RASMUSSEN, Ane Kristine

1807 - 1881  (73 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	RASMUSSEN, Ane Kristine
  Christening	4 Oct 1807	Kattrup, Skanderborg, Denmark
  Birth	30 Oct 1807	Møballe, Kattrup, Skanderborg, Denmark
  Gender	Female
  WAC	4 Nov 1872	EHOUS
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  Death	29 Jan 1881	Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States
  Burial	1 Feb 1883	Parawan, Iron, Utah, United States
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  Person ID	I37167	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

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  Family	JENSEN, Anders ,   b. 28 Nov 1756, Gammelstrup, Viborg, Denmark Gammelstrup, Viborg, Denmarkd. 3 Dec 1830, Gammelstrup, Viborg, Denmark (Age 74 years)
  Family ID	F20631	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

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  Sketch from the life of a Pioneer My grandmother, Bodil Marie Jensen Jensen was born the 21st day of August, 1839 in Raadved, Denmark, to Kristine Rasmussen and Peter Jensen, the fourth child in a family of eleven. When she, with a younger brother, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they were driven from their home and with other converts sailed for America. The voyage was rough and she was sick (bedfast) most of the time. When the ship docked in the Land of Promise she was so weak from illness and lack of nourishment she had to be helped off the vessel onto the shores of this new and strange land where she was to spend the remaining days of her hlife. The young man, Peter Jensen, with whom she had 'kept company' in Denmark, was in the same company and he had dome much for her while on the vessel, but when the journey across the plains began he could not give her the care he wished to, so when they reached Nebraska City, Nebraska, they were married by Elder Horace Eldridge the first day of July 1864 with Joseph A. Yound and John Smith as witnesses. The journey across the plains was uneventful. She walked as often as was possible in her condition, as there were others in poor health. However, their love buoyed her up and Zion was the goal. They lived in Salt Lake for some time, Peter Jensen having been a tailor in Denmark, opened a shop in the city. They were soon called to go and help settle Parowan where he did much to make Parowan the place it is today. He made adobes, burned lime and brick and helped to build many homes, several of which are good homes today. He was a splendid tailor, having served his apprenticeship before he left Denmark, and he made many suits for the leading men. He was known as Tailor Jensen to distinguish him from the other Peter Jensens in the town. He served as a missionary for the Church in Denmark. He told how the United Order was tried in Parowan, but there was so much misunderstanding it was discontinued. Grandmother (Bodil) was a helpmate to him in all his undertakings, and though her health was poor she was cheerful and kind. and carried on her household duties quietly. She was bedfast for several years, but her mending and darning for her children was done throughout the time she aly on her back. At one time Grandfather (Peter) traveled with team to Juab to get one of the General Authorities (who was there attending conference) that he might administer to her. He also took her to the St. George temple to be baptized for her health, but she gradually grew worse, dying on the 19th day of October 1882 at Parowan, Utah, leaving a baby (Wilford) one year old. My father's most cherished memory of her was her last Christmas with them when they drew the table to her bedside to have their Christmas Eve supper, which consisted of what they called 'rice mush and pivoneers, a small cookie with a hole in the center. Grandmother's father and mother (Anders and Ane Kirstine Jensen) with the rest of the family soon joined the church and followed Bodil to Parowan, where they made their home and left a numerous posterity. Grandfather with his eight children moved to Richfield, Sevier County, Utah, in 1883, where they all grew to maturity, and were all living when he died in May 1914. A niece of Grandmother's wrote "Niels' mother (Bodil) was the most beautiful woman I ever saw, she was tall and slender, beautiful hair and eyes, and a complexion like peaches and cream.' Read by Norma Jensen in Anderson Camp, Beaver City, Utah DUP copy.