Tag Archives: childhood

Anna Johanna (Hannah) Nielsen: Early days with the Mormon Church

As Hannah did not join the Church until she was 19 or 20, there is not much to say about her church attendance.  The adults attended cottage meetings and went to church twice a year to partake of the sacrament.  The children attended church only when cottage meetings were held in their own homes. There was no persecution in Denmark toward those who joined the church and no bodily harm was inflicted.  They were scoffed at, however, when attending school. Once, when Hannah was a child, […]

Anna Johanna (Hannah) Nielsen: Childhood

Anna Johanna Nielsen, (Hannah as she was called) was the daughter of Hans Nielsen and Kirsten Marie Pelsen.  She was born under humble circumstances into a family of six children; two daughters and four sons.     Maren or Mary     Anna Johanna     Niels (lost at sea)     Jens (died at age two)     James (Jens)     Christian Hannah lived in a small town in the country near the western ocean.  Her father was a stone cutter.  Her […]