• Her birth date is confirmed by temple records, and her death date is confirmed by the Death Register.  Both dates are also confirmed by the inscription on her gravestone.

  Note that the Temple records show her given name as "Kerstine," the death records show it as "Kirsten, and her gravestone and Family Tree show her name as "Kjersten."

  She is listed as Karen Marie Svendsen on the ship, John Bright in 1858. She is the wife of Lars. 

   

Iver N. Iversen Company (1858)

• Age at Departure: 22

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• "A Company of Saints," Deseret News [Weekly], 8 Sep. 1858, 118.
• Endowments of the living, 1851-1884.
• Find a Grave
• Sanpete County, Utah Death Register, 1898-1905.
• Scandinavian Mission, Historical Reports 1852–1877