• He came on the ship, Monarch of the Sea in 1861 with his wife, Marie and children Ane Elizabeth, Soren, Christina Caroline, Marianne, Svend, and Karen M.  Marianne, Svend and Karen M. died before they came west. He was known as Rasmus P. C. Degn Christensen on the ship's roster. 

Samuel A. Woolley Company (1861)

• Age at Departure: 40
• Head of Household

Sources

• 1880 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• 1910 Utah Census.
• Ancestry Institution. com--Millennium File.
• "Denmark Marriages, 1635-1916."
• Find a Grave (Website)
• Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 22 September 1861, 9.
• Parish Register of Dallerup, Skanderborg, Denmark. 
• Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966.
• Utah Death Certificate Index, 1905-1967.
• Utah Death Registers, 1847-1966.