The Family of Peder and Ane Kirstine Andersen Larsen...
This chart recognizes the known children of Peder and Ane K. Larsen. All family members listed here, except Anna Sophie. emigrated
to Utah in 1862 as Mormon converts. The two oldest sons, Hans Henry and Christen P. served as LDS missionaries in Denmark.
Third son, Jens served in Utah's Black Hawk war after reaching Utah in the 1860s.
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Anna Sophie Pedersen (1834-1898)
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Hans Henry Petersen (1835-1909)
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The Sons Photo
It has been a joyful experience as a 2nd great-grandson of Peder and Ane Larsen to piece together their family's history. For a long time I could not be sure that my great-grandmother Maria Larsen's three older brothers were indeed full blooded children of Peder and Ane. After all, Hans Henry Petersen's descendants have pretty well established the Petersen line in Northern Utah and several other places. Then there is the case of Jens Peder Larsen who uprooted from Manti over a hundred years ago to make a new life in Oregon and he has quite a following there and elsewhere. Even some of his own direct descendants, with whom I have spoken, were unaware of his burial location until the records were recently found; and finally there is the well documented history of Christian or Christen, as he preferred to be known to the public. And Christen's use of the middle initial P., to remove the multi-option of Peder, Petersen or Pedersen, and his choice of the Larsen surname, is as firmly entrenched now as is Hans Henry's Petersen surname nomer. So for those of us members of the Larsen progeny who were not left much in writing of this wondrous family, it was a joyous event when my daughter Jodi returned from the Salt Lake Temple archives with handwritten information, taken from microfilm, that documented that day in the Manti Temple, when the family gathered and proved they were one. This striking image from FamilySearch, submitted by Sharon Murdock, completed the circle of knowledge.
On 12 June 1889, with Daniel H. Wells officiating as Sealer in the newly dedicated Manti Temple, Hans Henry
Petersen Larsen, age 54, Christian Petersen Larsen, age 43, Jens Petersen Larsen, age 41, and Jacob Larsen
(1858-1862), were sealed to their parents, Peter Larsen and Ane Kjerstine Andersen Larsen, with Hans Henry acting
proxie for Jacob. Lewis Andersen Recording. Special Collections #170493. In the above photo Hans Henry is left,
Christen P. is right and Jens is in the middle. From an image submitted to FamilySearch by Sharon Murdock.
Christian (Christen) P. Larsen (10 January 1846 - 2 May 1933)
Christian was baptized on 19 December 1857. He immigrated to Utah in 1962 with his parents, Peder Larsen and Ane Kirstine Andersdatter.
The family located temporarily in Salt Lake City. At age sixteen, Christian worked for Nymphas Murdock. While thus employed, he met Mary Matthews from England. As a little girl she was brought from Immigration Canyon to work for the Murdock family. Her mother and two sisters died on the trek to Utah. They married on 1 December 1868 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. Their first two children - Nymphas and Sara - were named in honor of the Murdocks. Christian made Manti, Sanpete County, his home. However, he left Manti to fulfill a mission to Scandinavia in 1891. He served in the Copenhagen Conference before being called as president of that conference in 1893. After completing an honorable mission, he accompanied twenty-four emigrating Latter-day Saints aboard the steamer Bravo in 1893 (see Jenson, History of the Scandinavian Mission, 402, 405). After his return to the States, he again resided in Manti. He represented his community in several civic capacities. For two years he was a policeman, for four years a city marshal, and for an additional four years a justice of the peace. He also served the community as a member of the city council and the state as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1895 (see Lund, Scandinavian Jubilee Alum, 153). Christen, as he preferred to be called, died in 1933 in Manti at the age of eighty-seven. |
Elder Christian P. Larsen |
An 1898 published account of Christen P. Larsen follows:
LARSEN, HON. CHRISTEN P., contractor and builder, Manti, son of Peter and Annie C. (Bertelsen), born in Denmark, January 10, 1846. In 1862 the family emigrated to this country and located in Manti, where the father followed contracting and building up to within two years of his death, which occurred in 1895, in his 87th year; mother still survives at the advanced age of 84 years. When the family came to Manti, C. P. remained in Salt Lake, where he engaged in various occupations. He for a time was engaged in freighting from Fort Benton on the Missouri to Helena, Mont.; also in mining. December 1, 1868, he married in Heber City, Utah, Mary, daughter of Daniel and Sarah Matthews, born in Bedfordshire, England, August 20, 1847. Their children are as follows: Nymphas, Peter C, deceased, Sarah C, Mary E., Caroline, Olive, deceased, Eliza M. and Leo.
Mr. Larsen moved to Manti in 1871, where he has followed the business of a builder, and worked four years on the Manti Temple. He was a policeman for a time, and six years City Marshal, member of City Council one term and City Justice three terms. He was also a member of the (Constitutional Convention, and in the fall of 1897 was nominated for Mayor, but the Republican ticket was defeated. Mr. Larsen is a progressive man, and stands well in the estimation of the people. From: History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah, W. H. Lever 1898. |
Larsen Women Photo
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Jens Peder Larsen (1848-1932)
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LARSEN, JENS P.
Farmer and wool grower, son of Peter and Anne C. (Andersen)/Bertelsen, was born in Denmark, November 4, 1848. His parents joined the Mormon Church and came to Utah in 1862, in Captain Horn's train. Through the advice of Erick Ludwigsen, who converted them, they moved to Manti, where they have since resided, father dying in 1896, mother still living. When a young man he worked in the mines of Utah and Nevada and later served as Sheriff of Sanpete county for seven years. He is president of the Home Forum Society. He owns 50 acres of land, besides his city residence. and has 2700 sheep. His wife, whom he married in Manti, was Edith, daughter of George P. and Edith Patten Billings. They have seven children: Helen, Murray, George R., Loyd B., Edith, Henry and Denton. History of Sanpete and Emery Counties, Utah W. H. Lever, 1898 |
The eighth and last child, Adair Kipling Larsen, was born one year after the article by W. H. Lever was published. Sometime between 1900 and 1910 the family sold their holdings in Utah and moved to Imbler, Oregon. In the 1910 Federal census the three youngest sons were at home. Jens and 20 year old Henry Kimball were listed as fruit growers in the census.
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In the 1920 census Jens is listed with his youngest son, Adair Kipling and wife Edith. Adair Kipling Larsen also appears in the 1830 Federal census with his parents and is listed as single. Jens died in Oregon on February 8, 1932. Edith died 10 September 1939. They are buried in Union Cemetery, Union, Oregon.
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Anne Maria Larsen (1851-1901)
Maria, as the close members of her family called her, is my great-grandmother. She died before my mother was born, but mother loved her as if she had known her personally because grandma Tina did such a great job in passing on the wonderful artistic and hardworking attributes that so characterized the Larsen family. They sang, they recited poetry, and they loved to perform for folks. When you study where they came from and look at what they accomplished in their lives you will see hardworking, industrious and law-abiding folks who carried in their genes a closeness to the soil of the earth and the Spirit behind it all.
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Karen Sophie Larsen
Karen was born 8 April, 1854 into a family of recent Mormon converts at Scorpinge, Slagelse, Denmark. Her birth year of 1854, rather than 1855 as engraved on her gravestone, is based on her LDS baptismal record of 9 March 1862. At age 19, Karen became a plural wife to John Grier. Grier, from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland had married widow Margaret Stenhouse in 1859; converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1860 and immigrated to America on the "American Congress" in 1865. Karen and John were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City on 1 December 1873. Karen bore him three children, John Marion Grier in 1875, James Cunningham Grier in 1876, and Peter Francis Grier on 28 August 1878. She died two months later in Manti on 19 October 1878.
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Jacob Larsen
Jacob Larsen, a "Mormon" was recorded born on 23 February 1858 in Gerlev, Slagelse, Soro, Denmark to Peder Larsen and Ane Kirstine Andersdatter of Seerdrup.
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Note: The data on the Sealing ordinance has Jacob's birth as 8 November 1857, and his death as May, 1862. No original source documentation is known to verify those dates as Jacob is not listed on the Ship Athena manifest although the Ship Captain swore with his signature that all deaths that occurred on board were documented in the manifest document.
The story handed down by the family was repeated in the Buchanan book by Golden Buchanan, on page 141, wherein he stated: "Maria's father, Peder Larsen....left Denmark in April 1862, with his wife and family of four boys and three girls....The perilous trip across the ocean to Zion took eleven long, weary weeks. They had many sad experiences on this voyage. At one time the baby of the family, became seriously ill with the measles. Many people on board the ship had stored butter for their own use, while others saved every drop of grease to use as butter on their bread. Maria's mother thought a little butter might give the boy more strength. Not having any of her own she went to some of the people and asked for enough butter to put on a slice of bread for her sick child. Not one person would share his butter with her. She always remembered this with bitterness after the child died and was buried at sea, along with several other children who died at this time." |