When Karen Jensdatter was born in 1807, in Lidemark, Bjæverskov, Præstø, Denmark, her father, Jens Larsen, was 30 and her mother, Anna Jensdatter, was 32. She married Poul Pedersen on 28 May 1831, in Lidemark, Bjæverskov, Præstø, Denmark. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Bjæverskov, Bjæverskov, Præstø, Denmark for about 5 years. She died on 19 June 1849, in Vemmedrup, Bjæverskov, Præstø, Denmark, at the age of 42, and was buried in Vemmedrup, Bjæverskov, Præstø, Denmark.