Sine's Story
Birth: July 6th, 1859 | female | in Christians, Elbo, Vejle, Denmark
Death: ?? ??, 1863 | 3 years old | by Loup Fork in Nebraska
Memorial: Stone 13 | right column
Sine Katrine Nielson is the sixth of nine children born to Ole Nielson and Pernilla Nilsdotter, both of Denmark.
Sine’s father, Ole, immigrated to America two years after his wife and children. Pernilla and her children, Sine, Swen, and Lars joined other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the ship “B. S. Kimball” and sailed to America. After arriving in America, they traveled to Nebraska and joined the John F. Sanders Company. The company left for the Great Salt Lake Valley on July 6, 1863.
Exhaustive travel conditions, disease, injury, lack of food and medicine, premature birth, and extreme weather were some of the greatest threats to pioneers. A few weeks into the journey, 4-year-old Sine passed away of undocumented causes. She is buried near Loup Fork, Nebraska.