Mary Larsen

Biography

Mary and her twin sister, Inger, grew up herding geese and cattle in Denmark. At age seven their family was introduced to the LDS missionaries and they were baptized together in August of 1862. The family would walk four miles to the nearest church. Four years later the family immigrated to Utah. While crossing through Nebraska, her mother and father contracted Cholera and died three days apart. Their mother they wrapped in a shawl and buried with five others in the company, but they were not able to see their father before he was buried. The children were taken in by different families. Once she arrived in the Salt Lake Valley, Mary was employed in the home of Job Smith where she met her future husband Charles Price. He died three months after their wedding, leaving her a widow and pregnant with Mary May Price. She married Gustave Anderson a year after Mary May's birth. They moved to a farm in Clover, Utah in the 1880s where Mary was active in the Primary as a second counselor. In 1901 they moved to Big Horn, Wyoming where Mary lived for the rest of her life.