• Born October 13, 1823 - Otterup, Otterup, Odense, Denmark
  • Baptized October 13, 1823 - Otterup, Odense, Denmark
  • Deceased June 28, 1897 - Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States,aged 73 years old
  • Buried July 1, 1897 - Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States

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On the side of Hans Jørgensen 1795-1878On the side of Maren Kirstine Pedersdatter 1794-1853
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1 NOTE Life sketch

Jens Hansen was born October 13, 1823 in Otterup Parish, Fyn, Denmark to Hans Jorgensen and Maren Kirstine Pedersen. He was their firstborn son. The family eventually consisted of 5 brot
2 CONC hers and sisters and one half-brother. His parents were very poor, and Jens sold cow hides and clay ceramics with his half brother, Jorgen Jacobsen at a very early age to help support the family. He w
2 CONC as raised as a Lutheran and was confirmed at the age of 14.

On April 24, 1853, he married Maren Katherine Christensen. His brother, Peder Hansen was married that same day to Karen Pedersen. De
2 CONC parted for Liverpool, England on December 26, 1853 as an immigrant to the United States. On October 5, 1854, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley. Received his endowment on February 25, 1856. He wa
2 CONC s the husband of 14 wives and 37 children. In June 1897, he struck his head against a hay pole. He died on June 28, 1897.

He traveled as part of the "Hans Peter Olsen" LDS Emigration Company o
2 CONC n the "Benjamin Adams" from Liverpool to New Orleans (28 January 1854 - 22 March 1854), "We left Denmark and arrived at Liverpool. . . After about two weeks stay, we departed in the sailing vessel Ben
2 CONC jamin Adams on which seven or eight hundred Latter-day Saints were passengers. . . After seven weeks we landed at New Orleans, in the blessed land of America, after having crossed the Atlantic Ocean a
2 CONC nd up the lovely Mississippi River; on the banks of which beautiful gardens were planted with trees that only can be grown in countries with climates like here. I felt an inexpressible joy and happine
2 CONC ss on entering this beautiful country about which I had read so much. This country where so many great things had been done.

"We sailed up the river to St. Louis. . . The river banks here were a
2 CONC s before, very beautiful. Orange trees and other fruit trees were growing in the beautiful landscaped gardens. We now went aboard another steamboat, which sailed up the river to Kansas, where we campe
2 CONC d in a forest. Here my wife received a child whose mother died during childbirth, who with our own child had sufficient breast feeding. . . Cholera had just started up the river and the child caught i
2 CONC t and died. Due to this communicative disease my half brother, Jorgen Jacobsen and several of his children, died and was buried in this forest. A daughter of my brother, Peder Hansen and his wife Kare
2 CONC n also died here."

Source: Hansen, Jens. Autobiographical Sketch (Ms 7550), pp. 6, 8. (CHL)

http://mormonmigration.lib.byu.edu/Search/showDetails/db:MM_MII/t:account/id:148/

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Jorgen Christensen 1755-1804 Else Maria Jensdatter ca 1757-1839 Peder Larsen 1764-1848 Anne Jorgensdatter 1766-1806
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Hans Jørgensen 1795-1878 Maren Kirstine Pedersdatter 1794-1853
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Jens Hansen 1823-1897



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