Soren Iversen (1825-1895) Profile

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Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, May 1, 1865, Vol. 2, Page 8, Line 259.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, May 1, 1865, Vol. 1, Page 12, Line 259.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Incidents in the life of Christian Jensen

Bertha Marie Jensen Eccles

"Bertha Marie Jensen Eccles", Incidents in the life of Christian Jensen, Page 9,11.

Our trip across the plains was much like that of every other immigrant. Everyone had his own wagons and cattle, and I suppose there were a dozen or more cows in the company, so there was milk for all. We bought a big No. 8 Charter Oak stove in Omaha and brought it with us and it proved to be quite a novelty in Utah in those days. Father often expressed happiness for bringing it, as he did like to be warm in the winter. 
When we arrived in Omaha we had to buy our outfits, also cattle. The Union Pacific Railroad had been built out to North Platte, a distance of about two miles, I believe, and all the people, excepting those who stayed to bring out the oxen and wagons, came on with us on trains. We camped at North Platte, I think, some four weeks before our outfits and provisions came out. The immigrants knew little of oxen. I don't remember seeing any in Denmark and I know my father had not been accustomed to them as we had used horses. We had a Texas steer in the lot which had long horns, also an old ox, sort of a brindle with worn down teeth so it could not nip off the grass, and it was my job to take care of this old brindle ox. <s>xxx</s>
In our company there were nine or ten returning missionaries and of course each missionary was anxious to influence as many people as possible to locate in his particular section. Three or four missionaries in the group were from Manti or San Pete Valley, and Father had about decided to locate there. However, when we arrived in Salt Lake City on the 5th of October….

Transcript for Eccles, Bertha Marie Jensen, Incidents in the life of Christian Jensen, 1933, 9, 11

Incidents in the life of Christian Jensen.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886, Vol. C, Page 336.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886.

The Semi-weekly telegraph

Arrived

"Arrived", The Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 4, October 10, 1867, Page 2.

<center>TUESDAY MORNING, 8. </center>	
ARRIVED.—The emigrant train arrived on Saturday evening and camped at the Church Pasture, south of the city. Among others, we learn that the following returning missionaries were in the train—Stephen Hales, Wm. Gibson and son [David], J. G. Brown, C[hristian]. C. [A.] Christensen,—[Soren] Iverson, Andrew Nielson,—Sorenson,—Wilhelmson,—Edholm, Hans Hanson [Hansen],—[Gustavus] Olsen and Jens Hansen.

Transcript for "Arrived," Semi-Weekly Telegraph, 10 Oct. 1867, 2

The Semi-weekly telegraph.

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