I do not know of any life story written by Erika herself. The Forsgren Family Association has in its possession a couple of histories of her, written by unknown (to me) authors. Most of what is generally quoted about Christina Erika is information taken from "Sketch of the Life of Bishop William Davis" a manuscript on file in the Brigham City city library. This is the sketch most widely repeated and copied and quoted from in articles about Christina Erika Forsgren Davis. It appears on Ancestry.com and has appeared many times in print as LDS publications commemorate events of the Scandinavian Mission.
And to my knowledge, this is the only existing photograph of Erika Forsgren Davis
"Christina Ericka Forsgren had been converted to the Gospel in a remarkable manner. Born in Gefle [Gävle ], Sweden, she had been trained in the faith of the Lutheran Church from infancy. As she grew to womanhood, however, she became dissatisfied with this church and prayed the Lord would show her the true path of salvation. One Sabbath Day in church, she had an open vision in which it was made known to her that the Lutheran, or State church, was a man-made church without divine authority, and that God did not acknowledge it. In the same vision she was shown that on a certain day a man would come to her with three books and that all who believed and accepted the things written in those books would be saved. In fulfillment of this vision on the fifth day of July, 1850, Elder John Eric [Erik] Forsgren, a long lost brother visited her as a missionary of the Mormon Church and preached the gospel to her, making her acquainted with the three books—the Bible, the Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants!
Her brother, Adolph, was supposed to be upon his deathbed, ill with tuberculosis and given up to die by the physicians; but by the power of God he was instantly healed upon the administration of his brother, Elder Forsgren. He received the gospel, being baptized on the 26th day of July 1850, being the first man in Sweden to receive the true gospel in this dispensation. Christina Ericka was converted on the fourth day of August and was baptized into the church by her brother, John Eric [Erik] Forsgren, being the first woman to receive the gospel and be baptized in Scandinavia in the Latter days. She was duly blessed by the Lord with the gift of dreams and visions, many inspired visions she had during her life, having literal fulfillment. Among other visions, she saw in her native land of Gefle, Sweden, a vision of her future husband, and that she would enter into the sacred principle of plural marriage. This had its fulfillment when she met Bishop Davis in the year 1853, for she recognized in him at once, the man shown to her in vision as her husband.
Thus does the Father bring his faithful children together and their footsteps in mortality. To her credit, be it said, Sister Christina was ever true and faithful to the sacred principle of plural marriage. She was a true wife and mother, faithful to her husband and to her God, and to every trust in life. She was of a cheerful, noble disposition, ever seeking to help, to do good and to teach faith. Without murmuring she passed through the hardships incident to pioneer life—through the years of famine, of scarcity, of pioneering, rearing a noble family who bears her name in honorable remembrance. She lived to see the rough primitive wilderness bud and blossom as the rose and though at her first coming, the settlers were living together in the 'Fort' for protection, she lived to see a beautiful city named in honor of the Prophet Brigham Young, rise out of the desert—the home of a happy and contented people."
Biography #2:
CHRISTINA ERIKA FORSGREN DAVIS
[The typewritten copy of this personal history in my possession has no author listed. It is one of two similar histories I have, but the language and phrasing used indicates to me that this one was written closer to her lifetime. It could have been written by Oluff Petersen who was a friend and contemporary of the Forsgren’s in Brigham City. It has the same style as one he wrote about Peter Adolph Forsgren and contains much of the same information. Adele Austin, Sec/Archivist of the Forsgren Family Association. Retyped July 2011 retaining original spelling and punctuation. Some comments or corrections will be indicated in brackets]
Sketch of “Christina Erika Forsgren Davis”. To her belongs the remarkable and honorable distinction of being the first woman in Sweden, in fact Scandinavia, which embraces Denmark and Norway, to accept the Restored Gospel and be baptized by Divine Authority in the dispensation of the Fullness of times.
To her brother, Peter Adolph Forsgren, belongs the noble distinction of being the first man. Thus, this pioneer family by the providence of God became the first fruits of the Gospel in Sweden.
The life of Sister Christina, so full of faith, so abounding in incidents of providential guidance, oversight and testimony is truly typical of the lives of the noble pioneers, who under God, from every land have stepped forth and in the face of an unbelieving world, have accepted the truth, sacrificed their all and journeyed far from the lands of their birth to redeem the desert and lay broad and deep the foundations of the Commonwealth of Israel in these Latter Days. The proud and worldly wise, puffed up with human learning, may no discern tin the simple, honest lives of the humble Pioneers, and in their small beginnings the Might Tree of Faith, which is destined to cover the earth with its branches.
Her spirit came to earth in a mighty age, for she was born in the city of Gefle, Sweden, on the 26th day of April, 1820. The very spring in which the Prophet Joseph in answer to prayer had the heavens opened unto him in his First Vision, which resulted in the ushering in of the Great Dispensation of the Fullness of Times.
Of the Forsgren ancestry, present research has not extended knowledge beyond the year 1696. In that year, Christopher Forsgren was born in Sweden, his John, born in Sweden on the 29 of May, 1754 was the paternal grandfather of the subject of this sketch. He married a worthy maiden named Christina Erickson who was born June 17, 1745 and died Mar 4, 1808. She survived her husband, John by one year. [Some corrections need to be inserted here. Double checking all the information the author of this history has given against data in the Forsgren files and against the Church’s website newFamilySearch, the paragraph above should read: Of the Forsgren ancestry, present research has not extended knowledge beyond the year 1636 (with a man named Haken). Author goes on to say that in that year Christopher Forsgren was born in Sweden. Christopher Jansson Forsgren was actually born in Sweden on 6 May 1736. He did, indeed, have a son John (actually “Johan”) born in Sweden but not on 29th May 1754. Johan was born 17 Mar 1762. Yes, he was the paternal grandfather of Christina, the subject of this sketch. Johan did indeed marry a Christina Erikkson Bomgren who was born June 17, 1754 (NOT 1745), and died 21 March 1809 (not March 4, 1808). Christina Erikkson Bombren did survive her husband, Johan, by one year, he having passed away on the 7th day of February 1808 (not the 17th day of March 1807). Now back to the original history:
To this worthy couple was born in the city of Gefle, Sweden [modern spelling is Gavle], John [Johan] Olaf Forsgren on October 17, 1793. He married Annie Christina Holsgrad [Anna Christina Ersson Hollstrand], who was born November 24, 1786 and died March 26 1832. To this couple were born four children, three sons and one daughter, as follows:
John Erick Forsgren, born November 7, 1816, in Gefle, Sweden
Christina Erika Forsgren, born April 26, 1820, in Gefle, Sweden
Peter Adolph Forsgren, born July 20, 1826, in Gefle, Sweden
Charles
[Actually Johan Olaf and Anna Christina had FIVE children, 4 sons and one daughter: Between Christina Erika and Peter Adolph was a son named Carl Frederik Forsgren, born 12 May 1822, who grew to adulthood. Family “legend” says that he never joined the LDS Church, but did come to America and visit he family in Utah. Nothing is proven of his whereabouts after that. Some stories state he went West. Others state he lived in the Michigan area and married and had two daughters. Another story is that he returned to Sweden. So far we have been unable to substantiate ANY of the stories. We do have a record of his birth and a notation that he served in the Swedish military at some point. That last child born to Johan Olaf and Christina was Gustaf Forsgren, born 20 Nov 1831. He died 3 days later on Nov. 23rd.]
Grandfather, John Forsgren, had a premonition of his death. He was an operative in a large woolen factory and the Saturday evening before his passing he bid his fellow workers farewell saying he would never see them again, at noon tide on Sunday he passed peacefully away in death.
Christina from her mother’s knee imbibed a love for the sacred scripture and respect for things Divine, which found expression in a prayerful attitude. The Lutheran Church was the state religion which she faithfully attended and learned to quote much scripture. Her Father, John Olof, was a schoolmaster by occupation, was of studious habits and refined mind. The mother was loving and affectionate. Their soul care was in their children. Their success in life their most cherished hope.
The absence from home of brother, John, as a sailor was often a source of anxiety to the balance of the family. But we shall see how in the Father’s providence, John brought the blessings of truth to the Forsgren family after wandering for years. Life’s stern realities came to Christina early in life. At the age of twelve her mother passed away from this earth on the 26th day of March 1832. While yet upon her death bed with the shades of death gathering around her the dying mother called her little flock around her and to her eldest son, John Erick, gave a most solemn charge and entreaty, requesting him to look after the younger children. Hereafter we shall see how he was instrumental in the Father’s hands of conferring upon them the greatest blessing that can come to mortals.
“There is a Divinity that shapes our ends—rough hew them as we will…”
[I have another small note of concern here for the authenticity of this part of the history. John Erik left home for a life on the seas at age 9 (according to all his biographies) and was away until he returned after having joined the LDS Church in 1843. If he truly was gone (and a concern to his father as reported) then he could not have been at his mother’s side when she died. The facts are that we just don’t know if he came back from time to time or if this description is just a little embellishment by the author. There is a second life history in the Forsgren Association files which states “When Christena was twelve years of age her mother died, it was a very sad thing indeed, this little girl had to be a little mother in the home. Her brother John Erik was home at the time his mother died and she requested him to live a good life and to look after and protect the other children.” If he was at home at age 16 he did not physically do his mother's bidding, for he returned to the seas and was not heard from again until he returned after his conversion. Update! See the entry for the "new" history which clarifies that John had forgotten his mother's plea and was back to fulfill it when he came to convert his brother and sister]
Such a moment of high purpose, of providential guidance, was now approaching in the life of the subject of this sketch. In the year 1850, Cristina was wonderfully impressed with the subject of her soul’s salvation. The wonderful meaning of life, its mission and her purpose were a theme of constant study, meditation and most earnest prayer. As we have before stated, Christina was member of the Lutheran Church. She had reached the stage of life in which more dead forms of religion failed to satisfy. She often wondered if the Priests were not unreliable. She began to doubt. She humbly prayed to the Lord and inquired sincerely what she must do to be saved in his Kingdom.
On the first Sabbath day of the year 1850, while in religious services of the Lutheran Church, she received a manifestation from “God the Father”. While this mighty power rested upon her she had an open vision. She looked upon the congregation in the Church and to her surprise they appeared to be without heads, literally headless. While wondering and pondering as to the meaning of this strange vision, the Lord revealed its interpretation to her soul, and this was the interpretation—That just as the congregation appeared to be headless, it typified the Lutheran Church, that it had no divine head. It was destitute of Divine Authority, and God did not acknowledge it as His Church. As this interpretation was given her by the spirit of God, she saw clearly and perfectly in a vision a man with three books and a voice exclaiming: “That on the 5th day of July, 1850, a man will come to you with three books and all through obedience those that believe the things written in the books shall be saved.”
Yet, as she pondered and meditated upon the wonderful things vouchsafed her much, she wondered “who will this man be with the three books, what are the three books, and will he really come to me at the time promised?” So does poor mortality wonder at things Divine, and speculate how shall God fulfil. Nothing had been heard from John Erick for years. As a sailor he had visited most every important seaport in the civilized world. It was while at Boston, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1843 that he first heard the Doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints elders, was converted and was baptized into the Church on the 16th day of July 1843 by Elder William McGhen. He thn journeyed to Nauvoo. There he met the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum and other leading men in the Church, and to John Erik Forsgren it became a fond remembrance in after life that he was probably one of the last men ordained to the Melchesedek Priesthood under the hands of Joseph Smith before his martyrdom.
These were trying days in the history of the Church. John E. Forsgren passed through these trying days of the martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum and the final expulsion of the Saints, and their exodus to the Rocky Mountains. In the year 1846 John E. Forsgren was one of the number of volunteers and became a member of the Mormon Battalion. He was the only Scandinavian member of the organization arriving in San Diego on January 30, 1847. The war was over and the boys were mustered out on July 17, 1847.
On February 15, 1849, he married Sarah Bell Davis, daughter of William Davis and Sarah McKee, who came to Utah in the year 1848 in Lorenzo Snow’s Company. Called on a mission to Sweden in October 1849, When Franklin D. Richards was called with others to England. Apostle John Taylor to France, Apostle Lorenzo Snow to Italy, and Apostle Rastus [Erastus] Snow and Elder Peter O. Hansen to Denmark. John E. Forsgren reached Liverpool on April 19, 1850. He took leave of his missionary companions, Erastus Snow, P.O. Hansen, and George P. Dykes at Copenhagen on the 19th of June 1850. Arriving in his native city of Gefle, Sweden, with joy and affection, the long lost brother was found. He made inquiries about his father, John Olof, and was surprised to learn that he had gone to America to hunt him up at just about the time John had left Utah for Scandinavia.
The first greetings of love and affection over, the long lost brother now proceeded as an earnest preacher of the Gospel Restored, and the Church of Christ established in America, and the Priesthood restored to man. And now Christina recognized in her brother, John E. Forsgren, the messenger with the three books, and to her amazement found he was here at the very day appointed. It was all marvelous. It was of God. Here was John with the three books in his hand – the Bible, the Book of Mormon, and the Doctrine and Covenants. And not only the books, but with Divine Authority of the Priesthood to declare the Gospel and by baptisim initiate members into the Church.
Truly, “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform.”
Both Christina and her brother Peter Adolph received the testimony of the Spirit. They accepted the message of their brother long lost, but now found. On July 26, 1850, Elder John E. Forsgren led his brother Peter A. Forsgren into the waters of baptism, and on August 4, 1850, Elder John E. Forsgren baptized his sister, Christina Erika. On the 10th of December, 1852, Elder Forsgren left Copenhagen with a company of 203 souls, including his sister Christina and her brother, Peter.
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EMIGRATION: ancestry.com's Emigranten Populär, 1783-1951 (Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951)
Name: Christina Ulrika Forssgren
Place of Origin: Gefle, Gävleborg Län, Sverige
Destination: Dannemark
Record Date: 1852
Database Name: EmiPass
Occupation/Title: Matros-D
Archive Call Number: A 118:482
Ship Type: Skonert ]
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EMIGRATION: ancestry.com's Emigranten Populär, 1783-1951 (Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951)
Name: Christina Ulrika Forssgren
Place of Origin: Gefle, Gävleborg Län, Sverige
Destination: Dannemark
Record Date: 1852
Database Name: EmiPass
Occupation/Title: Matros-D
Archive Call Number: A 118:482
Ship Type: Skonert ]
Christmas on board the ship while sailing in the North Sea, a hurricane developed into the most fearful storm. It seemed that certain destruction was before them. Elder John E. Forsgren called the saints together on board and engaged in prayer. Then Elder Forsgren rebuked the roaring sea and the storm subsided. It was learned afterward that 150 ships were lost and shipwrecked at sea.
Others had joined the company so now they numbered 297 souls. They embarked from Liverpool on the old sailing vessel “Forrest Monarch,” leaving port on New Year’s Day, 1853. Ten weary weeks were consumed on the journey over the seas. Sickness broke out. Four persons were consigned to a watery grave and three children were born on board the ship. It was a trying experience for all the saints, and on the 16th day of March 1853, their ship touched at New Orleans. From New Orleans, they took a steamer and sailed up the River about two hundred miles to St. Louis, arriving there on the 31st of March. Here they were transferred to another boat upon which they sailed up the river to Keokuk, Iowa. While waiting at this place and making the necessary arrangements for the journey across the plains, Christina had the pleasure of seeing her brother, Peter Adolph, married to Miss Anna Christina Knudsen on the 8th of May 1853.
On June 27, 1853, the Company crossed the Missouri River and started on their long journey across the plains to the valley of the Great Salt Lake. Some began to murmur, then to find fault, and as they were not willing to go through such hardships even for the Gospel’s sake, they drifted into apostasy and left the Company, and even the Church. Several died on the journey and were buried by the wayside. Among those born o the way was our fellow citizen, Denmark Jensen, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mads C. Jensen.
At length, after an overland journey of three months and two days, they arrived in the Great Salt Lake City on the 29th of September, 1853. Here they met President Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, and the other leaders of the Church. It was quite an event in the life of Sister Christina when she first met and mingled with the great leaders of modern Israel.
William Davis and family and others had been called to settle Box Elder. John E. Forsgren (wife Sarah Bell Davis and their only child, Charles W. Forsgren) were living in Box Elder. This decided the question as to where the Forsgren family would locate. Elder Forsgren with sister, Christina and brother, Peter Adolph and his newly-wed wife, James Olsen and August Valentine and Brother Jens Knudsen and family, accompanied them to what is now called Brigham City and the party came in the fall of 183; the first Scandinavians to settle north of Salt Lake City.
On February 20, 1854, Christina was married to William Davis. [As a plural wife. His first wife was Sarah McKee Davis]. The life of the pioneers was very simple, as they had been driven by the mob into the wilderness, and their early homes were constructed of logs, with dirt floors and roofs. There were no saw mills so had to get along without lumber, with but little clothing, and oft times with but little to eat. Rattling for an existence with the Indians, the crickets and grasshoppers, and mobocrats, or lawless white men was anything but a pleasant experience. For Christina reared in a city of many thousands of inhabitants like Gefle, Sweden, it was hard at first to accustom herself to the rough, crude life, the scanty famine rations and the poverty stricken hut she lived in. In the midst of these conditions, she raised her family of three sons, Abraham Peter, born November 7, 1856, Oliver Frederic, born January 2, 1859, and George William, born July 15, 1861.
Christina Erika Forsgren Davis found full expression in deeds of service and helpfulness. Being of a kind, charitable disposition she dispensed hospitality to others. Especially to the Scandinavians who were coming to Zion and passing through the same trials that she had endured. She shared her choice fruits and food to aid and encourage them in their environment of the West. As years passed, Christina with other Scandinavian sisters did much with their spinning wheels brought from the Old countries, and home-made looms, in a the way of making cloth and carpets. And many dressed in home-made clothes. As a Relief Society teacher she did a splendid work. Visiting, encouraging, helping and blessing all with whom she came in contact. In a patriarchal blessing given by Patriarch Isaac Morley, she was promised the spiritual gifts of visions and dreams, which she truly enjoyed all her days.
Among the pioneers, the visits of President Young and the leading brethren were eagerly looked forward to by the Saints here. He took special interest in the development of the City named in his honor and on the occasion of President Young’s last visit, August 18th and 19th, 1877, ten days before his death, he showed them he believed in the principle of giving honor to him whom honor is due. William Davis had been blind for several years and at this time it was part of Christina’s mission to care for and lead her blind husband to meetings, and on this occasion, the President took William Davis and grandmother Davis and placed them in chairs in front on the stand. Immediately after Brother Lorenzo Snow ordered the Co-op Furniture department to make two upholstered chairs for them, which Bishop and Grandma Davis occupied for years in the upper room of the Court House.
[I am afraid I need to interject another caution here. I was raised hearing of this special recognition of the chairs. But the same story is told in the biographies of both Sarah McKee Davis (William’s first wife) and that of William Davis himself. So which wife really sat in the chairs and was honored by Brigham Young on that occasion? Erika was the younger of the two in 1877 (age 57) so well may have had the assignment of helping her blind husband to various destinations. Sarah was 78 years old by then, probably a little infirm herself, but clearly the woman who had spent the early Nauvoo period and Box Elder pioneering experiences with William Davis. Though the families lived close together and seemed to be compatible I am not sure that it was Christina Erika who received the recognition on the occasion of the armchairs. No doubt they could have shared the second chair when one or the other of the wives was not in attendance at the Church meetings. This is one of those situations where assumptions are made by succeeding generations and stories come to be believed as true when, in actuality, they may not be. Regardless of who was at William Davis’ side on that day both women gave much to the community and to the Church in Brigham City as it developed. Both were deserving.]
Six years, three months and three days, November 22, 1883, Bishop Davis passed away. [Both wives outlived Bishop Davis, Sarah by 5 years, Erika by 13.] Singular, Apostle Lorenzo Snow dedicated Bishop Davis to the Lord, November 21, and death came on the 22nd. Apostle Charles C. Rich died on the 17th of November, five days before Bishop Davis. The last words of Lorenzo Snow to Bishop Davis, shaking hands he said, “Remember me to Brother C.C. Rich, Brigham Young and the rest of the brethren and tell them the rest of us will be along by and by.” Christina was present on this occasion.
A remarkable co-incident, apropos of the death of Apostle C. C. Rich, Oliver F. Davis, son of the subject of this sketch, relates the following remarkable dream. “On the 17th of November, 1918, being the 35th anniversary of the death of Apostle Rich, I had a plain vision which impressed me very much. I dreamed I saw Brigham Young and Joseph Smith in an assembly held in the upstairs room of the old Court House. They were given a great welcome. I also saw Mother, cheerful and dressed up to date, and not old fashioned.” Two days later, Joseph F. Smith died, November 19, 1918, and was buried on the birthday anniversary of President Heber J. Grant, November 22, 1918. (This was the anniversary also of Bishop Davis’ death 35 years since.)
Christina E. heard with a sorrowful heart of the passing of her beloved brother John E. Forsgren on the 22nd of January 1890.
The Grand Jubilee of the Scandinavian mission held in Brigham City on the 27th of July 1900, truly was a time of rejoicing, never to be forgotten. On that occasion Christina E. and her brother, Peter Adolph were guests of honor, and President Anthon H. Lund representing the Scandinavian Saints presented to Sister Christina E.F. Davis a gold watch suitably engraved with her name and the date of her baptism, August 4, 1850. Peter Adolph Forsgren received a suitable token of esteem from the Scandinavian Saints in a gold headed walking cane presented by President Joseph F. Smith. [Let me interject a note here about the watch. As of 2011 I have not learned what may have become of this family heirloom. It ocurred to me one night that possibly it is the watch mentioned by Elias Peter Forsgren in the incident of his meeting with his long lost half-brother Pehr Johan Forsgren when Elias went to Sweden to serve his own mission. Elias was the son of Peter Adolph thru his second wife Elise Thomasson. Christina Erika lived with them in her later years after William Davis died. It is possible that she gave the watch to Elias. It is stated in the account that the watch had great meaning to Elias even though it didn't work and when he attempted to offer it as a gift to Pehr Johan, Pehr threw it against the wall and it shattered. (There was still much anger in Pehr Johan that his birth father had left him and his mother in Sweden, after joining that "apostate Church" and gone to America - even though it was Britta's decision not to accompany Peter A. Peter and Britta were not married, even though they had a son together. Britta chose to leave Peter and return to her family.)
Now don't go turning this speculation on my part into a truth! It is only a speculation. Until we learn from some descendant more about the watch what I have entered here is just a theory!]
On the 21st of February 1906, Christina’s spirit took flight to a better world, being 86 years of age, lacking two months and five days. Was mother of three sons, grandmother to ten sons and eight daughters and had quite a number of great grandchildren. She died as she had lived, a firm and true Latter-Day Saint.
From OUR PIONEER HERITAGE, v. 14
Brigham City. May 20, 1856, President Lorenzo Snow organized a Relief Society in Brigham City, with Lenora A. Morley, president; Harriet Snow and Fanny Loveland, counselors, Eliza Snow (Dunford), secretary; and Mary Smith, treasurer. While there were no ward organizations in the city at this time, Relief Society teachers were appointed for the four districts which later became the four Brigham City wards - Susannah Boothe and Christina Forsgren, first district; Gunnel Jeppson and Mary Wright, second district; Helen Neeley and Ingebor Nielson, third district; harriet Hunsaker and Mariah Nelson, fourth district. For at least the first two years the presiding brethren came to each weekly meeting and instructed the women in their duties - take from History of Box Elder County.
CENSUS INFORMATION:
1860 Census of Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah Territory. Imabe 544; page 531; household 1463
Davis, Wm, age 66, male, Farmer, born Pennsylvania
Davis, Sarah, age 61, Female, born Pennsylvania
Davis, Christina, age 40, female, born Sweden
Davis, Abram P, age 5, male, born U. T. [Utah Territory]
Davis, Oliver F, age 1, male, born U. T.
1870 Census of Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah Territory, page 24 taken 27 June 1870;
Household 187
Davis, William, age 75, male, white, farmer, born Pennsylvania
Davis, Christina, age 50, Female, White, Keeping House, born Sweden
Davis, Abraham, age 14, male, white, At home, born Utah
Davis, Oliver F., age 11, male, white, At Home, born Utah
Davis, George W, age 8, male white, At home, born Utah
Household 188
Davis, Sarah M, age 70, Female, white, Keeping House, born Pennsylvania
Forsgreen, Sarah A, age 15, Female, White, At Home, born Utah
Forsgreen, John H, age 13, male, white, At Home, born Nevada
1880 Census of Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah p. 66B (38) ED 4, Household 362, taken 21 Jun 1880
Davis, William, self, md, age 84, born Pennsylvania, Blacksmith, Father born PA, mother born Delaware
Davis, Sarah, wife, md, age 81, born PA, Keeping House, Father born Ireland, mother born PA
Davis, Christine, wife, md, age 60, born Sweden, Keeping House, both parents born Sweden
Davis, Oliver F., son, Single, age 21, born Utah, farmer, father born PA, mother born Sweden
Davis, George W., son, single, age 18, born Utah, farmer, father born PA, mother born Sweden
1900 Census, Brigham City, Box Elder, Utah ED 202, taken 1 Jun 1900 page 1A, Household #2 [Indexed incorrectly on Ancestry.com as Fasgrin, and the image link leads you to page 2 instead of 1A; I submitted a correction 12/1/2010]
Fosgren, Peter, age 74, head, age 74, born Jul 1826, Md, 1895, bd 5 years. Immigrated 1853, In states for 47 years, Naturalized, Occupation: WeaverHe and both parents born Sweden
Fosgren, Eliza C, age 53, wife, age 53, born Jan 1847 Denmark. Immigrated 1878, in US for 22 years, Occupation: Weaver Mother of 1 child, 1 child living. Married 1895 for 5 years. Both parents born Denmark
Fosgren, Elias, age 12, son, age 12, born Jan 1888, Utah, single, at school
Davis, Erica, age 80, born Apr 1820, sister, widowed, Mother of 3 children, 3 living; Immigrated 1853, In states for 47 years; she and both parents born Sweden.
BURIAL:
Listed as Eureka C.F. Davis in Sexton's records. Buried in plot B-12-36-4. Small headstone over her grave just says C.E.F.D. 1820-1906, but her data is given on the headstone of her husband William B and on the back of her son's. (In the cemetery look for the Davis plot near a large, raised concrete urn in section B)
This is the back of the headstone for William Davis reflecting information on both his wives
