HANSEN, Jens

1823 - 1897  (73 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	HANSEN, Jens
  Birth	13 Oct 1823	Otterup, Odense, Denmark
  Christening	13 Oct 1823	Otterup, Odense, Denmark
  Gender	Male
  Census	18 Feb 1834	Korup Sogn, Odense, Denmark
  WAC	26 Feb 1857	EHOUS
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Death	28 Jun 1897	Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States
  Burial	1 Jul 1897	Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I20167	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	BISCHOFF, Maren Jacobsen ,   b. 22 May 1834, Vollerup Gimlinge, Sorø, Denmark Vollerup Gimlinge, Sorø, Denmarkd. 19 Dec 1912, Fountain Green, Sanpete, Utah, United States (Age 78 years)
  Marriage	25 Jan 1868	Utah
  Children	1. HANSEN, Jacob Bischoff ,   b. 27 Feb 1870, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United Statesd. 27 Feb 1870, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F10697	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  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 brothers 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 was 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. Departed 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 was the husband of 14 wires 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 on 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 Benjamin 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 and 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 happiness 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 as 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 camped 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 it 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 Karen 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/