Pioneer Heritage-Mink Creek

Last Thursday Chris and I took Tosh to the airport in SLC and decided to take the scenic route home. After traveling through Park City, Evanston, and Garden City we took the Pass Road turnoff in Ovid that runs through Mink Creek. Mink Creek was settled by my Great-Grandfather James Morgan Keller. He had 5 wives and 42 children. We decend from his 5th wife Anna Petrea Larson, whom he contracted with to bring her from Denmark to the US. When she arrived, she pleaded with him to break the contract and let her be with the man she had fallen in love with while traveling on the ship. He would not break the contract and she became the 5th wife. She was not well recieved by the other wives, as she was younger and we think prettier than themselves. The cemetary at Mink Creek is full of Kellers and sons and daughters of Kellers. We are hoping to take the whole Family to Mink Creek and visit with some of the other family members still living there who know more of the history of this great man. He is just a sample of the Pioneer heritage we claim to be proud of. His family left Denmark in search of a Country where the freedom of religion would allow them to worship as they wished.