• Evidence from emigration and genealogical records proves that the Thomson family traveled to Utah in 1862.  Karen traveled with her daughter, Caroline Jensen Thomsen and she died en route.

  She traveled on the ship, Electric. 

Ola N. Liljenquist Company (1862)

• Age at Departure: 58
• Died en Route

Sources

• "Denmark Marriages, 1635-1916."
• European Mission, [Emigration records, Scandinavian Mission] 1852-1920.
• Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger C, p. 441.
• Peterson, Hans Jorgan, Autobiography, 12, 20.