Hannah’s family wanted to come to America. They did not have passage money for the whole family so they decided to send her sister Mary first. Mary arrived in Utah and went to Richfield and later married a man named Hans Peter Nielsen. Hans was a Miller and had a flour mill on the west side of town. There was a family going to America that wanted Hannah to go with them, but she did not want to leave her invalid mother. She let her two […]
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 […]