Berthe Maria Johnson Bulow

Berthe Maria Bulow, picture taken the summer before here death.
I believe the medal she is wearing was to honor her as one of the surviving Utah pioneers.

Grandma Bulow, was my Great great Grandmother. Berthe was born on February 10, 1843 in Denmark. The daughter of Kastina Peterson and Andrius Pole Poleson. She was born in the home of Rasmus Pederson, where she lived as their daughter. When Berthe was nine Rasmus died and his wife remarried making it impossible for her to live there any longer. She went to live with her mother's second cousin, Louise Grand.
Berthe was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on January 1, 1866. Four months later at the age of twenty-three she left Denmark and set sail for America. She landed in New York on October 1,1866. She then went to Boston and from Boston to Florence, by train. She remained in Florence only three days before heading to Utah.
On March 14, 1868 she married Charles Henry Bulow, being his third wife. While in Salt Lake two children were born to the Bulow's. In 1872 the family moved to Richfield where they made their home. While in Richfield five more children were born. My great grandfather Samuel Ezra Bulow was their fourth child. Three of the Bulow children died in 1878 during a diphtheria epidemic.
In the early spring of 1891 Bertha's husband died.
In 1910 Bertha moved to Moroni where she lived with her son Samuel. She later went to live with her granddaughter Mary Lucille Bulow Clark in Provo. She lived with the Clarks until her death on November 21, 1937, at the age of ninety-three. My mother, Carol once told me she was passing by the bedroom that she shared with her Grandma and she heard her take a deep breath, she went in to check on her and found that she had died. She said "I know that I heard her take her last breath." Mom would have been eight years old at the time.
Berthe is buried beside her husband in the Moroni, Utah cemetery.