Andrea's Story
Birth: November 10th, 1855 | female | in Budolfi, Ålborghus, Denmark
Death: August 6th, 1857 | 1 year old | by Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Memorial: Stone 8 | center column | 5th name
Andrea’s parents were Niels Christensen and Christiana Jeppesdatter, both from Denmark.
After the family left Denmark they traveled with other Saints by sea on a ship arrived safely in America. They then joined up with the Christian Christiansen Handcart Company to travel to the Salt Lake Valley. All of the Saints in the company were Scandinavians.
The Company left June 15.
The company endured many hardships. Lack of food, hot weather and diseases within the camp.
Little 1 ½ year old Andrea did not survive the journey. There was no record found of why she passed away.
Company journals said they were by Fort Laramie in Wyoming when Andrea passed away.
Family history says:
“They endured many hardships. One being exposure of which their 2nd child Andrea died. They had nothing to bury her in, so they wrapped her in a blanket with her head in a grass kettle for protection. There she was left to mark the trail westward.”
There is a headstone in the Moroni City Cemetery in Moroni, Sanpete, Utah where her parents, after arriving in Utah, were told to go help settle the area with other Danish Saints.