• She came to America on the ship Thornton in 1856 with her step-father Niels Andersen and mother Mette Hansen and half brother Anders.  Her name is listed as "Anne Andersen" on the ship manifest. Her father is Ole Mortensen. 

   

James G. Willie Company (1856)

• Age at Departure: 14

Sources

• 1854, 1855, 1856 Nebraska Territory censuses
• Danish Census Records
• Danish Parish Records
• John Ahmanson, Secret History: a Translation of Vor Tid Muhamed, translated by Gleason L Archer (1984), 28-35.