By Annie Folkman Hunt

Christiana Catharine Folkman, called Annie Folkman Hunt, was born the 8th of November 1873 in Plain City, Weber County, Utah.  I do not remember the house.  Father's name was Christopher Olsen Folkman, date of birth February 8, 1827, in Aaker, Bornholm, Denmark.  His father's name was Jorgan Christopher Folkman.  Father's mother's name, Gytrid Kristen Ipsen.

My mother's maiden name, Maximeliane Olivia Lindvall, birth December 15, 1842 in Tokalma, Gotland Sweden.  Her father's name was Lars Fredrick Christeanson Lindvall.  Her mother's maiden name, Anna Gertrud Kurlin.  Baptized in Plain City, Weber County, Utah, 6th of July 1882.

I went to Salt Lake when I was ten years old and stayed ten weeks.  Was glad to get home.  Visited President Grant's home.  I started school at 9 years old.  I attended school in Plain City.  Teachers I remember:  John Bramwell, George Carver, and Mary Green.  I just went to school in the summer and then I went in the winter.  I received a photograph album for the most improvement in writing in Plain City.  Attended school at the Weber Stake Academy, now called Weber College.  Finished the academic course and won a prize in penmanship.  Attended public school, but no free school.

Attended primary and Sunday school ever since I can remember.  Was teacher in the Theology class and sang in the choir in Plain City.  I had five sisters and two brothers.  They were twins and one died the day he was born.  Sometimes we played primary and Sunday school in a buggy.  Also had other brothers and sisters.  We had different mothers.

Can remember the first time I went to Mutual.  Everyone spoke, they didn't have lessons like they do now.  Said they were timid and they had a timid feeling, so made up my mind not to say "timid" when I got up to speak.

There were no saloons in Plain City.  They had to go ten miles to get drunk and went in a buggy or a wagon.  Father didn't drink, nor mother and none of mother's children drank.  Father didn't live at our home, so mother brought us up.  Father had another home.  I was afraid to go with a boy out of the church for fear I would marry him and I wanted to marry a Mormon.

Did we save our pennies?  I should say we did.  Gave some to help build the temple.  I was to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple.  Went to the conference in Salt Lake as often as I could.  My mother died December 24, 1899 in Plain City, Utah.

I married James Hunt in the Salt Lake Temple December 15, 1897.  I had a grand wedding.  Wore a white silk dress and orange blossoms on my dress.  Received so many gifts.  We took them to our home in a wagon.  So many people and friends.  I didn't know we had so many friends.

We were married a little over a year when I came to Baker, Oregon.  Came in April 1899.  We had one child, Mary, when we came.  I didn't see any of my grandparents.  When I was a girl I saw Eliza R. Snow in Primary conference in Plain City.  She showed us the watch that Joseph Smith had in his pocket when he was martyred.

My mother wasn't a florist, but she had flowers everywhere.  We didn't have a lawn and no city water.  Mother's flower garden was the prettiest flower garden.  People came from far and wide to see it.

Father spent twelve years on missions.  I remember the last one.  I was 16 years old and we didn't have too much.  I was set apart as religion Class President after I was married.  Professor Monch set me apart.  He said they called me because I kept the Word of Wisdom.  I was a counselor in the Mutual, President of primary, also counselor in Relief Society.  Have lived on Colorado Street in Baker, Oregon ever since.  We built our home by degrees.

Some of my teachers names are:  George Carver, Mary Green, John Bramwell, Joel Shoemaker, Jones, and Thomas.

I have taken endowments out for ten or more every time I went to Salt Lake I go to the temple.  I went all through the temple April 28, 1939.  Went through the temple at the dedication.

Saw the Southern Pacific show.  It was good.

I have been called Annie Folkmann all my life.  No one knows me by any other name.

My mother was very humble and prayerful, also very honest.  She said she hadn't ever taken a pin from anyone.  Mother lived in part of the house that father's other family lived in, and then he built another a very small house.  She was very pleased to have a house of her own.

I went to primary and they asked all those who didn't drink tea and coffee to stand up, and none of mother's children drank tea and coffee since then.

When I finished the Academic course, Lizzie and I went to Gentile Valley and there was a strike.  Coxe's Army tied up all the railroads so we couldn't get home, so Leo Peck and Howard Thatcher took us to Logan and father came to Logan after us.  We stopped at Brigham City also.  We had a good time there, even rode horseback.  Went in an ice cave and the ice was melting in the cave.  Also went to Soda Springs and drank the real soda water, but it was better with sugar in it.  Also saw a lake that water was flowing in but didn't come out, and the water would form on things (formation water).

We sure had some good times at home.  Girls and boys came to our home and Mother asked them to come.  The boys would milk the cow and Mother would fix something for us to eat and we would pop corn.

The day I entered college a girl told me that I looked like one who came to learn, and that Lizzie seemed like a girl that came for a good time.  We sure had a nice crowd in Plain City.  They were all good kids.  I was older than Lizzie but we seemed like twins.  We were always together.  When Mother was fifty her girls gave her black silk for a dress, and when Joseph, my brother, was twenty-one we girls gave him a gold watch.  We promised him a watch if he didn't drink or smoke, so we gave it to him when he was leaving for a mission to Germany.

When I was a child I saw a lantern picture of the mob and Joseph and Hyrum Smith when they were martyred.

When I was a girl something fell on the stove and caught fire.  Mother's clothes were hanging there but the fire didn't burn them.

Father was a very humble man and everybody called him Uncle Christopher.  He had great faith.  John Bramwell was sick and the doctor didn't know what was the matter.  They thought he had typhoid fever and they said he was possessed or lost his mind.  Thirteen elders fasted and prayed and he got better through faith and prayer.

Rose Toronto and Florence visited us from Salt Lake and they sure had a good time, even rode on loads of hay.

I have heard speaking in tongues more than once.

Why I believe in Genealogy:  I believe in the saying – It will turn the hearts of the children to their fathers and the hearts of the fathers to the children lest I smite the earth with a curse.  We without our dead cannot be saved – therefore Genealogy.  The Nephites kept a record and they were a bright and prosperous people.  The Lamanites kept no record and they became an ignorant race.