Son of Christian Hansen and Anne Nielsen
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868,
Peter Nebeker Company (1866)
Departure: 7 August 1866
Arrival: 29 September 1866
Company Information:
400 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)
From "History of the Scandinavian Mission" by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian - Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1927, page 193.
The ship "Humboldt" (Capt. Boyson) sailed from Hamburg, June 2, 1866, with another company of Saints bound for Utah. This was the third division of the emigration of Scandinavian Saints that year and numbered 328 souls, who were organized with George M. Brown, Sven S. Jonasson and Christian Hansen as leaders. The company was organized into four districts, which were subdivided into nine lesser divisions with a president appointed for each of them. Besides the saints, sixty or seventy other passengers were on board.
The "Humboldt" was tugged down the River Elbe to the North Sea by a steaming boat. Taking the route north of Scotland, the ship passed the Shetland Islands on the 6th of June with Cape Telsit on the right and the small island Fair on the left.
In the beginning of the voyage much seasickness prevailed among the passengers. Passing the New Foundland Banks the fog was intense, and with the exception of the first ten days, the ship encountered headwinds most of the time. The captain, who was very kind to the Saints, admitted that he had never witnessed so good and orderly a company of emigrants crossing the Atlantic before, and he was very kind and sympathetic to the sick, sending them extra food from his kitchen. Five persons, two adults and three children, died during the voyage.
On July 18th the "Humboldt" arrived safely in New York, and the emigrants were at once started westward by steamer and railway to Wyoming, Nebraska, arriving there on August 1st.
A part of the Scandinavian emigrants crossing the ocean that year in the ships "Kenilworth and Humboldt" crossed the Plains in Capt. Jos. S. Rawling's ox train, which left Wyoming (Nebraska) August 2nd and arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1st. Another part of them left Wyoming (Nebraska) with Capt. Peter Nebeker's ox train, August 4th and arrived in Salt Lake City September 29th (Christian and Anne).
Only a few of the Scandinavian Saints crossed the Plains this year with their own teams, nearly all going with the Church trains. The death list among all companies was quite heavy, the cause being, chiefly, cholera. Thus ten persons died in Capt. Rawlings' company, about thirty in Capt. Nebeker's company and about the same number in Capt. Scott's company.
It was the last year that emigrants traveled all the way from the Missouri River to Great Salt Lake City with ox-teams, as the Union Pacific Railroad was being built from Omaha westward, and the following year (1867) was opened for several hundred miles west of the Missouri River."
(Note: from family account, Christian and Anne's oldest son, Hans Christian Hansen, died of cholera not the day after arriving in the valley, but three days later on October 2, 1886.)
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868,
Peter Nebeker Company (1866)
Departure: 7 August 1866
Arrival: 29 September 1866
Company Information:
400 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)
From "History of the Scandinavian Mission" by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian - Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1927, page 193.
The ship "Humboldt" (Capt. Boyson) sailed from Hamburg, June 2, 1866, with another company of Saints bound for Utah. This was the third division of the emigration of Scandinavian Saints that year and numbered 328 souls, who were organized with George M. Brown, Sven S. Jonasson and Christian Hansen as leaders. The company was organized into four districts, which were subdivided into nine lesser divisions with a president appointed for each of them. Besides the saints, sixty or seventy other passengers were on board.
The "Humboldt" was tugged down the River Elbe to the North Sea by a steaming boat. Taking the route north of Scotland, the ship passed the Shetland Islands on the 6th of June with Cape Telsit on the right and the small island Fair on the left.
In the beginning of the voyage much seasickness prevailed among the passengers. Passing the New Foundland Banks the fog was intense, and with the exception of the first ten days, the ship encountered headwinds most of the time. The captain, who was very kind to the Saints, admitted that he had never witnessed so good and orderly a company of emigrants crossing the Atlantic before, and he was very kind and sympathetic to the sick, sending them extra food from his kitchen. Five persons, two adults and three children, died during the voyage.
On July 18th the "Humboldt" arrived safely in New York, and the emigrants were at once started westward by steamer and railway to Wyoming, Nebraska, arriving there on August 1st.
A part of the Scandinavian emigrants crossing the ocean that year in the ships "Kenilworth and Humboldt" crossed the Plains in Capt. Jos. S. Rawling's ox train, which left Wyoming (Nebraska) August 2nd and arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1st. Another part of them left Wyoming (Nebraska) with Capt. Peter Nebeker's ox train, August 4th and arrived in Salt Lake City September 29th (Christian and Anne).
Only a few of the Scandinavian Saints crossed the Plains this year with their own teams, nearly all going with the Church trains. The death list among all companies was quite heavy, the cause being, chiefly, cholera. Thus ten persons died in Capt. Rawlings' company, about thirty in Capt. Nebeker's company and about the same number in Capt. Scott's company.
It was the last year that emigrants traveled all the way from the Missouri River to Great Salt Lake City with ox-teams, as the Union Pacific Railroad was being built from Omaha westward, and the following year (1867) was opened for several hundred miles west of the Missouri River."
(Note: from family account, Christian and Anne's oldest son, Hans Christian Hansen, died of cholera not the day after arriving in the valley, but three days later on October 2, 1886.)
Son of Christian Hansen and Anne Nielsen
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868,
Peter Nebeker Company (1866)
Departure: 7 August 1866
Arrival: 29 September 1866
Company Information:
400 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)
From "History of the Scandinavian Mission" by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian - Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1927, page 193.
The ship "Humboldt" (Capt. Boyson) sailed from Hamburg, June 2, 1866, with another company of Saints bound for Utah. This was the third division of the emigration of Scandinavian Saints that year and numbered 328 souls, who were organized with George M. Brown, Sven S. Jonasson and Christian Hansen as leaders. The company was organized into four districts, which were subdivided into nine lesser divisions with a president appointed for each of them. Besides the saints, sixty or seventy other passengers were on board.
The "Humboldt" was tugged down the River Elbe to the North Sea by a steaming boat. Taking the route north of Scotland, the ship passed the Shetland Islands on the 6th of June with Cape Telsit on the right and the small island Fair on the left.
In the beginning of the voyage much seasickness prevailed among the passengers. Passing the New Foundland Banks the fog was intense, and with the exception of the first ten days, the ship encountered headwinds most of the time. The captain, who was very kind to the Saints, admitted that he had never witnessed so good and orderly a company of emigrants crossing the Atlantic before, and he was very kind and sympathetic to the sick, sending them extra food from his kitchen. Five persons, two adults and three children, died during the voyage.
On July 18th the "Humboldt" arrived safely in New York, and the emigrants were at once started westward by steamer and railway to Wyoming, Nebraska, arriving there on August 1st.
A part of the Scandinavian emigrants crossing the ocean that year in the ships "Kenilworth and Humboldt" crossed the Plains in Capt. Jos. S. Rawling's ox train, which left Wyoming (Nebraska) August 2nd and arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1st. Another part of them left Wyoming (Nebraska) with Capt. Peter Nebeker's ox train, August 4th and arrived in Salt Lake City September 29th (Christian and Anne).
Only a few of the Scandinavian Saints crossed the Plains this year with their own teams, nearly all going with the Church trains. The death list among all companies was quite heavy, the cause being, chiefly, cholera. Thus ten persons died in Capt. Rawlings' company, about thirty in Capt. Nebeker's company and about the same number in Capt. Scott's company.
It was the last year that emigrants traveled all the way from the Missouri River to Great Salt Lake City with ox-teams, as the Union Pacific Railroad was being built from Omaha westward, and the following year (1867) was opened for several hundred miles west of the Missouri River."
(Note: from family account, Christian and Anne's oldest son, Hans Christian Hansen, died of cholera not the day after arriving in the valley, but three days later on October 2, 1886.)
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, 1847–1868,
Peter Nebeker Company (1866)
Departure: 7 August 1866
Arrival: 29 September 1866
Company Information:
400 individuals and 62 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Wyoming, Nebraska (the west bank of the Missouri River about 40 miles south of Omaha)
From "History of the Scandinavian Mission" by Andrew Jenson, Assistant Church Historian - Deseret News Press, Salt Lake City, 1927, page 193.
The ship "Humboldt" (Capt. Boyson) sailed from Hamburg, June 2, 1866, with another company of Saints bound for Utah. This was the third division of the emigration of Scandinavian Saints that year and numbered 328 souls, who were organized with George M. Brown, Sven S. Jonasson and Christian Hansen as leaders. The company was organized into four districts, which were subdivided into nine lesser divisions with a president appointed for each of them. Besides the saints, sixty or seventy other passengers were on board.
The "Humboldt" was tugged down the River Elbe to the North Sea by a steaming boat. Taking the route north of Scotland, the ship passed the Shetland Islands on the 6th of June with Cape Telsit on the right and the small island Fair on the left.
In the beginning of the voyage much seasickness prevailed among the passengers. Passing the New Foundland Banks the fog was intense, and with the exception of the first ten days, the ship encountered headwinds most of the time. The captain, who was very kind to the Saints, admitted that he had never witnessed so good and orderly a company of emigrants crossing the Atlantic before, and he was very kind and sympathetic to the sick, sending them extra food from his kitchen. Five persons, two adults and three children, died during the voyage.
On July 18th the "Humboldt" arrived safely in New York, and the emigrants were at once started westward by steamer and railway to Wyoming, Nebraska, arriving there on August 1st.
A part of the Scandinavian emigrants crossing the ocean that year in the ships "Kenilworth and Humboldt" crossed the Plains in Capt. Jos. S. Rawling's ox train, which left Wyoming (Nebraska) August 2nd and arrived in Salt Lake City, October 1st. Another part of them left Wyoming (Nebraska) with Capt. Peter Nebeker's ox train, August 4th and arrived in Salt Lake City September 29th (Christian and Anne).
Only a few of the Scandinavian Saints crossed the Plains this year with their own teams, nearly all going with the Church trains. The death list among all companies was quite heavy, the cause being, chiefly, cholera. Thus ten persons died in Capt. Rawlings' company, about thirty in Capt. Nebeker's company and about the same number in Capt. Scott's company.
It was the last year that emigrants traveled all the way from the Missouri River to Great Salt Lake City with ox-teams, as the Union Pacific Railroad was being built from Omaha westward, and the following year (1867) was opened for several hundred miles west of the Missouri River."
(Note: from family account, Christian and Anne's oldest son, Hans Christian Hansen, died of cholera not the day after arriving in the valley, but three days later on October 2, 1886.)
Inscription
No marker. Hans Christian Hansen, uncle of Effie Hobbs. See page 121, of the book "Midvale History, 1851-1979, edited by Maurice C. Jensen, which is published by the Midvale Historical Society.
Gravesite Details
On the Pioneer roster, his surname is spelled Johansen. According to family history Hans died three days after the family arrival into the valley.
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