- Jorgen Jacobsen was born January 20, 1815 in Svaerup, Vigerslev, Skovby, Odense, Denmark to Maren Kirstine Pedersdatter and Jakob Jorgenson (from Rue) who is listed as a farmhand. The following passengers (all in one family) were Danish converts who 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):
Father: Jorgen Jacobsen (Jakobsen) (20 January 1815 - June 1854)Mother: Birthe Kirstine Hansen Jacobsen (aka, Bertha Kristine Petersen) (6 September 1821 - 7 May 1874)Children: Hans Jacobsen (8 April 1844 - June 1854)
Maria Christina Jacobsen (6 April 1845 - 4 April 1896)
Christian Jacobsen (30 November 1846 - 17 January 1921)
Ferdinand Jacobsen (28 December 1848 - June 1854)
Athalio Hadevin (Athalia Hedevine) Jacobsen (21 March 1851 - June 1854)
Rastino (Rastine) Willardine Jacobsen (22 December 1853 - June 1854)
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"Maria Christina Jacobsen Housley was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 April 1845. Her father Jorgen Jacobsen, and her mother Bertha Kristine Petersen [later known as Birthe Kirstine Hansen Jacobsen} were married April the 9th 1843."Maria Christina had an older brother, Hans, and two younger brothers, Christian, and Ferdinand. She also had two younger sisters, Athalio Hadevine, and Rastino Willardine. Her father was an orchardist. They lived on a rented place, containing a very comfortable house with several rooms a yard, some out-buildings, and a good orchard and gardens."They joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on 28 September 1851. Her Father was ordained to the office of a Teacher the 2nd of May 1853, and a Priest the 22[nd] of August the same year.
"In the year of 1854 Maria, with her parents and 5 siblings and many of their friends, started their journey to Zion. Maria Christina was nine years old. She well remembered the day they left their dearly beloved homeland forever. On reaching the beach a man came to their carriage side and tried his utmost to persuade their father to leave his children behind in Denmark; even if it meant their parents went to Utah without them. The children were not able to describe the feelings they had while that man stood and plead with their father on the subject. The very thought of any one wanting to separate them from their parents was very exasperating.
"It was only a short time until they boarded the ship, an old vessel; and had only been on the water for a few minutes when the passengers began to get sick. Maria Christina’s family was no exception. There were a number of deaths. Sometimes the ship rocked so hard that it sent water onto the deck which kept the men working hard to keep it pumped off.
"After a long and tiresome journey over the ocean, across the Gulf of Mexico, then up the Mississippi River in a steam boat, this large group of Danish people landed in Kansas. Food had been scarce during their journey and they were very hungry. A man who lived there was very anxious to sell them some meat. They bought some, cooked it up, and ate it. Being weak, all the company got sick and many of them died. Among the dead were Jorgen, Maria Christina’s father, age 39, her two brothers, Hans age 10 and Ferdinand age 5, and her two sisters, Athalio Hadevine age 3 and Rastino Willardine was somewhere between 6 and 9 months old. After they had eaten the meat and got sick they found out that the pigs had cholera and that the meat was poison. They could not buy coffins so they sewed their dead up in sheets and buried them the best they could under the circumstances. This left Maria Christina’s mother age 33, Maria Christina age 9, and Christian age 8, to continue the trip across the plains on their own. Maria was very sick; nigh unto death, and her mother had a mental breakdown. They were sorrowful days."
Source: "History of Maria Christina Jacobsen Housley," Compiled by Emma Housley Auger. Edited by Leola H. Bott.
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"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)
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"Now we were transfered to a steamboat and sailed up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. From there we sailed on another steamboat to Kansas City. Many of our dear brethren contracted cholera and died and were buried there."
Source: Borreson, Niels H., Autobiographical sketch, in Biographical sketches 1891- , reel 7, box 8, fd. 1, item 23. Church History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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