Birth: Mar. 17, 1838, Denmark
Death: May 26, 1906, Moroni Sanpete County Utah, USA
Contributed By Julie Grow · 23 september 2014
Sena Peterson (Stork) was born March 17, 1838 at Gerup, Veborg, Denmark to Ann Elizabeth Winkler and Pedar Sorensen. The Stork means strong in Danish.
As a child of only 8 years she had to knit a stocking every day to help her mother who knitted for a living.
Sena was baptized a "Mormon" when she was 24 years old, 18 October 1862. She was a very devout and faithful woman and was instrumental in converting others to the Latter-Day-Saint faith. She had to walk 4 Danish miles through the woods to attend church.
She worked on a dairy farm when she was a young girl and for a while for a farm family. She related the following amusing incident to her children about another girl who worked with her. The girl had just finished churning butter and had gone to the swill barrel to drain the water off the butter. In the process she accidentally let the butter drop into the swill! Not daring to tell the woman, she scooped the butter out of the swill and prepared it in the usual manner. The lady of the house remarked that she had never tasted such good butter. Neither the girl nor Sena would eat any of it! Sena worked for many years and worked herself up until she was the head cook on a large farm.
Sena was petite in size (about five feet tall) her dark hair, grey eyes and lovely complexion added to her dainty attractiveness. She was very timid little person and it took her some time to learn the English language, but she did learn it. Many Danish people who came to America never did learn the language.
When Sena left Denmark to come to America the Golden Spike had been driven and the railroad was from coast to coast so she did not need to come in covered wagon. But still, there were many hardships to a long trip of this kind. Although Sena was unaware of it, Rasmus Peter Christensen paid for her passage across the oceans he did for several other Saints who wished to come to Utah. She and a girlfriend crossed the ocean together. They then traveled by train, the coach they were in was so filthy dirty that they were happy to get out of it. Passengers on it were distressed by head lice! The shop had been so clean and well kept, it was quite contrast. Sena came directly to Moroni as she knew others who settled here.
Contributed By Steven Baird Christiansen · 13 juli 2015
Sena was born 17 Mar 1838 at Reesdal, Seerup, Viborg, Denmark daughter of Peder Sorensen Pederstrup & Ane Elizabeth (Winkler) Sorensen. Pederstrup was her father's farm name. Her name was spelled Sine.
She was listed in the 1840 Seerup, Viborg, Denmark Census age 2 and age 7 in the 1845 Seerup, Viborg Census. She was listed as Sine Pedersen, age 17 as a maid servant working for Soren Andersen & Ane Kirstine Rasmussen Andersen in the 1855 Seerup, Viborg, Census.
Sena was baptized into the L. D. S. Church on 18 Oct 1862 in the Silkeborg Branch in Farre, Viborg, Denmark by R. Mikkelsen.
She came to America on the steamship S. S. Minnesota when she was 34 years old arriving in New York 17 Sep 1872. From here she traveled by train to Salt Lake City then traveled to Moroni, UT shortly afterwards. Her brother Soren and sister Maren were both married and living in Utah. Soren came to America in 1862 on the ship Franklin and lived in Moroni for awhile, then moved to Spanish Fork. Both he and Maren who married Jens Hansen lived in Spanish Fork when Sena came to Utah.
Sena was very petite with dark hair and blue eyes. She was very timid about learning and speaking the English language.
The Mormon Church practiced polygamy when she came to Utah and she married Rasmus Peter Christensen as his plural wife after being to Moroni for 7 months. She was 17 years younger than he was. They were married in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City by D. H. Wells on 28 Apr 1873. Peter was 52 years old and Sena was 35 years old. They knew of each other in Denmark as her brother, Soren Pedersen Stark baptized him and his wife, Maria.
After they were married, they made their home in an adobe house which was just across the street from where the turkey plant now stands in Moroni. This home was about two blocks south from where, his first wife, Maria's home was.
She was listed in the Moroni 1880 census as Seina Christiansen age 42 with her husband Rasmus Christiansen and children Maria age 6 and Rasmus age 2.
Sena and Peter, with their daughter Annie, age 7 went to Sanford, Colorado, by train in Jan 1888. Their other two children Maria, aged 14 and Erastus, aged 10 came a month later on 14 Feb 1888 on the train.
They first lived with the Tore Peterson family in the east part of Sanford near the Sanford Ward Chapel. Next they lived in a dugout that Peter built for them on their own lot. This was in the northwest part of town and finally built their own two-roomed home. It was built out of logs hauled from the hills 30 miles away.
Sena suffered the amputation of her right hand when it was mangled in a grist mill in about 1892. She had reached in the mill to retrieve a rock. She lingered between life and death for many days. She was a woman of grit and courage. After her arm healed, she learned to knit again by wrapping a bandage tightly around her arm and placing the knitting needles into it. She was very independent and learned to do her daily chores with one good arm.
Peter and Sena returned to Utah in Jul 1896 but by law they were no longer husband and wife.
She was listed as Sine Christensen in the 1900 Moroni, Sanpete County census born Mar 1839 age 61 md 27 years. She had 4 children with 3 living, arrived in the US in 71. She is living next door to her daughter Annie E. Nielsen and her husband Erastus Nielsen.
Sena went to Salt Lake for an operation and they found she had cancer of the stomach. Her physician was Dr. B. C. Linebaugh. She died in Moroni on 26 May 1906 at the age of 67 and is buried in the Moroni City Cemetery.
They had the following Children:
1. Maria Elizabeth Christensen born 27 Jan 1874 married William Brothers in Manti, UT and died 16 Mar 1965 Sanford, CO
2. Anna Rozina Christensen born 10 Oct 1875 and died 19 May 1877 in Moroni, UT by drowning in an irrigation ditch.
3. Erastus Peter Christensen born 7 Jan 1878 married Laura Syme 12 Dec 1904 Manti, UT and died 21 Oct 1955 Salem, OR.
4. Annie Elizabeth Christensen born 13 Oct 1880 married Niels Erastus Nielsen 17 May 1898 and died 10 Sep 1974 Nephi, UT.
Viborg, Hids, Serup, Serup / Holm / Høgdal/ Resdal, 50 en Gaard, 1, FT-1855
Søren Andersen 41 Gift Gaardmand Her i Sognet
Ane Kirstine Rasmusdatter 36 Gift Hans Kone Balle Sogn , Viborg Amt
Anders Sørensen 5 Ugift deres Børn Her i Sognet
Ane Johanne Sørensen 2 Ugift deres Børn Her i Sognet
Else Kirstine Sørensen 1 Ugift deres Børn Her i Sognet
Martorin Sørensen 18 Ugift Tjenstefolk Vinderslev Sogn , Viborg Amt
Sine Pedersen 17 Ugift Tjenstefolk Her i Sognet
Viborg, Hids, Gødvad, Østerkeilstrup, Gaarden, 5, FT-1860
Ludvig Jacob Flindt 36 ugift lever af Gaardens Landbrug Aarhuus
Carl Flindt 32 ugift Forvalter [Aarhuus]
Frits Kabbel 22 ugift Forvalter Viborg
Anne Rasmussen 45 ugift Huusjomfru Mollerup, Skanderborg Amt
Mette Kjerstine Rasmussen 24 ugift Tjenestepige Kragelund, Viborg Amt
Sine Pedersen 20 ugift [Tjenestepige] Reesdal, Seerup Sogn, Viborg Amt
Christian Sliberg 20 ugift Tjenestekarl Skaadsborg, Kiøbhavns Amt
Peder Andersen 40 ugift [Tjenestekarl] Grønbek, Viborg Amt
Anders Jensen 20 ugift [Tjenestekarl] Balle
Niels Nielsen 32 ugift [Tjenestekarl] Lem, Randers Amt
Viborg, Hids, Sejling, Ebstrup Bye, En Gaard, 54-2, FT-1870
Niels Jensen 43 Gift Huusfader Jordbruger Seiling Sogn, Viborg Amt
Mariane Jensen 22 Gift Huusmoder Kragelund Sogn, Viborg Amt
Jens Jensen 10 Ugift deres Søn Seiling Sogn, Viborg Amt
Niels Anthon Jensen 8 Ugift deres Søn Seiling Sogn, Viborg Amt
Sidsel Marie Jensen 6 Ugift deres Datter Seiling Sogn, Viborg Amt
Hans Jensen 28 Ugift Tjenestekarl Seiling Sogn, Viborg Amt
Sine Pedersen 30 Ugift Tjenestepige Seerup Sogn, Viborg Amt
Jens Hansen 86 Gift Aftægtsmand Sinding Sogn, Viborg Amt
Sicilie Nielsen 73 Gift Seiling Sogn, Viborg Amt
Sine er konfirmeret 1852 og vi finder hende i FT-1855 som tjenestepige hos gårdmand Søren Andeersen i Serup, Sine har selvfølgelig været ude at tjene efter sin konfirmation, men hun har ikke været udensogns. Næste gang vi møder Sine, er da hun rejser fra Sinding Østergaard i november 1857, hvor hun har været tjenstepige hos proprietær Hertz, hun rejser til Sahl sogn. Hun forlader Sahl sogn i 1859, hvor hun rejser til Østerkeilstrup hos Flindt i Gødvad, vi finder hende i FT-1860 i denne plads, her er hun indtil 1861, hvor hun rejser til Wedelslund. Der går nu et stykke tid inden vi finder hender i FT-1870 hvor hun tjener hos gårdmand Niels Jensen i Sejling Sogn. I 1872 Emigrerer hun til Utah i USA.
FT-1855 Serup hos gårdmand Søren Andersen
1857 1. nov afgang Proprietær Hertz paa Sinding Østergaard til Sahl
1857 1. nov tilgang Sahl fra Sinding Østergaard
1859 3 nov. afgang Sahl til Gødvad
1859 nov tilgang tjenende hos Flindt Østerkeilstrup Gødvad fra Sahl
FT-1860 Østerkeilstrup Gødvad
1861 marts afgang Gødvad til Vedelslund
FT-1870 Sejling
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1838 - 1905 (67 år)
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