Father: Peder Crellisen
Mother: Karen Agerlin
Spouse: Jacob Bastian
Married; 24 April 1857 On board Ship Westmoreland Harbor of Liverpool, England
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Jacob and Gertrude were sweethearts who danced before the king of Denmark.
Gertrude found the gospel and was baptized in 1855. She Encouraged Jacob, and he too was baptized. The church
in Denmark would not recognize a marriage between them because of their religion, so they joined a group of Saints
leaving for America and were married on board the ship.
After eight weeks at sea, they arrived in Philadelphia, then traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa.
There, they constructed handcarts and began their journey west. Gertrude was delicate and sickly, but never complained. After three months on the trail, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley where Gertrude died three days later, leaving Jacob alone to mourn. Erastus Snow
was the only one who came to comfort him.
--
Cemetery Record
Name: BASTION
Birth: UNKNOWN
Death: 11/0/1858 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Relations
Burial Information
Burial: 11/0/1858 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Grave Location: B-4-PAUPER-808
NOTE: I rarely trust the Death Date on early burials in these records. But Burial Date, is most often accurate.
However the stone gives death date as Sept 1857.
If she died days after entering the valley, Sept 1857 fits.
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Mother: Karen Agerlin
Spouse: Jacob Bastian
Married; 24 April 1857 On board Ship Westmoreland Harbor of Liverpool, England
---
Jacob and Gertrude were sweethearts who danced before the king of Denmark.
Gertrude found the gospel and was baptized in 1855. She Encouraged Jacob, and he too was baptized. The church
in Denmark would not recognize a marriage between them because of their religion, so they joined a group of Saints
leaving for America and were married on board the ship.
After eight weeks at sea, they arrived in Philadelphia, then traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa.
There, they constructed handcarts and began their journey west. Gertrude was delicate and sickly, but never complained. After three months on the trail, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley where Gertrude died three days later, leaving Jacob alone to mourn. Erastus Snow
was the only one who came to comfort him.
--
Cemetery Record
Name: BASTION
Birth: UNKNOWN
Death: 11/0/1858 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Relations
Burial Information
Burial: 11/0/1858 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Grave Location: B-4-PAUPER-808
NOTE: I rarely trust the Death Date on early burials in these records. But Burial Date, is most often accurate.
However the stone gives death date as Sept 1857.
If she died days after entering the valley, Sept 1857 fits.
-----
Father: Peder Crellisen
Mother: Karen Agerlin
Spouse: Jacob Bastian
Married; 24 April 1857 On board Ship Westmoreland Harbor of Liverpool, England
---
Jacob and Gertrude were sweethearts who danced before the king of Denmark.
Gertrude found the gospel and was baptized in 1855. She Encouraged Jacob, and he too was baptized. The church
in Denmark would not recognize a marriage between them because of their religion, so they joined a group of Saints
leaving for America and were married on board the ship.
After eight weeks at sea, they arrived in Philadelphia, then traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa.
There, they constructed handcarts and began their journey west. Gertrude was delicate and sickly, but never complained. After three months on the trail, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley where Gertrude died three days later, leaving Jacob alone to mourn. Erastus Snow
was the only one who came to comfort him.
--
Cemetery Record
Name: BASTION
Birth: UNKNOWN
Death: 11/0/1858 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Relations
Burial Information
Burial: 11/0/1858 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Grave Location: B-4-PAUPER-808
NOTE: I rarely trust the Death Date on early burials in these records. But Burial Date, is most often accurate.
However the stone gives death date as Sept 1857.
If she died days after entering the valley, Sept 1857 fits.
-----
Mother: Karen Agerlin
Spouse: Jacob Bastian
Married; 24 April 1857 On board Ship Westmoreland Harbor of Liverpool, England
---
Jacob and Gertrude were sweethearts who danced before the king of Denmark.
Gertrude found the gospel and was baptized in 1855. She Encouraged Jacob, and he too was baptized. The church
in Denmark would not recognize a marriage between them because of their religion, so they joined a group of Saints
leaving for America and were married on board the ship.
After eight weeks at sea, they arrived in Philadelphia, then traveled by rail to Iowa City, Iowa.
There, they constructed handcarts and began their journey west. Gertrude was delicate and sickly, but never complained. After three months on the trail, they arrived in the Salt Lake Valley where Gertrude died three days later, leaving Jacob alone to mourn. Erastus Snow
was the only one who came to comfort him.
--
Cemetery Record
Name: BASTION
Birth: UNKNOWN
Death: 11/0/1858 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
Relations
Burial Information
Burial: 11/0/1858 Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Grave Location: B-4-PAUPER-808
NOTE: I rarely trust the Death Date on early burials in these records. But Burial Date, is most often accurate.
However the stone gives death date as Sept 1857.
If she died days after entering the valley, Sept 1857 fits.
-----
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