Andrea Christensen

Andrea Christensen was born to Niels Christensen and Christiana Jeppesdatter, both from Denmark. After the family left Denmark, they traveled with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by ship and arrived safely in America. They joined with the Christian Christiansen Handcart Company to trek to the Salt Lake Valley. Leaving on June 15, all the members of the company were Scandinavians.

The company endured many hardships including lack of food, hot weather, and disease. Little one-a-half-year-old Andrea did not survive the journey. It is unknown her cause of death. 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.”

After arriving in Utah, her parents and other Danish Saints were asked to help settle the Sanpete (Utah) area. Her parents are buried in the Moroni City Cemetery in Moroni, Utah.