Mormon pioneer Christopher Olsen, to USA 1862

Started by maggi · 2003-02-06
maggi · 2003-02-06#1
Christoffer Olsen (Kjus), born Skedsmo Norway 1807, emigrated to USA with a company of Scandinavian Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)from Hamburg, Germany on board the Athenia (Captain Schilling). The ship left Hamburg 21st or 24th April 1862, arriving in New York 9th June. The emigrants travelled west to Salt Lake in two companies with oxdrawn waggons, arriving in September the same year. What happened to Christoffer? Did he make it to Salt Lake? Did he remarry? Did he have descendants? (He left behind a wife and grown up children in Norway, he had transferred ownership of the farm to his son a few years before he emigrated. His wife regarded herself as a widow, according to Norwegian records. But a genealogy book in Norway gives Christoffers death as 1893 - the source of this information is not known.) Any information about Christoffers life in the USA would be much appreciated. Margaret Strand, Moss, Norway

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