Lars Peter Jensen
Paris Post, Friday, 31 July 1908, page 7
PROCEEDINGS
Ordered that the following named persons be and they are hereby appointed election officers:
Ovid Precinct
Registrar-Marintha Lindsay
Dis. Clerk Mary S Peterson
Judges-Frederick Sleight, Lars P Jensen, Joseph Johnson
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The Paris Post, Friday, 9 October 1908, page 3
Mr. Lars Jensen has returned from a business and pleasure trip to the lower valley, having purchased while away and bringing home with him a prize winning mare which cost a large sum of money.
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The Paris Post, Friday, 22 January 1909, page 4
Commissioner's Proceedings-The following bills were allowed and ordered paid from the road and bridge fund:
Lars P Jensen-labor-$2.50
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The Paris Post, Wednesday, 27 January 1909, page 4
Commissioner's Proceedings-The following bills were allowed and ordered paid from the road and bridge fund: Lars P Jensen-labor-$2.50
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The Paris Post, Friday, 22 July 1910, page 7
The following bill was allowed and ordered paid from the road and bridge fund: Lars Jensen-labor $28.00
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The Paris Post, Friday, 9 December 1910, page 1
To Mr. and Mrs. Lars Jensen of Ovid, a girl, Thursday, December 8, 1910.
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The Paris Post, Friday, 20 October 1911, page 1
The October term of the District Court convened in regular session Tuesday morning with Judge Alfred Budge on the bench. The jurors drawn to serve at this term are as follows; L P Jensen.
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Paris Post, Thursday, 20 January 1949, page 1
Lars P Jensen, 84, the first child to be born in Ovid, died at 7 am last Thursday at his home in Ovid of causes incident to his advanced age. Lars P Jensen was born Nov 24, 1864, a son of Peter and Bole Marie Jensen. His birth occurred under improvised shelter on the day his parents arrived to make their home at the present site in Ovid. After growing to manhood Lars engaged in farming and blacksmithing.
As an active member of the LDS church he served as superintendent of the ward Sunday School and in the High Council. In 1903 and 1904 he filled a mission in Denmark and again in 1926 served in the California mission field. On October 19, 1887, he was married to Margaret V Hymas in the Logan Temple. Mrs. Jensen died October 2, 1937. Eleven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Jensen, none of whom survive: Mrs. Arthur Peterson of Soda Springs, L William Jensen of Paris, Mrs. Tim Matthews and Mrs. Kenneth Matthews of Liberty, Mrs. Ed Closner of Montpelier, Telbert, Alfred, LaVaun and Wesley Jensen, all of Ovid, 28 grandchildren and 53 great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held Monday at 1 pm in the Ovid ward chapel. Opening prayer Marion Beck, song Michaelson quartert; Speakers Amy Shurtliff and Pres. E W Stucki, vocal solo; Anna Ruth Lewis; speaker, Bishop Oliver L Peterson, remarks Bishop James Olsen; song by quartet. The grave was dedicated by Kenneth Matthews.