Randall Nielsen

The picture of the baby in the dress was given to my mother by her in-laws. She was told it was a picture of my dad, Randall Nielsen. I think the picture was intended to preserve the dress, not just the baby. Dad was born in 1899, and his grandfather, Peter Lars Nielsen, did not die until 1919 and lived in Monroe with Dad's parents Nephi and Zelaine Nielsen. He was a tailor by trade, and had been converted to the gospel as he listened to the Mormon missionaries preach on the street outside his little tailor shop in Denmark. I suspect that christening gown was his handiwork. It might have been Zelaine's or her mom, Ellen Amelia Lisenbee, as they were very good with the needle too, and it was Ellen's skill with the needle which kept her family from starving after she was widowed. Fine needlework was the framework of this Nielsen/Lisenbee family.