Bertha Olsdotter
14 June 1841 - 26 June 1898
Vitals
Birth
14 June 1841
Place Unknown
Death
26 June 1898
Place Unknown
Burial
1898
Place Unknown
Alternate Names
Given Name
Bertha
Given Name Alternate Spellings
Berta
Last Name
Olsdotter
Maiden Name Alternate Spellings
Peterson, Pearson
Married Names
Swenson, Swensen
Family
Marriage
Children
Parents
Mother: No Known Records
Father: No Known Records
Biography
Bertha Olsdotter was born on June 14, 1841 in the small town of Valby in Kyrkheddinge, Malmohus, Sweden. She was the third of six children.
Her father and brother joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1854. Later, Bertha, her other siblings, and her mother followed suit in 1856. This prompted the family to follow her older brother and to emigrate to Utah in 1857. Bertha was only fifteen when she made the journey to the United States.
In Utah, on January 31, 1859, Bertha married August Swenson, another Swedish immigrant, and the couple settled in Spanish Fork, Utah. Bertha had thirteen children over the course of the next twenty-seven years, ten of which survived into adulthood.
As part of her husband's calling in the Church, the family briefly relocated to St Joseph, Rio Virgin, Utah. When the county was given to Nevada, they moved back to Spanish Fork. Bertha was a steady presence in her family even when her husband was put in jail for practicing polygamy. She was sick for years before she died on June 26, 1898, at the age of fifty-seven years old.
Events
Emigration
Departure: 25 April 1857
Departure Place Unknown
Intermediary Places
Copenhagen
Relocations
Spanish Fork → Rio Virgen County
1868 - 1871
Rio Virgen County → Spanish Fork
1871
Baptism
2 March 1856
Researchers