Monday, March 17, 2008

Faboulous Forever Family

Since I can't seem to get this done on a Friday, it will be come the Fabulous Forever Family, which will show up periodically.
This is about Andrew (Anders) Hansen. I already wrote about his second wife Karen, and his picture is posted with hers.
It seems that Anders was born 10 July 1809 in Edense, Odense, Denmark. Erastus Snow came to Denmark in 1850 as a missionary, Anders heard of it and joined the church in 1854. He and his wife Maren Kristine Nielsen were the parents of 7 children. 4 of the children had died very young before they came to the USA. On the trip to America, Maren, his wife, and Niels and Jens, 2 of the sons died and were buried at sea. So only Anders and 8 yr old son Hans made it to Utah. They settled in Ephriam, Sanpete, Utah, where many of the Danish emigrants settled. Karen arrived in Ephriam in September1857, she was 33 years old. She married Anders in Oct 1857, he was 48. All our written family history states that they had 2 sons James and Andrew. But in a census it states that she had 4 pregnancy and 2 living children. New Family Search shows that there were 2 other sons born, each lived less than a year.

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