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Emigtation Records for Jen M. Black, Inger and Daughter

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http://mormon.org/family-history/

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http://myweb.cableone.net/really/emig1852.htm

HISTORY OF MARY LARSEN WILLARDSEN

HISTORY OF MARY LARSEN WILLARDSEN 

Sister of Cecelia Kirstine Larsen, they were both married to Jens M. Black

by James L. Willardsen

  

Mother was the daughter of Lars Johansen and Anna Margaret Sorensen. She was born in 

Graceby, Jutland, Denmark, on August 2, 1836. She was the youngest of eight children, 

six boys and two girls.  Two of her brothers were the first of the family to join the 

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

It was not long however,until the whole family joined the Church. Mother was
baptized on January 1, 1852, at the age of 16 by Knud Brown. 

On November 24, 1854, a group of about 300 saints set sail from Copenhagen,Denmark 

on board the steamer Cimbria, bound for Utah in America.  They arrived at Frederikshavn 

on the east coast of Jutland at ten o'clock on the morning of the twenty-fifth where 

one hundred forty-nine more emigrants from Aalborg and Vendsyssel Conference came on board. Mother and her brother Jon were two of the passengers
on board.  The voyage was continued on the morning of November 26, but on the morning of 

the 27th, at 2:00 A. M. , the wind turned southwest and began to blow so heavily that an 

experienced sailor deemed it necessary to turn back and seek the nearest harbor, Mandal, 

on the southern coast of Norway.  This romantic place and its surroundings were as much a 

curiosity to the Danish emigrants as the shipload of Mormons was to the people of Mandal.  Here they remained several
days.  On the 7th of December, the weather seemed more favorable, but towards midnight, 

the wind became a terrific gale which shattered the ship's bulwark and broke a number of 

boxes. About 2:00 A.M. of the following day, the captain decided to go back to Mandal 

from where they had come the previous day, but as the waves produced by the wind and 

strong currents made it too dangerous to turn the ship in the direction of Norway, it 

was necessary to go back to Frederikshavn, and they arrived there at 4:00 P. M. on the 

9th of December.  By this time the saints were suffering severely. It is said that on 

their trip crossing the North Sea they experienced one of the worst storms ever that 

made the life of an emigrant company upon the water miserable.  The saints bore their 

hardships with great fortitude and patience. While here, a number of meetings were held 

and the emigrants went on shore to refresh and rest themselves. On December 20th, a third 

attempt was made to reach England. During the night of the 21st - 22nd a worse storm than 

any of the preceding ones arose, threatening the ship and all on board, with utter
destruction.  For many hours the noble Cimbria fought her way against the raging elements,

but at length was compelled to change her course and for the third time the company was 

turned back.  While the captain and crew began to feel discouraged, the saints continued 

cheerful and thankful for their preservation.  About 2:00 A.M. on the morning of the 22nd 

of December, the wind suddenly changed to the north and they immediately steered for Hull,

England.

  
     On December 25th they continued their journey by rail from Hull to Liverpool where
they joined two smaller companies. They remained here for about two weeks. The presidency 

in Liverpool had chartered the ship Helois to take the Scandinavian Saints to New Orleans,

but because the company had been detained so long on account of the storms, the Helois had

been filled with other passengers.  The James Nesmith, together with Captain Mills was 

secured for their transportation instead.  Four hundred and forty emigrating saints set 

sail from Liverpool on board the James Nesmith on January 7, 1855 and arrived at New 

Orleans on February 23rd. 

    Then most of the Scandinavian Saints went on board the large steamboat Oceana and
sailed up the Mississippi River. Seven of the group died on this trip.  On the 7th of 

March they arrived at St. Louis, Missouri. Here the company was divided. In one of the 

camps, cholera broke out and a number of the group died at Leavenworth. From there the 

journey was continued to Salt Lake City, the arrival date being September 7th, 1855.

  
     Mother endured hardships and trials with the rest of the group without complaint
during the hard eleven weeks it took to cross the North Sea.  She became very sick but
her thought's were these as she expressed them, "I had embraced the true Gospel and I
felt that I was in the hands of the Lord, and it did not matter whether I lived or died."
Mother walked across the plains. She and a girl friend started to walk ahead and traveled 

all day -- on the wrong road.  However, two men on horses were sent in search of them. 

When the girls saw the men they thought that they were Indians.

     Her parents and the rest of the family had emigrated the year previously and had
settled in Weber County.  All of them took an active part in the Church.  Some were made 

bishops and some were made stake presidents. Later they moved to Spring City, Sanpete 

County. 

     Polygamy was practiced and many were willing to enter into that order of marriage
because of the principle.  They felt that it would advance them and ensure them the
blessings of the Lord. Mother's sister, who was older than she, together with her husband
desired Mother to be one of their family so she married James M. (Jens Mathias) Black.
Of the five children born to them, two of them died.  She found it difficult to provide 

and care for three children with no consideration, and she was advised to leave her 

husband. 

She married Father (Christian Willardsen) in the Endowment House on July 13, 1867, and was

sealed to him by President George Q. Cannon.  She and Father had seven children, three 

girls and four boys.  Father and his first wife had talked of taking another wife, and it 

was she who suggested that he marry Mary Larsen as his second wife and help to rear her 

three children. 

     These two wives got along exceptionally well and were like two sisters, always
considering each others feelings and many times plotting together to get a favor for the
other.  Mother told of times when they were rearing their families that each of them
would have babies near the same age. They lived in the same house and to keep the rooms 

warm in winter they had a small opening in the partition between the two rooms where a 

small stove was placed, and in this way the babies were kept warm. While the boys were too

young to help with the farm work. Mother helped Father pitch hay, shock grain, etc. while 

the first wife did the housework and took care of the children.

  
     At the time when the Church asked the members to store wheat. Mother did her part
for the Relief Society by going out and gleaning wheat in the fields.  Mother served as a
Relief Society teacher for about thirty years.  She was much concerned about the welfare
of her children and whenever she saw them complying with the will of the Lord, she was not

slow to express her joy and appreciation of the same.

  
     Of the 12 children that she had, only six survived to adulthood and five of them
married, all in the Temple.  In order of age they are: Mary Ann Allred, Rasmena Oviatt,
Christian Willarsen, Caroline Braithwaite, Andrew Willardsen (unmarried), and
James L. Willardsen who at present (in 1961) is the only survivor.

 
     When Mother was 77 years old she suffered greatly with a tumor. The operation for
the removal of an eight pound tumor was very successful.  The doctors and nurses were
most attentive. 

     In 1918 the Willarsen Reunion was held at the Monroe Hot Springs. Although Mother,
at the age of 82, was the oldest member in the family, still she joined the others in the
sports and made it possible to say that everyone went in the pool that day.) Mother a
great woman of great faith, very devoted to her religion, and self-sacrificing, died on
March 17, 1920, at the home other daughter Mena Oviatt.

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HUSBANDS AND CHILDREN

Jens (James) Mathias BLACK (1818 - 1892)

     Erastus BLACK (1857 - ?)
     Mary Ann  Margaret BLACK (1859 - 1927)
     Rasmena BLACK (1860 - 1945)
     Sarah BLACK (1862 - ?)
     Mary BLACK (1863 - 1869)

Mildred May Black 1919-2001

Mildred May Black

was born 25 Mar 1919

 in Spring City, Utah

Parents

Father: Lewis LeRoy Black

Mother: Hazel Doretta Robinson

Mildred married Leslie Evan Nelson

1 March 1941 in Nephi Utah

Mildred died 22 Dec 2001

in Cedar City, Utah 

She is buried in Hurricane, Utah with her husband Leslie Evan Nelson

Leslie and Mildred's Children


Dorothy Jean Nelson
B: 7 Sep 1941
M: Odell C. Christiansen
M: Wayne Paxton Wilson



Geraldine Nelson
B: 5 Dec 1943
D: 5 May 1944

Evan LeRoy Nelson
B: 17 Dec 1946
M: Shirley Eubanks
M: Micky _________
M: Judith Hendricks


Leslie Kay Nelson
B: 20 Sep 1948
M: Lana Draper
M: Beverly Kaye Tubbs


Evah May Nelson
B: 12 Nov 1949
M: Gary Covington
M: Max Whiting ?
M: Donnie Hunter


Gary Lee Nelson
B: 15 Oct 1953
M: Beverly Pratt
M: Jeannie __________


Karen Robin Nelson
B: 5 Jul 1963

D: 5 Jul 1963

Lewis LeRoy Black 1886-1978

Lewis LeRoy Black was born 6 Sep 1886 

in Spring City, Utah

Parents

Father: Lewis Black

Mother: Trena Jensen

 

LeRoy married 

Hazel Doretta Robinson 

8 Oct 1913 in Spring City, Utah

LeRoy died 24 May 1978 

in Mt. Pleasant, Utah

He is buried in Spring City, Utah

with his wife Hazel Doretta Robinson

LeRoy and Hazel's Children

Willard

Willard LeRoy Black
B: 10 Jan 1915
M: Betty Lou ..... (Divorced) 
D: 1 Mar 1997

Willard and Mildred Black

Mildred May Black
B: 25 mar 1919
M: Leslie Evan Nelson

D: 22 Dec 2001

LeRoy and Hazel Black's LDS Ordinances

LeRoy Black's LDS Ordinances

Baptism: 1 Nov 1894
Confirmation: 1 Nov 1894

Initiatory: 6 Jan 1836
Endowment: 6 Jan 1836
Salt Lake City Temple

Sealed to Parents
19 Mar 1902
Manti Temple

Sealed to Spouse,
Hazel Doretta Robinson
6 Jan 1935
Manti Temple 



Hazel Doretta Robinson's
LDS Ordinances

Baptism: 27 Jul 1903
Confirmation: 27 Jul 1903

Initiatory: 6 Jan 1936
Endowment: 6 Jan 1936
Salt Lake City Temple

Sealed to Parents: 19 Mar 1902
Manti Temple


Sealed to Spouse, Lewis LeRoy Black
6 Jan 1935
Manti Temple

Lewis Black 1861-1944

Lewis was born 18 Apr 1861

in Spring City, Utah

Parents

Father: Jens Mathias Black

Mother: Cecelia Kjristine Larsen

Lewis married Trena Jensen

27 Oct 1880 in Spring City, Utah

Lewis died 5 May 1944 in Spring City, Utah

He is buried in Spring City, Utah 

with his wife Trena Jensen

Lewis and Trena Black Family

back (left to right): Martha Marana, Angus Morgan,

Lewis LeRoy, Sarah Agartha

front:  Mabel Lucinda, Lewis (father), Trena (mother), Margaret Estella

Martha Marana and Margaret Estella Black

 
Lewis and Trena's Children


Sarah Agartha Ellen Black
B: 19 Aug 1877
M: George Francis Crawforth
D: 7 Aug 1918


Martha Marana Black
B: 27 Dec 1881
M: Herbert Allred
D: 23 Aug 1965


Margaret Estella Black
B: 11 Mar 1884
M: Herbert Allred
D: 23 Aug 1965


Lewis LeRoy Black
B: 6 Sep 1886
M: Hazel Doretta Robinson
D: 24 May 1978


Angus Morgan Black
B: 20 Jan 1891
M: Olga Margaret Thompson
D: 27 Oct 1915


Mabel Lucinda Black
B: 8 May 1893
M: Joseph Ishmael
D: 24 Jan 1982

Lewis and Trena



Trena Jensen 1862-1949

Trena Jensen was born 22 Dec 1862

in Mt. Pleasant, Utah

Parents

Father: Jens Christen Jensen

Mother: Margarethe Anderson

Trena married Lewis Black

27 Oct 1880 in Spring City, Utah

Trena died 20 Nov 1949 

in Spring City, Utah

She is buried next to her husband  

Lewis Black in Spring City, Utah



Lewis Black Family

back (l to r): Martha Marana, Angus Morgan,

Lewis LeRoy, Sarah Agartha

front:  Mabel Lucinda, Lewis, Trena,
Margaret Estella





The five oldest children of Lewis and Trena

Margaret Estella, Martha Marana, Angus Morgan, Lewis LeRoy & Sarah Agartha

Margaret Estella, Martha Marana

Trena with her three youngest children

Mabel Lucinda, Angus Morgan,

Lewis LeRoy



Lewis and Trena's Children

Sarah Agartha Ellen Black

B: 19 Aug 1877

M: George Francis Crawforth

D: 7 Aug 1918

Martha Marana Black

B: 27 Dec 1881

M: Herbert Allred

D: 23 Aug 1965

Margaret Estella Black

B: 11 Mar 1884

M: Herbert Allred

D: 23 Aug 1965

Burial: Preston Cemetery
White Pine County
Nevada Plot: Block 5 Lot 4

Lewis LeRoy Black

B: 6 Sep 1886

M: Hazel Doretta Robinson

D: 24 May 1978

Angus Morgan Black

B: 20 Jan 1891

M: Olga Margaret Thompson

D: 27 Oct 1915

Mabel Lucinda Black

B: 8 May 1893

M: Joseph Ishmael

D: 24 Jan 1982

Lewis and Trena Black Death Certificates

Lewis Black's Death Certificate

Trena Jensen Black's 

 Death Certificate

Martha Marana Black Allred's 

 Death Certificate

Lewis and Trena's LDS Ordinances

Lewis Black's LDS Ordinances

Baptism: 16 Feb 1883
Confirmation: 16 Feb 1883

Initiatory: 19 Mar 1902
Endowment: 19 Mar 1902
Manti Temple

Sealed to Parents: Born in the Convenant

Sealed to Spouse, Trena Jensen
19 Mar 1902
Manti Temple



Trena Jensen's LDS Ordinances

Baptism: 16 Feb 1883
Confirmation: 16 Feb 1883

Initiatory: 19 Mar 1902
Endowment: 19 Mar 1902
Manti Temple

Sealed to Parents: 10 Feb 1979
Provo Temple

Sealed to Spouse, Lewis Black
19 Mar 1902
Manti Temple

Lewis Black Biography by Jen M. Black

LEWIS BLACK

(As written by Lewis Black- a son of James M. and Cecelia Christena Larsen Black)

I was born in 1861 and I was a good-sized boy before I saw a match. We went to the neighbors when our fire went out, they used a powdered rag and a flint to start fires.  I was quite old before I saw a stove.
   

I will never forget the hardships and the fear we had of Indians.  On April 6th, Indians attacked a company under Bishop Olsen on the Sevier River near Richfield and killed Lars A Justensen, Charles Wilson, and wounded R. Thompson.  On August 13, 1867, Indians attacked Spring City and killed James Meeks and Andrew Johansen, and wounded William Blain.

    

Some settlers soon built log cabins, but most lived in dugouts, all with dirt roofs. Everything was hauled from Omaha, with ox team, and no money to buy. 

    

On July 19, 1867, grasshoppers came in great numbers and destroyed most all the crops in Sanpete and they stayed here for three years. They were so thick they darkened the sun along about noon you could hardly see the sun, and not a green leaf left on the trees.  People think the depression here today (1935) is terrible.  They should have been here in early days.  This is Paradise today compared to that time when you could not see the sun on a clear day for grasshoppers. In that day the people were honest, neighborly and dependable. 

    

On September 20, 1876, John D. Lee was convicted of murder in the first degree for connection with the Mountain Meadow massacre.  The fall of 1876

I took Tanner Smith down to York Station and we stopped at Bob Statards hotel and John D. Lee also stopped there.  The next morning he came out in the barn and talked to me and some others that were there and he said, "I am to be shot in September."
    

The first real communication over the air with Europe was on December 25, 1929, on Christmas Day. When Belgium, Holland, Germany, and England sent a concert and Christmas greeting to the United States Broadcasting System.  They sent it to short wave to Long Island and then to New York and then to Salt Lake and we received it here in Spring City over K. S. L.  Told me by Angus M. Black, a son.

Lewis and Trena Jensen were married October 27, 1880 and they first lived across the road west from where Eleanor Barney's home now stands.  I was born there and so were all the other children except Mabel.  Then we moved down to the other place, where the folks lived until their death, and the home still stands, one half block north and one block east of my home.
    

In his early years, dad worked in the canyons getting out red pine timber for railroad ties for the Moss Company.  He also did a little farming and cattle raising, although he never owned more than 20 acres, and the lot where the house now stands. He and mother were married 63 years and 5 months and they had many pioneer hardships to face.  Besides raising 6 children of their own, they cared for others than their own.  They made a home for Trena's sister Leate and her brother Jim because their father and mother were separated. 

   

Dad died May 5, 1944 at 1:10 P. M. at the age of 83.  He was a member of the Elders Quorum of the L. D.S. Church.  Lewis Black was one of the first white children born in Spring City on April 18, 1861, a son of James M. Black and Christena Larsen Black, early Danish pioneers.  His parents came to America in a company of 1,800 Danish immigrants, and his father was one of the early shoemakers of the community of Spring City.

    
Mr. Lewis Black married Trena Jensen October 27, 1880, the ceremony being performed by his uncle Lauritz Larsen of Spring City.  The couple later received their endowments and were sealed in the Manti Temple. (March 19, 1902)
    

Lewis Black was ordained an Elder by James A. Allred on March 2, 1902.

    

He was buried in Spring City on May 9, 1944. 

April 15, 1959
    

On the lot formerly owned by Lewis Black and later Angus M. Black, the house now is in a state of remodeling and three large rooms added.   The three rooms built by Lewis Black are still left there.  Francis J. Black, a grandson, is having it built and will live there.

Jens Mathias Black 1818-1892

Jens Mathias Black was born 

5 Apr 1818

in Sundby, Aalborg,  Denmark

Parents

Father: Ole Larsen Black

Mother: Mariane Jensen

Jens married Wife #1 Inger Marie Jacobsen

They had two children:
Ane Oline Ottillie (Serena) in 1843 
and Niels in 1849


Jens and Inger converted to the LDS church and immigrated to Utah with a company of members in 1853-54. Inger died of Cholera at a camp on the banks of the Kansas River while crossing the plains in 1854. 

Wife #2

Johanne Bolette Bertelsen Black

Jens and Johanne were married while crossing the plains.  

They were in the Hans Peter Olsen Company in 1854. 
Their Departure date was 15 Jun 1854 and they Arrived 5 Oct 1854. There were about 550 individuals and 69 wagons were in the company when it began its journey from the outfitting post at Westport, Missouri.
 
Read Trail Excerpt written by Johanne Bolette Dalley

We went up to here Kansas City now is and camped on the bank (of the Missouri River). In our company was a man by the name of James Black, whose wife died of cholera at St. Louis. He began paying attention to me, but I did not encourage him, as I disliked him, although I couldn't tell why. He was good looking and attractive in manner. In a way, I was dependent on my uncle, and he and his wife were very persistent in persuading me to yield, although I repeatedly told them all I did not want to marry until I reached Salt Lake City. This marriage was most unfortunate for me and resulted in great unhappiness, for as I became better acquainted with him my dislike increased. Although he was a Mormon, he did not entertain the same ideas in regard to living the principles as I did. He was also ill-tempered and jealous.

There is no record of their marriage or a divorce.   

Johanne Rolette Bertlesen married James Dalley. 
Johanne is buried in the Jerome Cemetery, Idaho, USA

I did find on findagrave.com that Jens Black and Johanne had a daughter named Eliza Bertelsen Black. I looked up their Family Group Record on the new.familysearch.org.

Here is  Eliza B. Farnsworth's Death Certificate. The Death Certificate has James Dalley listed as her father but Johanne didn't Marry James til 9 Oct 1856 and Eliza would have been over one years old. Eliza was born 16 Aug, 1855. 

Jens settled in South Weber, Utah 

 he married Wife #3

Christina Cecelia Larsen 

in 1855 in South Weber, Utah

Jens and Christina had two children while living in South Weber, Maria Lucinda born in 1856 and Anna Margarethe born in 1857. The family moved to Ephriam and then to Spring City both in Sanpete County, Utah in 1859. The rest of their children were born there. These were: Jensina Christina born in 1859, Lewis born in 1861, Sarah born in 1864 and died in 1866, Josephine born in 1866, and Ole Larsen born in 1871. Anna Margarethe got sick in 1867 at school, but the teacher would not let her go home and made her stand in the corner for the rest of the day. She never recovered from this illness and died a few days later.

Jen's also married Wife #4

Christina's sister,

Maren "Mary" Larsen

They had five children: Erastus born in 1857 and died in infancy, Mary Margaret born in 1859, Rasmeana "Mena" born in 1860, Sarah born in 1862 and died at the age of three, and Mary born in 1863 and died in 1869. 

Jens and Maren eventually divorced and she remarried Christian Willardsen and moved to Ephriam.

Jens died 17 Oct 1892  

He is buried in Spring City, Utah. 

His wife Christena lived with her son, 

Lewis, until her own death in 1906

Jens and Christena's Children


Maria Lucinda Black
B: 20 Feb 1856
M: James Philander Allred
D: 25 Jun 1886


Ann Margarethe Black
B: 20 Sep 1857
D: 4 Dec 1867


Jensina Christina Black
B: 8 May 1859
M: Perry Barton Allred
D: 6 Aug 1906


Lewis Black
B: 18 Apr 1861
M: Trena Jensen
D: 5 May 1944


Sarah Black
B: 9 Jun 1864
D: 29 Jun 1866


Josephine Black
B: 12 Oct 1866
M: Thomas Jefferson Redman
D: 21 Dec 1928


Ole Larson Black
B: 23 May 1871
M: Annie Jensen

D: 3 Jan 1947

Christina Cecelia Larsen 1826-1906

 Christina Cecelia Larsen 

was born 11 May 1826

in Grejs, Vejle, Denmark

Parents

Father: Lars Johansen

Mother: Anne Margrethe Sorensen

Christena married Jens Mathais Black 

 in 1855 in South Weber, Utah

Jens and Christena had two children while living in South Weber, Maria Lucinda born in 1856 and Anna Margarethe born in 1857. The family moved to Ephriam and then to Spring City both in Sanpete County, Utah in 1859. The rest of their children were born there. These were: Jensina Chirstina born in 1859, Lewis born in 1861, Sarah born in 1864 and died in 1866, Josephine born in 1866, and Ole Larsen born in 1871. Anna Margarethe got sick in 1867 at school, but the teacher would not let her go home and made her stand in the corner for the rest of the day. She never recovered from this illness and died a few days later.

Jen's also married one of Christena's sisters, Maren "Mary" Larsen, and she bore five children: Erastus born in 1857 and died in infancy, Mary Margaret born in 1859, Rasmeana "Mena" born in 1860, Sarah born in 1862 and died at the age of three, and Mary born in 1863 and died in 1869. Jens and Maren eventually divorced and she remarried Christian Willardsen and moved to Ephriam.

 Christina died 26 Nov 1906

in Spring City, Utah

She is buried next to her husband.

The original headstone was made of a 

soft stone and weathered badly.

 It was replaced with a  granite one in 1968.

Jens and Christina's Children



Maria Lucinda Black
B: 20 Feb 1856
M: James Philander Allred
D: 25 Jun 1886



Lewis Black
B: 18 Apr 1861
M: Trena Jensen
D: 5 May 1944



Ann Margarethe Black
B: 20 Sep 1857
D: 4 Dec 1867



Jensina Christina Black
B: 8 May 1859
M: Perry Barton Allred
D: 6 Aug 1906



Sarah Black
B: 9 Jun 1864
D: 29 Jun 1866


Josephine Black
B: 12 Oct 1866
M: Thomas Jefferson Redman
D: 21 Dec 1928




Ole Larson Black

B: 23 May 1871
M: Annie Jensen
D: 3 Jan 1947