HADDEN, Louisa

1850 - 1941  (91 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	HADDEN, Louisa
  Birth	19 May 1850	Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
  Gender	Female
  WAC	3 Dec 1879	SGEOR
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	20 Oct 1941	Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States
  Burial	23 Oct 1941	Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I20126	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	HADDEN, Alfred Sidney ,   b. 13 Jan 1813, Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, United States Mount Sterling, Montgomery, Kentucky, United Statesd. 27 Apr 1895, Emery, Carbon, Utah, United States (Age 82 years)
  Mother	CARTER, Sarah Ann ,   b. 29 Jun 1829, Adams, Adams, Illinois, United States Adams, Adams, Illinois, United Statesd. 18 Jun 1916, Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	30 Jan 1846	Parawan, Iron, Utah
  Family ID	F10636	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MORTENSEN, Hans Peter ,   b. 30 Mar 1844, Bjørup, Systofte, Maribo, Denmark Bjørup, Systofte, Maribo, Denmarkd. 5 Jan 1891, Parowan, Iron, Utah, United States (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	11 Mar 1868
  Family ID	F10659	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Photos		Rachel Hadden Applegate
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• Notes

  The Hadden family traveled to Utah in the 1851 John G. Smith Company under the direction of Hiram Mace, a Captain of Fifty. The obituary of Susan Ann Carter Hadden confirms their travel in this company. Companies John G. Smith Company (1851) Approximate age at departure: 1 Sources "Aged Lady Dead," Parowan Times, 21 June 1916, 1. Source Location Utah Digital Newspapers Website New FamilySearch/Family Tree Utah Death Certificate Index, 1904-1961. Utah State Archives and Records Service. Source Location Internet Web Site Louisa Hadden was born 19 May 1850 at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Her father, Alfred Sydney Hadden, and mother, Sarah Ann Carter, were married on 30 January 1846 and sealed together on 28 March 1847 in Winter Quarters, Nebraska, the refugee camp where the saints stopped to recuperate on their way to Utah. We see that her parents lived in this area for three-or-more years and had two children while they lived there. Louisa’s older sister, Rachel, was born in Council Bluffs on12 March, 1848. Louisa was the second child. We can follow where Louisa lived by observing where her younger siblings were born. Her parents had a child born 1853 in Provo, Utah County, and one born in 1855 in Harmony, Washington County before settling in Parowan where five more children were born between 1857 and 1866. The Hadden’s tenth child was born in 1871 in Kanosh, Millard County. Louisa had already been married three years by that time. On page 201 of the AHistory of the Iron County Mission@ Alfred Hadden is listed as one of those to go from Parowan to Panguitch. (Most, but not all, took their families.) On page 202 Alfred Hadden is mentioned as having surveyed the route for the canal in Panguitch. On modern roads it is 50 miles between Panguitch and Parowan. In June, 1866 Panguitch was abandoned because of Indian trouble. I cannot tell if Alfred took his family briefly to Panguitch. When Louisa was about 15 (1865-1866) she is mentioned on page 360 of the ‘History of the Iron County Mission’ as one of the girls who worked at the Cotton Factory in Parowan. She married Hans Peter Mortensen on 11 March 1868. She is listed in the 1870 census with her husband and one-year-old son, Peter A. My father said he got his middle name from Peter Alonzo. She and her family are also listed in the 1880 census where my grandfather, Joseph Reuben is listed as a 2-year-old child. Hans Peter, her husband, died in 1891. Her five children ranged in age from 14 to 23. Peter Alonzo died unmarried in 1902 but her other three sons had a freight hauling business in Parowan for many years. I believe they looked out for their mother the rest of her life. When my father was a boy he slept over at her home every night so that she would not be alone. I have two childhood memories of having seen great-grandmother Mortensen at my grandfather’s home in Delta, Utah before she died. She used to tell pioneer stories and Indian stories to her family. I don’t remember ever being with her to hear the stories, but we can read similar stories in the ‘History of the Iron County Mission’. The stories I read there are some of the same that I have heard my father tell. She lived through some interesting and dangerous times. She lived to be 91 years old. I was eight years old when she died in Parowan in1941.