When Caroline Christensen was born on 5 September 1848, in Ugilt, Vennebjerg, Hjørring, Denmark, her father, Christian Christensen, was 27 and her mother, Ane Marie Nielsdatter, was 27. She married Niels Peder Nielsen on 15 December 1868, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 10 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Ephraim Election Precinct, Sanpete, Utah, United States in 1900 and Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States for about 28 years. She died on 24 May 1928, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Ephraim, Sanpete, Utah, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1854: Sanpete, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Sanpete, Utah, United States
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, Bent, Anders, Thor, Jorgen, Nils, Einer, Viggo, Folmer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the personal name Christen . In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the especially Danish and Norwegian variant Kristensen . Compare Christenson and Christianson .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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