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- A short history of Severene as told by Granddaughter Delta Christensen BardlseyContributed By chandrazundel1 · 22 juli 2013 · 0 Comments Severene Chrihriristiansen Christensen January 31, 1853 – December 15, 1922 Severene Christiansen Christensenn, m my grandmother, was born January 31, 1853 in Holma Denmark. Her parents were Christian Christiansen and Karen Marie Sorensen. Severine had three older sisters – Elline, Inge, and Eline. She had one brother, Christian, who was her twin. Severine had a fair complexion as a redhead. When Severene was a small child, she became very fond of an unmarried neighbor lady, Ingeborg Jenson, who in turn became very much attached to little Severene. Severene spent much time in the neighbor’s home. When the LDS missionaries visited and converted Ingeborg and her family to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints, little Severene became interested also. She would walk many miles with Ingeborg to attend Sacrament Meeting. When Ingeborg decided to come to America with her brother, Christian Jenson and his wife Barbara, she wanted to bring Severene wiwith her. Severene’s parents let her make her own decision, and as the child had grown to know and love Ingeborg very much, and as she also loved the gospel, Severene choose to come to America. By this time, Severene had reachehed the age of twelve and Ingeborg was forty-four. They left for America with the One-Hundred-and-Thirty-First Company on the B.S. Kimball. The ship B.S. Kimball with Captain H. Dearborn sailed from Hamberg Germany on May 8, 1865. It was called the Andrew Jensen Company. There were 558 immigrant saints on board under the charge of Elder Andrew W. Winberg, assisted by his counselors John Swensen and Hans C. Hogsted. Most of tthe saints on the ship were from Scandinavia. After a very strenuous voyage, during which three adults and twenty-five children died from an epidemic of measles and scarlet fever, the ship sailed into the New York harbor on July 14, 1865. They were six weeks in crossing the ocean! On the afternoon of the same day, most of the immigrants commenced the journey, by train via St. Joseph Missouri whence they proceeded to Wyoyoming, Nebraska, by river steamer. Several of the company died on the journey from New York to Nebraska. The saints camped some time in Nebraska while some of the men went out into the hills and caught wild oxen, which they had to train to work and pull their wagons. Others made wagons. When everything was ready, they loaded their few possessions on the wagons and started West for Utah. The company with which they crossed the plains was called the Miner G. Atwood Company. Severene walked beside the wagon many days; then she was stricken with brain fever and was very sick. Each morning, after everything was loaded on the wagon, they made a bed for her on the top of the load directly under the wagon cover. As she was burning with fever with the hot sun beating down on her through the wagon cover, it was almost unbearable. When thhey ststopped at noon, they would lift her down and set her where she could lean against the wagon wheel or a tree trunk, as she was too weak to sit up. The food, which was very scarce, was rationed out and as shshe coulld not eat, her foster mother would trade her share of food for milk for Severene to drink. Through her faith and prayers and those of the company, Severene was finally restored to health. I remember hearing her tell how much she feared the Indians as they very often tried to attack the company. The captain gave orders for everyone to stay close together, but one day a man and woman lagged a ways behind, as the woman wasn’t feeling well. Just then some Indians came out from some willows and circled the wagons several times. When they spied the couple way behind, they went after them. They shot the man and lassoed the woman and pulled her up on a horse and rode away with her. The guards went after them, but soon lost track of them in the willows and trees After a long, weary trek, they reached Salt Lake Valley on November 8, 1865. As the Scandinavian people were used to a cold country, Brigham Young sent many of them to Ephriam and Manti and vicinity to make their home. Being closer to the hills there is a lot of snow and cold weather during the winter momonths. So Ingeborg took Severene to Ephriam, where they lived with her brother Christian and his family. During those days, the pioneers did their own spinning and weaving and manufacturing. They madade their owwn soap and candles. One day, when soap was being made, the kettle was accidentally overturned and Severene was badly burned. When Severene was sixteen years of age, she was married to Jens Peter Christensen of Manti on June 28, 1869, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. They made the journey to the city by horse and wagon. Jens Peter’s brother, Jens Christensen, and his fiancé Anne Else Brienholt, age fiffteen, accompmpanied them to Salt Lake and made it a double wedding. They made their home in Manti. During the next years, they had many scares by the Indians. One day as heher husband, whho was a mail carrier between Manti and Gunnison, was preparing to leave with the mail, an Indian came to the door and asked for food. Severene had no bread except the lunch she had made for her husband. When the Indian pointed at the lunch, she overcame her fright and picked up a gun that was lying nearby and pointed it at him. The Indian ran away frightened. At another time, some Indians stole their neighbor’s hoorses, and finding one lame and of no use to them, brought it back and wanted money for it. But the neighbor, with the aid of his gun, ordered the Indian away. During those first years of their marriage, her husband was away from home much of the time freighting eggs, flour and chickens by wagon train to Milford and Pioche, Nevada. So she was alone with her small children much of the time. Later her husband bought land in Manti, which the five sons helped to run. They also owned a sheep herd, which the boys herded in the mountains during the summertime, and on the desert in winter. Her foster mother, Ingeborg, died Sd September 12, 1888, and was buried in the Manti cemetery. Grandmother must have missed her a great deal, as she was the only relative she knew. In 1898 they moved their family to Redmond, where they bought a big farm. There the boys still helped on the farm and herded the sheep. The house they bought there still stands though it has been remodeled. Her husband passed away in 1904 at the age of sixty-five. Grandfather was fourteen years her senior, she was just fifty-one when she was left a widow. There had been nine children born to them. Two had died in infancy, but the other seven, five boys and two girls, grew up and mamarried and settled in Redmond. I remember so well how we all met at grandmother’s home every Sunday after Sacrament Meeting, which was held in the afternoon. All the aunts, uncles, and cousins were there fofor Sunday night supper. The children had to wait to eat last those days, but we didn’t mind. We always enjoyed being at Grandmother’s and playing with the cousins. Our home was farther ouout of town than grandmother’s and we passed her place to go to school and church and so forth. We always stopped in to see her, and she was always glad to see us. She was a Relief Society worker and did much towards helping and caring for the sick. Her children were: Severene Caroline 24 Jan 1870 17 Feb 1874 Amanda Maria 20 Oct 1872 06 Jul 1945& James Peter 02 Aug 1875 sp; 18 Oct 1932 Soren Christian 12 Oct 1877 09 Nov 1967 Joseph Franklin 03 Apr 1880 01 Dec 1913 &n Charles Edward 09 Jun 1882 28 Aug 1956 George 21 May 1884 26 Feb 1942 &nbnbsp; Annie Evelyn 23 May 1888 sp; 07 Sep 1920 Freddie 19 Oct 1 1891 19 Oct 1891 My father, Soren Christian Christensen, is the only one still living. He is 82 years of age. Severene passed away peacefully at her home in Redmond, December 15, 1922. She was buried in the Redmond Cemetery. Written by granddaughter Delta Christensen Bardsley - 1959Retyped 2001 by greatgranddaughter Kathy Muir SmithSubmitted by gggd Chandra Smith Zundel
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