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Anna Johanna (Hannah) Nielsen: Emigration

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 […]