Such Roots Have Invested This Tree

Abraham Gudmundsen followed his father into gold and silver smithing, running several jewelry businesses. He also displayed a skill for other manufacture enterprises, invention and business management. Business directories indicate jewelry and mercantile concerns, Lehi histories point out his bicycle shop and inventions. He seems to have shared social and business activity in Lehi with his brothers Garff. He did have similar training as his younger brother Isaac in civic and legal matters as well as being active in the community. 

Born February 10, 1860, he was with his parents as they made their moves throughout Utah and to California and back. Do such moves affect a child for long? Remember his older brothers came across half the known world. Perhaps it bears out that some challenges will only make us stronger. Abraham passed away in American Fork, Utah on March 17, 1940, aged 80. He is buried in Lehi City Cemetery.

Abraham married twice. Jane Sarah Evans, his first wife was born in Lehi in 1865 and died there in 1888 just short of her twenty-fifth birthday. They were married in 1885, becoming parents of Abel G., Isaac S, and Mary Jane. Abraham married again about seven years later, in 1895 to Letitia Austin. Their children were Retta, Austin G, Stanley A, LeGrande and Emma Marie. Letitia passed away 17 January 1967, aged 98 years. Her grandson, Ralph Trane is noted as stating he grew up with Abraham as the only grandfather he knew in the biographical book that Peter Garff's family put together.