Ane Johanne Poulsen

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Ane Johanne Poulsen blev født den 9 marts 1860, døbt i kirken den 28 maj 1860, datter af husmand Poul Martinus Jensen og hustru Mette Kirstine Olsen, 39 år af Skrydsholt.
Faddere: gårdkone Christine Pedersen af Aaekjær, pigen Christine Hansen i Gjeraa, husmand Christen Jensen af Gjeraa Nymark, gårdmand Johannes Peter Jensen af Aakjær og husmand Søren Chr. Olsen af Gjeraa Hede.
(Kilde:Dronninglund kirkebog 1849-1860, opslag 146, Hjørring amt).

Was christened as last name Poulsen but changed name to last name of father. Poul was family tradition for the childrens last name to be the fathers first name.

Hannah Jensen was born March 9, 1860, at Dronninglund Sogan, Denmark. She was the daughter of Paul M Jensen and Metla Christen Oleson.(Mette Kjerstine Olsen).
In the spring of 1866, with her parents and sister Brigithe, she immigrated to Utah. They sailed on the sailing vessel, "Kenilworth," which sailed from Hamburg, Germany May 25,1866. There were 684 Scandinavian Saints on board. They were under the direction of Samuel L. Sprague. While on board this vessel in mid ocean, the ship caught fire. Her father, Paul M.Jensen was acting as guard that night, and it was he who gave the alarm, and it was through the mercy of God that it was put out, thus sparing them a watery grave.
One day, along with other children, she was playing hiding seek. The ship crew was loading ballast, because they needed more weight, for this purpose their was a large hole which they would open to let this weight into, it was swung in with a kind of derrick. Just as this derrick was going to dump a load into the hole, Hannah ran to reach the goal first, little heeding the danger she was in. Had it not been for the quick action of a sailor [standing near by] who grabbed her, she would have been killed. After this, Hannah became quite a privileged character [favorite] on the ship. The captain would take her to his room and give her raisins and many other delicacies. She enjoyed her trip on the ocean very much, not being sick a minute, [she didn't get seasick during the whole trip] although she was a delicate child. She thought this was very funny because her mother and sister and many others were so [sea] sick.
The last day they were on the ship a short distance from the harbor the captain told them if there was anything they did not want to take with them they must dump it into the ocean before they got any closer to the harbor. On the ship was a family of converts who had one son. Who had not wanted to come with them, but they had persuaded him to get on the ship. They felt like they could not leave him behind. He had declared they would never get him to Utah. When the captain gave out this order, the boy rushed to the side of the vessel and jumped into the ocean. The [boys] body was never discovered. This little incident was never forgotten, as [the boy] he rushed by [past] the side of Hannah and she saw the whole tragedy.
They landed at New York on July 17, having been on the ocean eight weeks. This vessel ["Kenilworth"] was sunk on its return trip. When they arrived in New York they were advised to go on a condemned railroad, as it was so much cheaper. They were eleven days on this train. When they came to Boston a friend of theirs, Mrs. Christanna Peterson Peterson became very ill and on the first train going west from Boston she died, leaving her granddaughter, Mary Jensen, in their care. [Mary] She came the rest of the way to Utah in [the Jensen's] care, walking most of the way across the plains.
When they were nearing Chicago they [the Jensen's] were warned by the Elders to be real quiet as there might be a mob waiting for them, if they found out there were Mormons on board. They [mob] put rocks on the track thinking it would cause the train to run off the track into the lake, but it seems as though the Lord was with them, for by some miracle it [the train] ran off the opposite way into a forest of trees and bushes. Quite a few were shaken up and received cuts and bruises, but otherwise were unharmed.
They arrived at Wyoming, July 29. At Omaha, they were met by wagons from Utah and left August 8, by ox team with Captain Andrew L.Scott and a company of Saints. There were 300 people in this company with 49 wagons. Thirty members of this company died crossing the plains. Hans Rigtrup became their teamster. All who were able to had to walk, but Mother, being frail and sick was allowed to ride. It was hard to keep those in shoes who had to walk, but grandmother, being a good dressmaker, made shoes out of anything they could get; but they did not last long and often their feet were sore and bleeding from walking so much. At Fort Lorraine they stopped to get provisions which the teamsters had left. Mother's sister had her [Hannah] by the hand one day when suddenly she was snatched and taken down a cellar, but the girl screamed, "Father!!" Grandfather came and found her. It was a woman who had tried to steal her. She begged grandfather to let her keep her because she said the child would never reach Utah she was so frail. She said she was coming to Utah the next year, that she knew Brigham Young, and that she believed he was a good man, and she promised grandfather that she would bring her with her when she came next year. This, grandfather refused, so the woman invited the family to her home and she prepared lovely dinner for them.
They arrived in Salt Lake, October 8, 1866. They then went south as far as Spanish Fork, where they settled, digging a dug-out in which to store their things and to live in until grandfather could build a two room dolby house. Aunt and Mother helped to mix the mud and water by getting in with their bare feet, which they enjoyed very much. They arrived here the year of starvation and it was very hard for them. Grandfather who had been in comfortable circumstances in Denmark, had sold out for what money he could get and had loaned $2,000 to help many immigrants, who were less fortunate than himself. Some were anxious to pay back and did so as soon as they could, but the bigger part he got nothing from. No doubt, many times they had to do without, their thoughts went back to their lovely home and the comforts they had had. Which they had given up for the Gospel's sake. Mother was just a little girl, but she [Hannah] remembered the hard struggle they had the first few years, how different things were substituted for bread, and how they felt fortunate when they were able to have as much as clabber milk, and bread made from potatoes. A neighbor's cow had frozen to death and they were among the fortunate to get a piece of the meat.
There being no boys, and Aunt having secured some work, Mother had to help her father, the grain had to be harvested, cut, bound, and thrashed by hand as there was no machinery for this. She would help her father gather wild hay, it taking one day to go to the West Mountains where they got it. Then when the grain was harvested, she would go gleaning with her mother, she said they were fortunate if they were able to glean a sack full of wheat heads. Along with other children, she [Hannah] would herd cows. This they enjoyed so much, had it not been for the many times they had to rush their cow's home because the Indians were coming.
She married Peter G. Jensen, November 30 1882, in the Endowment House at Salt Lake, and lived at Spanish Fork until 1894. They moved to Palmyra, where she was an active worker in the Primary for many years, and also in the Relief Society. She was the mother of four children, two sons and two daughters, George Paul Jensen, Gilbert, Mary and Nellie. All of whom are living.
Her husband died April 17, 1927, leaving her a widow until June 6,1931, when she passed away having always been faithful and a guiding star among her children.
Written by her daughter Nellie.
EVEN: _DATE2 8 OCT 1866

  Begivenheder i hendes liv:

• Mormon+Overland+Travel+Company+1866: Andrew H. Scott Company (1866), 8 Aug. 1866, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

• Udvandring, 8 Aug. 1866.

• Indvandring, 8 Okt. 1866, Deseret, United States.

• Bopæl, 1880, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.

• Indvandring, 1889.

• Bopæl, 1920, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States.

• Bopæl, 1920, Spanish Fork, Utah, Utah, United States.