Florence Langford

Chronology

18 Sep 1848 Birth of father, Jeremiah Euchlet Langford in Rome, Georgia

Nov 1848 Election of Zachary Taylor as 12 th US President

15 July 1849 Departure of the Ezra Taft Benson Company along with the George A. Smith Company from Kanesville, Iowa with the Shuredale Olsen family.

29 October 1849 Arrival of the Ezra Taft Benson Company in the Salt Lake Valley with the Shuredale Olsen family

16 Jan 1850 Birth of Jeremiah’s brother, William Ezekiel Wimley Langford in Rome, Georgia

15 June 1850 Deseret News Published

9 July 1850 Death of Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore becomes 13 th US President

1851 The Langford family moves to Milan, Texas and joins the LDS Church. Seth M. Blair serves as a missionary in the area. He is later the captain of the Pioneer Company that the Langfords joined to cross the Plains.

30 Nov 1851 Marriage of grandparents, Shuredale Olsen and Sarah Ellen Jacobs in Salt Lake City.

10 May 1852 Birth of Jeremiah’s brother, Francis (Frank) Marion Langford in Milan, Texas

Nov 1852 Election of Franklin Pierce as 14 th US President

30 Dec 1854 Birth of mother, Sarah Ellen Olsen to Shuredale & Sarch Ellen Olsen in Salt Lake City

14 Jun 1855 Departure of the Seth M. Blair/Edward Stevenson Company from Atchison, Kansas traveling 4.5 miles to Mormon Grove, Kansas with the Jeremiah E. Langford family

19 Jun 1855 Death of grandparents, Jeremiah E. & Mary Jane Langford and daughter, Elizabeth of cholera in Mormon Groves, Kansas.

10 Sep 1855 Arrival of the Seth M. Blair/Edward Stevenson Company with Jeremiah (7), William, Frank and James Langford as orphans in the Salt Lake Valley

Oct 1856 Willie and Martin Handcart Companies rescued

Nov 1856 James Buchanan elected 15 th US President

1857-58 Federal Army sent to Utah Territory

11 Sep 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre

Nov 1860 Election of Abraham Lincoln as 16 th US President

Oct 1861 Completion of the 1 st Transcontinental Telegraph in Salt Lake City

28 Aug 1864 Baptism of Jeremiah by his foster father, Lorenzo Pettit

Nov 1864 Re-election of Abraham Lincoln as US President

15 April 1865 Death of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson becomes 17 th US President

6 Oct 1867 Salt Lake Tabernacle completed

Nov 1868 Election of Ulysses S. Grant as 18 th US President

10 May 1869 Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit

10 Jan 1870 Completion of the Utah Central Railroad from Salt Lake City to Ogden

17 Aug 1870 Sealing of Shuredale Olsen to Gertrude Jacobs and Anna Martha Haddock in Salt Lake City

1872 Jeremiah goes to work in the mines in Pioche, Nevada at the age of 24 years

Nov 1872 Re-election of Ulysses S. Grant as US President

1873-75 Jeremiah works logging in Big Cottonwood Canyon

Sep 1876 Jeremiah takes as oxen team to Corrine, Utah (west of Brigham City)

10 Oct 1876 Jeremiah’s brother, William E. Langford marries Carolyn A. Reed, a relative of Lorenzo Pettit

Nov 1876 Election of Rutherford B. Hayes as 19 th US President

6 Apr 1877 St. George Temple dedicated

29 Aug 1877 Death of Brigham Young

6 Feb 1879 Death of Jeremiah’s foster mother, Lucy Ann Merrill Pettit

Dec 1879 Jeremiah goes to Montana at 31 years of age

16 Mar 1880 Jeremiah is ordained an Elder by Thomas Slight

18 Mar 1880 Jeremiah (31 years) marries Sarah Ellen Olsen (26 years) in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City

10 Oct 1880 John Taylor sustained as 3 rd President of the Church

29 Oct 1880 Birth of Sarah Ellen (Nellie) and Mary Ann Langford in Salt Lake City

Nov 1880 Election of James A. Garfield as 20 th US President

19 Sep 1881 Death of James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur becomes 21 st US President

1 Mar 1884 Birth of brother, Jeremiah Euchlet (Jay) Langford, Jr. in Salt Lake City

Nov 1884 Election of Grover Cleveland as 22 nd US President

1885 Jeremiah is a promoter of the Inland Crystal Salt Works

16 Jan 1887 Birth of sister, Estella (Stella) Langford in Salt Lake City

Nov 1888 Election of Benjamin Harrison as 23 rd US President

7 Apr 1889 Death of John Taylor, Wilford Woodruff sustained as 4 th President of the Church

6 Oct 1890 “Manifesto” accepted by general conference terminating plural marriage

14 Nov 1890 Birth of brother, Lester Olson Langford in Salt Lake City

23 Feb 1892 Birth of future husband, Keith Royal Jensen in Logan, Utah to Ephraim Peter Jensen and Mary Harriet Critchlow.

11 Apr 1892 Jeremiah is ordained a Seventy by George Reynolds

Fall 1892 Saltair Railroad built

22 Dec 1892 Birth of Florence Langford in Salt Lake City, Utah

Nov 1892 Election of Grover Cleveland as 24 th US President

6 Apr 1893 Salt Lake Temple dedicated

1 June 1893 Opening of the Saltair Resort owned by the LDS Church

1894 Jeremiah opens a gold mine in Southern Nevada, later operating four quarts mills

Nov 1895 Election of William McKinley as 25 th US President

4 Jan 1896 Utah becomes the 45 th State

23 Dec 1896 Birth of brother, Ralph Jackson Langford in Salt Lake City

13 Sep 1898 Death of Wilford Woodruff, Lorenzo Snow becomes the 5 th President of the Church

1900 Jeremiah (52 years) travels to Nome, Alaska during the 1899-1909 Nome Gold Rush

18 July 1900 Death of Jeremiah’s foster father, Lorenzo Pettit

8 Jan 1901 Death of grandfather, Shuredale Olsen in Salt Lake City

14 Sep 1901 Death of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 26 th US President

2 Feb 1901 Florence Langford is baptized

17 Oct 1901 Joseph F. Smith becomes the 6 th President of the Church

1 May 1902 Jeremiah is appointed the general manager and president of the Salt Lake and Los Angeles Railroad

22 Dec 1902 Florence’s 10 th Birthday

1903 Wright Brothers first flight at Kitty Hawk

Nov 1904 Election of Theodore Roosevelt as US President

9 Oct 1905 Brother, Jeremiah Euchlet Langford, III called to the Swiss Mission

1906 Jeremiah along with his partners, Nephi Clayton and Charles W. Nibley purchase of Saltair Resort

1908 Construction of the Langford home at 687 Second Avenue

12 Oct 1908 Marriage of brother, Jay to Florence (Flory) Tuddenham in Salt Lake City

21 Oct 1908 Death of Jeremiah’s brother, Frank

Nov 1908 Election of William Howard Taft as 27 th US President

1909 First regular radio broadcast

Apr 1910 Census lists Florence living with her family at 687 E. Second Avenue at age 17 along with her Grandmother Ellen Olsen (78) and a servant Emma Schrader (80).

25 Apr 1911 Marriage of sister, Stella Langford and Albert Leroy Taylor in Salt Lake City

13 Jan 1912 Jeremiah is ordained a High Priest by Hamilton G. Park

7 Mar 1912 Marriage of brother, Lester Langford to Emma May Anderson in Onondaga, New York

15 Apr 1912 Sinking of the Titanic

9 Sep 1912 Death of sister, Stella Langford Taylor of the Spanish Flu in Salt Lake City

Nov 1912 Election of Woodrow Wilson as 28 th US President

1913 Henry Ford begins Model T assembly line

22 Dec 1922 Florence’s 20 th Birthday

1914 Beginning of World War I

10 Dec 1914 Marriage of Keith Royal Jensen and Florence Langford in Salt Lake City, Utah at the age of 22 years

24 Nov 1915 Birth of daughter, Beth Florence Brown in Salt Lake City, Utah

16 June 1916 The Utah Security Commission issues License #21 to the Metal Safety Railroad Tie Company, Jeremiah Langford president, Keith Royal Jensen secretary

14 July 1916 Marriage of brother, Ralph Jackson Langford to Mary Matilda Wardell

Nov 1916 Re-election of Woodrow Wilson as US President

1917-1918 Lester Langford listed as living in Stoddard, Yavapia County, Arizona on the World War I draft card

7 May 1917 Birth of daughter, Sarah Ellen Jensen in Salt Lake City, Utah. Family is listed at 134 Clinton Avenue, Salt Lake City the home of Ephraim and Hattie Jensen, but they are not listed as residents.

11 Nov 1917 Russian Revolution

1918 The home at 687 Second Avenue is sold to finance the Metal Safety Railroad Tie Company. The Langfords move to 818 E. 21 st South, in Sugarhouse

2 Aug 1918 Death of grandmother, Sarah Ellen Jacobs Olsen in Salt Lake City at 88 years

15 Aug 1918 Brother, Lester Langford departs New York on the Oxfordshire as a Ordinance Sergant with the 144 th Ordinance Detachment – Field Artillery

11 Nov 1918 End of World War I – Armistice Day. Husband Keith moves back to Salt Lake City from Los Angeles

23 Nov 1918 Death of Joseph F. Smith, Heber J. Grant becomes the 7 th President of the Church

1919 Jeremiah also gets a patent on a concrete railroad tie

29 Jan 1919 18 th Amendment ratified mandating Prohibition

13 Nov 1919 Death of father, Jeremiah E. Langford in Salt Lake City at the age of 71 years

April 1920 Census lists Keith (27), Florence (27), Florence Beth (4) and Sarah Ellen (2) living at 818 E. 21 st South in Salt Lake City which is the home of the Langfords, but Sarah Ellen and Nellie are not listed as residents.

26 Aug 1920 19 th Amendment granting Women’s Suffrage is ratified

Nov 1920 Election of Warren G. Harding as 29 th US President

24 Mar 1922 Birth of son, Keith Langford Jensen in Los Angeles, California

22 Dec 1922 Florence’s 0 th Birthday

2 Aug 1923 Death of Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30 th US President

1923-24 The Jay Langford family moves to New York state. They live in Jamestown and Cedarhurst, New York which is on Long Island

Nov 1924 Election of Calvin Coolidge as US President

24 Dec 1924 The Keith Jensen f amily lives at 431 W. Las Tunas Drive, San Gabriel, CA

1925 New York State Census lists the Jay Langford family living at Oak & Washington in Hempstead, New York with Sarah Langford (70) and Nelle Langford (45)

6 June 1925 Baptism of Beth and Sally in Alhambra Ward

1926 The Keith Jensen f amily is listed as living at 431 W. Las Tunas Drive in San Gabriel, CA.

1927 Charles Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean

1927 The San Gabriel City directory lists Keith and Florence living at 431 N. Milton Drive, San Gabriel, CA

1928 Discovery of penicillin

1928 The Keith R. Jensen f amily is listed as living at 431 N. Milton Drive, San Gabriel

Nov 1928 Election of Herbert Hoover as 31 st US President

21 Jan 1929 Death of brother, Jeremiah (Jay) E. Langford, Jr. in New York City of strep throat

17 June 1929 Beth graduates from Washington School

15 July 1929 First Tabernacle Choir broadcast

29 Oct 1929 Stock market crash, beginning of the Great Depression

5 Dec 1929 Marriage of brother, Lester Langford to Sarah Murphy in New York City

April 1930 Census lists Florence, Beth (14), Sally (12) and Keith L.(8) living at 515 Garfield, Monterey Park without Keith Royal. He is listed as living in Whittier. Also living with the family is Florence’s mother Sarah Langford (75) and her sister, Nellie (50).

29 Aug 1932 Final divorce decree from Keith Royal Jensen issued

Nov 1932 Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as 32 nd US President

22 Dec 1932 Florence’s 40 th Birthday

11 Nov 1934 Death of mother, Sarah Ellen Olsen Langford in Salt Lake City

18 Oct 1935 Marriage of daughter, Beth Florence Jensen to Robert Fisher Brown in Alhambra, California

7 Feb 1936 Graduation of son, Keith from Granada School

1936 Florence is listed as living at 204 S. Granada Street, Alhambra with Sally, Keith L., and Mary Conner (Sally’s high school friend)

Nov 1936 Re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt for 2 nd Term

23 Oct 1938 Birth of first grandchild, Patricia Ann Brown in Alhambra, California

1 Sep 1939 Germany invades Poland, start of World War II

April 1940 Census lists Florence (47) living with Sally (22), Keith L. (18), and Mary Conner (22) at 204 S. Granada, Alhambra. Robert Brown (26), Beth (24) and Patricia Ann (1) are listed as living at 323 S. Chapel in San Gabriel.

28 Jun 1940 Graduation of son, Keith from Alhambra High School

Nov 1940 Re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt for 3 rd Term

7 Dec 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor

22 Dec 1942 Florence’s 50 th Birthday

1944 Florence is listed as living at 119 S. Monterey, Alhambra

Nov 1944 Re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt for 4 th Term

12 Apr 1945 Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman becomes 33 rd US President

8 May 1945 Victory in Europe

21 May 1945 Death of Heber G. Grant, George Albert Smith becomes 8 th President of the Church

13 Aug 1945 Marriage of son, Keith Langford Jensen to Vada Cherry

6 Aug 1945 Dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

15 Aug 1945 Victory in Japan Day

22 July 1946 Birth of second grandchild, Richard Allen Brown in Alhambra, California

16 Nov 1946 Marriage of daughter, Sarah Ellen Jensen to Raymond Henry Running in San Gabriel, California

6 Oct 1947 Birth of third grandchild, Ronald Keith Running in Pasadena, California

4 Sep 1948 Birth of fourth grandchild, Donna Beth Brown in Downey, California

Nov 1948 Election of Harry S. Truman as US President

5 Jan 1950 Keith Langford Jensen is admitted to the California Bar Association

26 May 1950 Birth of fifth grandchild, Mary Ellen Running in Pasadena, California

1950’s Florence works at the Masonic Home located at 1650 E. Old Badillo Street, Covina as a seamstress.

9 Apr 1951 Death of George Albert Smith, David O. McKay becomes the 9 th President of the Church

2 June 1952 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in England

2 Nov 1952 Birth of six grandchild, Janet Leslie Jensen in Pasadena, California

22 Dec 1952 Florence’s 60 th Birthday

26 Dec 1952 Death of bother, Lester Olson Langford in the Bronx, New York at 62 years of age

Nov 1952 Election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as 34 th US President

1953 Polio vaccine proved effective

28 Jun 1954 Death of sister, Nellie Langford in Salt Lake City at 73 years of age

6 May 1956 Birth of seventh grandchild, Keith Eric Jensen in San Diego, California

Nov 1956 Re-election of Dwight D. Eisenhower as US President

11 Jun 1960 Marriage of granddaughter, Patricia Ann Brown to Henry Joseph Schmidt in Downey, California

Nov 1960 Election of John F. Kennedy as 35 th US President

1960 Florence r etires from Masonic Home and moves to 9839 ½ Garibaldi Street in Temple City

20 Feb 1962 John Glen orbits the earth

25 Sep 1962 Birth of first great grandson, Michael J. Schmidt

11 Nov 1962 Death of former husband, Keith Royal Jensen in Greenland

22 Dec 1962 Florence’s 70 th Birthday

22 Nov 1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36 th US President

1 Jan 1964 Beginning of Home Teaching

1964 Florence m oves to Las Tunas Drive in Temple City

Nov 1964 Election of Lyndon B. Johnson as US President

1965 Florence m oves to the Soroptimist Home in Norwalk

Nov 1968 Election of Richard Nixon as 37 th US President

3 Oct 1964 Family Home Evening emphasized

24 June 1966 Death of brother, Ralph Jackson Langford in Sacramento, California at 70 years of age

26 Aug 1967 Marriage of grandson, Richard Allan Brown to Gail Donna Shaw in Whittier, California

7 June 1969 Marriage of granddaughter, Donna Beth Brown to Allan Tyner in Downey, California

23 Jan 1970 Death of David O. McKay, Joseph Fielding Smith becomes 10 th President of the Church

1970 Florence s uffers a series of mini-strokes and has to be cared for in various convalescent homes in the Downey area .

27 May 1972 Marriage of grand daughter, Mary Ellen Running to Jon Dalton Elton in Los Angeles, California

7 July 1972 Death of Joseph Fielding Smith, Harold B. Lee becomes the 11 th President of the Church

Nov 1972 Re-election of Richard Nixon as US President

22 Dec 1972 Florence’s 80 th Birthday

1 Nov 1973 Birth of great grandson, Matthew Jon Elton in Provo, Utah

30 Dec 1973 Death of Harold B. Lee, Spencer W. Kimball becomes the 12 th President of the Church

9 Aug 1974 Resignation of Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford becomes the 38 th U.S. President

22 Jan 1975 Birth of great grandson, David Raymond Elton in Surrey, Canada

20 May 1975 Marriage of grand daughter, Janet Jensen to Carl Dunn

Nov 1976 Election of Jimmy Carter as 39 th US President

10 May 1977 Birth of James Day Elton in Surrey, Canada

8 Jun 1978 Priesthood restriction ends

15 Sep 1979 Birth of great grand daughter, Treva Claire Elton in Surrey, Canada

12 June 1980 Marriage of grandson, Keith Eric Jensen to Jennifer

Nov 1980 Election of Ronald Reagan as 40 th US President

4 Jan 1981 Death of Florence Langford Jensen in Downey, California. Buried at Rose Hills Cemetery, Whittier, California

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