 1846 - 1919 (73 years)
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| Name |
MICKELSEN ( MIKKELSEN), Niels Christian |
| Born |
9 Apr 1846 |
Hjellemskjaer, Hjorring Denmark  |
| Christened |
15 Apr 1846 |
Hjellemskjaer, Hjorring Denmark |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
13 Apr 1919 |
13 Apr 1919 |
| Buried |
Santa Ana, Orange, California |
Elliot Hill Cemetary, Lago, Caribou Idaho |
| Notes |
- Niels Christian and Maren Anderson Mickelsen were both born in Denmark. They were both converts to the church. She came to this country as a young girl. She came to Salt Lake City with a pioneer company (probably the John R. Murdock Company, 1862) at age 21, enduring all the customary hardships.
Christen came from Denmark with his parents and two brothers. They came from New York to Utah on the train. He met and married Maren in Salt Lake City. They were among those sent to help settle Huntsville, Utah.
Christen went back to Denmark and served a two year mission. This placed severe hardships on his young wife.
They were the parents of five children: Mary, (who passed away as a young woman), Peter, Dorthea, Helmar and Chris.
They came to Gentile Valley in 1878 and homesteaded the place now owned by the Louis Bitton family.
Maren passed away while still young, leaving a young family for her husband to raise.
Christen married again, raised his family, then sold the farm and moved to Preston Idaho. Sometime later he moved to California where he died.
Both Maren and Christen are buried in the old pioneer cemetary in Lago.
Bud (Clarence Hansen) remembers hearing that a friend from Huntsville wrote Christian and told him to "Come up to heaven". The neighbor was speaking of Lago. So the family came up and settled on the north fork of Trout Creek. A diptheria edemic struck the family in 1896. A daughter Malena died and another daughter. Helma recovered but was left deaf.
Joseph Olorenshaw was born March 6, 1869, in coventry, Warwick, England. He came to the United States with his parents when he was five years old. They settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. There were seven children in this family and three of them were born deaf; Joseph, Thomas and a girl who died when she was one year old.
When Joseph was a youth he worked in a printing office and attended the deaf school in Odgen, Utah. It was at this school that he met his future wife, Helmer Mickelsen, who was also deaf. They were married Dec 30, 1899. They lived in Salt Lake City about two years. They moved to Lago, Idaho in 1901 when their son James was born . Their daughter Lena was born there. They later moved to Grace and took up a farm west of town. For the first three years they spent winters in Lago helping Mrs. Olorenshaw's father with his farm chores and then returned to Grace in the spring to plant their crops. ( Helmer from Gems of our Valley pg 439)
The oldest brother, Peter, married Annie Leffler. They had a son called Jimmy and a pair of twin girls. Peter later homesteaded in the Tetons. His brother Chris was there also. They married sisters and each had large families. Bud (Clarence Hansen) thinks that Martin may have also been affected with the diptheria, however he did not pass away untl 1902.
After Maren died Christen sold his farm to the Becksteads, remarried, and eventually moved to California. Upon his death each of the four living children recieved an inheritance of $6,000.
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| Person ID |
I1320 |
Our Generations Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
26 Jun 2009 |
| Father |
PEDERSEN, Michel, b. 3 Aug 1810, Burken, Voer, Hjrrng, Denmark , d. 18 Aug 1873, Huntsville, Weber, UT (Age 63 years) |
| Mother |
Knudsdatter (KNUDSEN), Dorthe, b. 16 Jun 1814, Aarup Vreilev, Hjorring, Denmark , d. 14 Feb 1887, Lago, Bannock, Idaho- USA (Age 72 years) |
| Married |
13 Nov 1832 |
Vrejlev, Hjrrng, Denmark |
| Family ID |
F647 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
ANDERSON, Maren (Mary Ann), b. 15 Dec 1841, Hjellemskjaer, , Hjorring, Denmark , d. 7 Jul 1898, Lago Pioneer Cemetary, Caribou, Idaho USA (Age 56 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. MICKELSEN (MIKKELSEN), Peter Christian, b. 07 Jul 1870, Huntsville, Weber, Utah , d. 03 Aug 1952 (Age 82 years) |
| + | 2. MICKELSEN, Dorthea, b. 21 Nov 1872, Huntsville, Weber, Ut, USA , d. 23 Nov 1958, Soda Springs, Caribou, Id, USA (Age 86 years) |
| | 3. MICKELSEN (MIKKELSEN), Helmer, b. 6 Apr 1875, Huntsville, Weber Co., Ut , d. 24 Aug 1958, Lago Cemetary, Caribou, Id (Age 83 years) |
| | 4. MICKELSEN (MIKKELSEN), Martin, b. 22 Nov 1877, Lago Caribou Idaho , d. 29 Sep 1902 (Age 24 years) |
| | 5. MICKELSEN (MIKKELSEN), Mary, b. 26 May 1879 |
| | 6. MICKELSEN (MIKKELSEN), Malena, b. 6 Dec 1882, Lago Caribou Idaho , d. 20 Jun 1896 (Age 13 years) |
| | 7. MICKELSEN (MIKKELSEN), Niels Christian, b. 8 Feb 1887, d. 05 Mar 1966, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho (Age 79 years) |
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| Last Modified |
11 Feb 2008 |
| Family ID |
F642 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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