Hannah’s sister, Mary and her husband, met them at the end of the railroad and took them to Richfield where she lived. They traveled by wagon. Hannah found employment from a man named Jensen who ran a store in Elsinore. Hannah helped Mrs. Jensen in the home. With Hannah and her father both working, they hired a girl to come and sit with her mother. Hannah’s father worked at cutting stone to earn money to build a home and buy a farm. Her father bought an […]
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 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 […]