I I — Tm.W.. Ma ran atene Jensen. iren ... Jensen was horn in Jutland, Denmara "larch 11, 1857. She left her native land to come to Utah in the Spring of iSol. She had heard the goapel ana I I the first on& of her family to join the church, and, life* a great man;/ others, she became mxioua to come to .ion. .;he sacrificed ail she had to come and barely obtained eno • to her fare. SO she worked for a family of saints to pay her board on the trip. 3he 'was on the ocean for eeven wee,-:s, and was sic.-; meat it the way. }he suffered athreat deal. xhey landed in New York and came on from there in some .ulna of ears—mostly cattle cars. iS| suffered many hardships fro.a overcrowding *na for want of food. after arriving at Otauha the;; were woon reauy to start across the plains. 'other, being a dependent for want of money, cound not ride. he walked all the way. h*^ lived in ■ covered >n box the first winter. It was i vsr, cold winter and lost of rain in the spring* I they suffered a great deal. jhe often said she did not mow how they lived through that winter. id only one sac/, of 'flour and part of a sac; of br ,r ind I few frozen potatoes. he lays the flour lasted them thr ugh the winter . and she felt that it was the hand of the ^ord that saved thettt in the month of June their first child kg born anu lOther almost lost her life* child was premature and only vvaichej pounds. vat through I care ar m help of the bard it was saved. other made her own cloth fox clothes and sheets, 3he also ide her own thread fro.:, flax, whioh they raised* jne made their cheeao and butter, candles and a . other things. ra. Jensen was afflictea with rheumatism the last thirty years of her life, but she was 3ti ble to sew, kcillt, mend md tto other Kinds »rfc« ill e died kpril u, 1^17 at tee age of eighty yoara. by (. j. nelson