| DORTHEA CHRISTINE FREDERICKSEN
26 OCTOBER 1856 OREBY, HOVE, SORO, DENMARK |
Migrated to the states at age 14 with her mother and younger sister |
| Sealed in October of 1873 in the LDS Endowment House | |
| Genealogy | Mother of 11 children |
| Buried in Hyrum, Utah in 1933 |
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This is taken from histories written by Sylvia Marie Jensen and M. Stone.
Dorthea Christine Fredericksen came to Utah in 1871 with her mother Mette and younger sister Hannah. Dorthea's father Christian had died in Denmark about 6 months before they left for Utah. They left Dorthea's older brother and sisters in Denmark. Dorthea's parents were baptized when she was a little girl.
After they arrived in Utah, they settled in Hyrum, a small town outside of Logan. One day Dorthea was outside barefoot and saw a tall, handsome, blond man coming into the yard. She quickly ran into the house and told her mother Mette that he was the man she was going to marry. She did marry him, Ole Niels Jensen, on 17 June 1873 in Logan. They were sealed in October of the same year in the Endowment House.
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 showmaker to pick up a pair of shoes and pay for them, and the shoemaker remarked to her that her 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.
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.