Brief Life History of Jens
When Jens Anderson was born on 29 April 1833, in Lund, Malmöhus, Sweden, his father, Anders Paul Jönsson, was 30 and his mother, Elna Andersdotter, was 32. He married Helena Margaret Pedersen on 13 March 1857, in Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Ephraim Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900. He died on 12 February 1914, in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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- Yans Anderson, "United States Census, 1860"
- Birth record for Jens Andersson
- U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
1854
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
Scottish and northern English: patronymic from the personal name Ander(s), a northern Middle English form of Andrew , + son ‘son’. The frequency of the surname in Scotland is attributable, at least in part, to the fact that Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, so the personal name has long enjoyed great popularity there. Legend has it that the saint's relics were taken to Scotland in the 4th century by a certain Saint Regulus. In North America, this surname has absorbed many cognate or like-sounding surnames in other languages, notably Scandinavian (see 3 and 4 below), but also Ukrainian Andreychenko etc.
German: patronymic from the personal name Anders , hence a cognate of 1 above.
Americanized form (and a less common Swedish variant) of Swedish Andersson , a cognate of 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Letter from Jens Sister Sissa dated 1858
Lund February 13th, 1858 Dear Brother, live well, both you and your family. Finally, I have been given the chance to send you a letter with the siblings who are going home. So I am sitting down …
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