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Johanna Sandberg Jensen

Johanna Sandberg Jensen, born 13 Jan 1836 in Dalbe Molmohus Sweeden. She joined the church of Jesus Christ when seventeen years. old At that time her father Olif Peher Sandberg was a master blacksmith after the family joined the church they suffered many persecutions. They would not give him work or sell them food. A friend brought them a sack of flour when their enemies heard of it they put them on a thrashing floor and whipped them so they never recovered.

When they got the means they sailed on the ship Tuscorora landed in Philadelphia July 3, 1857 Johanna went to Burlington Iowa her parents went to fairfield. Johanna worked in a hotel two years while there was sick and lost her hearing which grew worse in the passing years.

She walked all the way to Utah crossed the plains with Captain James Browns Ox Team Co. Arrived at Salt Lake in the spring of 1859 Was married to Neils Jensen April 21, 1860 went through the endowment House in 1862 left Salt Lake in the fall of 1863 and made their home in Logan Utah lived there until the summer of 1878 when they moved to Trenton.

She was the mother of nine children, one son died when sixteen years. old. The others were married and lived in homes of their own. She with her husband moved to Farr West Utah. Where husband died the 6th of April 1917. She then moved back to Trenton and lived by her daughter Clara Fife. When her daughter died she spent her last days at the home of her daughters in Soda Springs where she passed away at the home of her daughter Ella Horsley Oct 5 1925 and was buried beside her husband and children.

 

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