Maren Sofie Sorensen

Maren Sofie Sorensen is the third of six children born to Soren Sorensen and Sidse Caterine Jensdatter, both of Denmark. Her parents were married in 1840 in Denmark.

In 1868, the family immigrated to America, sailing on the ship “Emerald Isle.” With a desire to journey to the Great Salt Lake Valley with other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the family joined the Fred C. Anderson Company, composed of a small group of Saints from Denmark.

Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, prematurity, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. Somewhere in Wyoming, just days before the company entered the Salt Lake Valley, 16-year-old Maren passed away of unspecified causes. She is buried somewhere along the trail in Wyoming.