When Caroline Sophia Hansdatter Jensen was born on 6 April 1849, in Stavnsholt, Farum, Frederiksborg, Denmark, her father, Hans Jensen, was 31 and her mother, Christena Jensine Madsen Nielsdatter, was 27. She married Christopher Marinus Olsen on 18 May 1867, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 2 daughters. She immigrated to United States in 1863 and lived in Avon, Cache, Utah, United States in 1900 and Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States in 1910. She died on 31 May 1923, in Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Hyrum City Cemetery, Hyrum, Cache, Utah, United States.
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EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: Jean Pierre “Peter” Stalle' BIRTH 25 Dec 1803 Angrogna, Città Metropolitana di Torino, Piemonte, Italy DEATH 17 Aug 1856 (aged 52) Wyoming, USA CENOTAPH Hyrum City Cemetery Hyrum, Cache County, Utah, USA Show Map MEMORIAL ID 210905806
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Nels, Niels, Lars, Holger, Einer, Jorgen, Bent, Knud, Per, Ove, Morten.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Jens, a shortened form of Johannes (see John ). This is the most frequent surname in Denmark. In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the variant Jenssen . Compare Jenson 2 and Johnson .
English: variant of Jennison .
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