Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1860, Kirke Stillinge, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark

Notater:

It appears she was named the same name as her sister Johanne who died 3 years previous.

Familie/Ægtefælle/Partner: Gregers Hansen. Gregers blev født i Hyllerup, Sankt Peders, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark; blev døbt den 4 apr. 1802 i Slagelse Sankt Peder, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark; døde den 14 nov. 1876 i Kirke Stillinge, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark; blev begravet den 19 nov. 1876 i Kirke Stillinge, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Familie/Ægtefælle/Partner: Ukendt. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Indvandring: 1879; Immigrated from Denmark to Utah, United States

Notater:

Hans Gregersen was born 18 July 1835 in Kelstrup, Kirke Stillinge, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark. He was the son of Gregers (also known in the records as Greis) Hansen and Johanne Pedersdatter. Hans Gregersen was baptized into the Lutheran Church on 19 July 1835 at Kirke Stilling, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark. On 11 October 1862, Hans Gregersen married Anne Marie Hansdatter at Kirke Stillinge. They were the parents of twelve biological children and one adopted son: Christiane Sophie (1863), Maren Kirstine (1865), Hans Carl (1867), Peder Christian (1869), Frederick Julius (1872), Peder Christian (1873), Maren Christine (1875), Annie Marie (1877), Ernst Hyrum (1879), Martha Sarah (1880), Jacob (1884), and Arthur Marius (born in 1888, adopted in 1889). The family immigrated to Utah in 1879 and settled in Cache Valley, Utah. Hans died on 2 February 1925 at Basalt, Bingham, Idaho. He was buried in the Hyrum City Cemetery, Cache, Utah, United States.

Hans blev gift med Anne Marie Hansdatter den 11 okt. 1862 i Kirke Stillinge, Slagelse, Sorø, Denmark. Anne blev født den 20 sep. 1840 i Sorø, Vestsjalland, Denmark; blev døbt den 16 nov. 1840 i Fårdrup, Vester Flakkebjerg, Sorø, Denmark; døde den 27 apr. 1919 i Hyrum, Cache, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 30 apr. 1919 i Hyrum City Cemetery, Hyrum, Cache, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Obituary: 1970, Idaho, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Obituary: 1941, Idaho, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: ml. 1909 og 1946, Clark, Idaho, USA
• Draft Registration: ml. 1917 og 1918, Fremont, Idaho, USA

Notater:

Arthur Marius Albretsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 10 January 1888. He was the son of Carl and Bergetta Albretsen. His parents joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and began sending their children to Utah. Arthur was the youngest of the clan, and he immigrated to Utah at the age of 18 months. Once in Utah, Arthur resided with Hans and Anne Gregersen. When Arthur's biological parents arrived in Utah, they gathered up their children, but Arthur chose to remain with the Gregersens instead of return to his biological family. The 1900 US Census shows Arthur as an "adopted son" of Hans and Anne Gregersen. As Arthur reached adulthood, he immigrated to the Bear Lake region of Utah and Idaho, then continued further north to Fremont County, Idaho, and eventually settled in Clark County, Idaho, in 1909. Arthur married Belvida Esther Wilson on 20 March 1911 in Blackfoot, Bingham, Idaho. They lived in Clark County where they attempted dry farming, but Arthur eventually began working for the railroad in Dubois, Clark, Idaho. During the Great Depression, Arthur worked for a short time in Salt Lake City, Utah, but returned to Dubois, Clark, Idaho, shortly thereafter. Arthur and Esther were the parents of Rhea Fern (1911), Hazel Rose (1915), Dorothy May (1919), and Arthur Dale (1922). Arthur Marius Albretsen died on 12 January 1946 in Dubois, Clark, Idaho. He was buried there on 16 January 1946.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Obituary: Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, USA

Notater:

The spelling of Sophie's name is a complicated matter. Called by her middle name, her name also appears at times as Sophia. Her first name has also appeared as several different spellings, including Christiane, Christijane, Christijana, Christyiana, and Christianna. Christiane Sophie Gregersen was born Thursday 14 May 1863 in Vollerup, Soro, Denmark to Hans Gregersen (18 Jul 1835 - 2 Feb 1925) and Ane Marie Hansen (20 Sep 1840 - 27 Apr 1919). Her parents were also born and raised in Soro County but in different towns. She was their first of 11 children. Six of the children did not live beyond childhood. Her siblings were Maren Kjerstine (5 or 8 Feb 1865 - Aug 1866), Hans Carl (27 Apr 1867 - 12 Jun 1941), Peter Christian (24 Nov 1869 - 4 Jan 1873), Frederick Julius (5 May 1872 - 10 Feb 1951), Peter Christian (25 Dec 1873 - 19 Jun 1877), Maren Christine (31 Dec 1875 - 19 Jan 1876), Annie Marie (5 Jan 1877 - ???), Ernst Hyrum Hans (10 Jan 1879 - 31 Mar 1879), Martha Sarah (5 Oct 1880 - ???), and Jacob (18 Feb 1884 - 9 Oct 1885).

By the time the third child (Hans Carl) was born on 27 April 1867, the family was living in St Peters Sogn, Soro County. It was the custom then to buy all their bread. They didn't have ovens in their homes. Bakeries were large buildings, or they seemed very large to a little girl. It was to such places that Sophie was sent on errands for supplies for the family.

The fireplaces at home were used to heat the houses and to cook other types of food, especially soup. When Sophie was just a little tyke, about 4 years old, she was told to sit by the fire and poke wood into it to keep dinner cooking. As she sat there, a spark flew out and caught her sleeve just inside her elbow. The sleeve caught fire and caused a deep burn, which left a heavy scar that she had as long as she lived. She called this her brand mark.

Living conditions, as one would imagine, were much more primitive than what we know now. The family ate at one table and was served with one common bowl or dish, and each member spooned from it. To wash clothes, no washboards were used. They simply rubbed the articles between their hands to get them clean.

Schooling for the children was rather limited in those early days. A daughter of Sophie tells us that Sophie went to school three days a week for five winters for her only formal education, and adds, "she wore wooden shoes."

The Gregersen family's whole world changed when, on 3 March 1873, they became members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some family members turned against them for having done so. Sophie remembers being baptized in a river and confirmed in a field near a small stack of hay. She was not quite ten.

In 1877 when she was 14, her father took her to a dock where a ship, the Wyoming, was waiting for its passengers (missionaries and converts) to board. He put her hand into that of a strange man and told her to pretend that she was the man's daughter. Sophie was the first of her family to come to America, and she was seasick all the way.

When the ship docked in New York City, she boarded a train for Utah. She was met in Salt Lake City by Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Moer (he had been a missionary) who took her to their home in Tooele. She did housework there for her room and board and later earned $20, which she sent to her father.

The following year, Sophie's mother made the long trip to Utah. She brought six-year-old Frederick Jules and little Annie Marie, who was almost two. A baby boy was born in Tooele three months later but lived only a short while. The baby, Ernst Hyrum Hans, is buried in Tooele. Another year passed before Sophie's father and Hans Carl joined the rest of the family in Tooele. The Gregersens left four young children buried in Denmark.

Tooele was still not the end of the trail for the Gregersens. Many of their Danish friends were settling in Cache County, Utah, so they gathered up their small family and set out in 1879. They were given a ride to Salt Lake City but walked the rest of the way to Hyrum, Utah. Sophie's father carried little Marie in a shawl on his back since she was not yet three.

There she met Hans Sorensen (30 May 1853 - 4 Oct 1946) at a dance-he was 26, and she was 16. In those days, dances were held mostly in homes. She thought that she was pretty smart, because Hans had a carriage, and the other girls all had to ride horses to go on dates with their boyfriends. A couple of years later, they decided to get married. Hans was 28 years old, and Sophie was 18 years old. On Wednesday 21 December 1881, they were married and sealed in the Endowment House. Parents did not travel to Salt Lake City to see their children get married, so Hans and Sophie traveled with another couple planning to get married. Their transportation was a team of horses and wagon. On their trip to Salt Lake City, the weather was quite pleasant for December, but on the way home, it was very cold with snow on the ground.

After their marriage, Hans left Sophie in Hyrum with his parents while he went to Millville to rent some farmland from Brigham Young College. Hans also built a small home for his bride. It wasn't long until Sophie joined him and was so pleased to have her own home.

Hans rented the land for eight years until he was able to buy the land from the college. He had bought a little farm equipment each year so he would not have to go into debt. He was able to buy 80 acres at $21 per acre, which was a lot of money in those days. Hans had to work hard in good and bad weather to provide for his fast growing family.

The temple was very important in their lives. Hans, Sophie, and other Mormons were willing to work, sacrifice, and go through hardship in order that the temple could be built. Sophie served as a Relief Society teacher in the church for 40 years. She also devoted much of her time to caring for the ill. Her parents were sealed to each other on 3 May 1885, and she was sealed to her parents on Thursday 20 Jan 1887 along with her brothers and sisters.

Sophie and Hans had 12 children: Hans Junior (23 Sep 1882 - 10 Oct 1972), Joseph (22 Jan 1884 - 5 Jan 1893), Laura Sophia (22 Oct 1885 - 1 Jan 1981), Martha Ann (21 Jan 1888 - 20 Jan 1943), William (24 Jan 1890 - 21 Aug 1893), Emma Christine (20 Oct 1891 - 10 Aug 1893), Ezra (20 Oct 1893 - 19 Jul 1909), Leonard Edwin (5 May 1896 - 17 Mar 1958), Orson James (5 Mar 1898 - 5 Aug 1961), Adella Marie (28 Jul 1900 - 1 Oct 1980), Amanda Lena (7 Jun 1902 - 1 Mar 2003), and Melvin Edger (31 Dec 1906 - 29 Jun 1988).

There were good times and bad times for their family. They had their share of sickness and trials. Hans and Sophie had been married 11 years when their second oldest son became ill. A doctor thought he just had a stomachache, but Joseph died from a ruptured appendix. Joseph was just 9 years old. This was a very sad time, and there was more sadness to come. On 19 February 1893 (less than a month later), Hans' mother passed away at the age of 69. In August of that same year, Hans and Sophie lost another child, Emma Christiane (age 21 months), and about 10 days later, William also died (age 3 years 7 months). Their faith in God had to be strong to get them through that year. Another trial came in 1909 when their 15-year-old son, Ezra, was hit and killed by lightening while he was fishing.

In 1903, their oldest son (Hans) was called to go on a mission to Denmark, and they were happy to support their son on this mission. Later, they supported another son, Melvin, on a mission to Colorado. Their son Orson served in the United States Navy. Hans and Sophie really loved their children and would not allow anyone to speak badly about them.

Hans' trouble with rheumatism continued to get worse, so by 1914, Hans decided to move his family back to Hyrum. Hans had a home, barn, and chicken coops built on a corner lot. There was plenty of room for a large garden with grapes growing on the fence.

As Sophie got older, her hair thinned until she was nearly bald. Sophie must have had a pretty good stomach, because she would hold a loaf of bread on her stomach to slice it.

Hans and Sophie always had friendly arguments going on. Hans did the weeding of the garden, but not to Sophie's satisfaction. Once he weeded the tops off of all the carrots, but the carrots did grow back. Sophie did all of the milking. Sophie said that Hans was too rough on the cows, so she did not let him into the barn.

Sophie's mother died in 1919 at the age of 78 years, after which her father came to live with Hans and Sophie for a while. He also spent time with other members of his family. Her father died 6 years after her mother at the age of 89 years.

Sophie became a widow when Hans died at home on 4 Oct 1946 at the age of 93 years. Sophie was 83 years old at that time and had faithfully taken care of him through his long years of illness.

Sophie's family honored her on her 90th birthday with an open house in College Ward at the home of her son Leonard. She died in Smithfield, Cache, Utah on Wednesday 4 August 1954 at the age of 91 years. She was buried Saturday 7 August 1954 in Hyrum, Cache, Utah.

Christiane blev gift med Hans Sorensen, Sr. den 21 dec. 1881 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Hans (søn af Jens Sørensen og Johanne Johansdatter) blev født den 30 maj 1853 i Tølløse, Merløse, Holbæk, Denmark; blev døbt den 17 jul. 1853 i Tølløse, Merløse, Holbæk, Denmark; døde den 4 okt. 1946 i Hyrum, Cache, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 7 okt. 1946 i Hyrum, Cache, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1900, Millville, Cache, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1910, College, Cache, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1920, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, Logan, Cache, Utah, USA

Notater:

Hans and Sophia Sorensen had been married eleven years when Joseph Sorensen (their second oldest son) became ill. A doctor thought he just had a stomach ache, but Joseph died from a ruptured appendix. Joseph was just nine years old.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: Hyrum, Cache, Utah, USA
• Dåb: 12 jan. 1915

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1900, Millville, Cache, Utah, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: lived in Cache County, Utah, from birth until 1910
• Bopæl: lived in Raft River, Idaho, from 1910 to 1919
• Bopæl: lived in Robin, Idaho, from 1919 to 1924
• Bopæl: lived in Tyhee, Idaho, from 1924 until death
• Obituary: 1972, Idaho, USA

Notater:

Hans Sorensen Jr. was born 23 September 1882 in Millville, Cache, Utah, United States. He was the oldest child of Hans Sorensen Sr. and Christiana Sophie Gregersen. His parents had each been born in Denmark and immigrated to the United States where they met and married. Hans married Margaret Wyatt Kington on 22 April 1903 in Logan, Cache, Utah. On 5 May 1903, Hans was set apart as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served as a missionary in Denmark until 25 May 1905. Hans and Margaret were the parents of eight children: Ruby Margarete (1906), Arlo Kington (1908), Vilo Kington (1909), Owen Kington (1910), Leda (1912), Sefa (1918), Alma (1921), and Rece (1923). Hans died on 10 October 1972 in Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho. He was buried beside his wife in the Mountain View Cemetery, Bannock, Idaho, on 13 October 1972.

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1900, Millville, Cache, Utah, USA
• Military Draft Registration: ml. 1917 og 1918, Carbon, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1930, College, Cache, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1935
• Bopæl: 1940, College, Cache, Utah, USA

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: Cache, Utah, USA; lived from her birth to her death in

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1920, Moore, Butte, Idaho, USA
• Obituary: 1981, Idaho, USA

Notater:

LIFE SKETCH OF LAURA SOPHIA SORENSEN JENSEN
Written by Gwendolyn Jensen Butler

Laura Sophia Sorensen was born 22 October 1885, in Melville, Utah, (near Logan). The third child in a family of twelve children to Hans Sorensen and Christiane Sophie Gregersen, who had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints with their families and left their native Denmark as young people to come to Utah. At her death, the first of January, 1981 two of this family survives Laura; a brother, Melvin Sorensen of Logan, Utah and a sister, Amanda Hilliard of Smithfield, Utah.

In a life of 95 active years, there are many years unknown to those who have known her for as many as fifty or sixty years. At an age when many people retire, she still had thirty years of industrious life ahead of her. One phrase describes her well: “She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.” Proverbs 31:27 the philosophy which this proverb suggests runs like a thread throughout her life. She enjoyed living and doing the work necessary to that life.

For a short time, Laura was a young girl, living in a log house with whitewashed log walls and bare wooden floors scrubbed weekly; a young girl running across the plank, over the canal to Uncle Lars’(Sorensen) home to play with cousins; running over to Jensen’s, the nearest neighbor, to get some gooseberries or currants to eat; running down the ditch that carried water from a large spring, to be baptized when eight years old, then walking home in her wet clothes, (5 November 1893).

A young girl hauling wood, coal, and water, and later hauling out water, and ashes, blacking and shining the wood stove, getting almost as much black on herself as on the stove, milking two or three cows before and after school, and washing clothes on a wash-board with homemade soap. A young girl winning the battle against diphtheria (Summer 1893), which took the lives of her sister Emma and little brother Willie, eating “lumpy dick” a breakfast “mush” made or cooking flour in milk; being glad when whole wheat was available instead; wearing stiff scratchy clothing made from linsey, a mixture of wool and cotton.

All too soon she was a young woman, leaving school at about sixteen to stay and help her mother at home, to return at 18 to finish, not just eight grade, which was considered a good education at that time, but going on to Brigham College in Logan for four years, to graduated (28 May 1909) and earn a teaching certificate. A young woman working for her board and room so she could finish eighth grade, working in a boarding house one summer, getting up at 5:30 a.m. to fix breakfast, cleaning rooms and working until 9:00 or 10:00 p.m. for $3.50 per week: earning 75 cents a day topping beets: teaching grades one through four, for a salary of $45 a month. A young woman dancing at dances with a waltz to start, one at the intermission, and one to close. The rest were schottische, square dance, and polkas.

A young woman, Joe Jensen had been courting for two years (or all their lives for that matter). He waited a year for her to teach school, then on 15 June 1910, Laura Sophia Sorensen and Joseph Edward Jensen were married for time and eternity in the Logan Temple.

Now a young wife, sharing with her husband the joy when their home was blessed with children; first six boys, Joseph Doyle 19 June 1911, Lloyd Edward 10 April 1913, Glen Carrol 7 April 1915, Elmer Ray 24 December 1917, Leo Merrill 14 March 1920, and Vaughn Lewis 3 September 1922; then three girls, LaVir 24 April 1925, May 10 April 1928, and Marjorie 19 December 1931, were born to them. Sharing the sorrow when Glen Carrol suffering from lung congestion died two days after birth, and May was stillborn.

A young wife, rearing, teaching, and enjoying the remaining five sons and two daughters; watching them grow, develop, and establish homes and families of their own, and live to survive their parents, giving them posterity at the time of her death of 36 grandchildren, 69 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

A young mother leaving Logan Utah, area of her birth, leaving comparative comfort. Struggling to pioneer a newer settlement in Lost River, Idaho in 1914 living in a poorly built log houses, sometimes only a dirt roof, sometimes walls improved with a pressed paper wall lining called “beaver board”, moving into the home that Joe built in 1918, being happy to get a “real” house, and enjoying that home for more than 60 years.

A farm wife, raising baby chicks in a small box with a lantern, washing the cream separator which took more time than washing dishes, selling the cream to the store which was better than making butter, teaching her children to eat bread when they ate fruit, because fruit was hard to come by, and feeding grandchildren a “piece” (usually a slice of bread and butter) before they left her home. Her bread drawer never seemed to be empty.

A woman helping others, serving children as a Stake Primary Counselor (29 April 1923 and again in 1930 for several years) and Primary President (27 April 1924-1927) and as a 4-H leader, serving sisters as a Ward Relief Society President (20 April 1941 for three and one-half years) and a Stake Relief Society Counselor, serving young people in Mutual, caring for her aged mother, and delivering the infant grand-daughter that would bear her name.

Always, a woman growing, creating beauty in necessity, sewing rags to make a home-made carpet to cover bare floors in her first home, planting flowers to border the vegetable garden which would feed her family, sharing starts of these flowers to enrich other gardens, piecing star quilts with memories of the dresses she and her daughters wore, making plump pillows with the feathers and down from the geese that waddled outside her yard, and preserving the sunshine of summer fruits and vegetables for winter meals.

Laura Jensen left a heritage of provident living, persistence, determination, industry, and endurance; with a lifetime zest for learning and doing. She won the fight with breast cancer 19 years ago, facing the ordeal just three months after losing her husband and life-long companion, Joseph Edward Jensen on 5 December 1961. Taking her first airplane flight just two weeks before her 92 birthday, she refused the offer of a wheelchair to take her between terminals with a “No thanks that would make me look old.”

As she returned to finish her education in her youth, so she continued to study and learn from recorded books when her eyesight grew dim. In her 95th year she was still carrying many of her lifelong activities. Rags were still being made into useful and decorative rugs. In July when someone gave her more cherries than she could eat, she bottled the rest for winter. In august while visiting and shelling peas, she was the fasted pea sheller, even faster than granddaughters with young nimble fingers. She wanted to be in her own home taking care of herself on her 95th birthday, 22 October 1980. She made it. And on that day she still wanted to do one more bucketful of apples before her harvesting was finished. At the time she had her stroke four weeks ago, she was cutting quilt blocks.

She prepared herself for death by preparing for life. When she wasn’t strong enough last spring to work in her garden, she exercised, and last fall, by digging sitting on a chair, she prepared a part of her garden for spring planting. We can all profit buy an observation she made in her life story, “When I hear people complaining now,” she said, “if they would try half as hard as we did, they would get along fine.

I hope that each of us can try half as hard, that we can follow this example of victory and never quitting until there is no possibility for us to do otherwise. I do this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• Bopæl: 1935, Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, USA
• Bopæl: 1940, Rupert, Minidoka, Idaho, USA