When Eggerdine Franzen was born on 7 February 1848, in Stokkemarke, Lollands Sønder, Maribo, Denmark, her father, Frantz Thestrup Christensen, was 45 and her mother, Dorthea Johansdatter, was 42. She married Peder Kristian Svendsen on 25 May 1876, in Stokkemarke, Lollands Sønder, Maribo, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Castor Township, Stoddard, Missouri, United States in 1910. She died on 13 March 1923, in Stoddard, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75.