Petrine Pedersen was born on 1 April 1864, in Hørsted, Hassing, Thisted, Denmark. She married Gustave Joseph Lund on 27 January 1887, in Salt Lake City, Utah. They were the parents of 8 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Salt Lake City in 1930 and in 1940. She died on 29 November 1954, in San Francisco, California, at the age of 90, and was buried in Salt Lake City.