Sine Olene JENSEN

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Sine Olene JENSEN

Born: 06/03/1867 Mosbjerg, Denmark,
Died: / /
Submitted by: Sharon Allred Jessop 02/09/1999

SINE OLENE JENSEN NIELSEN
Interesting incidents in Mothers life as she and her sister, Andrea, related it to me.

“Our family joined the church in about 1874 and every effort was made in the next five years with one thought in mind - to come to Zion.” In 1879 a missionary, Jim Christensen, from Spring City, Utah, was returning from his mission. Father didn’t have money enough for the entire family to come to America at this time so Elder Christensen offered to take we two little girls as it would only be half fare for myself and quarter fare for Andrea whereas the next year it would be more.

I remember walking the floor with my one year old brother Jim in my arms and thinking that I wouldn’t be seeing him for a long time and how I would miss him. I also remember Fathers farewell to me which must have been very sad for him. I remember him telling me he had some times been cross to me but for me not to hold it against him, that he loved me very dearly. It must have been very hard for Father and Mother to let we two little girls go so far away, not expecting to see us for years, but as the Lord was so good to us the rest of the family were able to follow fifteen months later.

Father was a tin smith and made each of we girls a little tin cup and plate which we carried on the ocean with us to drink and eat with while we were on the boat.

We left Denmark in May of 1879. I was on the ocean for my twelfth birthday. I never became seasick but Andra, five and a half years old, was very seasick. I can remember how beautiful the sunset on the ocean was and the beauty and enjoyment of the trip.

I lived with Jim Christensen until my folks came. There was a small Danish newspaper printed in Spring City, all the names of those immigrating each season were printed. One day Brother Christensen read the names of Mother and four of the children coming with the next company so we expected them only thinking Father and the oldest boy Olie would wait and come later but when it was time for the boat to sail for America, Fathers parents, who were well off, gave Father the money for his fare, saying they would keep Olie who was then about twelve years old, until he could choose for himself. They would do this if Father would relinquish all rights to their property when they died. Father was only to glad to do this. Olie had lived a great deal with his grandparents. Father expected to see Olie later but never did as Olie died as a very young man. He understood that his parents were Mormons and he and his grandparents were not. He wrote telling us that he hoped we would meet on the other side and would know and understand.

I worked for different neighbors in Spring City until I was fourteen when I went to Salt Lake to look for a job. I went with Mrs. Rasmansen in a wagon and camped in the Tithing Office yard. I found a job with a family but they were disagreeable to work for. The man was of disreputable character. I was afraid of him so I stacked my furniture against my door at night. This made him angry and he told me I didn’t need to lock my doors against him, but if I ever stayed with a Mormon Bishop I had better lock my doors against him.

I left there after one week. A kind little old Swedish lady kept me until I found a job with President Grant, who was then president of the Toole Stake.

From there I got a job at Rolling Hall, a girls boarding school. Here I worked for about two years where I assisted the cook, waited tables, and was a general favorite among the students and workers. The cook, wanting the position for her younger sister, asked me to leave. She said she had helped me to get the job and now she wanted it for her younger sister, so I left. I had a job with Elmira S. Taylor. It was while at Rolling Hall that I met Carl E. Nielsen.

While I was at Taylor’s I went home to Spring City for the twenty-fourth of July. I was home three days and had three proposals, one from the man I later married. I went back to work not answering my devoted suitor but letters soon followed and the first of September I got word to come home, my Father was ill. I went but never returned. I was married the fourth of September at Spring City by Laurz Larsen, Bishops counselor.

We were married in Manti temple as soon as it was ready for work. After which my husband Carl Emil Nielsen, worked on the temple helping to do the finishing work.

I was in Spring City visiting my folks when the Manti temple was dedicated so I with my Father and Mother were at the dedication, but I was there without a recommend as my Bishop was of Salt Lake and I was visiting in Spring City.

The Bishop there had no right to issue me a recommend but President Grant, who was then an apostle, took me in with him and took me up the winding stairway into the large reception room where the meeting was held.

The above story was written by and recorded in the Book of Remembrance of Vennus Nielsen Cluff, sixth child of Carl Emil Nielsen and Sine Olene Jensen Nielsen.

SINE OLENE JENSEN NIELSEN
By Edith Nielsen Farnsworth
Edith passed away 26 Jan. 1939 at Safford, Arizona

Sine Oline Jensen (my mother) born 3 June 1867 in Mosbjerg, Vensyssil Denmark. Her father, Niels C. Jensen, was born 30 July 1842 in Denmark and her mother born 16 March 1839 in Denmark. My Grandfather Jensen’s occupation was a tinsmith. He and family accepted the Gospel as soon as they heard it, and like all other Saints, they desired to go to Utah. It was impossible for the family to immigrate together for the lack of money. So Mother, age 12, and her younger sister, age 5, were sent to Utah a year before the rest of the family in 1879. This was not so pleasant for the little girls. They could speak nothing but Danish and had never been away from home. The little sister was taken to Bro. Christensens home and care for until the parents arrived a year later. Mother was considered old enough to support herself, which she did by working in the home of different families. This was quite an experience with its pleasant and un-pleasant conditions. She found work in the home of a Mormon hater, where she had to listen to insults and slander about the Mormons. Other places were very agreeable and a privilege to be with, such as Orson Hyde, Elmina S. Taylor, then the General President of the YLMIA of the Church and Heber J. Grant, then President of the Toole Stake. Grandfather and Grandmother immigrated in 1880 with a family of small children and no money to start again a new home. So mother received no more help from her parents, neither did she have any schooling; but “worked out” until she was married.

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