Margarethe Anne Hansen
4 November 1837 - 21 November 1914
Vitals
Birth
4 November 1837
Vester Ulslev
Death
21 November 1914
Richfield
Burial
1914
Annabella, Sevier, Utah
Alternate Names
Given Name
Margarethe Anne
Given Name Alternate Spellings
Anne, Margrethe
Last Name
Hansen
Maiden Name Alternate Spellings
Pedersdatter
Married Names
Torstensen, Thurston
Family
Marriage
Children
Parents
Mother: Johanne Margrethe Hansdatter (8 June 1807 - 14 March 1875)
Father: Peder Hansen (9 March 1805 - 28 April 1887)
Biography
Margarethe Anne Hansen was born on November 4, 1837. She was the second of four children, although only she and her older sister lived to adulthood. In 1852, her family learned about the Church of Jesus Christ and they all became members. The next year, Margarethe left Denmark for Utah with her parents and sister. They crossed the Atlantic on the ship "Benjamin Adams" and crossed the plains in the Hans Peter Olsen company.
A little less than a year after their arrival in Utah, when she was seventeen, Margarethe married Thore Torstensen, a man from Norway, in Salt Lake City. They had ten children, seven daughters and three sons, together. They settled in Ephraim in Sanpete county, Utah. Around 1865, the family moved briefly to Circleville, Piute, Utah, where Margarethe's fifth daughter Esther was born. Shortly after her birth, they moved back to Ephraim for many years. After the death of her husband and his other wife, and the marriage of her son Hyrum, Margarethe Anne was lonely and moved to Richfield to live with her daughter Matilda. She lived in Richfield for the last eight years of her life until she passed away on November 21, 1914 at the age of seventy-seven.
Events
Emigration
Departure: 28 January 1854
Vester Ulslev
Utah Arrival
Arrival: October 1854
Salt Lake City
Handcart Company: Hans Peter Olsen Company
Baptism
1852
Vester Ulslev
Researchers