Ane Kirstine Jacobsen
8 September 1833 - 14 December 1892
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Birth
8 September 1833
Norway
Death
14 December 1892
Logan
Burial
1892
Logan
Alternate Names
Given Name
Ane Kirstine
Given Name Alternate Spellings
Anna, Christine
Last Name
Jacobsen
Married Names
Otterbeck, Skanchy, Skankey, Skanky
Family
Marriages
Children
Parents
Mother: Maren Christensdatter (17 January 1811 - )
Father: Ole Jacobsen (6 November 1808 - )
Biography
Ane Kirstine Jacobsen was born on September 8, 1832 in Kragerø, Telemark, Norway. She was the first of five children born to Ole Jacobsen and Maren Christensdatter. Ane married Anders Ludvig Otterbeck on March 29, 1853 in Kragerø, Telemark, Norway. She had five children, one who died as a baby, with Anders before she was suddenly widowed in between 1862 and 1864. By the late 1860s, Ane had become an assistant in the mission office of the Scandinavian mission. It was while serving in the mission office that she met Norwegian missionary Anthon Skanchy.
In 1868, Anthon Skanchy and Ane were married. In June of the same year, Ane, her four children, and her new husband Anthon, emigrated to Zion. Ane and Anthon ultimately settled in Logan, Utah. She had four more children with Anthon, but none of them survived to adulthood. Ane’s husband served five more missions to Scandinavia throughout his life, leaving Ane alone to tend to the family and homestead. This undoubtedly took great strength and courage. Ane died on December 14, 1892 at the age of sixty. She was buried in Logan, Utah.
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Utah Arrival
Arrival: 24 August 1868
Salt Lake City
Wagon Company: Horton D. Haight Company
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