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• FSID: K27B-CWD
• Indvandring: 1862

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See attached history: "A Brief Historical Sketch of Martha Larsen Sorensen as told by her Daughter Elizabeth Jensen"

Some main points:
She,her brother, and two sisters were raised by their widowed father who never remarried. She was a tomboy and too "adventurous." Her brother died when she was young. She had one older and one younger sister. She went to work for a tailor and his apprentices in Oslo when she was a young woman. It was while thus employed that she met the Mormons. She and a friend went to hear them on a lark because they wanted to see what they looked like. She was disappointed to find they were normal looking people, but their message hit home and she was baptized. Her distressed father sent her older sister Mary to "rescue her from the despised Mormons," but Martha convinced Mary to listen to them first. Mary was sure she would be able to detect their errors, but she ended up also being converted. The money from their inheritance at their father's death paid for their passage to America. The other sister did not convert and remained in Norway where she married.
Martha came to America when the Civil War was in full swing and was very distressed to see all the soldiers wherever she went until reaching Florence, Nebraska. She crossed the plains with Capt. Hans C. Larson's family walking every step of the way. She was in the last ox train to cross the plains--after that, mules and horses were used.
One funny story: she carried with her a little blue jug as a prize possession. Capt. Larsen kept throwing it out, and she just as determinedly kept putting it back. "In a tempestous moment she declared it had as much right to ride as his peevish howling brat." She wore out three pair of shoes on the journey. At one time she was so exhausted, she gave up and lay down beside the trail. A voice told her to arise and go on and face her burden courageously. "She obeyed and found a new strength which endured to the end of the trail."
She was employed to help the wife of Apostle Franklin D. Richards. It was here she met Soren Sorensen and his wife Ane Christine Sorensen.
After she married Soren, the tailor she worked for arrived from Denmark to tell her he had joined the church and still wanted to marry her (He had asked once before.)
She was called the "Salt Woman" because peddling salt and other commodities by freight to various towns was how she survived and supported her children after Soren's death.

Familie/Ægtefælle/Partner: Soren Sorensen. Soren blev født den 14 okt. 1817 i Harte, Estrug, Vejle, Denmark; blev døbt den 16 okt. 1817 i Harte, Vejle, Denmark; døde den 23 jun. 1881 i Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 26 jun. 1881 i Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

1. Helena Cathrina Sorenson blev født den 25 maj 1867 i Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, USA; døde den 6 jan. 1906 i Centerfield, Sanpete, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 8 jan. 1906 i Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah, USA.