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1847–1868

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Birth Date
26 February 1841
Death Date
19 November 1909
Gender
Female
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Else Marie Olsen


Alternate Names

    Else Marie Christensdatter, Mary Olsen

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  • The Olsen family traveled separately in three groups to the Salt Lake Valley because they didn’t have the funds to all travel together.  First, James Olsen traveled without his parents or siblings in 1853 with the John E. Forsgren Company.  He sailed on the Monarch of the Sea in 1853. 

    His parents, Christen Jensen and Ann Nielsen, and his siblings Niels Christian, Else Marie, and Methe Kristine sailed from Liverpool on the Jesse Munn in 1854.  In St. Louis, Methe died of Cholera.  The rest of the family traveled with the Hans Peter Olsen Company to the Salt Lake Valley.  In Utah Else Marie married Mads Christian Jensen.  Her death date is from the Utah Death Registers.

    The remaining sisters Caroline Karen Marie, Christine, and Nicolina sailed on the Westmoreland in 1857.  They traveled to the Salt Lake Valley with the Christian Christiansen Company in 1857.

    Else's birth and death dates are confirmed by the inscription on her gravestone, which shows her name as "Else M. Olsen Jensen."  Her name is shown as "Mary Jensen" in her obituary.

Hans Peter Olsen Company (1854)

  • Age at Departure: 13

Traveled with

  • Anne Nielsen Olsen (Age: 51)
  • Christen Jensen Olsen (Age: 50)
  • Niels Christian Olsen (Age: 6)

Sources

  • Billion Graves (Website)
  • "Death of Pioneer," Box Elder News, 25 November 1909, 1.
  • Find a Grave (Website)
  • Saints By Sea: Latter-day Saint Immigration to America
  • Utah Death Registers, 1847-1966.