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Ida May Walker Berg

8 Jul 1885 – 8 Mar 1961

Birth	8 Jul 1885
Death	8 Mar 1961
Cemetery	Pleasant Grove City Cemetery Pleasant Grove , Utah County , Utah , USA
Added by	SRBentz on 08 Sep 2009
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77513

Bio

Daughter of Henson Walker and Caroline Elizabeth Farnsworth Wife of Reuben George Weeks, married 3 September 1904, Provo, Utah, Utah Wife of Erick Godfrey Berg, married 3 July 1942, LaPlata, San Juan, New Mexico Ida May Walker, the sixth child of Henson Walker III and Caroline Elizabeth Farnsworth, was born July 8, 1885, at LaPlata, Grand County, New Mexico, while her father was on his mission. They moved back to Pleasant Grove where Ida grew up and attended school. Sept. 3, 1903, she married Reuben George Weeks, son of Reuben and Mary Hurst Weeks. In 1907 they were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. Rube used to drive a team of horses and hauled vegetables and fruit to Salt Lake City to sell on the market. He also hauled ore out of American Fork Canyon. Rube and Ida moved out on a railroad job. While Rube worked with the men, Ida would help the boss's wife cook for all the men. Noma, their baby girl, would sit in a box while her mother worked. In 1907 when the section in Burley, Idaho, was opened to homestead, Ida & Rube took a team and wagon, a cow, and a few chickens, with what little other belongings they owned and settled there. They left their families and friends behind to help build up this new country. Here they pioneered in earnest. All water they used had to be hauled in tanks. It would take a day to go and bring the water back. Their first home was a two-roomed log house which they built themselves. Through ingenuity and hard work, they broke up the sagebrush-covered ground. Ida worked right out in the fields with Rube. Now they had a little boy which they named Robert LeRoy and he would ride on the plow with his mother while she broke up the ground. They planted sugar beets, potatoes, grain, and hay. They soon acquired a dairy herd and beef cattle. At this time their third child was born who was named Edna. They became very successful and soon were able to build a very fine modern brick home. In 1920 they sold their place in Idaho and moved back to Utah. For a while they lived in Pleasant Grove, then they moved to Salt Lake City. About a year later, they bought into a garage business and moved to Logan. Rube took over the gas business and drove a gas truck and delivered gas to all service stations around that area while his partner sold cars. Being honest himself, Rube trusted his partner but soon found himself out of business. Ida and Rube moved back to Pleasant Grove and built a home. There another son was born to them but he died at birth. Later they bought a ranch in Provo Canyon and operated it until the Government bought the farm ground when they built Deer Creek Dam. Then they moved back to Pleasant Grove and raised chickens, still taking care of the campgrounds in the canyon. In 1940 Ida and Rube separated; later they both remarried. On July 3, 1942, Ida married Erick G. Berg. She passed away on 8 Mar 1961, in Eugene, Lane, Oregon, and was buried in the Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, Pleasant Grove, Utah. By Edna Weeks Atkinson (daughter)

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