Christine then traveled to Logan
to visit her sister Christina Magdalena. When she stepped off the train a man
approached her and asked if she would like to become one of his wives. She told him to go away.
He warned her that she could never be exalted unless she would go into polygamy. She was
surprised by the proposal because she was not yet a member of the LDS Church. However, she
had forsaken the Lutheran Church before she left Germany.
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Logan, Utah 1891 |
Shortly afterward her other
sister, Anna Maria, also known as Mary, joined a non-LDS polygamist group from the
East. They were led by a man who had brought them west to join the LDS Church. But the
LDS members would have nothing to do with them because they did not believe in the other
principles of the Church. Anna Maria joined this group anyway. They stayed in the Cache
Valley area for a while. Christine once went to the farm where they were living to see her
sister. Anna Maria threw clods of dirt at her to drive her away because she didn't want
Christine to see her and the other wives working in the fields like men. Not too long afterward this
group left for the East and Anna Maria was never heard from again.
Christine had full intentions of
going back to Germany after her visit with her family. However, she was
persuaded to stay and make America her home when she found she was with child. She had to make a
living so she hired out as a domestic to families who needed help when mothers were having
babies. A number of husbands proposed marriage to Christine even as their wives were giving
birth but she had made up her mind she would never marry into polygamy.
Her nephew, Conrad Walz, and his
father, George Ludwig Walz, worked at the Logan Temple site on

Christine, now 22, gave birth to
a baby girl January 19, 1882, in Logan. The baby was given the name of Emelia
Walz at her blessing March 2, 1882, by Christian Schneider. On the ward record the
name was spelled Emily. On the same day, Christine was baptized by Fred Bessler. She was
confirmed by Jacob Spori. Both the naming of the baby and the baptism occurred in the Logan
Fourth Ward.
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