| Show Christian Nelsen Pioneer of 1853 Passes Away Christian Nelsen 90 00 0 pioneer from oin Denmark with the first corn com 1 an any to leave Copenhagen in De- De December December cember 1862 and arriving In Salt Lake City by ox ox team Sept 29 died at his his- home his home in Bountiful Thursday 2 Mr r A was born boTO Jan Ja 2 1 45 at Asburg ArIit Denmark the youn youngest est son Ion of Knud Christensen and nd Karen Margarett Margardt Jensen The family Jamily stayed the first winter in Salt Lake City and moved to Boun Boun- Bountiful Bount t ul the following spring Mr Nelsen's Nelsons first mission labor Was Las performed at the age of 18 in 1863 when he was wag called to haul k from Cottonwood wood for the Salt lake temple using three yoke of cattle In 1866 he crossed the again gain this time to help other im- im immigrants immigrants im immigrants migrants reach the valley y He also was a pioneer pioneer- of the 11 Muddy being boing called aIled there with others in 1868 and nd drifting back to Bountiful when Brigham Young released them there Nov 22 22 1869 he married marri d d Char Char- lote Charlote Char Vienna Call in the Old En- En Endowment En Endowment house in Salt Lake City She died Nov 21 1934 1931 one day Wore before they had been Ix-en married 65 years In the spring of 1883 he went 1 to J Denmark on a mission laboring m an n the th Alburg conference where lie he was born He was Ws a pioneer rancher on creek Rich Co near neal hero Woodruff is now l located ted and nd later did the same thing on the Portneuf in Idaho near where Chesterfield and Bancroft arc are lo- lo located Mr and Mrs Nelsen moved back to Bountiful in 1903 where the they have since resided He Ho has labored as a ward teacher a Sun Sun- Sunday Sunday day school teacher In the bishopric as second and then as first coun- coun coun counselor clor and has done considerable temple work in Salt Lake City andin and andin in St George Goorge He lIe is ig survived M by hy two children Ephraim Nelsen of Chesterfield Idaho and Olena Olenn N Deveraux ot of Bountiful and eight grandchildren Funeral services will be bo held Sunday at p m in in the Boun Boun- Bountiful Bountiful First ward chapel wi with h Bish Bish- Bish- Bish Bishop op ep p Quayle Cannon in charge In- In Interment In Interment will be in the local cemo- cemo tery ceroo tet iery Friends Friend may call at the home Saturday evening and Sunday prior to the services Watch any grou group ur men minutes and the Uw efficient nt cnn nn be 00 picked out from the thc ci |
