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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        24 May 1825
        Death Date
        3 October 1863
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        Ole Simonsen Jonsberg

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        • This is Ole Simmensen Jonsberg (age 37) who is listed on the ship roster for the Athenia with his wife Johanne Dorothea Bernhoff Jonsberg and their son Wilhelm (Vilhelm Philip Jonsberg). Johanne and Wilhelm appear in the Deseret News roster with a Joseph using the surname "Dortia," Johanne's middle name. Joseph is listed as a son of Johanne and Ole in Denmark's birth records. Ole is listed in the Deseret News rosteras misspelled as "Owla Jonberg."

          Mt. Pleasant Ward records record his death date and note the he was 38 years, 4 months, and 9 days old at the time of his death (Vol. 2 p. 180)

        Joseph Horne Company (1862)

        • Age at Departure: 37

        Sources

        • Denmark, Baptisms, 1618-1923.
        • European Mission, [Emigration records, Scandinavian Mission] 1852-1920.
        • Mt. Pleasant Ward, Record of Members (CR 375 8, Reel 4438)
        • "Names of Immigrants," Deseret News [Weekly], 24 September 1862, 2.
        • Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 468.