• Daughter of Tellef John Israelsen and Maren Dorthea. The Israelsen family emigrated from Norway and crossed the plains with the Christoffersen Freight Train.

  The inscription on her gravestone shows her name as "Mary Ann Israelsen," not "Jensen."

Soren Christoffersen Freight Train (1864)

• Age at Departure: 5

Sources

• 1870 Utah Census.
• 1880 Utah Census.
• 1900 Utah Census.
• Israelsen, Andrew M., [Autobiography], in Orson W. Israelsen, ed., Utah Pioneering: An Autobiography [1938], 21-22.
• Utah State History Cemeteries and Burials Database.