Anne's Story
Birth: March 29th, 1861 | female | in Hof, Jarlsberg og Larvik, Norway
Death: July 31st, 1863 | 2 years old | in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 13 | right column
Anne Marie Olsen is the youngest of five children born to Tolof Helliksøn Olsen and Annie Olsdatter, both from Norway.
The Olsen family immigrated to America on the ship “Antartic.” Upon arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska and joined the Peter Nebeker Company bound for the Salt Lake Valley. With other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latte-day Saints, the company left July 25, 1863.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. With one week into the journey, 2-year-old Anne Marie passed away of unknow causes. She is buried along the Mormon Trail in Nebraska.
Her mother’s history simply said: “Anne was buried by the wayside.”