church. Eventually I gave in to their promptings and set off to see if I could pin some of this down. The records for those with LDS ancestors are pretty good and there was a good chance to find something. In addition I knew the Danish records are good too so I was optimistic. Despite this I could not find anything that matched up. I had made a list of things to do on them at the library and planned to go there one Saturday. I woke up early that day (0400) and decided I would do a little work on the computer first waiting for the library to open. I felt strongly that they came over on an LDS ship company and knew it was 1862 (1900 US Census for Lars) so I found the records of the ship Franklin, the entire manifest. (This was remarkable because there was an outbreak of measles and the ship was not allowed to dock in NY. They eventually did but I have not yet been able to find this record) This list of passengers was kept by the clerk/secretary for the company, thank goodness. Anyway, I could not find their names in the index and so I thought I would go through the actual manifest family by family because I thought they just were missed in the index. When I did, I suddenly recognized all of their names and matching ages-but their name was Lauritzen, not Larsen! No wonder I could not find them. I also read the diary of the trip, again by the clerk, and there was a record of Lars sister dying on the voyage also, the only record anywhere I have found. After that I was able to find out that they did join the RLDS Church. This was through a 7 volume compilation of early members of the RLDS church by Susan Easton Black and her husband (just 7 volumes) which gives their baptismal dates in Goshen Utah 1866. They remained faithful through their life: their obits are in the RLDS newspaper.
So all of this meant a lot to me: first the story/oral tradition about them is true (Who could have fabricated such a tale anyway!). Second I believe from this that they were converted to the restoration and while they may have had some doctrinal issues, they believed in the Book of Mormon and also the Prophet Joseph Smith, which were keystones of the RLDS beliefs then. I have always felt that there were other factors that brought about their disaffection and I know this will prove true, although I have a lot of work to do to prove it.
I hope you all can see the inspiration and channels of revelation that exist between them and us. We are who we are and that has not changed since we left our Home and come here and will not even after we leave this life. We are family, and friends forever. I hope also you can see how important the ordinances and covenants we make with the Lord in the temple are. They too are real and binding when we strive to obey and keep them. He has promised us that He will not forget us and will save us (1 Nep 21:24-25-see footnote esp) even though somethings might not go all that well in our lives. He will give us the chance to choose Him and His way, the way of true happiness.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
The introduction
This is my first post on my new Blog so I thought I would introduce myself. To understand who I am you will need to know who I came from-after all, you cannot know who you are unless you know who you came from! The following are pictures that will introduce you to the people that made me who I am. They are not all with us here anymore but they are always with us. Our hearts are bound to them and they are still loving us and rooting for us every day!
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