Hans JORGENSEN

                   OCCUPATION:
    Shoemaker Apprentice

Grandpa (Adolph Ferdinand Henriksen) was born 10 Feb 1838 In Vor Frue parish, Odense, Odense Co., Denmark.  He was the son of Anne Kirstine Henriksen and Hans Jorgensen.

Grandma (Jensine Petrine Vilhelmine Jacobson) was born 10 Sept 1834 in Vor Frue parish Svenborg, Svenborg Co., Denmark.  She was the daughter of Johan Jacobsen and Marie Kirstine Christensen.

They were married in Vor Frue parish, Odense, Odense Co., Denmark on the 11 April 1865.

Grandpa was a very small man.  When he was a small boy he had the measles and they left him with a stiff knee so he walked quite lame.

It was customary in Denmark that everyone should have a trade.  So grandpa learned the tailor trade in school.  However, he had a little store.  He raised canary birds and flowers and sold them.  He liked the danish language very much and refused to learn the English language even after they came to this country.  They wanted us all to talk Danish.
All of our Danish progenitors belonged to the state church of Denmark which was the Lutheran church.  But when Grandpa and Grandma were contacted by the L.D.S. missionaries, they recognized the truth and were baptized on the 3 May 1871.

Grandpa's mother was very jealous of Grandma.  Grandma and Grandpa didn't even dare talk very much to each other when she was around.  They were very reluctant about, telling any of their parents when- they joined the church, but when they did tell them they all took it very well.  After joining the church their greatest desire was to come to America, but they were in very poor circumstances and it seemed impossible that the whole family could come to America at once.  So when the opportunity presented itself they sent their little ten year old daughter, Marie, to America with the Peter Larsen family.  She left Denmark on the ship Nevada and arrived in Logan May 17, 1878.  Grandma said that that was the hardest trial she had ever had.  The Indians were so bad here at that time. Grandma said that she would cry at night after the family had gone to bed until the whole side of her face became raw from crying.  Grandpa would hear her crying and would wake up.  He would say "let's send for our little Marie and bring her back".  But Grandma only said that if their faith wasn't strong enough to wait they would never all get to America.

After three years of struggling to raise the money and with the help of friends. Grandma and Grandpa and five children were able to come to America. They were grandpa (Adolph F. Henriksen), grandma (Jensine P.W. Henriksen) and children, Christian age 11, Fredrikke age 4, Johan age 3, Sine age 2, and Lehi age 1/2.  They came over on the ship Wyoming [see note following] and arrived in Logan June 20, 1881. The train pulled in to Logan at dusk and their friends from Denmark were there to meet them.  Father (N.P. Rasmussen) walked up to grandma (he was wearing a large straw hat and grandma had never seen a straw hat before) and took hold of her hand and said, "Good Evening, Sister Henriksen, welcome to Zion."  (The ages given here are according to shipping rec.)

Grandma (took the name of Sine Henriksen when she got to America) often talked about how those words thrilled her, she was so happy to think they had arrived in America.

Their arrival was saddened when Marie walked up to grandma and asked for little Alma who was the baby when she left Denmark.  He had died on the 11 Dec 1880 and they had never Informed Marie of his death.  Grandma often talked about how bitterly Mother (Marie) cried when she found out little Alma was gone. Another thing that saddened their arrival was that they had to leave two of the boys in Denmark, Uncle Pete who was seventeen and uncle Lauritz who was only nine.  They left them with aunt Petrine (Grandpa's sister).
They settled in a little log house in the west part of Logan.  The Logan temple was being built at that time, so Grandpa and Uncle Crist Immediately went to work on the temple.  They didn't get paid with money but instead received store pay.  Again Grandma cried and worried that they would never get money to send for their boys.  But again their prayers were answered and they were able to send for the boys.  When Uncle Pete and Uncle Lauritz received word that they were to come to America they were so happy that they ran outside and turned somersalts.  Aunt Petrine was quite perterbed with them because she had hoped they would never get money to send for the boys and she had hoped to keep them for her own.  Uncle Pete now 19 and Uncle Lauritz now 11 sailed for America 28 Aug 1882.  After Uncle Pete came over here, he and Uncle Johnny also went to work on the temple.  They helped put the ball on the top of the spiral on the temple.  Grandpa and Grandma were among the first couples to go thru the Logan Temple.

Grandma was a small women but she looked quite broad when she got on her seven or eight petticoats stiffly starched.  She was very clean and a very good housekeeper.  She always had a place for everything and everything in its place.

Manuscript given by Lana R. Hansen (daughter of Marie Henriksen) and written by Elva R. Jackson for the Henriksen reunion July 1969.


WYOMING
Single-screw steamship: 3238 tons: 366' x 43' x 27'
Built: 1870 by Palmer's Shipbuilding & Iron Co. at Newcastle, England
	Over a twenty-year period the Guion liner Wyoming made over thirty-eight  voyages with Mormon companies. She carried more Latter-day Saints across the  Atlantic than any other vessel-a total of 10,473. These companies ranged from 10 to  775 Saints. The first company left Liverpool on 10 May 1871 and the last company on  20 September 1890. All passages between Liverpool and New York averaged 10.8  days. Of the thirty-eight crossings Captain Charles Leonard Rigby commanded  twenty. The other skippers were Edward Whineray, James Morgan, Charles James  Beddoe, James A. Guard, James Price, Thomas Jones, Henry Gadd, George Siddons  Murray, and John Douglas.
	This British steamer was owned by Williams & Guion and hailed out of  Liverpool. She had an iron hull, three decks, two masts, one funnel, and the earliest  compound engines in the transatlantic service. Her tonnage was later increased to  3700. In 1893 the Wyoming was scrapped.
Picture of Wyoming.  The Peabody Museum of Salem