Married Dorthea Christine Christensdatter Fredericksen 17 June 1873 in Salt Lake
Ole Niels-Elnora-Afton
Died 4 December 1927 in Hyrum
Buried in Hyrum
1880 Census
1900 Census
1910 Census
1920 Census
By Hannah Barnes
Ole Niels Jensen, our father, was born 6 Feb 1849 at Ejlstrup, Denmark. His father, a sister, and a brother came to Utah with him. This was a trying time for him. The four of them had joined the Mormon Church in Denmark. The mother and some of the children refused to join the Church and come to Utah. The property was divided and the mother and some of the children were left behind. Those who came to Utah settled in Hyrum.
It was here that Father met Mother (Dorthea Christine Christensdatter Fredericksen). She was a young girl of 14 when she came to Utah with her mother and a younger sister. They also settled in Hyrum.
Father's sister had married and lived by the mill stream. One day Mother went to visit his sister and it was there that Father met Mother. When she was 16 years old they were married on 17 June 1873. They traveled by horse and wagon to Salt Lake City where they were endowed in the Endowment House.
They lived in a cabin in what is now the Hyrum 2nd Ward for one year. Then they moved into a home in the Hyrum 1st Ward.
As the years went by more rooms were added to the home. Today this home still stands- a well cared for home with a beautiful yard of flowers and shrubs. In this home there were eleven children born. Two of them died in infancy.
My father was a hard working man and very thrifty. He was a good clean man. There was never any liquor or tobacco in our home. His greatest desire was to raise his children to be good men and women. He set a good example for his family to follow.
Note: Phil D. Jensen, a grand-nephew of Ole, has told us that Ole's mother, Mette Kjerstine, did join the LDS Church in Denmark, but she did not choose to come to Utah when her husband left.
Nan Wood has sent us some more information about Ole Niels Jensen. The following is taken from histories by M. Stone, Dorthy Jensen Curtis, and Sylvia Marie Jensen Stone. Sylvia is our Elnora Christina Jensen's sister. Elnora was 16 years older than Sylvia.
Ole and Dorthea lived in Hyrum most of their lives. Their family was raised there. They had a small farm where they grew fruit that they peddled from Brigham City to the Bear Lake Valley in a wagon. They also grew some vegetables and had cows, pigs and chickens. Sometime between 1908 and 1911 Ole homesteaded in Cherry Creek in the Marsh Valley. They built a one room cabin there and moved from Hyrum. Many of their children soon moved to Marsh Valley, married, and settled there. Ole and Dorthea only lived there for about four years, and then they moved back to Hyrum.
Ole worked hard for his family. He taught by word and example the dignity of honesty and independence. He owned his own home and acreage in Hyrum. He also homesteaded a 1160 acre dry farm in Idaho which he later sold to one of his sons. He worked his property in Hyrum as long as he was able. He had several cows and sold the milk to a dairy in Hyram. He had a few fruit trees in Hyrum, but would also go to Brigham City and buy fruit to sell in Logan, Wellsville, and Bear Lake. He also owned land by the Little Bear River just south of Hyrum. The Hyrum Dam now covers the area where his land used to be.
Ole and Dorthea liked to talk to each other in the evenings in Danish. Their lives were built on love and integrity. They didn't have a lot, but they were always able to meet their debts. One time Dorthea's daughter went to the shoemaker to pick up a pair of shoes and pay for them, and the shoemaker remarked to her that her father, Ole, even with his many children, could always pay when others with not nearly that much responsibility, couldn't or wouldn't.
One evening shortly after Dorthea and Ole were married, they had just gotten in bed when they saw a woman standing in the doorway. She just stood there and announced her name and then disappeared. Dorthea knew the woman, who had been a friend of hers in Denmark. Dorthea and Ole felt that she wanted her temple work done, and they completed it shortly thereafter.
This comes from his obituary:
The speakers...spoke of his hardships while crossing the ocean and plains and his honesty in all his dealings with his fellow men, neighbors, and family. He died as he lived a faithful Latter-day Saint. He was a kind and loving husband and father, and was respected by all who knew him.
Everything I (Erica) have read about Dorthea and Ole talks about how honest they were. I can't think of any other ancestor that consistently repeats a trait like Ole and Dorthea do with honesty.
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