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Ane Johanna Katrina Jensen

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Ane Johanna Katrina Jensen

Birth
Denmark
Death
9 Sep 1883 (aged 28)
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
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Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Death date is 9/9/1883, burial date is 9/11/1883.

Ane Johanna Katrina Jensen was born in Fredericia, Vejle, Denmark April 29, 1855. She was the first of 12 children born to Henrick Peter Jensen and Johanna Marie Jorgensen.

The family joined the LDS Church and after several years of saving were able to move in smaller groups from Denmark to Utah. Ane Johanna was the last of the family to leave Denmark in 1878. She agreed to marry Soren Jensen a polygamist and become his fourth plural wife on Sept 10, 1878. Soren had been a Mormon Missionary in Denmark.

Ane Johanna had worked with linens and was skilled as a seamstress. She would sew for her friends and familys in Utah. On the night before her fifth wedding anniversary, Ane Johanna was sewing by a kerosene lamp and a miller flew into it. She tried to remove the miller but the lamp fell over and caught her long skirts on fire. She was burned to death along with her baby. She was only 28 years old.

Ane Johanna and Soren had two surviving little girls. Her father Hendrick Peter Jensen tried to take the girls to live with him, but Soren said no. He let his other wives raise Ane’s daughters. One of the little girls was Sarah Marie Jensen who in her life became well-to-do and donated money for the new annex building of the Daughter’s of the Utah Pioneer’s Museum in Salt Lake City.
Death date is 9/9/1883, burial date is 9/11/1883.

Ane Johanna Katrina Jensen was born in Fredericia, Vejle, Denmark April 29, 1855. She was the first of 12 children born to Henrick Peter Jensen and Johanna Marie Jorgensen.

The family joined the LDS Church and after several years of saving were able to move in smaller groups from Denmark to Utah. Ane Johanna was the last of the family to leave Denmark in 1878. She agreed to marry Soren Jensen a polygamist and become his fourth plural wife on Sept 10, 1878. Soren had been a Mormon Missionary in Denmark.

Ane Johanna had worked with linens and was skilled as a seamstress. She would sew for her friends and familys in Utah. On the night before her fifth wedding anniversary, Ane Johanna was sewing by a kerosene lamp and a miller flew into it. She tried to remove the miller but the lamp fell over and caught her long skirts on fire. She was burned to death along with her baby. She was only 28 years old.

Ane Johanna and Soren had two surviving little girls. Her father Hendrick Peter Jensen tried to take the girls to live with him, but Soren said no. He let his other wives raise Ane’s daughters. One of the little girls was Sarah Marie Jensen who in her life became well-to-do and donated money for the new annex building of the Daughter’s of the Utah Pioneer’s Museum in Salt Lake City.

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