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George Evan Stoddard, son of Elma Marie Skelton, daughter of Ethel Christiana Stevens, daughter of Hannah Mary Thomson, daughter of Christiane Jensen
Christiane (Christiana) Jensen was born August 6, 1837, in Frejlev, Lolland, Maribo, Denmark, the daughter of
Anders Jensen Langaa and
Ane Rasmussen. Her only surviving sibling, Mariane (Mary Ann), was one of a pair of twins born on March 6, 1842. She was baptized in September 1855. They set sail for America from Liverpool, England, with a group of Saints on the ship Westmoreland April 25, 1857, and landed at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 21, 1857. From Philadelphia to Iowa City the company traveled by rail. They traveled to Utah with the Christian Christiansen handcart company, leaving Iowa City on June 15 and arriving in Salt Lake City on September 13. Before the end of September they had settled in Ephraim, Utah, where Christiane met
Anders Thomasen (Andrew Thomson). They married November 21. They built a small adobe home, farmed, and Christiana bore their first two children. In October 1864 they were called to leave Ephraim and settle in Circle Valley, Piute County, where they built a log cabin and their daughter Hannah Mary was born. Because of threatening conditions with the Indians they were orderd to return to Ephraim, where they lived the remainder of their lives. Christiana served as head teacher and later, for 17 years, as a counselor in the ward Relief Society. Christiana and Andrew were the parents of eight children. Christiana Jensen Thomson died April 9, 1917.
Christiana Jensen's Determination
Christiana Thomson's Death
