Anna Matilda Jensen (1859 - 1953) Profile

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Anna Matilda Jensen Smith, Our Living Pioneer

"Anna Matilda Jensen Smith, Our Living Pioneer", DUP Pioneer History Collection, Page 1.

From New York, we continued our journey to Missouri, Nebraska and stayed there a year, where we were joined by my two older sister [Anne], Maria [Jensen Peterson] and Marianne [Jensen Hansen], along with their husbands [Peter Peterson and Neils Christian Hansen] and children. The word Nebraska always brings back memories of corn mush and bread-also pig weed greens, which I have never learned to relish to this day.


August 13, 1866, we started across the plains by ox team in Capt. Abner Lowerys Company. I remember gathering wild berries and finding blue and white beads, in ant piles, along the trail. The beads being like the ones the Indians use for decorating their clothing.


Colera broke out and among the many dead, who were buried along the trail, was my sister Maria's husband, Peter Peterson, and their baby son Parley.


We arrived in Salt Lake City, October 22, 1866.

Transcript for "Anna Matilda Jensen Smith, Our Living Pioneer," 1.

Daughters of Utah Pioneers. DUP Pioneer History Collection.

Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, October 22, 1866, Page 5.

Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008.

Johanna K. Jensen Anderson autobiography, circa 1930, 2-3

Johanna K. Jensen Anderson autobiography, circa 1930, 2-3.

We went directly to a little place in Nebraska called Wyoming, where many saints remained until they could accumulate enough money to proceed on to Utah. We stayd in Nebraska to until the following year <s>when</s> <and> my father had earned enough money to pay for our trip to Utah. We left Nebraska early in September [August] 1866. I walking a good deal of the way across the plains. One evening shortly after making camp, we received word that the Indians were coming and that they were friendly. But we children were mighty frightened any way. Can you imagine seeing [-] and of half naked men, with feathers on their heads, come tearing around the point in the mountains, their horses covered with foam from hard riding and yelling at the tops of their voices. they stayed and talked with our leaders, later smoking a pipe and passing it around. They spent the night in our camp but you may depend on it there was little sleep that night for any of us children.</and>

Transcript for Johanna K. Jensen Anderson autobiography, circa 1930, 2-3

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886, February 1854, Vol. A, Page 1-378.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886.

Smith, Anna Matilda Jensen, [Reminiscences], in Treasures of Pioneer History, 6 vols. [1952-57], 3:125-26

Smith, Anna Matilda Jensen, [Reminiscences], in Treasures of Pioneer History, 6 vols. [1952-57], 3:125-26.

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